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Gunboat Philadelphia 1776

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Dematosdg

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Hi all

I will start to built the Gunboat Philadelphia from 1776. It is a Model shipways kit in scale 1:24. The quality is excellent. I have joined, on Facebook the Olha Batchvarov group built of this kit. I will be posting here my advance.

For history about this gunboat refer to :

en.m.wikipedia.org

USS Philadelphia (1776) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org en.m.wikipedia.org

Let start:

The bottom of the ship is made by 2 half sections glued together. The false keel that support the bulkheads was assembled (comes in 3 pieces) and glued over the bottom section. Then the #1 to #8 bulkheads were assembled and glued. They come in 2 pieces (zoom the pictures to see a left and right piece). You need to square them very well. #1 to #3 bulkheads were leveled before gluing them.

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Cheers
Daniel
 
Jimsky said:
Interesting project, I will follow as you build progresses ;)
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You can watch the project on the YouTube page as well for free, to see what is being shown to us to follow.

I hope to post my start in a day or two, as I have three days of taking my son to "Special Olympics" where he does bowling completion, like the AC inside versus the track events outside on a hot Oklahoma May.
 
As I wrote before, I did some beveling of the first 3 bulkheads on Stern and Bow sections before gluing them, following the laser marks. Now I am working on the final fairing, sanding by hand, as Olha did today. First testing on the side I finished. I used a 0.5 mm plank to check the contact among bulkheads. I Will continue later. Cheers !!!

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Did you watch episode #2 today, I caught it after the live stream was over, looks like she was having a bad day.

I liked the way she fixed the issue with bottom sheet of ship.

Luckily I checked my kit and both halves seem to be identical in width and length.
 
Yes, I watched during the day.
Kurt Konrath said:
Did you watch episode #2 today, I caught it after the live stream was over, looks like she was having a bad day.

I liked the way she fixed the issue with bottom sheet of ship.

Luckily I checked my kit and both halves seem to be identical in width and length.
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I have my bulkheads cut out and about ready to sand and assembly, will start my build log this weekend I hope.

Got back Friday from three days with my son at OK Special Olympics, where he got a Silver in bowling.

Made my week go by fast with all the things dealing with team travel.
 
Good to know about the sanding block, as that will be my work during the week coming up.

It is good to see what your doing as your a step ahead of me for now.
 
Oh I know that excuse all to well, trying to also get my other projects done, and now working on getting pontoon boat ready for summer season, as the grandkids are asking when they can go on the lake.
 
Olha did a good job on aft cockpit floor area, but I have questions to ask her on why one of the floor ribs didn't get nails installed.

She showed a second small book with great blown up photos and diagrams of internal details.
 
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