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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Scale Models => Topic started by: Shultzie on January 30, 2009, 10:00:40 PM

Title: NOT AN AIRPLANE, MY FIRST WOODWORKING PROJECT "The MORNING STAR 2"
Post by: Shultzie on January 30, 2009, 10:00:40 PM

 SCAN FOR TODAY...
Not an airplane model...but between college semisters...I worked at Diamond Lumber Co. and was assigned to help build the TILLAMOOK MORNING STAR II replica...(this was in the summer of 1957-58-59)
I was schooled in the  wood carving art by one amazingly gifted model ship builder who was also  a noted local custom sailboat maker.
I have some beautiful slides of Walter VanDehey' taken with the master craftsman while on break at the wood shop at the Diamond Lumber mill in one of the TILLAMOOK BLIMP HANGERS.

here is a shot that I took of the first sail of the replica MORNING STAR..(from the Girabaldi jetty)
I have many slides of that beautiful project in some boxes..

Title: Re: NOT AN AIRPLANE, MY FIRST WOODWORKING PROJECT "The MORNING STAR 2"
Post by: Mark Scarborough on January 30, 2009, 10:47:10 PM

cool beans Shultzie,, nice history

Title: Re: NOT AN AIRPLANE, MY FIRST WOODWORKING PROJECT "The MORNING STAR 2"
Post by: John Rist on January 31, 2009, 08:08:59 AM

Is this possibly the same ship?

http://johnston.travellerspoint.com/200/

About the 5th picture down in the article.

It is cool beans!!!

 H^^  H^^

Title: Re: NOT AN AIRPLANE, MY FIRST WOODWORKING PROJECT "The MORNING STAR 2"
Post by: Shultzie on January 31, 2009, 12:29:09 PM

Quote from: John Rist on January 31, 2009, 08:08:59 AM

Is this possibly the same ship?

http://johnston.travellerspoint.com/200/

About the 5th picture down in the article.

It is cool beans!!!

 H^^  H^^

Very Sadly...It has to be the same???....
GADS! So very tragic to see this beautiful old replica that so many gifted folks put so much time, money and most of all...PURE ARTISTIC TALENT INTO! Walter just might "flip" if he could see it in this condition?
It appears and looks like a bunch of locals...went down to Home Depot and repainted it with cheap fence or barn paint.
SAD!!!!
I can only imagine just how that salt air that pours into the Tillamook valley has taken its tole on that old beauty.
I just lived up the road about a 1/4 mile from that factory. (uuuummmmyuk! I just love the smell of cheeze-crud-curd and Napalm in the morning? LL~

"TILLAMOOK CHEEZE, BREEZE, AND MUD UP TO YER' KNEES!"