New to wooden ship building

[Ignatius27]

I recently started wooden ship modeling after several years of doing plastic boats. Starting off slowly with some low-cost internet builds then graduated to some skill level 1 and 2 builds from Model Shipways and Midwest Products. Building the Midwest Peapod lobster boat now. I am enjoying the hobby / craft and looking forward to meeting you all through this site.

 

[Rob444]

Welcome aboard from Connecticut. Your boats are looking good!

 

[JacquesCousteau]

Welcome! Very nice work, I found the peapod to be a really fun build.

 

[AllanKP69]

Welcome to SoS!
Your photo of the Atlantic City lifeboat brought back a flash of good memories "down the shore" from Sandy Hook to Stone Harbor, New Jersey.
Allan

 

[Roger Pellett]

When I lived in Ohio, we used to spend a week at Cape May, NJ. I remember seeing similar lifeboats.

Roger

 

[Ignatius27]

Welcome to SoS!
Your photo of the Atlantic City lifeboat brought back a flash of good memories "down the shore" from Sandy Hook to Stone Harbor, New Jersey.
Allan

Our summer home was on Long Beach Island for decades, so I share good memories down the shore!

 

[Ignatius27]

Welcome! Very nice work, I found the peapod to be a really fun build.

I made the mistake of planking the hull from the bottom up instead of from the top of the rub rail down. Im going to redo it so I can get that nice "even plank" look!

 

[swampdweller126]

Hello and welcome to the forum

 

[Corsair]

Welcome to the forums !

 

[KAYA61]

welcome to SOS forum

 

[AllanKP69]

I made the mistake of planking the hull from the bottom up instead of from the top of the rub rail down. Im going to redo it so I can get that nice "even plank" look!

I truly admire your willingness to go for a do-over. Which vessel are you talking about?
Allan

 

[Ignatius27]

I truly admire your willingness to go for a do-over. Which vessel are you talking about?
Allan

It's the Maine Peapod lobster boat from Midwest Products. Even though the faring of the hull hides the messy planking job, you can still see it on the boats interior.

 

[BigBad]

Nice work Ignatius! You’ll find excellent advice on this forum.

 

[MisterCA]

Hi

 

[Hemadri]

I recently started wooden ship modeling after several years of doing plastic boats. Starting off slowly with some low-cost internet builds then graduated to some skill level 1 and 2 builds from Model Shipways and Midwest Products. Building the Midwest Peapod lobster boat now. I am enjoying the hobby / craft and looking forward to meeting you all through this site.

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Hi Ignatius. Welcome to the forum from Kolkata India. Im sure youll find SOS a great place to be in. Personally I ve found loads of helpfull stuff and even more helpfull firends here.

 

[BradNSW]

Welcome and your work on the kits is awesome!

Lots of knowledge and willingness to share on this site!

 

[Ignatius27]

I made the mistake of planking the hull from the bottom up instead of from the top of the rub rail down. Im going to redo it so I can get that nice "even plank" look!

Here's my redo of the Peapod hull in the upper right corner. It was basically a scratch build, but I used the strongback from the original kit. I used 1/4 inch wide planks instead of 1/8 inch, and that got me into trouble. I had a hard time bending the thicker planks around the frames and so I ended up with a flat-bottom boat. Not sure if will do the inwales, ribs, knees, and seats or just move on to my next build, the hull-only HMS Victory.

 

[Ignatius27]

I truly admire your willingness to go for a do-over. Which vessel are you talking about?
Allan

AllanKP69 - With the snow days here in Philadelphia, I finally got round to doing my scratch "do-over" of the Maine Peapod lobster boat and it turned out alright. Attaching pics of the original Peapod (white hull) and my Peapod scratch re-do (teak hull).

I gave the original to my buddy in model club who is taking the leap into wood boat builds, as a diorama with lobsters and sea (last picture). So I wanted to make another Maine Peapod for my shelf from scratch to add to my model boat display shelf. I thought that I was only going to do the hull in teak stain, but as I got into it, it was so much fun I did the whole thing.

The oars are still black, the lobster trap is in grey (easier to weather) instead of green, and the buoy is orange instead of orange and yellow. The hull is in teak stain instead of white enamel.

I used only wood stock I had in my shop, so the planks on the re-do are 1/4" wide, instead of 3/16" and thicker by a mm or so. This made it a hard to bend the planks to get a natural looking hull. I had to get resourceful in finding matching sized wood to fabricate the ribs, inwhale and footing, so a few of those don't match. The seats, breast hook, and fore and aft stems are made out of 3mm bass wood sheets. The stain covered a lot of flaws.

Not having a natural roundness in the hull -- as you can see, it turned into a canoe with a flat bottom! But I was happy to be able to build my first scratch model boat using only the strongback and plans from the original kit.

Happy with the interior hull, ribs, and seating. All done in oak and teak stains. Just have to bend the rub rails, add the false keel, and fabricate two oar locks.

Now I can go back to my HMS Victory hull-only build!