October 2022 Meeting

Capital Marine Modellers Guild will meet on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 7:00 p.m., at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley Avenue.

Hope you see all members attend.

 

September 2022 Meeting

Capital Marine Modellers Guild's first meeting of the 2022/23 season will take place at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley, at 7 p.m., September 6, 2022.

Masking is not mandatory but a personal choice.

 

May 2022 Meeting

Capital Marine Modellers' Guild will meet on Tuesday May 3, 2022 at 7 p.m., at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley Avenue, Nepean. This will be the second face to face meeting since the pandemic put us into Zoom status. As well it will be our last meeting of the season. Enjoy your summer.

Information here is subject to change and may be updated within days of the May meeting. Check back before coming out.

Capital Marine Modellers' Guild Returns to Actual Face to Face Meetings

 The April meeting of Capital Marine Modellers' Guild will take place on Tuesday, April, 5, at the Nepean Museum,  16 Rowley Avenue at 7 p.m. Those who attend are asked to wear masks, please.

WOODEN TWO-MASTED SAILING SHIP

It is finally finished. The ghost ship sails away. All the wood work and sail work and rigging and even the forgotten archor are all done.

As I mentioned previously, there were no plans/instructions, and therefore all mast and boom and yard measurements are made up to look proportionately correct first against the hull, and then against the masts and remaining space.

Now it is time to get a parrot and a peg leg and set sail for the high seas.  Aargh...

John Clearwater

The shipbuilder considers parrots and sailing away

Wooden Model Two-Masted Ship

I have no name or even scale for this model. I bought it from AliExpress for a mere $12 shipping included. It arrived in two weeks. Today is day eleven (11) of the build. There are two basic problems: 1) there were no plans/instructions; and 2) the wood is plywood instead of solid single type wood. You can only bend plywood in one direction. So this has been a bit of a challenge. The goal here is to make a ghost ship or sort of disney pirates vessels with a lot of crud and dirt and aging. Hull crud is baking soda and crushed pencil shavings. The entire thing has been spray painted with a dirty black, then sanded down to show highlights.

John Clearwater

HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, in 1:700 scale

HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, in 1:700 scale, by Chris Flodberg.