Ages of Sail and Model Craft Tool Shop Grand Opening, Saturday May 14, 2016!

If you’re anywhere near the Bay Area, you’re going to want to mark this on your calendar. Only two weeks away, Ages of Sail is officially opening it’s all new store!

 


Ages of Sail and Model Craft Tool Store

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Grand Opening!

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

  • Free Refreshments
  • Door Prizes and Raffle
  • 10% Discount on all In-Store Purchases
Come Join Us! Bring a Friend!

Where: 676 Bockman Road, San Lorenzo, CA

 

Questions? Call us at 510-889-6000

or email us at

agesofsail@gmail.com

 


 

Join us and local Bay Area ship modelers in celebration of the new Ages of Sail and Model Craft Tool Shop!

Check out aisle after aisle of wooden ship model kits and RC kits, multimedia kits, and paper kits, ships in bottles, cross-section models, ship modeling books, Amati ship model fittings, Billing Boats ship model fittings, craft tools, jeweler’s tools, specialty ship modeling tools, Proxxon power tools, glues and accessories.

Plus architectural kits, replica swords, and more!

And be sure to take advantage of our special, one day, Grand Opening In-Store Discount and take 10% off that ship model kit you’ve been waiting to get.

 

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Find the right tool for those tricky tasks, stock up on supplies, get those anchors you need to finish your model, pick out your next project…

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Find just the right kit for your next project or that kit that you read about online or in a magazine…

We carry kits from: Amati, Artesania Latina, Billing Boats, BlueJacket, Caldercraft, CCV Model, Constructo, Corel, Cottage Industry Models, Deans Marine, Domus Architectural Models, Dumas, Dusek, Euromodel, Flagship Models, Krick Models, Mantua/Sergal/Panart, Mount Fleet, Nordic Class Boats, Occre, Saito Manufacturing, Shipyard, Soclaine, and Turk Model.

We even have some hard to find, out of production kits from Mamoli and Yankee Model Works.

Don’t know what any of these product lines are? Come by and check them out. You may discover something you’ll really like.

Mariefred Kit Gets German Magazine Award

We have few details, but it was reported to us that a German magazine presented what I believe is a magazine reader’s award for for best display model for Nordic Class Boat’s Mariefred kit to… Krick.

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Krick is a German kit manufacturer that sells the Nordic Class Boats kits in Germany. Why Krick received the award and not Nordic Class Boats is not known.

Still… congratulations to all involved! It is a great kit as has been illustrated by our own customers, including Bob Burnside, whose Mariefred model photos we posted recently.

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In addition to the Mariefred, we also carry all of manufacturer’s other kits including:

  • The Bohuslän – a steamer similar to the Mariefred
  • CB90H – Used by the US Navy as the Riverine Command Boat
  • Svea – Nordic fishing trawler
  • Svea R/C – Large scale R/C version of the Nordic fishing trawler
  • Solö Ruff – Classic Swedish-built day cruiser “Baltic Sea Chaser”
  • Schooner Vega – Swedish Tall Ship, built as a freighter in 1909.

Check them all out at Ages of Sail!

 

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Build Log of the s/s Mariefred from Nordic Class Boats

s/s MarieFred from Nordic Class Boats

s/s MarieFred from Nordic Class Boats

We recently discovered a build log by one of our customers, Bob Burnside, who is building the Swedish coastal steamer Mariefred kit. This is one of the kits we introduced last year. This is one of 6 kits in the Nordic Class Boats line from Sweden. All of their kits are based on currently operating vessels. The Mariefred kit, at a scale of 1:35, comes out to just over 3 feet in length and is suitable for R/C operation.

Bob was kind enough to give us permission to post a link to his build log, which you can visit on MSW here: Bob’s Mariefred build log

The kit is a product of Nordic Atlast AB, but they are actually manufactured by Turk Model. The Turk Model website has a nice gallery of photos that you can see on their site here: Mariefred Gallery

And of course, you can buy yours now at Ages of Sail!