All About the Author
- A chance for you, this title is exaggerated. I will tell you only about my experience in woodden ship modeling.
- It is at the beginning of 2005 that I launched this site. My first kit was the Bluenose II.
- Throughout her construction, I fell head first into the errors of the manufacturer`s assembly instructions.
- I was dying to build a second kit while avoiding making the same errors.
- My second kit was the Bluenose, a fishing schooner.
- Still some errors among the instructions, but now I was a little informed by my first experience.
- Why these errors in the assembly instructions, whereas the manufacturer announces to you (without blushing) that a team of specialists surpervises the construction of the kit? For three years, I am asking myself the question.
- The first goal of my site was identified:
- Proposing rational instructions facilitating the building of kits.
- With time, I note that certain manufacturers offer kits increasingly expensive and less in conformity with the characteristics of the models suggested.
- The second objective of the site is specified:
- How to improve the commercial kits.
- These improvements are related to the addition of details like: the tree-nailing of decks, the casting of guns, the presentation of sails, furled or deployed and the construction of launches or boats.
- Experience accumulating, the third and last objective of the site is settled:
- Ship modeling from scratch..
- Modeling from scratch is a rather slow construction. But the pleasure of working with precise indications, which give you authentic models, largely compensates for time spent.
- Many famous specialists in ship modeling from scratch, or better in "Arsenal ship modeling", have a workshop well-equipped with pieces of machinery of any kind.
- My office-workshop and my piggy bank do not allow me this kind of equipment.
- So my chapters on building from scratch have a constant characteristic:
- Working without too much noise and without expensive equipment.
- Being retired and passionate, ship modeling and its detailed explanation largely occupy my time, between taking pictures or videos and constantly updating the site.
Sincerely,
Hubert Sicard: hsicard@videotron.ca
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