cormorant
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Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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8 bateausHMT Resolve
Resolve was a class of ocean going tug built for the Admiralty just after WW1. The model is built from the …
Harbour Defence Motor Launch
Another semi-kit from Rob Fowler, rob4boats@yahoo.co.uk, who also supplied my MASB. The hull is very well m…
Motor Anti-Submarine Boat
Built from a semi-kit, she is based on MASB 23, with a BPB 63' long hull. I found it greatly therapeutic an…
HMS CAMBELTOWN
She is scratch built based on a grp hull to 1/96 scale. The boat is (more or less) as she would have been, …
HMS HOOD
Built from a Trumpeter kit, scale 1/200. I found the kit to be of excellent quality with very nearly 2,000 …
(Other) KD Perkasa
I acquired the boat as an unfinished project, consisting of a decked unpainted hull and basic superstructur…
(Working Vessel) Pilot Boat by Aeronaut
My first attempt at building a plastic hull proved difficult due to the bends and curves but the final resu…
(Yacht) Stormy Weather
Built from a kit by Colombini, this is based on a 54ft yawl, Stormy Weather, which was launched from the He…
cormorant’s journaux de construction
3 blogsSome two years ago I built HMS Cruizer, a 1/64 scale brig sloop from the Nelson's Navy series made by Caldercraft, aka JoTiKa. Some of yo…
Having been thoroughly disappointed, almost disgusted, with the overpriced Deans Marine warship kits (of which I have built two), I decid…
Having already started the build, Martin555 suggested I do a build log. Never done one before so here goes. First impressions of the kit …
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♥ 4 likes1,436 viewsFirst PlankingIt has taken me two months to complete the first planking! Holidays, illness (over Christmas), major flooding (at the mother-in-laws house), have all played their part, not to mention using the wrong grade of …
+4♥ 8 likes1,497 viewsGun Deck and Gun Deck WallsInstructions give me two choices as to when to plank the 0.8mm false gun deck. 'It can be pinned and glued into place, then planked, or planked prior to fixing. The easiest way is the latter but the deck will …
+2♥ 8 likes1,649 viewsRe: HMS Diana(38) Heavy FrigateThanks Graham. Yes, I do intend to feed back any issues to Jotika. I have just come back onto the site with the intention, (as you have already suggested), to copy and paste the YouTube link:- https://www.yout…♥ 5 likes1,743 viewsHMS Diana(38) Heavy FrigateSome two years ago I built HMS Cruizer, a 1/64 scale brig sloop from the Nelson's Navy series made by Caldercraft, aka JoTiKa. Some of you may have followed the build blog. This was my first attempt at this ty…
♥ 8 likes3 comments1,778 viewsGaff rigged cutter Antares by KrickThat's how I initially envisaged my set up. Two sheets on one winch which was divided into two. I set the sheets up so one turned clockwise and the other anti clockwise so as one wound in the other wound out. …♥ 4 likes1,206 viewsGaff rigged cutter Antares by KrickI have solved the problem, I hope! I have read read the instructions many times and disregarded the opening gambit "Two sail winches for the mainsail, one for port and one for starboard." Fourth paragraph read…
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