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You have all those noses!

I'm trying to imagine what round hit the mantlet to just punch right through it? This is looking quite wrecked per your usual idiom!

1/700 Bluenose resin kit contents. But WAIT!! There more!! What about a contemporary bridge for the Lucretia option? Flying bridge, solar panels, big windscreens for the weather bridge? Sun deck? I have all these SPC-HWX 52 bridges that won't do. I recycled one of them.

I had a bubble in a PBM hull casting. Waste not, Want Not. A waterline version. Then, as if that wasn't enough, so I opened a bow hatch and a cargo hatch and made brass doors. It should make for very interesting waterline model making! Then too, A forest of 1/350 missiles, the...

She sure would! Had she not been grounded in 1946 and sunk off Haiti in the Caribbean sea. "The Queen of the North Atlantic" hauling bananas! Perish the thought! I would imagine Bluenose II may have attended in Her mother's stead. There's a great story about a DKM U-boat skipper that was...

Bluenose is gittin' her masts, eh! The new, accurate cabin cast up good and kits the ship well.

OR! Is the Meng kit missing essential Fokker wing details!?!? :lol:

Kuhl!!

No really! A guy wants a model of a subject nobody makes (yet) and finds some less than usual model supplies and just does it! I notice the SR-72 Thunderchild shares quite few lines in common with the Tomcat, but it WAS a TOPGUN picture, so you kinda expect that. Don't give up! You're on to...

I did a little painting and installed the manual windlass. SV Lucretia continues to sing the siren song of "Red! She would be stunning in red!" from Jimmy's book to my old mariner's ears. Instructions are started. I did the math on the bowsprit, masts and booms. "Balloon Jib" and "Jumbo...

Did you miss Old Ironsides firing her cannon? I'll bet the wussy Mayor about pooped himself when he heard that sound! I imagine fireworks are "Haram" too.

Thanks! A great deal of care goes into every model I make. In some cases, the pictures don't really bear the finer details out. 1/700 Bluenose and CSS Florida were the first Masters with wood deck. The RTV mold does a fine job of picking it up.

That's model making, right there! Do proceed!!

I wet-sand almost all my polyurethane plastic parts. Not a whole lot of dust is raised. I do change the water res. frequently.

The 3 Little Molds are poured. I'll be rising early to demold and cast them all Monday around suppertime. Following that, the mold for the waterline 1/350 SPC-HWX can be built and poured. I will then catch up bridge structures for existing kits for both versions. I hope this satisfies the...

I worked on the bitts and the windlass on Bluenose while letting the chemicals do their thing. Marking the bitt bases with fine black Sharpie helps. If my wood tan had been flat, this tiny chore would be much less daunting. The 3 Little Molds are poured. I'll be rising early to demold and...

Nope. Just .50 cal's.

A very convincing finish!

The stock Bluenose cabin was wrong. My original 2021 cabin was too rectangular and lacked some prominent, well documented details. A more accurate wedge-shaped cabin Master was built today. Now the hatch has rails to slide on, a better binnacle and a less chunky skylight are among the...

Yes we have! The Eastern Iowa Model Show and Swap Meet would have been the first show to vend at, but Ty Stevens decided to get married the same day. Real Life trumps goofing off with model friends. I had a plan to sell most of my car model kits there. Well, not the Funny Car kits and a...