Work in Progress May 20, 2015

Reporter: Dave Yotter Roy Roberts has two items available for any SMA member who might be interested. The first is Ship Modeling Hints and Tips by Don Dressel. This is a compilation of many of the “Hints and Tips” that were in the many old SMA Newsletters of “yesterday year” which were sold to many SMA members years ago. The second item is a photocopy of Grimwood’s American Ship Models and How to Build Them. The text is photocopy but with original plates. Contact Roy is interested. Lumber carrier S.S. Iaqua – Bill Schultheis

The Port of Long Beach, California celebrated their centennial June 25, 2011 with a party on Pier E, attended by an estimated 5,000 guests. It was actually 100 years and 1 day, since the official dedication of Municipal Pier was on June 24, 1911. The first ship to deliver a load of cargo was the S.S. Iaqua, bringing

Newsletter

Volume 42, Number 6, June 2015

Contacts

President: Bill Schultheis (714) 366-7602

E-Mail: bsmath@yahoo.com Vice President: Don Dressel

(909) 949-6931 E-Mail: roebuckdres4@gmail.com

Secretary: Paul Payne (310) 544-1461

Treasurer: Mike DiCerbo (714) 523-2518

15320 Ocaso Ave, #DD204, La Mirada, CA. 90630

Editor, Don Dressel (909) 949-6931

908 W. 22nd Street Upland, CA 91784-1229

E-mail: roebuckdres4@gmail.com Web Manager: Doug Tolbert:

(949) 644-5416 Web Site

www.shipmodelersassociation.org

Meeting – Wed., June 17, 7 PM, Red Cross Building, 1207 N.

Lemon, Fullerton, CA. 92832

Officers meeting –Wed., July 1, 2015, 7 PM, Bob Beech’s house, 130 Clove Pl., Brea, CA. 92821 –

(714) 529-1481.

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280,000 feet of redwood from Eureka in Northern California. Under the command of Captain Arthur Self, the ship arrived on June 2, 1911. The Iaqua was a small lumber carrier with two masts, a single funnel and about 200 feet long. The somewhat larger S.S Santa Barbara carrier soon followed, also with a cargo of lumber, and was alongside the wharf for the official inauguration of the port. That day the city held an all-day celebration which drew 3,000 local residents and included a parade and a performance of the Long Beach Municipal Band. Bendixsen Shipyard was started in 1865 by Danish immigrant Hans-Ditley Bendixsen, at Fairhaven, CA. He built over 115 lumber schooners (including C.A. Thayer) before selling the yard in 1901. The yard appears to have closed in about 1910. The Iaqua was built at the yard in 1900 for the Shingle Manufacturers Association. She was 190 feet long, 36.4 feet breadth over all and 712 gross tons. She is listed as burnt in 1918. Bill is about to start a restoration of a rather large model of S.S. Iaqua for the Port of Long Beach. John Pignatelli built the model and if the scale is 1:48 that would make a model of 40 inches which seems about right. Most of the small details need to be repaired and all of the rigging will be replaced. Bill is wondering if the paint on the deckhouses will need to be refreshed as well. Monterey Clippers – David Okamura

David is working on his fleet of Monterey fishermen. When finished, the boats will be moored in a 1:48 scale harbor scene depicting a North-Central Coast of California fishing village circa 1890 to 1930. This harbor scene will be one module in a 1:48 narrow gauge railroad. David started with three resin hulls supplied by fellow model railroader Dennis Ivison. Since the hulls are all molded the same and they are all to be moored essentially together, David is working to individualize the fleet. The

cardstock mock-ups of the sides and hatches have been replaced with styrene. Next come the cabins. Some of the individualizing features will include anchors, and extended bowsprit on one and different outrigger arrangements. Some had an aft cockpit for steering while trawling. Randy Biddle helped with some photo’s for David of clipper interior detrails.

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Stuff – Randy Biddle

• Randy brought in some samples of “lawn”, a finely woven, lightweight cotton fabric, good for use in sail making. A good source for this product is www.fabric.com.

• An excellent source for pond model fittings is www.modelyachtfittings.com. This company based in Florida has a nice selection of turnbuckles for pond models and scale yacht models in many different sizes. Other fittings include goosenecks, vangs, shroud and stay plates and fittings kits for some popular R/C and pond model sailing craft. He also offers custom brass machining work.

• Randy has two volumes of photos of sailing vessels and whaling ships mostly taken at San Francisco. Contact Randy for particulars.

• He also has MANY plans for ship model making. If looking for a particular set, let Randy know and he will check his collection.

Oil Tanker Seawise Giant – Burt Goldstein

Seawise Giant, later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, Oppama, and finally Mont, was a ULCC supertanker and the longest ship ever built. Length: 1,503 ft,; beam: 220 ft.;. She possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded. Fully laden, her displacement was 657,019 tons, the heaviest ship of any kind, and with a draft of 81 ft., she was incapable of navigating the English Channel, the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal. Overall, she was generally considered the largest ship ever

built. She was sunk during the Iran-Iraq War, but was later salvaged and restored to service. She was last used as a floating storage and offloading unit (FSO) moored off the coast of Qatar in the Persian Gulf at the Al Shaheen Oil Field. The vessel was sold to Indian ship; breakers, and renamed Mont for her final journey in December 2009. After clearing Indian customs, she was sailed to, and intentionally beached at, Alang, Gujarat, India, to be broken up for scrap.

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Burt built his model of Seawise Giant from simplified plans at 1:1000 scale. There is a free ship model download at http://www.papercraftsquare.com. The model kit was designed by Bryan Tan. Burt said that it took him about four days to build the model. Oil Tanker Karpaty – Burt Goldstein Burt had another tanker model to show. This one was a Polish oil tanker by JSC paper models, em Catalog number JSC 070in 1:400. The ship was Polish built for a German company, originally named Adria. She worked as a replenishment tanker for the German Cruiser Emden during circumnavigation in 1937 and 1938. Later she worked for WWII battleships such as Scharnhorst and Admiral Hipper. In the 1950s she worked as a replenishment ship for whaling operations in the Arctic and was finely scrapped in 1958. Burt said that this model of the oil tanker Karpaty was difficult to make due to its small scale. Continental Frigate Hancock – Henry Bikhazi

Hancock was one of the first 13 frigates of the Continental Navy. A resolution of the Continental Congress of British North American 13 December 1775 authorized her construction; she was named for John Hancock. In her career she served under the American, British and French flags. Hancock, a 32 gun 12-pounder frigate, was built at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and placed under command of Captain John Manley 17 April 1776. After a long delay in fitting out and manning, she departed Boston

in company with Continental Frigate Boston, 21 May 1777. On 29 May they captured a small brig loaded with cordage and duck. The next day they encountered a convoy of transports escorted by British 64-gun ship Somerset which set sail to close Hancock. Manley was saved by clever and well-timed action of Boston, which forced Somerset to give up the chase by taking on the transports. After escaping from Somerset, the two frigates sailed to the northeast until 7 June when they engaged the Royal Navy’s 28-gun frigate Fox, which lost her mainmast and suffered other severe damage in the ensuing duel. About an hour later, Boston joined the battle and compelled Fox to strike. Hancock spent the next few days repairing the prize and then resumed cruising along the coast of New England. East of Cape Sable shoe took a British coal sloop, which she towed until the next morning when the approach of a British squadron prompted Manley to set the coal sloop ablaze and leave her adrift. The British frigate HMS flora recaptured Fox after a hot action. Boston became separated from Hancock, which tried to

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outsail her pursuers. Early in the morning 8 July 1777 the British were within striking distance. HMS Rainbow began to score with her bow chasers and followed with a series of broadsides. Hancock was thus finally forced to strike her colors after a chase of some 39 hours. She had 239 men of her crew aboard, 50 some being on Fox. She also had Captain Fotheringham of Fox and 40 of his people on board. The rest were on Boston and a couple of fishing vessels. Henry’s model of Hancock was started about five years ago and has not been worked on for two to three years. It is scratch built at a scale of 1:96. The framing is maple with pau marfim planking and a holly deck. Tony Devroude has done the carvings, including the figurehead and stern carvings. Henry is building his deadeyes, difficult in a smallish scale using a jig, carbide drills and a drill press. The bobstays are installed and he has started installing the standing rigging. The plan is to complete the models presentation with a suit of sails from Chapelle in The History of the American Sailing Navy. The main set of plans Henry is using is by Harold Hahn. Egyptian Ship – Don Dressel

This Egyptian Ship model represents a typical vessel used during the reign of King Sahure, when this Egyptian ship carried cedar and ebony from Lebanon to Egypt. Shipwrights of that era did not use pegs but relied on rope to keep their ships afloat. Keel, frames and deck were tightly tied together. Sahure (meaning “He who is close to Re”) was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the second ruler of the Fifth Dynasty, who

reigned fro about 12 years in the early 25th century BC. Sahure is considered to be one of the most important kings of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, his reign being a political and cultural high point of the 5th Dynasty. He was probably the son of his predecessor Userkaf with queen Neferhetepes II and was in turn succeeded by his son Neferirkare Kakai. During Sahure’s time on the throne, Egypt had important trade relations with the Levantine coast. Sahure launched several naval expeditions to modern day Lebanon to procure cedar trees, people (possibly slaves) and exotic items. He also ordered the earliest attested expeditions to the Land of Punt, which brought back large quantities of Myrrh, malachite and electrum. Sahure is shown celebrating the success of this venture in a relief from his mortuary temple which shows him tending a myrrh tree in the garden of his palace named “Sahure’s splendor soars up to heaven”. This relief is the only one in Egyptian art depicting a King gardening. Sahure sent further expeditions to the mines of turquoise and copper in Sinai. He

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also possibly ordered military campaigns against Libyan chieftains in the Western Desert, bringing back livestock to Egypt. Sahure had a pyramid built for himself inn Abusir, thereby abandoning the royal necropolises of Saqqara and Giza, where his predecessors had built their pyramids. This decision was possibly motivated by the presence of the sun temple of Userkaf in Abusir, the first such temple of the 5th Dynasty. The pyramid of Sahure is much smaller than the pyramids of the preceding 4th Dynasty but the decoration of his mortuary temple is more elaborate. The causeway and the mortuary temple of his pyramid complex were once adorned by over 10,000 m² of fine reliefs, which made them renowned in antiquity. Shipbuilding in ancient Egypt is interesting for a variety of reasons, first of all that, historically, it is the oldest art of shipbuilding to be known in any detail and we can follow its development. The Egyptian fleet played a decisive role not only in the Nile valley but also in the Mediterranean and Red Seas, where the Egyptians maintained regular sea traffic and communications, especially with Lebanon. Don started building this model by Amati over a year ago, but suspended work on the model for two reasons: (1) he wanted his daughter Christina to have the red sail supplied with the kit painted with an Egyptian motif by her best friend and (2) he had to start work on his model of the Halifax in order to have it ready for the ROPE 40th Symposium and Exhibition last April. After the completion of the hull of the Halifax and its subsequent showing at the ROPE 40th Exhibition in Tokyo, Don resumed work on the model since his daughter had also finally had the sail completed. The Egyptian style mast was constructed and erected, the steering and rowing oars were made, internal weights and levers installed and the rigging completed. The oars were NOT deployed, as that would not have been done while the sail was in place. There was some effort made to find a suitable product to enhance the “billowing” effect of the sail. It was finally determined that a 50/50 mixture of plain white glue and water did the trick. There was a lot of “line work” with this model, as much of the hull is both supported by the rope and used to prevent the hull from “hogging”. Schooner Halifax – Don Dressel The history of the Halifax was incorporated into the SMA Newsletter in April, Don having brought the model in for the March SMA meeting. Since then, Don completed as much detail on the hull as possible in order to display the model in the ROPE 40th Symposium and Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan in April. Since the last SMA club meeting “Works in Progress”, Don had completed the carving of the quarter badges and the stern counter, subsequently installing them on the model. The decorative carvings for the quarter badges and stern carving was done by Tony Devroude and incorporated into the carvings of the windows and structure of the quarter

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badges and stern molding by Don. The figurehead was again carved by Tony, while the headwork was completed by Don along with any modifications required to fit the figurehead. Don did decide to carve out the “lights” or windows of the respective pieces rather than try to individually make them, carving them out of one piece of boxwood. Some research was done on the swivel cannon and these were made using brass cannon (purchased from Admiralty Models to correct size), brass wire and tubing forming the swivel cannon handle and silver soldered together as required. The six carriage cannon were detailed and installed. The fore and main channels were installed complete with deadeyes, the deadeye links being soldered together using a soldering iron instead of a torch (there was fear that the wooden deadeye’s would be “torched”). A captain’s figure to the proper scale was painted and installed on the aft deck. The anchor’s were made and installed after some research. The model has now returned from her trip to Japan. The next step is to make the spars and rig the model, followed by making and installation of sails. Don is not sure yet just what procedure he will use to make the sails – either with drafting linen as he has done in the past or by using the information described in the pamphlet Swan IV, Sail Making Supplement by David Antscherl as announced in last month’s SMA Newsletter. King of the Mississippi – Greg Wilcox

Western river steamboats were made of wood – typically in length from 40 to nearly 300 feet, 10 to 80 feet wide, drawing only about one to five feet of water loaded, and if fact it was commonly said that they could “navigate on a heavy dew.” The boats had kingposts or internal masts to support hog chains, or iron trusses, which prevented the hull from sagging. A second deck was added, the Texas deck, to provide cabins and passenger areas. Stairs, galleys, and parlors were also added. Often the boats became

quite ornate with wood trim, velvet, plush chairs, gilt edging and other trimmings sometimes featured as per the owner’s taste and pocketbook. Wood burning boilers were forward center to distribute weight. The engines were also amidships, or at the stern depending on if the vessel was a sternwheeler or sidewheeler. Two rudders were fitted to help steer the ship.

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Vessels, on average, only lasted about five years due to the wooden hulls being breached, poor maintenance, fires, general wear and tear, and the common boiler explosion. Early trips up the Mississippi River took three weeks to get to the Ohio. Later, with better pilots, more powerful engines and boilers, removal of obstacles and experienced rivermen knowing where the sand bars were, the figure was reduced to 4 days. Collisions and snags were constant perils. Greg is continuing to make progress on the western river steamboat King of the Mississippi. The model is being built using an Artesania Latina kit scaled 1:80. The original was a gift of a kit a neighbor had started however the hull was twisted and starting all over was required. The laser cut parts provided in the kit have proven poor for the most part requiring replacement. The paddle wheels in particular were a problem and had to be completely redone and recentered. One part of the kit, the original deck planking, was used. Greg is adding many scratch details to the model including the bow platform, the bow stairways and a lot of the railing around the two decks. The railing around the two decks is nearly completed. Greg is doing an exceptional job with this kit, most of which is being replaced by scratch material. HMS Sovereign of the Seas – Paul Carter

Sovereign of the Seas was ordered in August 1634 on the personal initiative of Charles I of England, who desired a giant Great Ship to be built. The decision provoked much opposition from the Brethren of Trinity House, who pointed out “There is no port in the Kingdome that can harbor this shipp. The wild sea must bee her port, her anchors and cables her safety; if either fayle, the shipp must perish, the King lose his jewel, four or five hundred men must die, and perhaps some great and noble peer.” But the king

overcame the objections with the help of John Pennington and from May 1635 she was built by Peter Pett (later a commissioner of the Navy), under the guidance of his father Phineas, the king’s master shipwright, and was launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 13 October 1637. As the second three-decked first-rate (the first three-decker being Prince Royal of 1610), she was the predecessor of Nelson’s HMS Victory, although Revenge, built in 1577 by Mathew Baker, was the inspiration providing the innovation of a single deck devoted entirely to broadside guns. Paul is continuing to make progress on his 1:87 Sergal kit of the Sovereign of the Seas. The gold plated brass fittings, a hallmark of this kit, have all been added and this took time to complete. The deck furniture is complete with many details and work on the gun ports is progressing. Many of the gun ports were drawn on and the original parts were misplaced. Paul made a jig to make the parts for these ports. Some interesting features of the ship were

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incorporated into the ship plans including gun ports pointed into the waste of the ship with the guns loaded with grape to use in repelling boarders. There was also a problem in that sometimes the lower gun deck was not useable due to the proximity of the gun ports to the waterline. Paul announced that he is leaving us. In a few months he plans to move to Oregon, that town of Redmond, north of Bend. He had been a long time active member of the club and generous in sharing his skills and passion for the hobby with us. Hopefully, Paul will remain a “distant” member of the club and will, at times in the future, be able to attend a meeting or two. Perhaps he will be able to share some of his modeling expertise with us via the internet? In any case, we wish Paul a fair wind and smooth sailing! Pond Sailor – Ray Juncal

Ray found the hull for this pond yacht on his trash can one morning. It had really rangy paint and had been carved from a 2X6. So with a fair start he refined the shape of the hull and added some shear to the deck. The model was then finished off with some waxed linen for rigging and a suit of sails. Ray also had some photos of a floating pool toy that was to be used in a film. The photo is of a guy sitting in the boat while floating in a swimming pool. This was to be a

model of a mega yacht scaled down to nine feet in length. The model was a proof of concept to see if he could get a clipper bow from a single sheet of material. The material he used is a foam core PVC sheet called Sintra. This was used for the sides and a false bottom with foam flotation. Once completed and with the guy sitting in it, all it needed was a little foam added in the bow to get her to float on her lines. Sea trials were held at Hansen Dam. One detail to be added to the model includes a pool in the yacht’s deck.

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         Bill Schultheis’s lumber carrier S.S. Iaqua                                 David Okamura’s Monterey Clippers        Burt Goldstein’s Oil Tanker Seawise Giant                                  Burt Goldstein’s oil tanker Karpaty  

          Henry Bikhazi’s Continental Frigate Hancock            

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                       Don Dressel’s Egyptian Ship                                                Don Dressel’s schooner Halifax    Greg Wilcox’s King of the Mississippi                                   Paul Carter’s Sovereign of the Seas  

                                                                                Ray Juncal’s Pond Sailor             

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By Don Dressel 

Old Salts in Port: John Bakker, Steve Jones, Don Dressel, Don Leyman, Greg Wilcox, Guy Bell 

Visitors:  Yas Komorita 

Ship in Port:  Reale De France, Cutty Sark, HMS Pegasus, King of the Mississippi, Halifax. 

  The meeting started off in the usual fashion, with lots of discussion on various details of ship model  construction  plus  ship model  case  construction  and  acrylic  plastic  (Plexiglas)  to finish off the case.   It seems, due primarily to weight considerations, that glass  is not the best solution for ship model cases.   

Guy Bell  started  off  the  discussion  of modeling items with  a  neat  little  block  and  rubber  foam device  to  hold  all  his  Exacto  knives  and  other sharp tools.   The foam he used  is the same kind that  is used  for  the padding of carpets  installed on floors.  By sticking the knives and other sharp things  into  the  foam,  it keeps  them  from  rolling around on  the work bench with  the added plus of helping to keep the blades sharp.  Scalpels can also be stored and kept in the same way.  In this fashion, the needed knife or scalpel can be easily found  (you do not have  to  search  all over  your work bench  to  find  it –  if  it did not  role off  the bench  onto  the  floor).    A  picture  is  worth  a thousand  words,  so  one  is  included.    Those things  sticking  up  from  the  rubber  padding  are the  Exacto  knives  Guy  uses  for  his  modeling.  Very neat little block! 

  Don Dressel brought  in his Halifax  to explain  in more detail  the  final additions  to  the model and  just how he accomplished some of the details,  like the anchor  installation.    In the plans supplied by Hunt, there was no indication of bolsters for the anchor line at the bow, but 

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on  examination  of  the Hahn  plans,  there  definitely was  a bolster.  It would have been a lot easier to install the bolster at  the bow prior  to  installation of  the headrail’s, but  they were carved out and  installed after the  fact.   A  few of the Mayflower Group members  indicated  that  the model was fine the way it was and did not require masting and rigging, but Don  indicated  he would mast  and  rig  the model  and probably include sails.  All of the masting and rigging details will be taken from the Hahn plans as well as the book The Colonial Schooner 1763‐1776 by Harold Hahn.   

  Don also showed the ¼”=1’ scale figure he had painted and  installed on the after deck of the model.  The figure was supplied by Tony 

Devroude, who made a casting of the figure from one that he had carved.  Don has several of  these  figures, which allows him  to paint  them accurately  to match  the model he is building (in 1:48 scale). 

  Don  Leyman  was  next  up  and described the progress he is making on his beautiful  scratch  model  of  the  HMS Pegasus  based  on  material  from  David 

Antscherl.    He  has  removed  it  from  the  building board  and  is  planking  the  bottom  of  the  hull  using Alder.  He indicated he was having fun (kind of) laying the  planks  using  the  top  &  Butt method,  which  is difficult to do but very pleasing when it is completed.  He will  plank  on  side  of  the model  completely  and leave a strip or two off on the other side of the hull.  He has put all the cabins below the main deck  in, so he will continue to do that when he installs the upper decks.   At  the present  time, Don did  say  that he  is trying  to build  the model  faster  than he  is breaking things while building (he noticed that he knocked off the  two  stern  frames, port and  starboard!)   He also 

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told us that a paper plank has to be made first before cutting on out of wood to make sure  it fits properly while planking.  The main thing is that he is having fun!   

  Greg  Wilcox brought  in  his  King  of  the Mississippi,  which  started off  as  an  Artesania  Latina kit, most of the material in the  kit  having  been discarded,  so  the model  is essentially  a  scratch  built one.   His main  effort now is  constructing  the  hand rails,  the ones  at  the bow and  stern  being  curved.  The kit instructions tell you to solder the straight ones 

together to make one long enough to go around the curve, but it does not work.  Greg is in the process of making his own.   He  can’t understand how  a  ship model  kit would provide parts (photo  etched)  for  the  straight  railings  but  not  the  curved  ones.    It  seems  to  be  a  general problem with a lot of ship model kits.  The photo does show what a great job he is doing on the model.  The photo shows the upper deck without any rails as yet, while the lower deck rails are in place along the port and starboard sides of the model.  Also shown in the photo is of a bottle of finish that Greg purchased at Rockler. 

  Gun stock oil or true oil is no longer available in California – no one seems to know why.  When  Greg  went  looking  for  that  product,  he  was  introduced  to  the  new  product  called Mahoney’s  Finishes – heat  treated  filtered walnut oil.    It  costs $17.00 per bottle of 16 oz’s.  Greg tested the product out and found that  it produces a great finish on wood – he used two coats  and  applied  it with  a paper  towel per  the  instructions.   The product was  very easy  to apply.  He had also brought a sample of the kind of finish is gives – everyone was impressed. 

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  John Bakker showed us his  latest effort on  the Cutty Sark.   He decided  that he  is not going to rig the model, since he is basically completed with the hull now.  He did a beautiful job on  the hull, deck  structure and  fittings.   He did paint  the bottom of  the hull a  copper  color rather that install copper plates.  The anchors he installed are not plastic, but some of the other items on the model are (they were supplied  in the kit).   Looking at the photo,  I think you will have a hard time identifying the items that are plastic.  Members of the Mayflower Group have a lot of fun ribbing john about the use of plastic, but it does improve the appearance of the ship model and you can virtually not tell the difference, so I see no real problem with using plastic if that if the shipwright’s decision.  John has decided not to mast and rig the model, as it will be too large if he does that and the model looks fine as a hull model only.  The deck details really dress the model up and the  installation of the “side panels”  looks really good.   You would not be able to tell that he had a lot of problems with the stern area. 

  Also  discussed  were  the Real  de  France  model  and  the case  made  for  the  model.    The photo  attached  shows  the model in  its  final  case.    The  cost  of  the case  was  a  lot  less  when  John made  the wooden  frame  for  the case.   

  Your  editor  would  like  to know  if  anyone  can  stand  in  for him  next  month  (JUNE)  at  the Mayflower Group meeting to take notes  and  pictures  for  the  June issue of the SMA Newsletter.  Don will  be  in  England  during  that time.  It IS a lot of fun to be at the meeting  and  I  usually  leave with some  additional  information  on ship model building  that  I did not have prior to the meeting.  Please contact me and let me know. 

 

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HMS Victory Kit Model Sale 

  Doug Tolbert  received a  request  from a  young  lady, Mrs.  Victoria Martin,  asking  if there  was  anyone  interested  in  obtaining  a Sergal  Model  kit  of  the  HMS  Victory.    The scale is 1:78 of wood construction resulting in a model  length of 1300 mm  and  a height of 920  mm.    The  kit  incorporates  laser  cut material.  She also has an Amati Keel Klamper and a Loom‐a‐line  

  “The model has been started, but only the  initial beginning has been done, since her husband  became  ill  and  was  unable  to continue the construction.  All of the contents of  the  original  box  are  intact  as well  as  the spines  from  the  parts  which  have  been assembled.    So  anyone  looking  to  complete the  ship will  see  that  all  parts  are  included; the description of the model  is as  follows:   A double plank‐on‐frame hull, construction and building  plans  with  general  details  English 

instruction booklet,  lost wax brass  castings, walnut planking, wooden masts and  spars, brass and walnut fittings, etched brass details, rigging cord and silk flags.   All sheet ply sections are laser cut for accuracy.” 

  She  lives  in Granada Hills and can be  reached at  (818) 368‐5301.   She will accept any reasonable offer  for all  three  items.    I  know  that  the  kit new  sells  for $600.00 and  the Keel Klamper & Loom‐a‐Line  together  for about $100.00, but because  the model has begun she  is willing to sell  it at a reduced amount.   She would  like to know  if anyone  is  interested  in these items at a substantially reduced price. 

  According to the internet, HMS Victory is a 104‐gun ship‐of‐the‐Line of the Royal Navy, built between 1759  and 1765.    She  is  the oldest naval  ship  still  in  commission  and  the only remaining ship=of‐the‐line.  She sits in dry dock in Portsmouth as a museum ship.   

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SMA Collection of Ships Plans As many members of the SMA know, Bill Wicks was the keeper of the collection of Ships Plans that belonged to the Club. When Bill passed away, Bob Beech volunteered to take over the storage of these plans, which he has done since Bill passed away. Unfortunately, Bob is no longer able to perform this, so the SMA is now in need of a volunteer to take over the project of storing all the ships plans in our possession. Please contact any of the officers of the club if you would like to volunteer for the job of storing and loaning out, as required, the existing ships plans, which are now in Bob Beech’s home. NRG Conference to be held in Mystic this year Look for details on the upcoming NRG Conference in Mystic, Connecticut this coming October. It should be a great conference. The is some preliminary information on the NRG website. Potential location for upcoming SMA Show As the announcement was made at the January meeting, it is past time for the SMA to put on a ship modeling show and demonstration, possibly with the assistance of other clubs in the Southern California area. Please inform any officer if you have any suggestions for a venue for such an event. Treasurer’s Report Mike DiCerbo reports that there is $2,085.90 in the SMA account for the end of May. Web Manager’s Report The Webmaster, Doug Tolbert, is announced that we have had a problem with our web site and the data collected may not reflect the entire month of April. Your editor will try and input the data for May but may not succeed (a severe time constraint).

Chart of the hits experienced by our SMA web page through the end of Mar. 2015

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Sovereign of the Seas bow – Paul Carter

Donald C. Dressel 908 W. 22nd Street, Upland, CA. 91784-1229

Next meeting Wednesday, June 17, 7:30 PM, Hillcrest Park Red Cross Building

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