HOW WE GOT HERE

I was born in the early eighties and have been building stuff since my father recalled his childhood hobby and helped me assemble an Airfix kit that a classmate got me for my birthday. 

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We continued building kits and dioramas together throughout my school years, getting steadily better at it and more ambitious, until I got my father a wooden ship kit for his own birthday.

Wooden ship models gradually opened up a new world: working with original materials and trying to imitate historical techniques, scratch-building ships from line diagrams and even trying to reverse engineer lost shipbuilding techniques.

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