Being a ship modeler, we often spend lots of time on our wood projects, but occasionally, building a plastic model can be a relatively quick and fun way to build something different. HSPMS member Paul Reck shared photos of his most recently completed project, a small plastic model of the whale ship Charles W. Morgan.

Paul bought the kit on Ebay. It was produced long ago by the old plastic model company “Pyro”. Paul likes to build these Pyro kits and he built a bomb ketch that he brought to a model club meeting many years back.

Paul likes to throw out the kit’s plastic shrouds and to add his own rigging. This time around, he also decided to try his hand at making a water diorama out of it, which looks to have turned out very nicely!

Paul also sent along a photo of a much larger project he completed recently. This one was a big 1/200 scale Trumpeter kit of the U.S.S. Arizona.

Paul noted how much fun he had building the Arizona kit with its myriad of parts and photo-etched brass. He passed along the completed model, so we are hoping it now has a nice home!

Finally, ship modeler Clare Hess had some of his own fun building a plastic model of a Guppy Ib submarine SS Leonardo Davinci. The sub is the ex-Gato class submarine U.S.S. Dace, which was upgraded after WWII to the Guppy Ib standard, and then sold to the Italian Navy.

This 1/350 scale model was built from a kit from AFV Club and has some very nice detail.

Undoubtedly, there will be more plastic ship models to come… Ω