18th Century Longboat - Model Shipways 1:64 Bashed by Steven

Steven B

Steven B

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Hello everyone and welcome to my build.

This is the place for some background and statement of build objectives.

As background, I started my first wood model ship 36 years ago (unfortunately unfinished due to a foreign job relocation) and only recently recently finishing an Occre Calella, previously an Occre Buenos Aires tram plus an unfinished Occre cross section.

This has been, now close to retirement, the time to start a hobby and ship building was a no thought proposition for me. After all in my youth I was a Sea Scout, built a small sailing boat (from a Popular Mechanics plan set), went to Antarctica in a wooden motor/sail vessel (R/V Hero).

Very early I purchased Occre’s Endurance to begin a stash of future builds (affection that seems quite common among modelers ).

Then an incredible sale from Model Expo tempted me to buy the Longboat and decided to build it prior to the Endurance, as practice.

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Of course some time elapsed till it was time to start the Longboat build, by then I had voraciously read many build logs and decided that I wanted to personalize the build by substituting the kit wood by Alaskan Yellow Cedar one.

Model Expo was unenthusiastic about burning for a fee the kit in the new wood, so cutting them by myself with a jeweler saw was going to be the way to go. Ordered the wood from Modelers Sawmill (what a nice smell that fresh cut wood has).

Now that it was the time to start the project. It was beginning very confused beinga metric person (that refuses to learn the “alphabet” of inch fractions, an ancient Roman measurement derived from the width of a thumb!) I do not know why but I noticed that if the Inch fractions converted to mm and 25% added gave an almost close even mm measurement.

So the plan changed, I would have to build a 25% bigger model.

This was not the original plan when buying the wood but when I start sawing the planks I can use mm and make do with what I had and some more to come.

These are the pictures from try setting the cut offs to the first one

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Back to the model, with the new sander and manual sanding gave it the final shape. The chisel is the perfect size.

A pity it cracked when sanding it with the file (and have to redo) but the proof of concept is there.

I hope that this project does not exceed my grasp.

Also I am aware that alignment and fairing will be difficult but doable.

It will take while till I finish the cutting of all the pieces and will be able to continue to posting,

(Worst comes to worst I can still give the kit’s model a chance)

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Tank you Vic.
As my father said, there is an exact tool for each job. Of course with 10 thumbs it will take a lot of apprenticeship to get to what my mind can imagine.
 
Looking good so far. Am enjoying watching the progress you are making.
 
Steven, I have this kit in my closet as a future build, so I look forward to following your progress. I always thought it was a good looking model and would be fun to build. Enjoy and have fun! Magic Mike
 
Thanks for remarks.

Being a slow builder and thinking that it would be chore to cut the parts. Actually it was very enjoyable and satisfying.

Also finished the rough sanding and now to the careful finishing sanding.

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Unfortunately the sawing of the keel has parallax problems that may be beyond correction and although I have resisted buying a scroll saw due to space considerations, I may need to reconsider that decision.

Now a one month interlude, going to Washington D.C to see my grandchildren and also fit in a visit to the US Navy Museum at Annapolis.

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Steven B said:
Unfortunately the sawing of the keel has parallax problems that may be beyond correction and although I have resisted buying a scroll saw due to space considerations, I may need to reconsider that decision.

Now a one month interlude, going to Washington D.C to see my grandchildren and also fit in a visit to the US Navy Museum at Annapolis.

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Good morning Steven. A challenge you have embarked upon. Luckily we work with wood and even those parallax issue can be sorted. Cheers Grant
 
Steven B said:
Back to the model, with the new sander and manual sanding gave it the final shape. The chisel is the perfect size.

A pity it cracked when sanding it with the file (and have to redo) but the proof of concept is there.

I hope that this project does not exceed my grasp.

Also I am aware that alignment and fairing will be difficult but doable.

It will take while till I finish the cutting of all the pieces and will be able to continue to posting,

(Worst comes to worst I can still give the kit’s model a chance)

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Been there done that, soooooo many times.
 
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