Shipbuilder

I can do it by a long route.     I make the image and then capture it with a "screen shot."      Then I insert it into a word processing file and crop it down to size, right click on the image and copy.    I then open an Adobe Photoshop file and insert the image into it.    Then, I can save it as a jpeg that can be put anywhere I like.   Here is the results.   But there must be an easier way!
Bob

I can do it by a long route.     I make the image and then capture it with a "screen shot."      Then I insert it into a word processing file and crop it down to size, right click on the image and copy.    I then open an Adobe Photoshop file and insert the image into it.    Then, I can save it as a jpeg that can be put anywhere I like.   Here is the results.   But there must be an easier way!
Bob

I can do it by a long route.     I make the image and then capture it with a "screen shot."      Then I insert it into a word processing file and crop it down to size, right click on the image and copy.    I then open an Adobe Photoshop file and insert the image into it.    Then, I can save it as a jpeg that can be put anywhere I like.   Here is the results.   But there must be an easier way!
Bob

I can do it by a long route.     I make the image and then capture it with a "screen shot."      Then I insert it into a word processing file and crop it down to size, right click on the image and copy.    I then open an Adobe Photoshop file and insert the image into it.    Then, I can save it as a jpeg that can be put anywhere I like.   Here is the results.   But there must be an easier way!
Bob

I tend to work in chaos.           I just build them on flat desk with some narrow shelves behind.     I tidy it up every so often when it becomes too cluttered.      Haven't done anything for weeks though, have lost interest to a great extent.   Will probably start again when the weather improves.      Don't like it when it gets dark at 4pm, but the situation is improving now with sunset at 4.36 pm.
Bob
 

I just went off and found the "Sqirlz Water Reflections" free app.     This is my first attempt using a photo of my Preussen model taken from a low angle.     I will now experiment with ripples etc, but this is fantastic, and I am very grateful to you for bringing it to our attention.
Bob

 

I tend to work in chaos.           I just build them on flat desk with some narrow shelves behind.     I tidy it up every so often when it becomes too cluttered.      Haven't done anything for weeks though, have lost interest to a great extent.   Will probably start again when the weather improves.      Don't like it when it gets dark at 4pm, but the situation is improving now with sunset at 4.36 pm.
Bob
 

I just went off and found the "Sqirlz Water Reflections" free app.     This is my first attempt using a photo of my Preussen model taken from a low angle.     I will now experiment with ripples etc, but this is fantastic, and I am very grateful to you for bringing it to our attention.
Bob

 

I tend to work in chaos.           I just build them on flat desk with some narrow shelves behind.     I tidy it up every so often when it becomes too cluttered.      Haven't done anything for weeks though, have lost interest to a great extent.   Will probably start again when the weather improves.      Don't like it when it gets dark at 4pm, but the situation is improving now with sunset at 4.36 pm.
Bob
 

I tend to work in chaos.           I just build them on flat desk with some narrow shelves behind.     I tidy it up every so often when it becomes too cluttered.      Haven't done anything for weeks though, have lost interest to a great extent.   Will probably start again when the weather improves.      Don't like it when it gets dark at 4pm, but the situation is improving now with sunset at 4.36 pm.
Bob
 

I just went off and found the "Sqirlz Water Reflections" free app.     This is my first attempt using a photo of my Preussen model taken from a low angle.     I will now experiment with ripples etc, but this is fantastic, and I am very grateful to you for bringing it to our attention.
Bob

 

This is not a photomontage. My photo of Paris in 2015.
Artur

It is now in the display case.
Bob
 

I dislike flying, and my life-long rule has been to avoid it if at all possible, and if unable to avoid it, someone else must pay the fare!     I don't have a fear of flying, but I have never been as uncomfortable at sea as I have in aircraft on long flights.    Now I am retired, I never intend to fly again!     Here I am being litfed off the St. Helena by a Wessex helicopter in 1983 at Ascension Island (I was going on leave).    We had a temporary flight deck for the Falklands, 1982/83.    It was a  novelty, and not at all scary!
Bob

 

Here is the British four-masted barque Primrose Hill.      Charles Herbert Lightoller (senior surviving officer RMS Titanic)  was an apprentice on this ship at the start of his sea career.      This is the reason I can't build ships in bottles.   I have got so used to this amount of rigging. all done in fine wire, that I simply do not have the skills to rig with fine thread in a manner where it would all fold down and then up again when inside the bottle.     Too old to change now!
Bob

Hey Bob,
my wife and myself were married in 1987 as well. My experiences at sea were 100-200 miles off shore on a man made island in the middle of the Beaufort Sea working for Esso Resources Canada. We had the Dutch Dredge up the ocean floor and build an island of sand sticking out of the ocean. Then we placed a drilling rig on top and drilled for crude hopping from island to island.
Noteables:
Hit by a sunami in 82 and the island we were on was washed away completely Lived on a class 4 icebreaker Had a soviet submarine surface in the dead of winter and check us out Had two crew members eaten alive by polar bears Saw tons of whales and Orcha's Almost poisoned by some drinking water that got contaminated  Had 10 crew members die in a helicopter crash (transmission seized up in mid flight) BTW I was supposed to be on that crew change but was injured the day before and couldn't even walk as an operator fell asleep and dropped a sea line I was welding onto my right foot Got to fly in a Sikorsky Sky Crane Coldest temperature experienced -60 degrees Fahrenheit with the windchill Best part of the experience were two things: blasting around on the ocean on a Zodiak and one of the chopper pilots was an ex Vietnam vet who gave us all scary chopper rides ( we used to play chicken with iceberg's) he also got us off the island just before the wall of water hit the island Looking at that shot from midship port side brought back a lot of memories! Thanks for posting ...
Jeff

Here is the British four-masted barque Primrose Hill.      Charles Herbert Lightoller (senior surviving officer RMS Titanic)  was an apprentice on this ship at the start of his sea career.      This is the reason I can't build ships in bottles.   I have got so used to this amount of rigging. all done in fine wire, that I simply do not have the skills to rig with fine thread in a manner where it would all fold down and then up again when inside the bottle.     Too old to change now!
Bob

We went to three places where there was no airport - St. Helena - Tristan da Cunha and South Georgia (Falkland Islands).     Not by boat though!   It was definitely a ship!    Built in Vancouver, Canada in 1963 as the Northland Prince for the Vancouver - Alaska coastal passenger cargo service.        Every voyage was differnt and we had numerous adventures, fgair winds & foul, fire at sea, stuck in West Africa for a month for repairs, 13 months in the Falklands in 1982/83 with the British Task Force.   Even had our honeymoon voyage aboard in 1987.     In my youth, I had sailed in some of the finest passenger liners in the world such as RMS Windsor Castle, 38,000 tons, 250 first class passengers and 600 more in tourist.     Sailed in 7 of the castles between 1965 and 1976.      But my favourite of all was the battered and diminutive RMS St. Helena.    Here we are smashing through heavy weather in the early 1980s.
Bob

Just the same as building them anywhere else really, apart from the fact that you couldn't just go out to buy materials etc.   Had to make sure you had it all before you sailed.     As I was in the same ship for 11 years, I left lots of stuff aboard when I went on leave.     It was only 300 feet long and 3,150 gross tons.   But we carried 76 passengers all the way from the UK to South Africa  and back via the Canary islands, Ascension and St. Helena, turning round at Cape Town.     My wife travelled with me a lot of the time.     Generally a fair weather run, but in bad weather, no chance at model shipbuilding.     This is the ship, RMS St. Helena, the last long-haul British passenger liner.    We sailed on a fixed route every voyage.    (Cruise ships are not liners as they wander about all over the place!).      Our main purpose was to carry passengers and general cargo to and from the island of St. Helena, that had no airport until last year.     Even so, the new airport is not much help, as it is too dangerous for large aircraft to use because of "wind shear."      Because of that, the present RMS St. Helena has had her life extended for a further year while they decide what to do.   I spent my last two years at sea in the present ship that carried 136 passengers and is now very famous (you can find it by searching Google).
Bob

 

Here is the British four-masted barque Primrose Hill.      Charles Herbert Lightoller (senior surviving officer RMS Titanic)  was an apprentice on this ship at the start of his sea career.      This is the reason I can't build ships in bottles.   I have got so used to this amount of rigging. all done in fine wire, that I simply do not have the skills to rig with fine thread in a manner where it would all fold down and then up again when inside the bottle.     Too old to change now!
Bob

Here is the British four-masted barque Primrose Hill.      Charles Herbert Lightoller (senior surviving officer RMS Titanic)  was an apprentice on this ship at the start of his sea career.      This is the reason I can't build ships in bottles.   I have got so used to this amount of rigging. all done in fine wire, that I simply do not have the skills to rig with fine thread in a manner where it would all fold down and then up again when inside the bottle.     Too old to change now!
Bob

Here is the British four-masted barque Primrose Hill.      Charles Herbert Lightoller (senior surviving officer RMS Titanic)  was an apprentice on this ship at the start of his sea career.      This is the reason I can't build ships in bottles.   I have got so used to this amount of rigging. all done in fine wire, that I simply do not have the skills to rig with fine thread in a manner where it would all fold down and then up again when inside the bottle.     Too old to change now!
Bob

We went to three places where there was no airport - St. Helena - Tristan da Cunha and South Georgia (Falkland Islands).     Not by boat though!   It was definitely a ship!    Built in Vancouver, Canada in 1963 as the Northland Prince for the Vancouver - Alaska coastal passenger cargo service.        Every voyage was differnt and we had numerous adventures, fgair winds & foul, fire at sea, stuck in West Africa for a month for repairs, 13 months in the Falklands in 1982/83 with the British Task Force.   Even had our honeymoon voyage aboard in 1987.     In my youth, I had sailed in some of the finest passenger liners in the world such as RMS Windsor Castle, 38,000 tons, 250 first class passengers and 600 more in tourist.     Sailed in 7 of the castles between 1965 and 1976.      But my favourite of all was the battered and diminutive RMS St. Helena.    Here we are smashing through heavy weather in the early 1980s.
Bob

We went to three places where there was no airport - St. Helena - Tristan da Cunha and South Georgia (Falkland Islands).     Not by boat though!   It was definitely a ship!    Built in Vancouver, Canada in 1963 as the Northland Prince for the Vancouver - Alaska coastal passenger cargo service.        Every voyage was differnt and we had numerous adventures, fgair winds & foul, fire at sea, stuck in West Africa for a month for repairs, 13 months in the Falklands in 1982/83 with the British Task Force.   Even had our honeymoon voyage aboard in 1987.     In my youth, I had sailed in some of the finest passenger liners in the world such as RMS Windsor Castle, 38,000 tons, 250 first class passengers and 600 more in tourist.     Sailed in 7 of the castles between 1965 and 1976.      But my favourite of all was the battered and diminutive RMS St. Helena.    Here we are smashing through heavy weather in the early 1980s.
Bob

Just the same as building them anywhere else really, apart from the fact that you couldn't just go out to buy materials etc.   Had to make sure you had it all before you sailed.     As I was in the same ship for 11 years, I left lots of stuff aboard when I went on leave.     It was only 300 feet long and 3,150 gross tons.   But we carried 76 passengers all the way from the UK to South Africa  and back via the Canary islands, Ascension and St. Helena, turning round at Cape Town.     My wife travelled with me a lot of the time.     Generally a fair weather run, but in bad weather, no chance at model shipbuilding.     This is the ship, RMS St. Helena, the last long-haul British passenger liner.    We sailed on a fixed route every voyage.    (Cruise ships are not liners as they wander about all over the place!).      Our main purpose was to carry passengers and general cargo to and from the island of St. Helena, that had no airport until last year.     Even so, the new airport is not much help, as it is too dangerous for large aircraft to use because of "wind shear."      Because of that, the present RMS St. Helena has had her life extended for a further year while they decide what to do.   I spent my last two years at sea in the present ship that carried 136 passengers and is now very famous (you can find it by searching Google).
Bob