A hull lot of work - San Juan Nepomuceno

[Mike Arrr]

The journey may be long, imperfect, and demand hard work and patience, but the end result is worth it.

I used a basic kitchen water boiler you plug in and was able to easily steam and bend the wood planks. I took my time on this step to match parity in the plank alignments on the hull and aft as much as possible.




In this model kit, I refrained from using any of the brass molded pieces and decide to push the envelope by charting my own path and hand-making those elements of the ship out of wood. I’ll post a separate log about building the captain’s quarters from scratch. Below are some thumbnails of just the hull planking process from about 6 years ago.

 

[danielsje]

Nicely done! Yes, it is a lot of work!

 

[Uwek]

The journey may be long, imperfect, and demand hard work and patience, but the end result is worth it.

I used a basic kitchen water boiler you plug in and was able to easily steam and bend the wood planks. I took my time on this step to match parity in the plank alignments on the hull and aft as much as possible. View attachment 247284


View attachment 247285View attachment 247291View attachment 247292View attachment 247293View attachment 247294

In this model kit, I refrained from using any of the brass molded pieces and decide to push the envelope by charting my own path and hand-making those elements of the ship out of wood. I’ll post a separate log about building the captain’s quarters from scratch. Below are some thumbnails of just the hull planking process from about 6 years ago.

View attachment 247295View attachment 247296View attachment 247297View attachment 247298View attachment 247299View attachment 247301View attachment 247302View attachment 247304View attachment 247305View attachment 247309View attachment 247310View attachment 247317View attachment 247318View attachment 247319

Hallo @Mike Arrr
we wish you all the BEST and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 

[Uwek]

The journey may be long, imperfect, and demand hard work and patience, but the end result is worth it.

I used a basic kitchen water boiler you plug in and was able to easily steam and bend the wood planks. I took my time on this step to match parity in the plank alignments on the hull and aft as much as possible. View attachment 247284


View attachment 247285View attachment 247291View attachment 247292View attachment 247293View attachment 247294

In this model kit, I refrained from using any of the brass molded pieces and decide to push the envelope by charting my own path and hand-making those elements of the ship out of wood. I’ll post a separate log about building the captain’s quarters from scratch. Below are some thumbnails of just the hull planking process from about 6 years ago.

View attachment 247295View attachment 247296View attachment 247297View attachment 247298View attachment 247299View attachment 247301View attachment 247302View attachment 247304View attachment 247305View attachment 247309View attachment 247310View attachment 247317View attachment 247318View attachment 247319

Hallo @Mike Arrr
we wish you all the BEST and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY