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Independence Seaport Museum Ship Model Shack Video

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The Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights isn’t the only ship model group that makes its home at a Maritime Museum. Check out this video from the Independence Seaport Museum’s Ship Model Shack, home of the Philedelphia Ship Model Society.

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There’s a very nicely done video about ship modeling on Youtube. Of course, there are many, but this is about the Ship Model Shack at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philidelphia, PA. This was apparently published about 4 years ago, but a Facebook post by the Italian ship model kit manufacturer Amati Model brought it to my attention this morning.

The Independence Seaport Museum is home of the USS Olympia, a protected cruiser built at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco in 1888. The Ship Model Shack is the home of the Philidelphia Ship Model Society.

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Guide for Building Woody Joe Kits of Western-Style Ships

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A handy guide for those interested in building a ship model kit from Woody Joe of Japan, but don’t read Japanese.

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Note that a copy of this post is now under the Resources/Shop Notes menu as the Woody Joe Kit Builder’s Guide.

pic_charlesyachtWhile doing a write-up of one of Woody Joe’s ship model kits, it came to my attention that, while Woody Joe kits are written in Japanese, all the kits of “western-style” ships use the same terms to identify parts of the ship. So, I thought perhaps a couple guides might be helpful to any builders of these kits.

The idea stems from the fact that Japanese use a different phonetic alphabet for western or modern words, and they simply write the western terms using this alphabet. If you can learn this alphabet, you can read the names of parts. This alphabet is called Katakana. If you don’t want to know any about reading Katakana, but just want a list of words in Katakana, skip to the List…

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Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights in Japan

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During a brief visit at Japanese ship model manufacturer Woody Joe by Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights member Clare Hess, a gift of HSPMS hats was presented to the company president and chief design engineer.

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Mr. Tsuneki, the company president, and Mr. Arata, the chief design engineer, show off their spiffy new Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights hats in front of the main office in Shizuoka, Japan.

The club had several club patches available, and Terry Dorman was able to order the hats for us. Clare Hess had the patches sewn onto the hats before leaving on his trip, which took place in September.

Clare Hess also had an opportunity to present hats to two members of the Tokyo branch of the Japanese ship model society, The Rope, Mr. Uriu and Mr. Sekiguchi, who he met for dinner and drinks, along with Mr. Uriu’s daughter, Hanako. Ω

Thanksgiving at HSPMS

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Thanksgiving at HSPMS

It’s Thanksgiving 2016, and it’s a good time for the members of Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights to stop and reflect on what we, as a group, are thankful for.

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First off, it’s important to give thanks for our great membership. The efforts of people like Paul Reck and Tom Shea, in particular, have kept us on our toes, not only as ship modelers, but as ambassadors to the public in our small space aboard the Eureka.

But, everyone who’s lent a hand deserves credit in keeping our group active and interesting, including those that are no longer with us. Even new members who haven’t had a chance to contribute much to the group offer long-time ship modelers hope that someone will be around to carry on the fine art of ship modeling.

Of course, there’s the public and the Park Service, which has deemed maritime history to be of great enough importance to create such a wonderful, living resource here at Hyde Street Pier – a place we make our home.

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We are also fortunate to have our friends in the National Park staff. There are too many to name here between the folks on the Pier, the administration, and the research center, but they have all helped us out in various ways.

But, by far our greatest thanks have to go to our supporter, protector and friend Terry Dorman, the Park Service Volunteer Coordinator. Terry has done so much for our group, he’s there when we need him, and he’s always watching out for us like a mother hen. We can’t imagine that any group is as fortunate as ours, to be blessed with such a wonderful person to work with or to be so well looked after.

Here’s to a happy and thankful Thanksgiving. May you all have as much to be thankful for as we here at Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights have been blessed with.

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Maritime Museums of Gdansk, Poland

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Overview of the best maritime museums in Poland,

Gdansk has a rich maritime history and three (yes 3!) fine maritime museums.  Although the city was destroyed in WWII, it was rebuilt with original materials and craftsmanship to match the streets found in many 16th century paintings.

The maritime museums cover from the earliest maritime history to the present, including how Vikings sewed the ribs of their ships together.  The ports and fortresses had a partnership thru the centuries that is seen in scaled replicas of the construction styles and vessels of each era.

Here are pictures of the above. Click any photo to view them in a slide viewer.

No September Meeting

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The model club’s annual barbecue is happening late this year, and will be taking place in lieu of the regular September ship model meeting on Saturday, September 17th.

So, there will be no regular meeting that day, and the ship model shop on board the Eureka will be closed. Members who haven’t done so, should make sure to contact Paul Reck about attending the barbecue, which will be at 1pm at his house.