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[Martin (Admin)]

What's your next build project?

[Akira]

I am going to try to finish the USS Juneau, 1/48 scale, this winter, winter #4.

[dougal99]

My version of the Le Caux, French tug, from a Jim pottinger plan. Started as a late summer project but morphing into a winter task. 

[swiftdoc]

Air Sea Rescue boat 128, a kit from Deans Marine, currently on its way to Germany

[Stumps]

If the work gods allow, I'll try and finish my Damen 3110..

[6705russell]

Llandudno’s Shannon, doing upper works and brass in the comfort of the spare room, also a Speedline Trent as and when I can get the time..

[Neil]

MY next build will, after i have finished the Clyde that i am building for a friend in Scotland, a model that has sat in my workshop and other places around the house  for the past 30 and a half years and still waiting to be built.

It was the first model kit that I put together in a box of the Ann Letitia Russell just prior to me announcing to the world that a new model lifeboat kit was on the market. that was in August 1995.

The full kit is in the box below the Titanic box, and the hull and cab

I will get great enjoyment building these two lifeboats, and ones I will keep and sail.

[ChrisF]

Having recently finished my Fairey Faun apart from some minor detailing I've returned to the Fairey Fisherman I started around 12 months ago having produced the drawings sometime before. Resisting starting my water-jet and outboard projects!   

[Martin (Admin)]

 



 

 

 

[roycv]

Hi with the low value of kit made model boats built and ready to sail, I think that old kits have more value left untouched especially the box.

Sad but that is my experience as I help dispose of deceased club members models.  There are few buyers and not that many who know how to look after them.

Regards
Roy

[Circlip]

And don't forget, Are you starting a bidding war for basically a box of dried firewood? Often seen on the American sites :- "I bought this at  yard sale, How much is it worth?" The reality being their expectations of a retirement nest egg end as a gooey mess on the floor.


  Regards  Ian

[tica]

Hope to get the 3D printed Opduwer and another 3D printed boat Bakdekker yacht done during the Xmass holiday.
And I have a 1 meter Future Class Offshore Tug in the printer right now. https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/hobby-diy/robotics/future-class-offshore-tug-1meter-high-detail-3d-printable-model
That will take some time both to print and to build and paint. Including creating figurines 1/90 and 3D print them for it

And maybe I should dig out the 1:20 PT109 and get on with the work on it.

[kinmel]

I was going to build another Shannon lifeboat, but this 3d printed model has just caught my eye.
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/1-72-rc-crane-vessel-maja

[roycv]

Only a mother could love that!!
Roy

[TheLongBuild]

 

 

Winter project to build the boat or eat the sweets !!

[dodgy geezer]

Hi with the low value of kit made model boats built and ready to sail, I think that old kits have more value left untouched especially the box.

Sad but that is my experience as I help dispose of deceased club members models.  There are few buyers and not that many who know how to look after them.

Regards
Roy

Quite right. I try to encourage people to scan the plans, instructions and items like printed balsa, then make up a boat from the copies and make the data available on the web for historical value, and others. Though admittedly this is hard for a kit with a fibreglass hull, or, like the Titan, large pre-shaped blocks...

[Colin Bishop]

Though admittedly this is hard for a kit with a fibreglass hull, or, like the Titan, large pre-shaped blocks...

Yes, as a young lad building the Titan I managed to ger the spindle shaped blocks the wrong way round.... The model never quite looked right after that.

If you want a simple traditional steam tug build, the Vic Smeed's Bustler cannot be bettered. Everything on  the plan.

Colin

[KitS]

Only a mother could love that!!

Hardly things of beauty, those X-Bow ships, are they?


But they seem to be becoming more more common within the offshore support world.

[6705russell]

Another one to push on with over Xmas is my Speedline Trent..