Bluenose Model Shipways build log - Mallacoota

Done the winch,windlass and hauling motor so am close to leaving the deck behind. The cast tin metal parts are junk and if I had any metal working skills or equipment I would have made new stuff but have got it togetheand looks OK but the photos are very harsh on your work..completely unforgiving..LOL

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The removable motor box takes the shaft in the side and is engaged by a clutch connected by the lever. These parts were very fragile, and there was a missing pinion in the drive train at the aft end of the drive belt/chain...doesnt matter but it wouldnt actually work the way it was supplied. (or more likely I lost a bit..?)
 
mallacoota said:
I wasnt happy with the windlass and associated bits then I discovered there were laser cutout pieces so I made them again...err thats better..! my scratch built windlass was pretty ordinary....a bit of black detail touch up required.
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Looking very good ánd convincing.
 
mallacoota said:
I wasnt happy with the windlass and associated bits then I discovered there were laser cutout pieces so I made them again...err thats better..! my scratch built windlass was pretty ordinary....a bit of black detail touch up required.

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Looking nice,John. It are the tiny parts and details wich make a complete view of the good looking windlass and motor. After many parts on the deck, up to the rigging?
Regards, Peter
 
Thanks Dean it is a very different experience to the YQ version. It is so different I have not had a moment's regret about building a different version of the same boat. This is really a great set of plans and a big box of wood. ( All basic basswood) ..you have to make everything yourself which has been a stretch. The brittania cast winch gear is pretty rubbish but had to use it as wasn't up to making my own....but you need to make a heap of metal fittings from brass strip so doing some soldering practice was necessary. Very few laser cut parts, cordage OK, brittania parts poor, basswood OK but some things I am making from YQ pearwood offcuts which I am glad I kept. Things like crosstrees need something a bit better than basswood.

Just saw your pics. That is a great result, I did try that but wasnt able to get happy with the circumference...you have done that really well.
 
mallacoota said:
Thanks Dean it is a very different experience to the YQ version. It is so different I have not had a moment's regret about building a different version of the same boat. This is really a great set of plans and a big box of wood. ( All basic basswood) ..you have to make everything yourself which has been a stretch. The brittania cast winch gear is pretty rubbish but had to use it as wasn't up to making my own....but you need to make a heap of metal fittings from brass strip so doing some soldering practice was necessary. Very few laser cut parts, cordage OK, brittania parts poor, basswood OK but some things I am making from YQ pearwood offcuts which I am glad I kept. Things like crosstrees need something a bit better than basswood.

Just saw your pics. That is a great result, I did try that but wasnt able to get happy with the circumference...you have done that really well.
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Yes, I actually used their rigging plans and added all of the metals pieces to my YQ kit. ;)
It is the best plans I have seen for the BN!
As soon as I got to the masts, I abandoned the YQ instructions and used the MS plans! ;)
 
Dean62 said:
Yes, I actually used their rigging plans and added all of the metals pieces to my YQ kit. ;)
It is the best plans I have seen for the BN!
As soon as I got to the masts, I abandoned the YQ instructions and used the MS plans! ;)
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Yes really good approach, in fact the only way to go if you want to do the POF and want to optimise the model. The MS plans are only $30 for the full set. You could probabl;y scratch build the boat from the MS plans but you would have to draw new hull lines for the frames... beyond my skill level.
 
mallacoota said:
Decided to go for the MS-POB kit, will be a very different build to the just completed YQ-POF, I just hope it is as rewarding. Waiting for the box in the mail, it is somewhere between Miami and Melbourne. Hoping to conform to the historical colours and details as much as I am able at my skill level, although the information is full of contradictions. The original Smith and Rhuland colour scheme (below) says such things as..."bowsprit oiled like varnish", "boom and gaff jaws white", "mast heads white"... well all the old photos of Bluenose show a black bowsprit, oiled (as varnish) mastheads,(although the mast caps look white) and boom and gaff jaws the same colour as their spar...oiled. Bluenose 2 painted the last 10-12ft of the main and foremast white, so they obviously thought that was the correct interpretation of "mast heads"...and they were on the spot with access to people who knew the real boat..?? The photos just dont show that at all. So deciding to fall in with the historical boat is all very well...if you can sort out the facts. I get it that these things might have changed over time so maybe it was just a moving feast.

Isnt this just a great photo
Something else I just remembered, the conventional wisdom is that the deck planks on the quarterdeck were tapered and not nibbed. Not true..they may well have been tapered (although this photo raises some doubts IMHO) but they were nibbed..see this pic for clear nibbing aft to port.
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Hallo @mallacoota
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