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 Rank: Pro   Groups: Registered
Joined: 22/03/2010 Posts: 369 Points: 1,150 Location: Broadstairs
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Welcome aboard Ronnie, enjoy your build and don't be too daunted, there are plenty of experienced hands on here.
TIS
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 Rank: Amateur Level 1 Groups: Registered
Joined: 29/04/2010 Posts: 31 Points: 69 Location: scunthorpe
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thank you all for a very warm welcome
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 Rank: Beginner Level 2  Groups: Registered
Joined: 29/04/2010 Posts: 16 Points: 54 Location: North Lincolnshire
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Hi,
I made plenty of plastic kits as a youngster (when I could manage to stop my dad from nicking 'em)
My son's girlfriend bought me a huge airfix set for xmas and I'm hooked again 40 years on.
Never made a big wooden model before and have only just subscribed to the Victory so I'm waiting for the first issue to drop on the doormat.
Reading some of the building tips on here makes me wonder if I'll be able to keep the O.C.D and anally retentive tendencies under control once I get started....is there a help group anywhere on this forum? or do you all just encourage this madness!!
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Rank: Pro  Groups: Registered
Joined: 22/03/2010 Posts: 236 Points: 709 Location: Falkirk
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Ian Mc wrote:Hi,
I made plenty of plastic kits as a youngster (when I could manage to stop my dad from nicking 'em)
My son's girlfriend bought me a huge airfix set for xmas and I'm hooked again 40 years on.
Never made a big wooden model before and have only just subscribed to the Victory so I'm waiting for the first issue to drop on the doormat.
Reading some of the building tips on here makes me wonder if I'll be able to keep the O.C.D and anally retentive tendencies under control once I get started....is there a help group anywhere on this forum? or do you all just encourage this madness!! Welcome aboard  Ohh we positively encourage the madness, in fact being a bit mad is a prerequisite to being a member here Regards,
David
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Joined: 22/03/2010 Posts: 2,065 Points: 6,295 Location: Gorleston-on-sea
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Hi dtgray welcome aboard mate...yeah..you can call it a kind of madness, more like bordering on insanity but there's a great bunch of people here just raring to compare notes and encourage each other to plod on even when we are on the edge of pulling our hair out by its roots with frustration  Hope that you enjoy your build, any problems, just ask Current Builds: Deagostini HMS Victory: Deagostini HMS Sovereign of the seas. Completed Builds: Del Prado: HMAS Bounty: Hachette: RMS Titanic: Del Prado: Cutty Sark...
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Rank: Beginner Level 2 Groups: Registered
Joined: 29/04/2010 Posts: 16 Points: 54 Location: North Lincolnshire
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Thanks for the welcome, I've been reading the threads on the forum and as you say there is a lot of great, friendly advice. I'm looking forward to starting the model but in the meantime I'll satisfy myself with getting the work bench just right....oh no!!! it's started already.  Cheers
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Joined: 30/03/2010 Posts: 285 Points: 880 Location: Belton, Norfolk
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Welcome home....err......I mean welcome aboard  I feel you gonna fit in here just perfick  I'm upto issue 4 and all I done so far is sort the work space out 
I wish I were a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum,
'Cause how can you be grumpy?
When the sun shines out ya bum!!
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Rank: Amateur Level 1 Groups: Registered
Joined: 29/04/2010 Posts: 33 Points: 72 Location: chesterfield
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Hello all, first time wooden ship builder, was waiting to make sure the victory actually continued this year before getting involved in the forum, was major dissapointed when it was stopped last year.
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Rank: Pro Groups: Registered
Joined: 30/03/2010 Posts: 285 Points: 880 Location: Belton, Norfolk
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Welcome aboard Pete
I wish I were a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum,
'Cause how can you be grumpy?
When the sun shines out ya bum!!
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Rank: Pro Groups: Registered
Joined: 22/03/2010 Posts: 236 Points: 709 Location: Falkirk
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peteypete wrote:Hello all, first time wooden ship builder, was waiting to make sure the victory actually continued this year before getting involved in the forum, was major dissapointed when it was stopped last year. Welcome pete Regards,
David
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 Rank: Vice-Master Groups: Registered
Joined: 26/03/2010 Posts: 600 Points: 1,959 Location: Solway West Cumbria
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Rank: Amateur level 2 Groups: Registered
Joined: 28/03/2010 Posts: 45 Points: 125 Location: Bedford
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My first wood model... May have bitten off more than I can chew here. Will start the build when I have all the keel parts. Very busy reading all the forum post's and picking up ideas. 
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Rank: Pro  Groups: Registered
Joined: 20/03/2010 Posts: 278 Points: 833 Location: Nottingham
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Welcome aboard Gully, Ronnie, Ian, Rog and Pete! Pam's shipyard is closed for now no more room!
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this is my first wooden anything, well ecept a wall unit i onec made I have bean making models in plastic since i was 9 predominantly tanks etc but a few ships from time to time curently working on HMS Hood and the Bismarck in between Victory. My Grandfather, later in his Navy career, was a trainer of new recrutes on HMS Victory so i have been wanting to do this ship for many years. tried the arfix kit once but boy its a bad kit “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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Rank: Pro Groups: Joined: 24/08/2009 Posts: 48,827 Points: -13,348
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no. this is my first experience at wooden ship building and revels cutty sark,plastic yes,wood no.Cooks ship i did not much success though. 
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Rank: Pro  Groups: Registered
Joined: 08/09/2010 Posts: 102 Points: 318 Location: Durban, South Africa
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I have completed 3 wooden ships, 2 kits and 1 scratch build. I am busy (obviously) with the victory.I also made a plastic frigate, and as a kid made lots of plastic models, from cars, tanks and planes, to star wars stuff Part time modeller, full time biker
Built: Pinta
Belle Poule (plastic)
Endeavour
Scratch build of Pirate ship "Neptune" (Based on cutter "HMS Aldebaran"
Current builds: Victory
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Joined: 07/06/2013 Posts: 144 Points: 415 Location: New Zealand
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Looks like I'm a little behind in seeing this post, but I found some of the stories of how people started modelling very interesting. It's amazing how we all have this connection.
Anyway I thought I'd share my story.
I guess I should start with my Dad. I well remember standing in his workshop watching him making a wooden model. One that has stayed with me is a train he was making out of wood. I also remember he used to get an English magazine called "Hobbies Weekly". Some of the older members may remember this publication. He got most of his plans from this magazine.
Of course in those days you had no pre-cut pieces and everything was cut from,usually, plywood.I guess they'd call it 'scratch build' today.Funny thing is there is no evidence of anything Dad made as he gave most of them away. The only thing remaining that he made was a Coast Guard ship. Unfortunately my mother sold this in a garage sale much to my protest.
The first model I remember making was a plastic kit model of the vintage car from the Kenneth Moore movie "Genevieve". I was maybe about 10.
Years moved on and I messed around making various plastic kit models.The best ones I made were the Space Shuttle and The Gemini space capsule.
Then my Dad and I discovered metal car models. I seemed to recall they were made by a company called Hubley. Pretty sure they were made in Germany. They were expensive but the quality and detail was fantastic.
Anyway, time moved on and I got married. As most will know once you get married most of your hobbies go out the window. Unless you've got an understanding partner it's replaced by gardening or handyman work. Of course you also have to concentrate on being a husband and a father.
My ex wife being the kind of woman she was let my two daughters get into what models I had managed to keep and they got broken.
The only time I attempted a wooden model was a plan I found in one of Dad's Hobbies Weekly magazines, after he passed on, of an F1 car. The plan was mostly for a kids toy, but I felt I could use the basics to make a proper F1 car. I love the JPS Special driven by Fittipaldi. I had inherited some of Dad's tools. small wood turner. electric fretsaw etc. It went well until it got a little beyond my limited skill and I gave up on it. The next thing I tried was a wooden model of the Enterprise from the movie "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Again, it got a little beyond me and I gave up on it. It was a shame really as I'd done a lot of research on this and I'd drawn my own plans to scale.
After my marriage broke up I discovered De Agostini's Bounty and decided to give it a go. My time was my own. Things went well but then I got into a relationship and I could not spend as much time on it as I wanted. Also there were problems, but, there was not the luxury of a website like Model Space.So, this was put on the backburner
Now here I am building the Victory. Things have gone full circle really with me doing what my Dad did. I must say that this build has inspired me to get back into The Bounty now I understand things better.
I'm 68 now and among the ranks of the unemployed because of restructuring at my job. I find I have nothing but time now. I just hope time is on my side.
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Rank: Vice-Master Groups: Registered
Joined: 26/03/2010 Posts: 600 Points: 1,959 Location: Solway West Cumbria
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I started making plastic models when i was about 7 and made my first wooden ship in my 30's it was the mayflower ..i was not allowed near wood tools much as a kid ..my auntie bought me a junior carpenters set for Christmas when i was 4 (a kids tool set back in the 60's was a proper tool set not the P.C Rubish you get today...so after hammering a load of 1 inch pins in a pine dining table..and sawing a leg off my pairents bed  i got a long time ban..and was only allowed plastic ...
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Rank: Pro Groups: Registered, Official Builds Joined: 10/02/2012 Posts: 475 Points: 1,237
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My first model was a 1/32 Revell P-40. I got it for Christmas when I was 5. It was supposed to be built with my father, but he never had the time,and I had a go at it myself. This was back in the day of Testors tube glue, and I am quite sure it was a mess! I built a ton of Guillows balsa planes, and would regularly wake up with a pin stuck in me. My bed was my bench. Then I got bit by the plastic bug. Lotsa armor, and A/C. When my pockets got deeper, I started in on Pochers, and also built all the 1/8 Hasegawa Museum kits. I then moved into wood ship models, built the Corel Unicorn, and a couple of the smaller Mamoli kits, the Gretel being the only one I remember. I currently have the Lauck Sreet Shipyard Halifax all framed, just am waiting on the motivation and time to start planking her. I also have the Hood, and Bismark going, but they too are on hold. I am currently hooked on building my D51, the McLaren, and am about to crack open the Victory. (the last 3 are all online builds to try and get folks over here hooked on Partwork kits by DeAgostini! My Zero is calling out to me, and I hope to have the last issue soon. There is the Lauck Street Fubbs in the stash, as well as the Caldercraft Victory, and the Amati Vanguard. (plus a few hundred pieces of armor that are on the way out. I'm having way too much fun with the partwork kits!) Experienced? I dunno. Schizoid is probably a better descriptor! Tired, Old, and Cranky!
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