Building HMS Wolf – Shipyard’s 1/72 Scale Laser-Cut Card Kit – Part 5

September 8, 2022August 20, 2025 / agesofsail / Leave a comment

The latest installment in this build of Shipyard’s 1/72 laser-cut kit HMS Wolf. The build and the kit continue to impress. It’s also amazing how quickly the model has progressed. How long ago was this started? About six weeks ago?

The detail is amazing, and it looks like it won’t be long before the deck furnishings start to go on.

You can find the kit in our online shop here: https://www.agesofsail.com/product/hms-wolf-laser-cardboard-kit-shipyard-172/

But, if you’re interested in trying out a different subject, you can find the full line of laser-cut card model kits, including light house kits, all in 1/72 scale.

Ship Modeler

The Shipyard 1/72-scale laser-cut card HMS Wolf build continues with details and lots and lots of little parts and a couple issues trying to follow instructions. Apparent progress has slowed somewhat, since hull construction is complete and I entered a phase of hull detailing. Still things are really flying along in comparison to wooden model ship building, and I managed to add the stern gallery with it’s decorative columns and windows.

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Ages of Sail at IPMS Show – Saturday, September 10, 2022

September 2, 2022 / agesofsail / Leave a comment

Those of you who are within reach of a drive to San Jose, CA, make room in your schedules to visit our table at the IPMS event, Silicon Valley 2022 Classic, which takes place on Saturday, September 10th, 2022. That’s only about a week from the time of this post.

The event, which was canceled last year and the year before, is back! And, Ages of Sail, is proud to be participating. This is billed as Norther California’s largest plastic model show, but models at the show are not limited to plastic, and they welcome entries of all kinds of materials.

As in the past, the event takes place at Napredak Hall, in San Jose, with doors opening at 9am and awards being given out at 3:30pm. We’ll have a table at the event, which will be next to our usual neighbor, the South Bay Model Shipwrights club.

The South Bay Model Shipwrights’ table at a previous show.

What: Silicon Valley 2022 Classic

Where: Napredak Hall, 770 Montague Expressway, San Jose, CA 95131

When: Saturday, September 10, 2022; 9:00am – 5pm

Cost: Free to the Public, only cost is for those entering models for competition

For more information about the event, the IPMS, or the Silicon Valley Scale Modelers, visit their website here: https://www.svsm.org/contest/svsm-2022-classic/

For more information about the South Bay Model Shipwrights club, visit their website here: https://sbmodelships.com

Building HMS Wolf – Shipyard’s 1/72 Scale Laser-Cut Card Kit – Part 4

September 1, 2022August 20, 2025 / agesofsail / Leave a comment

As we continue following this build of Shipyard’s 1/72 laser-cut kit HMS Wolf, we see the kit go from some laser-cut pieces to develop into a serious ship model.

Find the kit here: https://www.agesofsail.com/product/hms-wolf-laser-cardboard-kit-shipyard-172/

Ship Modeler

This HMS Wolf kit is moving along so quickly that I’ve hardly had a chance to stop and get caught up with the build log. I’m so far beyond what you’re seeing here, so I’m going to minimize my writing and try to close the gap between build log and current model a bit.

The third layer of the hull is pretty much actual, individual hull planks. There are two sheets of thin, laser-cut card stock, one for each side of the hull.

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Disar Galleon Santiago de Compostela Build

August 31, 2022August 20, 2025 / agesofsail / Leave a comment

Customer Glenn Stanfield chose Disar Model’s Santiago de Compostela Spanish galleon kit to be his first wooden sailing ship model, and he began his build with a kit he purchased from us back in August of 2021. Here it is, August 2022, and we just discovered that he’s been keeping a very nice build log on the ship model forum Ships of Scale.

Photos of Glenn Stanfield’s Santiago de Compostella build, posted here with his permission.

Glenn began his model back in September of 2021. It is his first wooden model ship build, and we think he’s doing an awesome job with it.

As a first time wooden ship modeler he’s faced some new challenges, but he’s done a great job overcoming them. Particularly impressive is how well he made the unusually shaped upper gun ports. That must have taken a lot of careful filing.

The finish of the deck is quite nice, and the planking shows some nice planning while using slightly different colored deck planks. Not sure if this is a feature of the kit – you’ll have to read his build log to find out more.

Read the full content of his build log and following along with his progress here: https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/santiago-de-compostela-disar-model-1-72.8166/

If you’re inspired to build your own Santiago de Compostella model, we have them in stock and ready to ship at Ages of Sail here: https://www.agesofsail.com/product/santiago-de-compostela-disar-1-72-2/ Ω

Wowed by Shipyard’s Laser-Cut Card Models

August 28, 2022August 20, 2025 / agesofsail / Leave a comment

We’re following this build of Shipyard’s 1/72-scale Laser Cut Kit of the British snow-rigged sloop-of-war HMS Wolf. Here’s a rather enthusiastic update and commentary on this and other kits from Shipyard’s line of Laser Cut Kits.

These are the kits that come with nearly all the paper parts laser-cut, that include turned brass cannon and swivel gun barrels, cast resin figurehead, pre-cut and marked sails, wooden dowels for the masts and yards, and even paints and paint brushes.

You can find them all here: https://www.agesofsail.com/product/hms-wolf-laser-cardboard-kit-shipyard-172/

Ship Modeler

At this point in my build of Shipyard’s 1/72-scale laser-cut card model of the 10-gun snow-rigged sloop of war HMS Wolf, I’m behind on keeping my build log up to date. But, I can’t let that get in the way here. Here’s the thing, I am so in awe of how incredible this kit is, that I have to state, categorically, that I’m absolutely building not only the Papegojan kit I have, but the HMS Alert kit, and the Le Coureur kit, and that I’m absolutely going to find the money to buy and build the HMS Mercury kit.

Shipyard’s 1/72-scale HMS Mercury, laser-cut kit.

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Disar Shipment in – Marieville back in stock

August 24, 2022August 20, 2025 / agesofsail / Leave a comment

Good news for lovers of paddlewheet riverboat lovers. We just received a big shipment from Disar Model, so the Disar Marieville kits are back in stock. This popular kit is a 1/72 scale replica of the classic American riverboat. It measures about 26″ long and just under 10-1/2″ tall. All wood and metal construction.

In addition to these, we’ve replenished our stocks of other popular Disar kits, including Disar’s 1/72-scale model of the frigate Hermione, the ship that carried the Marquis de Lafayette to U.S. to aid in the fight for independence.

And the popular 1/72-scale model of the Spanish galleon Santiago de Compostela, which may be one of their best looking ship model kits.

Whatever your interest, you might want to check out the range of Disar kits at Ages of Sail here: https://www.agesofsail.com/product-category/disar-model/disar-model-ship-kits/.

Building HMS Wolf – Shipyard’s 1/72 Scale Laser-Cut Card Kit – Part 3

August 23, 2022August 20, 2025 / agesofsail / Leave a comment

Being that Ages of Sail is the US distributor for the products from Shipyard, the maker of very fine quality paper and card model kits, it’s always wonderful to see one of our kits go through the transformation from 2D paper pieces into a beautiful 3D model.

Here’s the continuation of the 1/72 scale HMS Wolf laser-cut model build.

Follow along and build your own. Check out the kit at Ages of Sail here: https://www.agesofsail.com/product/hms-wolf-laser-cardboard-kit-shipyard-172/

Ship Modeler

In addition to my work on the paper Armed Virginia Sloop model from Seahorse. The build of Shipyard’s 1/72 HMS Wolf kit continues with the adding of the second hull layer. As a reminder, this kit is almost 100% laser-cut parts. There are some dowels to shape for the masts and yard later on, plus rigging. Also, cannon barrels and belaying pins are turned brass, and there are some other non-paper parts, such as the figurehead, which is cast resin. But, there are no paper parts that aren’t already pre-cut by laser, except for a small sheet of color printed decorative friezes and flags.

In my previous post, I had the hull skeleton covered by the first layer. This primarily stiffens the bulkheads and provides some support to the outer hull layers. This covering is done the same way on all ship model kits from Shipyard, whether they are printed…

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Presentation on Building Wooden Models from Paper Kits

August 21, 2022August 20, 2025 / agesofsail / Leave a comment

We can’t quite figure out where we learned about this video, possibly from a post on ModelShipWorld.com, but there’s a very interesting presentation that was given by ship modeler Ian McLaughlan at a meeting of the Society of Model Shipwrights, which take place mainly at locations in Southern England. This particular presentation was given in February 2021 and discusses how this ship modeler used 1/96-scale paper model kits from the Polish paper kit maker Shipyard to make a pair of wooden ship models.

Many ship modelers, learning of these paper kits, consider ways to use them to build wooden models. While we think paper models can be pretty awesome in their own right, this is one ship modeler who managed to do some interesting work using a couple of these relatively inexpensive paper model kits.

The kits the presenter is talking about are the HMS Wolf and HMS Alert paper model kits.

If you’re interested in learning more about them, you can use the following links to take you to the item listings in our online shop:

HMS Alert – 1/96 scale paper model

HMS Wolf – 1/96 scale paper model

Have you ever built a wooden ship model using a paper kit as a starting point? We’d love to hear about it. Emailing us a blogger@agesofsail.com. Ω

Beautiful Nordlands Boat – Completed Build by Paul Le Wol

August 18, 2022 / agesofsail / Leave a comment

A little over a month ago, we posted this story about an amazing build of the Billing Boats Nordlandsbaaden kit by ship modeler Paul De Wol. As you may recall from that post, the Nordlandsbaaden, or Nordlands Boat, is a type of boat from northern Norway, whose design and use as a fishing boat dates back to the 1600s, but has the traditional appearance of early Viking longships. If you haven’t read it, you can find the post here.

The model was “in progress” at the time we wrote that last post about the model, but it is now officially complete. In addition to these awesome photos we included here, Paul posted a lot more photos of the completed model in the gallery of the online forum Model Ship World. For a direct link to the photo album of his Nordland Boat, click here.

As a reminder, Paul made a lot of special modifications to really beautify this kit. If you read through his build log, he shows just how someone takes a nice kit and turns it into an incredible model. Paul gave us permission to use the photos of his model, so that we can share them with you, but as before, we recommend that you check out his full build log, as it’s not only interesting to see all the work he’s been putting into the model, but it also provides some great ideas and inspiration for anyone who’s intrested in building this kit or one like it.

This model is too beautiful to not post more photos of and we couldn’t help ourselves. Here are just a few more. Keep in mind that Paul made a lot of modifications, including using his own wood supply, in order to get his build to look this nice.

For those of you who might be interested in building this model, just visit the listing on our online shop here. Note that this is an “Experienced” level kit, which Billing Boats says should be attempted only by those with a couple models under their belts.

Special thanks again to Mr. Paul Le Wol for sharing his photos with us! Ω

Amati Swedish Gunboat – Revisiting a Build

August 7, 2022August 20, 2025 / agesofsail / Leave a comment

It’s been four years now since we shared this build by ship modeler Clare Hess, so we decided it was about time we took another look at this fine build of a classic Amati ship model kit. This kit, roughly 1/40 scale, measures 13.8″ long and about 8.5″ high. These photos appeared in the final post of his build log of the Amati Swedish Gunboat kit.