A Katwijk Bomschuit

[Robberdebop]

beautyful build. I am loving fishing vessels so this is one of my favourits

 

[janzwart]

Update 15
Almost all of the internal frames and strakes have been installed.
Here’s a look at the bow:

An inner stem will be added in the middle to seal the gap in the third strake.
And the stern:


Two more strakes need to be added here.

And an overview:



Next up is a lot of sanding, then attaching all the nails on the outside, and finally covering the inside.
To be continued.

 

[Heinrich]

Very good work on what is a difficult build, Jan! You always find the most interesting modeling subjects!

 

[Na Daeyong's Apprentice]

Keep at it, my friend! Looking great so far.

 

[janzwart]

Update 16
Lately, I’ve been doing nothing but carpentry. All the planks of a bomschuit are nailed together at the overlapping sections. A gangway is 85 cm on average, and I have 12 and a half of them on both sides. In reality, the nails are spaced 10 cm apart, so on the model they’re 5 mm apart. That comes to a total of 2 × 12.5 × 85 × 2 = 4,250 nails. For a standard bomschuit, it was stated that 3,500 rivet nails were needed. So that’s roughly correct.

The riveting was done as follows:


A rivet had a square cross-section with sides measuring 1 cm (3/8 “) and was galvanized at the shipyard. They were driven in from the outside toward the center. (1) Next, a “rose” was placed over the tip (a small square plate with a hole in the center). A hammer with a hole was placed over the nail tip and struck firmly with another hammer so that the two planks were sealed watertight against each other (2). Then, using the hammer with the hole, the tip was bent over and snapped off (3). Next, the broken-off tip was flattened (riveted) using two hammers alternately, while a third hammer held it in place from the outside (5).

On my model, I simply hammered in two small round nails with rounded heads per centimeter, after pre-drilling the holes. This produces the following result:

The stern:


The bow:



Port side:


Starboard side:


Bottom:


Inside:



Here you can see why I attached the wooden strips first and then the nails.
If I hadn’t done that, I would have had to hammer all the nails flat first before I could install the wooden strips. That would have been much more difficult. Now you can see some of the nails sticking out of the wall, while others are nailed into the wooden strips.
The interior paneling simply goes over this. Except for a small section, which is left open to show a bit of the structure.

To be continued

 

[Peter Voogt]

Update 16
Lately, I’ve been doing nothing but carpentry. All the planks of a bomschuit are nailed together at the overlapping sections. A gangway is 85 cm on average, and I have 12 and a half of them on both sides. In reality, the nails are spaced 10 cm apart, so on the model they’re 5 mm apart. That comes to a total of 2 × 12.5 × 85 × 2 = 4,250 nails. For a standard bomschuit, it was stated that 3,500 rivet nails were needed. So that’s roughly correct.

The riveting was done as follows:
View attachment 620359

A rivet had a square cross-section with sides measuring 1 cm (3/8 “) and was galvanized at the shipyard. They were driven in from the outside toward the center. (1) Next, a “rose” was placed over the tip (a small square plate with a hole in the center). A hammer with a hole was placed over the nail tip and struck firmly with another hammer so that the two planks were sealed watertight against each other (2). Then, using the hammer with the hole, the tip was bent over and snapped off (3). Next, the broken-off tip was flattened (riveted) using two hammers alternately, while a third hammer held it in place from the outside (5).

On my model, I simply hammered in two small round nails with rounded heads per centimeter, after pre-drilling the holes. This produces the following result:

The stern:
View attachment 620360

The bow:
View attachment 620361


Port side:
View attachment 620362

Starboard side:
View attachment 620363

Bottom:
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Inside:
View attachment 620365


Here you can see why I attached the wooden strips first and then the nails.
If I hadn’t done that, I would have had to hammer all the nails flat first before I could install the wooden strips. That would have been much more difficult. Now you can see some of the nails sticking out of the wall, while others are nailed into the wooden strips.
The interior paneling simply goes over this. Except for a small section, which is left open to show a bit of the structure.

To be continued

A lot of labour works, but the result is impressive, Jan. A few to go and then another chapter is done.
Regards, Peter

 

[Backer64]

Great work.
That's a lot of little nails.