Thread: A friends projects

Originally Posted by RezDog

How many alcoholics with boats have I known. Most of the boats were amazingly well kept, but all full size.

All the alcoholics I knew who had boats, all were very large, didn't have any food on board, a liquor cabinet/bar that caused the yacht to list, and never left the berth at the Yacht Club.

That is awesome! I'd need to qts. of vodka a day just to keep my hands steady

Wow. Beautiful!

Looks great. Can you tell the size of the ship?

A story from the past: while i studied in Finnish Naval Warfare Academy at my master nco degrees (that was so right place to become alcoholic if you already ain't one), one of our teachers showed us pics about the Tirpitz model he was building. That was amazing just like the ship in op pics. Looked like real. Rotating ship guns and all.

'We have little disagreements with the wife where to put it once it's ready', said the capitanlieutnant. 'It's almost 4 meters (12 feet) in lenght'

WOW that is amazing work!! Thanks for sharing.

Whats really amazing is each ship has hand tied knots for the rigging,many hundreds of them.
The cannons are all solid lathe turned brass,He made all of them on a levin watchmakers lathe,all are bored with fuse holes.
All the sails are hand sewn linin.I have never seen such work before,is just amazing.

Very impressive craftsmanship. I wouldn't be surprised if some, or maybe most of them, were based on specific historical ships ?

Looks like museum quality work. I need to drink more.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Very impressive craftsmanship. I wouldn't be surprised if some, or maybe most of them, were based on specific historical ships ?

They all have names Jim,I would assume they are based on real ships.
Whats amazing is they were not kits or packaged models, all were made from scratch,by hand.

Wow. Words cannot express... So I'll use an emoticon, or ten,


Cheers