Just joined today. Looking forward to getting involved with building model boats with others.
A while ago I order two (identical) cheap wooden boat kits from China. I was hoping the get them before Christmas. No need to say I got them in the new year (and both at separate dates).
Last year I started model making, and I am still on my first project. It is a diorama. However, the diorama requires a boat which travels up and down a river. The boat has no room to turn around, so it just has to reverse back. I bought two boats because I plan to add two bow sections; so the boat will be symmetrical and then nobody will straight away think it is going backwards.
The boat is a 1/50 scale fishing boat (trawler size).
I will shortly start a thread in 'Beginners start here'.