Monthly Archives: April 2018

Milled Wood Sheets at Syren Ship Model Company

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Here’s a new source of milled lumber for all you scratch modelers out there.

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Ever since Jeff Hayes closed the doors at Hobby Mill, sources for milled lumber for ship modelers have been a bit spotty. So, the news that Syren Ship Model Company is now selling milled sheets is very weclome in the community.

Chuck Passaro is now offering Boxwood, Swiss Pear, and Alaskan Yellow Cedar in sheets of various thicknesses. He doesn’t have every size on hand at all times, but he only lists those sizes and varieties that he does have. So, there’s no worry about not getting what you’ve ordered.

Prices range from around $4.75 to $13 per sheet, depending on thickness and wood type. The wood available is only available in sheets, so if you need strip woods, you’ll need a table saw to cut your own.

See what’s in stock here: https://www.syrenshipmodelcompany.com/milled-lumber.php

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AMC’s New Series “The Terror” and the New Ship Model Kit HMS Terror

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The release of new television series and the release of a wooden ship model kit aren’t things that often go together. So, seeing the new HMS Terror kit released by OcCre of Spain and the new series, The Terror, on American Movie Classics, was quite a surprise.

What’s special about the new kit from OcCre is that it’s based on the work of ship modeler Matthew Betts, who researched the subject for years in the construction of his scratch-build model of HMS Terror. Mister Betts describes the building of his own 1/48-scale model and his research in detail on his blog site, which you can find at: http://buildingterror.blogspot.ca

The 1/65-scale OcCre kit can be purchase from the Spanish company’s website for €99, at http://www.occre.com, or in the U.S., from Ages of Sail for $149 here: http://www.agesofsail.com/ecommerce/hms-terror-occre-oc12004.html

Having looked at the kit information, this appears to be a very good deal.

If you haven’t seen the series yet, it’s based on a novel by the same name, by author Dan Simmons. It follows the arctic explorations ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, both originally built as bomb vessels but modified for arctic operation, in their search for the fabled Northwest Passage. The crews face the elements, being trapped in the Arctic ice, disease, starvation, plus something much more sinister out on the ice that is killing them off one by one.

The series premiered on March 25, 2018 and the episodes can be seen on AMC and are available for purchase on iTunes. Here’s AMC’s own website on their new series: http://www.amc.com/shows/the-terror

In any case, we’ll be looking forward to seeing some builds of this kit (and more episodes of the series). Ω

Building a Beginning Billing Boats Kit, Dana Fishing Boat

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Starting another beginning ship model kit, Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights member Clare Hess is looking into how well suited this kit from Billing Boats of Denmark really is for beginning ship modelers.

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I occasionally field ship modeling questions for the ship model shop Ages of Sail and for Billing Boats USA. Recently, a couple questions came up about the construction of the plastic-hull Billing Boats kits. These kits feature vacuum formed hull and/or deckhouse parts.

Now, I’ve never built one of these kits, but I understand the theory. Up to this point, the only vacuum formed parts I’ve ever dealt with are the sails in some of the plastic sailing ship model kits. So, I felt I should have a little more experience.

There are currently four beginning kits from Billing Boats that feature vacuum formed hulls, and I thought it would be good to do one of these, since this will also give me some perspective on how well suited one of these kits really is for the beginning ship modeler. Two of these available kits are rescue lifeboats and two…

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