Wooden Greek Fishing Boat

This is said to be a 1/30 scale wooden model of a Greek fishing boat from a Chinese toy company. It is a plank-on-frame model. The fit is rather good but the overall kit is somewhat crude. A little bit of work makes it far better than the out-of-box version. The plans are awful and missing details, and are only in Chinese. It took three weeks to plank the hull, then a week to finish and paint the hull. Numbers on the side are from an aircraft model kit decal sheet. I like the effect of real wood and of the wooden deck. The stained wood effect comes from touch-up pens for repairing furniture damage such as small nicks and scrapes. It was mail ordered from Ali Express in China for about $15. It took less than a month to finish.
John Clearwater,  Ottawa

2016 Military Hobby Show Coming Soon

April 2016 Meeting

Here's hoping winter is a thing of the past by the time the April meeting gets here. The April CMMG will happen on April 5, 2016, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley.

Bring out your show and tell items and anything else you think may be of interest.

March 2016 Meeting

We start off early in March, while spring is imminent. The March CMMG will happen on March 1, 2016, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley.

S.S. Great Eastern on Canadian Coin

The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a commemorative coin of the 150th anniversary of the successful completion of a permanent transatlantic telegraph cable on July 27, 1866.

Designed by Canadian marine artist Yves Bérubé, the coin shows S.S. Great Eastern in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.

Click here to visit the Royal Canadian Mint's web page with more information about this coin.

February 2016 Meeting

As you can see from recent posts on this blog site there is quite a bit going on at the monthly magazines. What you see here is really just the tip of the iceberg. The February CMMG will happen on February 2, 2016, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley. Bring your show and tell items. Don't have any such items? Come out and see what other members bring.

Sultana. This was a club project.

1/700 Scale Model of USS Forrestal

Ed Chan

December 2015 & January 2016 Pics

Ed Chan

Rotating Deck Cannon

Days after completing this 1:50 scale rotating deck cannon I fell on it when I slipped in water in a parking lot. It took a couple of hours to repair the minor damage caused when the cannon ripped away from the carriage.
I bough the Oneida kit from AliExpress.com in China for about US$20. The kit comes with everything, including very tiny photo-etch parts. It is lovely and I would recommend the kit to anyone with tiny tweezers!
John Clearwater - Ottawa.

Green Eyebrows - Admiral Zheng He - 1433

I have finished my third sailing vessel, Admiral Zheng He's "GREEN EYEBROWS".
The build took two weeks. The hull took one week and the sails took another week.
It is a model of a 30m general purpose ship which sailed with sixty vessels on the seventh world voyage of Admiral Zheng He and returned to China after a three year voyage in 1433. Zheng and his fleet got as far as Mecca and Mogadishu during the 7th voyage.
The kit cam from AliExpress.com in China and cost about $25.
John Clearwater - Ottawa.

Chinese Lake Pleasure Boat

Four weeks ago I received a kit from China of a lake boat with a wooden structure and a plastic hull. It was motorized, but I did not add any of that. It was a three-day build for fun, and I added details to make it better. I bought the kit on AliExpress for about $20.
Such vessels would have been used by the royals and mandarins and ruling class on the lakes near Beijing. It is also noted that the first congress of the Chinese Communist Party was held on a similar lake boat.
John Clearwater

Korean coastal vessel GA-GEO finished

I have now completed my second sailing vessel, the "Meok-Sun" (wooden ship) "GA-GEO-DO" (people can live island) coastal vessel kit from Young Modelers Company of South Korea. The kit was a gift from my dear colleague Sangho Lee. The model is a copy of the museum ship built in 1996 to commemorate the wooden vessels which have sailed that part of Korea for well over a thousand years. Like Chinese vessels, the Ga-Geo has eccentric sails for moving very close to the wind.
The fit and cut are amazing. This was well designed and well executed. The wood is great and works well.
It is 1/50 scale, and is 210mm long and 290mm high. In Seoul the kit costs about $45.
John Clearwater

January 2016 Meeting

For its first meeting of the year, CMMG will meet on January 4, 2016, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley. If you got ship modelling Christmas presents bring them out and let's see them.

Two Revell Cutty Sark kits that will, hopefully, be refurbished and completed.

Working on the Korean coastal vessel