Update on HMS Wolf 1752, Card Model by Clare Hess

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Building HMS Wolf – Shipyard’s 1/72 Scale Laser-Cut Card Kit – Part 9

HSPMS Member Clare Hess posted this latest update on his build of the British snow-rigged brig HMS Wolf. This is a laser-cut card model from the Polish kit maker Shipyard. These unique kits are known for their high degree of detail and are available in the U.S. through Ages of Sail.

This is a unique type of kit which has all the necessary parts pre-cut, including the hull planking. Masts and spars, however, have to be built up from wood dowels provided in the kit. The kit also includes resin castings for the figurehead and brass barrels for the cannons, plus rigging line, paints, and brushes. Ω

Select European Kits Now Available from BlueJacket Shipcrafters

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Select European Kits Now Available from BlueJacket Shipcrafters

It appears that Blue Jacket Shipcrafters of Bath, Maine, is now a new source for kits from Vanguard Models, Caldercraft, and Amati’s Victory Models line, all of which are generally known for their high quality ship model kits. Here’s hoping that this will give the company better exposure in the ship modeling community, because they have many excellent kits of their own, and it would be nice to see more of these kits built by ship modelers.

This post makes mention of the Laughing Whale line of kits. This line is made up of some very fine subjects that are relatively easy to build, such as the small Friendship Sloop kit shown below.

Blue Jacket / Laughing Whale Small Friendship Sloop

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Artesania Latina’s Newly Released HMS Victory Cross Section Kit

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HMS Victory Cross Section Kit – New in Stock

Artesania Latina has been producing some very interesting kits lately and revising old ones. This HMS Victory Cross Section kit is a brand new 1/72-scale kit that looks very tempting. While the cross section is at the mainmast, it only shows a mast stub, so it isn’t nearly as lofty as Corel’s smaller scale kit that most of us are familiar with (member Tom Shea built the Corel kit, as some may recall). The larger scale matches that of Caldercraft’s excellent HMS Victory kit, making this look like a nice companion piece.

This also would make a nice stand-alone model. The internal details of the model appear quite nice. Figures are included, along with 8 cannons, and all the various construction details. A good book on HMS Victory would make for a nice gift set for anyone who likes to build models (hint, hint!).

The kit lists for about $230, and I hope to soon see this model built by one of our local ship modelers. If anyone does take on this kit, please send along your photos and we’ll post them on our site. Ω

New Historic America Privateer Grecian Kit

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Historic American Privateer from Vanguard Models Now Available at Ages of Sail

The new kit of the American War of 1812 privateer Grecian is one of the latest kits being produced by Vanguard Models of England. The Grecian was a Baltimore Clipper schooner built in Baltimore by Thomas Kemp in 1813. For those interested, Howard Chapelle describes her in his book The Baltimore Clipper, It’s Origin and Development.


The Vanguard Models kit depicts the ship after her capture by the British in 1814 and taken into service as HMS Grecian. Chapelle, in his book, includes some description of how she may have appeared as a privateer in American service. Ω

Foundation Franklin Repair

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While the Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights group may not be meeting these days, Paul Reck shows that members are still active. His latest work is the repair of a very nice looking model of the tugboat Foundation Franklin. Below is a photo of the model that was apparently damaged by the bane of all ship models: the cleaning lady…

The Foundation Franklin, according to this Wikipedia entry, was a salvage tug, built in 1918 for the British Royal Navy and originally named HMS Frisky. Operating for Foundation Maritime after 1930 as the SS Foundation Franklin. The ship survived World War II only to be badly damaged in a hurricane in 1948, which led to her being broken up in 1949.

However, as far as the model is concerned, the simulated hurricane damage was not beyond the ability of ship modeler Paul Recks repair work…

She is now happily back in the hands of her owners. Hopefully, they’ll consider putting her in a nice, acrylic case to keep her from further damage! Ω

Adventures in Trunneling

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Some thoughts on trunneling or treenailing the deck.

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Recently, I made an Instagram post about the trunneling work I recently started. It’s something I used to do more of, but I’d been doing some paper models recently, as well as many Japanese boats, and smaller scale ships, so it’s something I stopped doing much of. Also, I started using pencil to just do the ends of planks on several models. But recently, I’ve been looking at some 1/64 scale models, which in my book are just large enough to show trunnels, so I’ve been back at it recently.

I decided to return to my original method of representing trunnels. To make the trunnels themselves, I’m using the smallest hole in a draw plate that I think I got from Micromark at least 15 years ago. The holes are drilled with a #72 drill bit. This results in trunnels that are about 0.025″ in diameter. While I use this…

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New Franklin Expedition Ship – HMS Erebus from OcCre

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A second ship model kit from the Franklin Expedition. Now, you have a choice of building HMS Terror or HMS Erebus… or build them both!

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First, there was HMS Terror, one of two ships of the Franklin expedition, that disappeared in the Arctic during a search in 1845 for the Northwest Passage. OcCre introduced that kit back in 2018. OcCre’s newest release is the other ship of that ill-fated expedition, HMS Erebus.

Of the two ships, Erebus was the lead ship, under the command of Sir John Franklin himself, but the two ships were very similar. Both ships were converted bomb vessels, received the same modifications for Arctic service, including the addition of steam propulsion, and both had similar deck layouts. Now, you can build a 1/75-scale reproduction of this most famous ship, or model the Franklin Expedition with OcCre’s 1/75-scale HMS Terror kit.

The kit includes laser-cut wooden parts for the hull framing and many structural details. Wooden strips for a double plank-on-bulkhead construction, wooden dowels for masts and spars, planking material for rather unusual…

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