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Dry Dock Modeler Building Better Ship Models

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Hudson River Sloop Amelia by Chuck - 1840's - 1/4" scale - POB

Look great Chuck - I agree with the others lining off the hull prior to planking worked really well on my La Renommee - time well spent !

By chrislbren · 8 minutes ago8 min
Naval Cutter Alert 1777 by serikoff – 1:48 – Two Hulls: skeleton PoF and fully planked and rigged (based on TridentModel hull)

Chapter 16. On the Decks p.1 (2nd Hull).
4/5
Calculations... calculations... and more calculations.

Mast and bowsprit.

From the construction diary I am posting here only photos. But this part has a lot of textual explanations, because...
If you're interested in reading about the entire assembly process for this part, you can follow this link >>>

By serikoff · 1 hour ago1 hr
Norden by Bob Strangwayes - Billing’s Boats - 1/30

It's a nice looking boat, a bigger RC version would be nice!

By Juansystem05 · 1 hour ago1 hr
SMS WESPE 1876 by wefalck - 1/160 scale - Armoured Gunboat of the Imperial German Navy - when first commissioned

Further work on the lower gun carriage
Back to the lower carriage. The (mor or less) central pivot determines its rotational axis, but the weight of the gun is actually supported by four (kind of) caster wheels running on cast-iron rails bolted to the bottom of the barbette.
The rails had been turned already a long time ago. The forks for the caster-wheels were fabricated from laser-cut cardboard. The wheels themselves are simple turned steel discs with a groove.

Caster wheels prepared for assembly

For the assembly, the rails were taped down onto an appropriately scaled print-out of the original plan of the vessel and carriage fixed with a clothes pin. The wheels and forks are temporarly united by axels made from short lengths of copper wire. The casters then were cemented under the carriage in the correct position with respect to both, the rails and the carriage frame, using again varnish.

Caster wheels in place with temporary axles

The wheels will have to be removed again before painting the carriage, because they will be left in bright steel. I do not know, whether this is correct for the flanges of the wheels, but it gives the whole arrangement are rather ‘technical’ look. The axles with cylindrical end-caps have already been prepared from steel rod and will be installed during the final assembly.

Caster wheels in place (ordinary clothes pin for size comparison)

To be continued ...

By wefalck · 1 hour ago1 hr
Naval Cutter Alert 1777 by serikoff – 1:48 – Two Hulls: skeleton PoF and fully planked and rigged (based on TridentModel hull)

Chapter 16. On the Decks p.1 (2nd Hull).
3/5
Lower deck gratings and hatches.

...

By serikoff · 1 hour ago1 hr
HMS Mercury 1779 by All Mod Cons - Scale 1:64

Once the deck was semi complete I moved onto the wales. The paper model provides parts that would simply be glued onto card stock and then glued to the hull.

I used these to make the individual wale planks by sticking them to carbon paper and tracing over onto some Alder that I'd milled down to 1.5mm

The parts were numbered and then cut out individually and glued to the hull

Once finished they were sanded slightly and cleaned up to get rid of the marks left by the carbon paper

The wales were then stained black rather than painted as i wanted to try and keep as much definition of the hook joints as possible and feared that how I paint would obscure the look and just look like a band of black

Thanks for looking in and following along

Mark

By All Mod Cons · 2 hours ago2 hr
HM Armed Cutter Sherbourne 1763 by TMJ - Vanguard Models - 1:64 Scale

You might want to think about adding the cleats before putting on the top cap (gunwhale). I know this goes against the instructions but I had a lot of trouble trying to fit them under with the gunwhale in place. Am also having the same issue with the belaying racks. Just a thought.

By PeterS · 2 hours ago2 hr
Captain John Smith's Shallop by JpR62 - Pavel Nikitin - 1:32

Thank you to everyone who follows this build log, and thank you for the “Likes”.

The leeboards
I continue to move slowly forward in my shallop as I work on installing the two leeboards.
The kit breaks them down by cutting each leeboard into 6 pieces that fit together perfectly. Once again, you can admire the quality of the laser-cutting in this superb kit.

It's not very complicated. I mark the edges of the pieces again with a marker (a Sakura Pigma Brush) to clearly highlight the different parts that make up the leeboard.

The kit also includes all the metal reinforcements as photo-etched parts. I quickly sanded them down and then blackened them before gluing them to the leeboard with cyanoacrylate. The nails were simulated using small pieces of brass wire.

One last photo showing us the current status of the assembly.

By JpR62 · 2 hours ago2 hr
Hudson River Sloop Amelia by Chuck - 1840's - 1/4" scale - POB

Those are some lovely lines! Can't wait to see this one planked 😀

By Ronald-V · 3 hours ago3 hr
Yves from North Carolina

Welcome aboard!!!

By All Mod Cons · 3 hours ago3 hr

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