Flying Dutchman, Occre, 1:50

[lakedaisy]

Lower deck is glued in. Laying the planks.

Cut planks to fit inside the length hull.


I've already painted the edges. Next I scored in the plank ends by cutting a groove with a scribe, followed by marking the groove with a black pen.


Next, I stained the planks. If I can I like to stain pieces before gluing in. Then don't have to worry about getting glue on unstained wood.


Planks won't be glued in in the same order as shown. So the darker and lighter areas will be mixed. I may give a light sanding and another coat of lightened stain.

An image of this deck from the OcCre Flying Dutchman YouTube build log.

 

[Frank48]

Lower deck is glued in. Laying the planks.
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Cut them to fit inside the length hull.
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I've already painted the edges. Next I scored in the plank ends by cutting a groove, followed by marking groove with a black pen.
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Next, I stained the planks. If I can I like to stain pieces before gluing in. Then don't have to worry about getting glue on unstained wood.
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Planks won't be glued in in the same order as shown. So the darker and lighter areas will be mixed. I may give a light sanding and another coat of lightened stain.

An image of this deck from the OcCre Flying Dutchman YouTube build log.
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Hi Margherita, it is possible to have some information about that cutting-off tool, Thanks

 

[lakedaisy]

Hi Margherita, it is possible to have some information about that cutting-off tool, Thanks

Frank I made this little tool using THIS CUT-OFF SAW.
HERE'S AN IMAGE (post #35)

If you would like more photos let me know and I will sent to you by Private Mail on this site.

 

[Frank48]

Frank I made this little tool using THIS CUT-OFF SAW.
HERE'S AN IMAGE (post #34)

If you would like more photos let me know and I will sent to you by Private Mail on this site.

Hi Margherita, if you don't mind, send them to me, Thanks

 

[lakedaisy]

Thought I was never get the decking finished. I don't have a finish on it yet. Just a coat of decoupage glue to protect the stain from getting damaged while I continue to work. Next is adding a few fittings on this deck.

 

[lakedaisy]

Installed the fittings on this deck.

Put together what looks like a capstan without any bars. There's a 1.5mm hole drilled in the top. Might be used to load cargo into the lower decks. I couldn't find any reference to the capstan further into the build. Also couldn't find the base (think it was labeled as C8). Made one out of scrap wood.

 

[lakedaisy]

Putting the decks in.
Ready for main deck.


Main deck. I kept putting the wrong sequence in. So... I wrote the plank offset on the sheet. And, of course, I got that wrong too.


Smaller decks.



Bulkheads for the decks are highly distressed in the instructions (Sanded white over black). I'm going to a more mellow look. The image on the kit cover shows interior areas of the decking and other things as a light oak-ish looking color. I'm making all these areas including the bulkheads a slightly darkened light color (Saman Amaretto - Amazon)



Making door opening rings from brass.



Gluing the decks in...




Decks/bulkheads are in...

 

[lakedaisy]

Up next is to install plywood sheeting that will be the interior bulwarks. Kit has the plywood bulwarks stained the kits dark walnut. This doesn't look good to me. Like other interior pieces, I'm going to plank with holly wood and use the same Amaretto stain. Might put another coat of Amaretto stain on everything once it's all together if it doesn't look dark enough. As I said before, I like the light interior walls/decking as on the kit cover. I plan on using my own wood for planking the hull and giving it a dark-ish stain. Some of the exterior hull is actually plywood. I can't do this. Will plank these areas too. And the bow isn't planked at all. It's just sanded blocks of wood. Bow will be planked too.



Note: you may have noticed the 2nd deck (below) and hold area are stained with the kits dark Walnut stain. After staining these, I decided to use a lighter color stain on remainder. These areas will be dark anyway, so may not be noticeable. I have ordered a few plastic lanterns for the lower area. The kit came with LED's set.

 

[lakedaisy]

I have all the side plywood panels planked and installed.

 

[lakedaisy]

Inside the hull is partially finished. The instructions stop here on the inside. Some planking is next. I have to decide if I will use the kit supplied lime wood (according to the internet this is basswood) as it's pretty soft wood. Or I may cut some of my own planks from a better wood. I made some bow fillers.

 

[Heinrich]

Excellent progress Rob. The bow and stern fillers will make the planking so much easier!

 

[lakedaisy]

 

[lakedaisy]

I bought these little lanterns from Shapeways. Was thinking of putting them in the hull, but I already had some of the work done to the lower deck, making it harder to install them. I will likely save them for another ship and install the ship supplied lights. The frames need to be painted black or brass.

 

[lakedaisy]

Excellent progress Rob. The bow and stern fillers will make the planking so much easier!

Yes! Thanks Heinrich. And the bow isn't even planked in the kit. Just some fillers installed, sanded down and painted.

 

[dockattner]

I love the tone/color of the decking. Perhaps not authentic but really attractive.

 

[lakedaisy]

Thanks Paul. I'm not really into authentic. Just what looks good, and fun for me to build whether right or not. On this ship the kit box cover image is a light discolored wood contrasting the dark outside hull. I'll likely not make the hull solid black either.

 

[Cirill]

Such a great work, looks beautiful!
Recently I've received the same model as a gift but since it is my first such project, I have a small question (one so far) and hope you'd be able to help.

what paint type/colours did you use and can recommend for the deck? Occre paint pack or something different?

 

[lakedaisy]

Hi Cirill. I'm sorry, that isn't a photo of my ship. That's the photo that's on the kit box. I was showing Paul the color of the interior woods of the ship. I'm still planking the hull on mine. The stain I used on the decks is Amaretto (LINK). The walnut from the Occre paint pack would be okay too. I just wanted something a little lighter in color.

 

[lakedaisy]

I'm slowly working on the hull. This is a 1 layer planking hull. I've read everything I could find on the web about lining off and made a lot of notes. I want to improve my planking.

My first attempt at lining off. I used tape rather than battens as I wanted to curve the tape right up to the Stem and was harder with a batten.

 

[lakedaisy]

I made the 2nd deck lights from the instructions and installed it.



Occre lights for the ship. This is the 2nd deck. Looks like a night club . Not going to install the other one laid out in the plans for the bilge.