Making my first scratch-build.

[stevee28]

Hello to you all,

Let me begin my first scratch-build, but I do not know where to start. I look on the internet but I can not find much and that's why I come to you. Can you help me to know what tools and what materials I would need?

Thank you for your help
See you soon

[Timmy C]

There are many different ways to scratchbuild a ship. Look through the different detailed build threads in the Completed (Fully Documented) section of the forum and see which method is most attractive to you. A lot of it also has to do with the scale you want to work in, so do keep that in mind.

[Fliger747]

Hull wise the initial question is full hull or waterline, the scale. For a large full hull plank on frame covered with fiberglass is good, smaller hulls, perhaps wood sandwich, for waterline styrene over bulkheads can work well. Did a 1:196 Alaska this way.

Goos luck. Tom