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 After finishing the 1:48 longboat model from Model Shipways, I wanted to step up to a larger and more complex project, but it needed to be ...

Here, finally, are some views of the finished model. I have mounted it on steel rods set into holes drilled in the keel of the boat, and it ...

In the last post, I left off after adding most of the internal detail to the boat. Here we'll pick up by adding he bowsprit. The piece t...

Moving right along with the longboat build, it's time to remove the inner bulkheads. These are laser cut in such a way that you just ne...

Picking up where we left last time: all of the frames of the longboat were installed on the keel, and the skeleton was complete. After fair...

Recently I've been working on something a little larger than the 1:1200 ship models I usually build. Model Shipways' 18th Century Lo...