America’s Cup Endeavour Racing Yatch (1:75) from Occre - Build Log

[Mwentling]

This kit is an example of requiring you to do things the hard way. Double planking? Endeavor had a steel hull!

For a high quality yacht like this there would be no lapped joints like normal riveted construction. Rivets would be driven thru an internal backing strip. Or, as she was built in the 1930’s some seams might have been welded. In either case, great would have been taken to obtain a perfectly smooth hull.

If I were building this model, I would skip the second planking layer and would “butter” the hull with Bondo to end up with realistically smooth hull.

Roger

I am thinking along the same lines, I am planking with as minimal gaps as possible. I will sand smooth to get all planks on the same plane, and set the curvature up. Then putty, bondo or simular until I have an absolutely smooth surface. I am going to airbrush the hull, and mask between colors, and finish in a clear coat. As the real ship would have been polished to reduce drag. This is my step up learning model on the way to the USS Constitution. My current path is this, then a USS Constution Cut away, then the HMS Victory, then a full USS Constitution. Each model up the chain is more complex from a build perspective and I'll new skills honed on the model before.