Shipbuilder Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 My latest U-Tube presentation: https://youtu.be/KtVrtCvKeqs Building the barque Caithness-Shire. Bob Landlubber Mike, Bernard Kelly, Raindog and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARUP Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Beautiful! Bernard Kelly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raindog Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Breathtaking, Bob! I'm going to absorb your website for info. I'd love to be able to get anywhere near that sort of quality! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseLee Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Amazing work as usual Bob! Jesse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwyl Blaser Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Beautiful as usual Bob. I still think your seas are some of the most realistic that I have seen. Gwyl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipbuilder Posted February 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Thanks for replies. It still surprises me that hardly any model shipbuilders like building this type of ship! Bob Gwyl Blaser 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwyl Blaser Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Bob, I am going to try a ship like this using the methods you describe in your book and CD's this year. I am looking forward to the project. I sure enjoy seeing your work as it is a great inspiration for me. Gwyl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARUP Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Bob, it's the same with model airplanes. You've never seen so many iterations of P-51s and '3D hover planes' (I always thought flying WAS 3D!) in all of your life! Don't get me wrong... I like 51s as much as anyone but there are certainly plenty of other worthy subjects, military and civilian. I am an RC flier and my main focus has been the scratch building (plans and all) of scale wooden vintage sailplanes the past 6 years. The older the better! The AMA/FAA debacle has me soured on RC presently and all of that activity has come to a screeching halt. I surmise most folks introduction to ship modeling follows a similar course (pun intended, lol). Everyone wants a Constitution on this side of the pond. Again... don't get me wrong and don't make me walk the plank... I have a Constitution kit with a piece of the 'real deal' in the kit but many folks don't learn to appreciate the 'Thomas W. Lawson' or the 'Waterwitch' until later, if ever. That is unfortunate. Some of these have amazing histories. I am really partial to three mast barques and topsail schooners! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipbuilder Posted February 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) Thanks for reply. I don't know much about aircraft, and wonder what "sailplanes are" unless they are what we call "gliders!" As far as model ships are concerned, I seldom build warships. The large Napleonic ones I find unnatractive, although smaller frigates look OK. I mainly build iron or steel merchant ships, sail or steam built between about 1865 and 1965. The Thomas W. Lawson was extremely large, but very ungainly in the hull. As far as big schooner go, I prefer ships like the Wyoming or Cora F. Cressy. Waterwitch was the commercial British square-rigger, and a smart little ship. Lately, I have been drawing up plans, and attached is the big British four-masted barque Lord Wolselely, that ended up under US ownership as E.R. Sterling and Everett G. Griggs. Give me the obscure or semi-obscure any day over the never-ending stream of Cutty Sark, Bounty, Victory etc. Bob Edited February 2, 2016 by Shipbuilder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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