I have some long-running internet grudges, and I’ve hinted around about them here and, frankly, I’m tired of dancing around the subject. Today I’m going…
There is only about enough real, solid information about English ships from the year 1600 to make up one good model. You can make a…
The rigging of deadeyes is a tedious process. It’s less tedious if you skip it. But using the plastic parts, even on an excellent old…
I had a number of reasons for buying a second kit of the Golden Hind when I was only going to build one model. Spare…
I suppose that building ship models appeals to me for a number of reasons. Seems less “fringe-y” than building airplanes (Kurt Vonnegut won’t accuse you…
It’s my blog. That’s the beauty of it. I can go COMPLETELY off topic, and start writing about pizzagate or gamergate or some other weirdness,…
They seemed to make decals better about fifty years ago. I have Authenticals decals from those days that are good as new (I used some…
It’s time for confession. I’m not playing this game strictly according to Hoyle. Yesterday I was looking at the longboat that takes up a hard-to-believe…
I’ve managed to do that one thing that really put me off for so long. Rig the cannons. I really did not know how to…