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**MFR1964** · 2025-10-25T17:13:39+00:00

Yup, it will be interesting what the future will bring, i hope more people take the jump into modelmaking, as for last of the breed, i'm still alive and kicking, experience can't be taken from me, let's see who will stand up to succeed us.

Manfred.

**Albacore 569** · 2025-10-25T20:22:09+00:00

Model ships of real vessels through the ages and later when introduced - submarines and their models too, are so misunderstood and underappreciated by the ignorant general public.

We all been to regattas and suffered the questions "is it a kit'? "Would you crash it? I want to see whit it will do" by that rabid 10-year-old kid of mindless parents that allows the brat to choose which restaurant.

At one time, because paper was so rare and valuable a commodity, it was cheaper and easier the build precise super accurate wood models of the actual ship, then the ship wrights commonly took precisive measurements off the model and scaled up to build the actual ship!

These 'builders' models' today are priceless in Museums. they are Rosetta stones of recording building practices in naval architecture. In their times, ships like HMS Victory were the most advanced 'machines' in the world and expressions of their nation's genius and technology. The later ships still are!

Model boat building is both a dying and evolving art. Submarine models (our trade) have the added challenge of making the model work perfectly in a hostile environment - the implacable sea in the form of a hopefully close by duck pond. In a Park run hopefully by a park service that remember us modelers who must put up with the usual ignorance and WOK disease.

We aren't racing hydroboats! We aren't discharging Lipo batteries on fire buzzing around the pond. The koi fish actually love our subs! We have to do more to educate. Bob Martin's youtubes are one example of the view in, and the ingenuity this hobby demands. I think those that take on the challenge will be pleasantly surprised what's there to learn. .

I feel what's best is taking along the best of the old , and with the best of the new.

Will models be in our future? Hell yes! Whether by hand, or by keyboard, made of whale bone in a bottle, or fiberglass layups, castings, or 3d printing, or in the future someday, even transporter replicators? lol.

The world maybe ****ed, but we aren't!

Photo courtesy of Memory Alpha.com

**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 2025-10-26T01:57:02+00:00

**DrSchmidt** · 2025-10-26T06:40:54+00:00

There is another trick to restore weld lines that might be even easier. You place masking tape left and right from the position you want to restore the weld, laving only a tine gap with the width of the weld line. Then you apply the putty, scrape it flat removing the excess putty and then peel off the tape. Easy....

**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 2025-10-26T10:36:36+00:00

Originally posted by DrSchmidt

There is another trick to restore weld lines that might be even easier. You place masking tape left and right from the position you want to restore the weld, laving only a tine gap with the width of the weld line. Then you apply the putty, scrape it flat removing the excess putty and then peel off the tape. Easy....