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HMS Surprise 1796 by Kevin - Vanguard Models - 1:64 - Non Fiction Version- starting July 2026

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Can I reserve a space to follow along?

1 hour ago, Craig M said:

Can I reserve a space to follow along?

And me, if too late to reserve a seat in the Stalls, I'll hang out up with the gods in the Balcony seats! 🍿

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On 7/6/2026 at 1:38 PM, AJohnson said:

And me, if too late to reserve a seat in the Stalls, I'll hang out up with the gods in the Balcony seats! 🍿

plenty of front row seats, the popcorn is free

Hi Kevin.

It’s good to see you again 🙂

I take a seat on the front row, has some popcorn and a drink .

Let’s get started when you have the Surprise

Sjors

Looking forward to another Surprise builder

Jason Modelkit stuff. Follow my builds on @ModelkitStuff.

Building: 1/200 Scharnhorst, 1/64 Grecian, 1/64 HMS Surprise

Recently completed: HMS Dragon, Royal Barge, Lady Elenor, HM Sherbourn, HMS Anthony, Shannon class lifeboat, U-9, HMS Barham.

Good luck and thank you for creating a build log.

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21 hours ago, Sjors said:

Hi Kevin.

It’s good to see you again 🙂

I take a seat on the front row, has some popcorn and a drink .

Let’s get started when you have the Surprise

Sjors

Sjors nice to have you along,

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good evening everyone

day one check off

the contents are extremely well packaged, enougth bubble wrap to keep the Titanic afloat

i wont go through the full contents phots,

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Looks so nice...buying my lottery ticket now

hamilton

Kevin, a little story for you. There was a point in my life when I could have walked away from ship modelling... I was working through Occre's Beagle and wondering if maybe I'd finish it, and then go back to plastic aircraft models. Airfix's 1/24 Spitfire was sat on my hobby room shelf. Amongst others.

Then I started following your Indefatigable log on MSW.

From then on, there was no looking back.

I hope you can see this as a compliment as intended, but your log was so human. The dogs joined in. Things went wrong. Mistakes were made. You overcame all problems and mishaps and talked about them. I started to think.... could I do this too?

So, yes, I ended up ordering my own Indy kit, and you're mainly to blame for all the fun I'm having building it and rambling on about it in my own build log.

Really looking forward to following your Surprise build, day by day.

1 minute ago, Mowzer said:

Mistakes were made

This is what I like about build logs. You'll never see my mistakes as they are fixed before photos for the manual.

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30 minutes ago, Mowzer said:

Kevin, a little story for you. There was a point in my life when I could have walked away from ship modelling... I was working through Occre's Beagle and wondering if maybe I'd finish it, and then go back to plastic aircraft models. Airfix's 1/24 Spitfire was sat on my hobby room shelf. Amongst others.

Then I started following your Indefatigable log on MSW.

From then on, there was no looking back.

I hope you can see this as a compliment as intended, but your log was so human. The dogs joined in. Things went wrong. Mistakes were made. You overcame all problems and mishaps and talked about them. I started to think.... could I do this too?

So, yes, I ended up ordering my own Indy kit, and you're mainly to blame for all the fun I'm having building it and rambling on about it in my own build log.

Really looking forward to following your Surprise build, day by day.

and comments like that are what keep me building, Thank you

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