Amen! I started building my new shop as the kids were going out the front door!

 

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I have to say by just looking at kits I've purchased 11 total,ambitious or what? but have you seen the prices double in a year,I've decided to stockpile while still reasonable. I like artesani's packing,neat plastic dividers and color photo instructions. let me look at picture long enough and I will figure it out. I also appreciated the post on storing kits. thanx to the poster!

 

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Ambitious to say the least!(LOL)
Welcome aboard!
Prices do seem to be going up. Go figure. With 11 kits stock piled, have you started any yet? Or are you in the middle of one. What kits do you have?
Nosey, aren't I.
Just curious to know more about our members.
Cap.

 

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Salut Cap! To make a long story short. Started a Sterling missouri a long time ago! New business in 1979 (sales & service runabout boats) Married in 82,kids in 85. Translation- No time,No workroom now the nursury What was I thinking!! So the Mo was mothballed and on with life??? Now to the pressent, Bigger house 2002, Read "new workshop" Dug the Mo out and started again. She's 60% complete, hull ready to prime alas the superstucture suffered battle damage in the move! lots of work to repair

KITS I HAVE: Sergal 1-78 Le Soleil Royal
1-78 Victory
Panart 1-16 Victory launch
1-16 Armed "
1-23 Battle station
1-78 Victory bow section
Mamoli 1-53 Golden Hind
1-64 Bounty
Corel 1-24 Wasa battle station
Artesania Latina 1-30 Victory Carronade
1-48 Bounty (cut away vers)
Amati 1-250 Titanic
Minicraft 1-350 " X4 (these don't count because they
are styrene right)

I plan to do all of the "White Star Line" Olympic Class
Olympic,Titanic,Gigantic AKA Britannic, The 350th with fibre optics the 250th with interiors. Hence the knickname my friends gave me!

I still Love tall ships though,the creaking of the rigging,the silence of no engines!! (I have a sunfish sailboat)

So now you know my life story,sorry for being so WINDY but you asked :D

 

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My favorite kit company is Calder Craft (UK). Most of their kits are interesting craft designed for RC with steam or electric power. Their kits are very complete, with decent fittings, good wood, good instructions. Dumas is my second choice, their kits are more variable in terms of quality, but are invariably very strong.

 

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My brother sent me for Christmas '02 the 19" steam launch from midwest and on my birthday in April he sent me the steam engine that goes with it. I got hooked right away and conned my kids into giveing me the 'Brooklyn' for Christmas '03. Bieing a beginner I really apreciated the excelent instructions and pictures to match. Didn't love the stack and substituted it with a brass sink drain pipe(advice from Jan's hobby shop in NYC). Made quite a few changes, added lots of lights and RC, took it up to Central Park boat pond and got lots of attention. I think it's a great kit and if your handy and pataint it's fine for a beginner(not a kid beginner)I was surprised that almost all the boats in the central park pond were off the shelf plastic junk. Where are all the model boat builders in NYC? My next project was the 'Boston Typhoon' from Mount Fleet. I bought the kit through Don at Loyalhanna Dockyard. It was shipped missing some printed deck sheets and a few raw materials. The inventory list of raw material was a complete guessing game, the castings were absolute garbage, all 1600 packed in 23 bags jammed into one box(anything over 1" long was bent). I challange any model maker to make the rudder casting work. Like all the other castings it's white metel and in no way should be be expected to steer this model. The Prop is also white metal and a piece of junk. This is a $1000+ model that has real crappy fittings. It gets worse! The instructions are real folksy and really suck. There are whole sections of the vessel they completely ignore. The full size plan is a great help but inacturate in many places. They include 8-3"X5" color photos which without you could not build the boat. For another $20 they could have included close-up detail shots that would have been a great help. When Don e-mailed mount fleet about missing parts in the kit it took them 2 months to respond and they included in the package(still some of the wrong stuff)a snotty note "Don, we can't do business this way" I've finished the boat and am rigging it for RC, sound, smoke and lights. I should have thrown away most of the castings because there are so many companies manufacturing great model boat parts that would have been so much better than the crap in the kit. Do I sound PO'd. You bet! This company delivers a potentially great model boat kit and drops the ball in every catagory espesially in their attitude. Any body else have the same expereince? Dave

 

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Hi Dave, Welcome Aboard!
Sounds like you're not too happy with that kit! I've never heard of that make before. Where does Mount Fleet come from. Here or from Europe?
How did the finished model come out?
Here's a good link for model clubs in NYC:
http://www.naut-res-guild.org/clubs.htm#USAn-s 
Just scroll down the page until you see the listings for New York, near the bottom.
wirewolf

 

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What's the website for ordering a brother that gives u steam launch along with the steam engine, lol ;)

Anyway i'd like to see some pictures of your steam lauch.