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Holiday Shipping Timetable

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Every year at the holidays, it’s important for us to post this timetable, so shoppers know whether or not to expect their order in time for holiday gift giving. These are the dates posted by each of the major carriers we use, but they are not guarantees.

We are working hard to get packages out on time, but all carriers are reporting delivery delays.

We recommend making your purchases early, to help assure you get them on time.

Service Deadline Time Frame
USPS AK/ HI Priority 12/17/2021 by 10am
USPS AK/ HI Express 12/21/2021 by 10am
USPS International Priority 12/06/2021 by 10am
USPS International Express 12/10/2021 by 10am
USPS First Class 12/16/2021 by 10am
USPS Priority 12/17/2021 by 10am
USPS Express 12/22/2021 by 10am
FedEx Ground/Home Delivery 12/14/2021 by 10am
FedEx Express Saver 12/20/2021 by 10am
FedEx 2-day 12/21/2021 by 10am
FedEx Overnight 12/23/2021 by 10am
All FedEx International 12/13/2021 by 10am
FedEx to AK/ HI Ground 12/09/2021 by 10am
FedEx to AK/ HI Express 12/15/2021 by 10am

All carriers are experiencing delays, and we are not responsible for packages that are delayed and cannot make any ultimate guarantees on deliveries.

Purchase early to help assure you get your items on time!

 

 

New Titanic Kit from OcCre

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On Sale Now!

The latest release from our friends at OcCre is a new 1/300 scale model of RMS Titanic. From their website:

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HMS Sphinx from Vanguard Models Now in Stock

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In case you haven’t noticed yet, the newest release from Vanguard Models, HMS Sphinx, has made it to our shores and is now available at Ages of Sail!

HMS Sphinx was a 20-gun sixth-rate warship of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1775 at Portsmouth Dockyard. Technically, she is not a frigate, but a sloop-of-war. However, she was “frigate built” with connected quarterdeck and forecastle.

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New Model Gallery at the San Diego Maritime Museum

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This looks like a great place to visit if you are looking for some good ship modeling inspiration. Check it out if you’re anywhere close to the San Diego area.

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There have been lots of wooden model sailing ships at the San Diego Maritime Museum for as long as I can remember. But, I just saw this news item on the maritime museum’s website about   a model gallery exhibit in their newly created visitor annex, which is aboard the ferryboat Berkeley.

This is a very nice looking gallery of models. I wish we had one like this on the ferryboat Eureka (Berkeley’s sister ship). I will have to make a point of heading down to San Diego again one day soon to check it out.

Read the details here: https://sdmaritime.org/visit/exhibits/model-gallery/ Ω

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New Titanic Kit from OcCre

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Coming Soon to Ages of Sail…

The latest release from our friends at OcCre is a new 1/300 scale model of RMS Titanic. From their website:

On April 10, 1912, the world’s largest and most luxurious ocean liner, Titanic, set sail on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.

She took the lives of 1,495 people and gave rise to the greatest legend in the history of maritime navigation. The Titanic did not have enough lifeboats for all the passengers, about 1,200 people, but there were about 2,223 on board.

In the early morning of April 15, 1912, the Titanic collided with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland. The sinking of the Titanic was the largest shipwreck in the history of maritime navigation in peacetime. 1,518 people died. Only 711 people out of 2,223 survived.

Myths and legends have been created around the fatal shipwreck, making the Titanic probably the most famous ship in history.

For many years historians, treasure hunters, oceanographers and businessmen have searched for the wreck. Finally, the wreckage of the ship was discovered on September 1, 1985 by Robert Ballard during a secret mission in charge of the United States Navy. The wreck of the Titanic was located 3,784 meters deep, about 800 km off the coast of Canada.

The lights of the Titanic went out minutes before she disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean along with the dream of reaching New York.

The kit is on its way to our store, so please watch the store, Ages of Sail, or keep an eye on our blog here for an announcement of its availability. Price TBD. In the meantime, here are some photos of the new kit…

The completed 1/300 scale model measures just over 35″ long with a height of about 9-1/2″.

Check out OcCre’s YouTube preview here…

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Paul Reck’s Gunboat Philadelphia Model at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

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Shipping completed models can be very expensive. Check out this solution in a story of a ship model that flew from California to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in a seat aboard a United Airlines flight!

This model, by the way, was built by a member the Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights, of one of the local ship model clubs here in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Special congratulations are in order to our very own Commodore Paul Reck with the induction of his model of the Revolutionary War era gunboat Philadelphia into the collection of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum!

Check out the story of how the model ended up traveling across the county in a seat on a United Airlines flight.

Boat on a Plane: A new acquisition travels home

Paul’s model is a 1/24-scale scratch build, based on a set of plans obtained from the Smithsonian, where the original gunboat is preserved and on display. Ω

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National Retail Hobby Stores Association

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This week, Ages of Sail is at the National Retail Hobby Stores Association (NRHSA) convention in Las Vegas. This event is for manufacturers and distributors to show their products to hobby store representatives. So, if there’s something we have that you want your favorite hobby retailer to carry, be sure to let them know to come and talk to us.

For more information about the NRHSA, visit their website at https://www.nrhsa.org.

In the meantime, no worries! The shop is working as always, shipping out your orders and getting in new shipments.

NRG Workshop on Upgrading Your Kit Project

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Here’s something that should interest many of our customers. $10 is a pretty good deal for attending a ship modeling workshop. This one should be very popular. Apparently space is limited, but we’re not sure how limited. Just in case, if you’re interested, maybe it would be good to register ASAP.

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Want to take that ordinary wooden ship model kit and make something extraordinary from it? The Nautical Research Guild has organized a workshop just for you!

On Saturday, August 21st at 10am Central, that’s a bright and early 8am for those of us on the west coast, NRG Chairperson Toni Levine will be giving a workshop “The Ship Modeler’s Ten Step Program or How to Transform Your Kit Model from Out of the Box to Out of this World”. 

According to the NRG announcement today, this is a web-based workshop that requires advanced registration, which is free to NRG members, and only $10 for non-NRG members. Of course, you’ll need an Internet connected device such as a tablet, smart phone, or computer to attend. And, you’ll need to register, but space is limited. So, register soon!

For more information, including how to register, visit the NRG page here

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Amati Bismarck, Now Shipping!

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Amati’s new wooden model kit of the German Battleship Bismarck arrived just today as part of a shipment of 6 big pallets of kits, fittings, tools, wood supplies, and more! But, we were prepared and got our online shop setup with the new kits listing. They are now online and ready for you to buy.

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German Battleship Bismark by Amati Model

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This is a very big kit at 1:200 scale, weighing in at around 20 pounds. This is a single planked plank-on-bulkhead wooden ship model kit, with LOTS of fittings, including more than 2200 photo-etched parts, plus two full-color instruction books, and 7 large plans sheets.This is a master model for those who want to build the ultimate challenge. But, make sure you have room for it. This amazing kit finishes up at over 4 feet long.

Be among the first to build this challenging kit!

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Building Shipyard’s Dutch Fluit Schwarzer Rabe, 1627 – Part 5

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This paper model build is moving right along with the addition of the the thick hull planks and more. Note that at Ages of Sail we have basic kit in stock, but due to an oversight, we don’t yet carry the masting or sail sets, though we do have the blocks set.

Here’s the listing for the Schwarzer Rabe kit: https://www.agesofsail.com/shop/shipyard-paper-card-paper-models-mk-line/fluit-schwarzer-rabe-paper-kit-shipyard-196/

Or, if you’re looking for something similar for which we do have the masting set, blocks set, and sails, you might consider another ship from the Battle of Oliwa, the Swedish ship Papegojan. Check that out here: https://www.agesofsail.com/shop/shipyard-paper-card/papegojan-paper-kit-196-shipyard/

And, if you like these ships, but might prefer a kit where all the parts are already cut for you, and where the scale is a bit larger, maybe take a look at this Papegojan kit: https://www.agesofsail.com/shop/shipyard-paper-card/papegojan-laser-cardboard-kit-shipyard-172/

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For me, it seems that there is a danger in working on paper models. I find these things to be so engrossing that I have a hard time taking a break to do other things. I’ve been working on the Schwarzer Rabe pretty steadily for a couple weeks now. Almost a week ago, I had made a comment on Papermodelers.com that I was probably posting my last update for a while, as I get back to working on some other projects. But, I never stopped this one. Here it is, a week later, and I’m still trying to make myself shift gears and get some other needed work done. We’ll see if that happens after this post.

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