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Purchased shortly ago / sthg new in your workshop -> present it here

Did you ever try pushing a rope? Doesn’t work very well! Like the rope the strip wood furnished in ship model kits is probably too flexible to be pushed. If this were my tool I would set it vertically in a vise and pull the wood through.

For novice modelers assembling a tool kit on a limited budget, before spending $$ on the Dremel tool or it’s clones buy a good vise.

Roger
 
Rob444 said:
this mini plane trim the edge of the plank that lies against the hull bulkheads.
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Roger Pellett said:
Did you ever try pushing a rope? Doesn’t work very well! Like the rope the strip wood furnished in ship model kits is probably too flexible to be pushed. If this were my tool I would set it vertically in a vise and pull the wood through.
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What Roger said has caused me to decipher what this tool actually is.

First - it is simple enough for a builder or even an assembler to make his own from scrap wood.

Second - it is not a plane. It is a sort of scraper. And not a very good one at that.
A scraper should have a burr that does the cutting and a thicker body - but I use a single edge Gem-type razor blade to scrape a deck. It is just as thin and has no burr. I guess I could produce a burr with a sharpening stone and carbide burnishing rod. But with the Gem I drag the edge at a back leaning angle rather than 90 degrees.
A scraper removes very thin layers - for any sort of bevel three or four passes will not do it.
A mill is a single cutting edge hitting the wood at a forward cutting angle at hundreds of time per minute. This simple tool is trying to do the work of a mill.

The tool would probably be a better design if the channel was much longer - If the cutter was the side edge of a Gem blade honed and burnished to a burr. If this blade was set at a backward leaning angle rather than 90 degree vertical. If there is a threaded rod at the back edge of the blade pushing and feeding the cutting edge of the scraper up into the cut at controlled increments.

And - the primary thing - the most critical thing - if the wood being beveled is a species that actually "wants" to be shaped. It certainly is not Basswood and most certainly not the brittle poor quality stuff in most kits.
 
Rob444 said:
A little while back I bought this mini plane trim the edge of the plank that lies against the hull bulkheads. Forgot where I first saw it, but I believe I picked it up on Amazon for about $4. It is 3D printed. You can adjust for the width of the plank you want and the angle of the blade which is just a replaceable x-acto blade. It works well. After passing the plank through the plane a few times I finish with a quick pass of sandpaper.

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Fun, I also made one on my 3D printer. Great tool to make an edge on planks to make sure they fit easily together.
 
I just purchased this set of 30 wood veneers to help me to identify wood species and to feel some of the surface qualities of each wood. I am most interested in domestically sourced woods from the U.S. and Canada for use in my model ship building and wood carving crafts. While I don't think I'll ever build the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia out of Paldao or Eucalyptus wood, I'm sure I'll come across Teak, Pine, Oak, Maple, Ash, Cherry and Walnut.

Here's what came in the veneer set, by continent or country

AFRICA:
Anigre
Khaya
Mozambique

ASIA:
Paldao
Teak

ITALY:
Dyed Tabu

AUSTRALIA:
Red Grandis
Eucalyptus

AMERICAS:
Red Oak
White Oak
Silver Dyed Lacewood
Louro Preto

U.S. & CANADA:
Pine
Alder
Fumed Aspen
Maple
Spalted Maple
Ash
Olive Ash
Douglas Fir
Fumed Larch

UNITED STATES:
Walnut
Figured Maple
Sapele Mahogany
Figured Redwood
Cypress
Cherry
American Sycamore
Fumed Red Gum
Sassafras

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Didn't really searching for it but came on my way.... surfing the Dutch Marketplace I came along a Heller kit I di'dn't know; Le Reale de France. It seemed complete and after some messaging with the seller I bought it for..... 30 euro's! A quick search found out that it was/is much more worth so I bought it. The seller was unable to ship it so a friend of mine who lives shortby the man picked it up for me. And last saturday I got it here at home.

Great kit! 900+ parts and all present. Off course the manual in french language but I found earlier a English one from Heller/Aurora and much more clearer also.

A big, big box!:

20260531_131714 by Ronald Halma, on Flickr

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20260531_131500 by Ronald Halma, on Flickr

Happy with it!! :cool: :)
 
Hi everyone,

Meanwhile a year ago I finished the USF Confederacy from Model Shipways. In the past months I finished the "AIDA blu", a plastic kit from Revell which was a christmas present of my sons years ago.

My next project is HM Brig-Sloop Speedy from Vanguard models. I ordered the kit on May 21st and received it just yesterday, and I look forward to post a build log here.

Werner

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wernerweiss said:
Hi everyone,

Meanwhile a year ago I finished the USF Confederacy from Model Shipways. In the past months I finished the "AIDA blu", a plastic kit from Revell which was a christmas present of my sons years ago.

My next project is HM Brig-Sloop Speedy from Vanguard models. I ordered the kit on May 21st and received it just yesterday, and I look forward to post a build log here.

Werner

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This is a fine ship for modelers looking for a vessel with intermediate level of complexity.
 
Ronald61 said:
Didn't really searching for it but came on my way.... surfing the Dutch Marketplace I came along a Heller kit I di'dn't know; Le Reale de France. It seemed complete and after some messaging with the seller I bought it for..... 30 euro's! A quick search found out that it was/is much more worth so I bought it. The seller was unable to ship it so a friend of mine who lives shortby the man picked it up for me. And last saturday I got it here at home.

Great kit! 900+ parts and all present. Off course the manual in french language but I found earlier a English one from Heller/Aurora and much more clearer also.

A big, big box!:

20260531_131714 by Ronald Halma, on Flickr

20260531_131415 by Ronald Halma, on Flickr

20260531_131500 by Ronald Halma, on Flickr

Happy with it!! :cool: :)
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Great find!
 
Ignatius27 said:
I just purchased this set of 30 wood veneers to help me to identify wood species and to feel some of the surface qualities of each wood. I am most interested in domestically sourced woods from the U.S. and Canada for use in my model ship building and wood carving crafts.
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Those veneer samples will surely come in handy if you are working with veneered material, although I think you will find that in the case of many species the appearance of the figuring of the veneer, which is "peeled" from a turning log by a sharp blade, will be somewhat different that the appearance of the species when sawn, and, in fact, that the appearance of the sawn wood will often differ considerably depending upon whether it's plain-sawn (horizontal grain) or quarter-sawn (vertical grain) and so on. In any event, for modeling purposes, the less figuring, the better, since figuring will always be out of scale and therefore destructive of the model's ability to provide a compelling impression of its prototype.
 
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