Hello From Bonnie Scotland

Hello John pleased to meet you. Yes I have had drawings reduced by a Reprographic company in the past. My concern is the cost of the drawings plus the 52 mile round trip to Aberdeen plus the cost of the reductions and justifying it to my wife and daughter.
2foot is as big as I can handle, I have got a plank bending tool plus a small guilotine that will cut angles accurately. I too have a selection of small hand tools and my workbench is a 3 foot long pine table.
 
Hello Magic Mike
Nice to hear from you. Yes I am familiar with the Fifie Fishing boat its a beautiful design.
We are about 3 hours drive away from Fife.
 
drifterz7 said:
Hello John pleased to meet you. Yes I have had drawings reduced by a Reprographic company in the past. My concern is the cost of the drawings plus the 52 mile round trip to Aberdeen plus the cost of the reductions and justifying it to my wife and daughter.
2foot is as big as I can handle, I have got a plank bending tool plus a small guilotine that will cut angles accurately. I too have a selection of small hand tools and my workbench is a 3 foot long pine table.
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Ok. Good luck.
 
Hoy mates, a side note to planking. Bending wood. I have a method from little 4 foot model Schooners all the way up to a 40 foot 1796 Brig of war model. Yes, I said 40 feet. This is what I do to bend wood. Soak the wood in household Ammonia. That's it! Build a trough or use PVC piping with a cap at each end. Insert the planks and let it soak overnight. When you pull each plank out wipe it with a rag, then work the piece of wood into place. Clamp it, tie it or tape it in place and let dry. Occasionally move the clamps, ties and tape so the wood drys evenly. If your careful and patient you can put the saturated plank in a jig and bend curves in a flat piece of wood without the wood buckling. I have had very good results bending wood by soaking it in regular store bought Ammonia. When you remove the dry piece of wood it will slightly spring back a little but when you put it back on its original intended spot the wood goes right in place. You dont have to build steam boxes or iron bends into the wood anymore.
 
drifterz7 said:
Hello I have just joined the group thank you. My name is Tom and i live with my family near Aberdeen. My lifelong passion has been modelmaking, I enjoy working with wood and I have for some years been thinking about attempting a scale model of a Steam Herring Drifter. To be honest its the planking that has put me off, my wife bought me a model of the Thermopyylae, Cutty Sarks sister ship which I started to plank then panicked.

The Formidable plans available are too big for me as I don't have a workshop I was hoping to build a model about 2 foot long. Ive just ordered Ted Frost's book
from the library It will be here Saturday and I'm excited.

Sincerely

Tom
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Hi Tom
Welcome to the forum. I am also from close to Aberdeen and am a lapsed modeller intending to take up the tools again when I retire next year. For the last 2-3 years I have been a viewer only on this forum …. trying to pick up tips and tricks from the vast experience of the assembled highly skilled members.

I do not consider myself experienced, only having completed 2 models (Billings Mary Ann and Norden) and like you do not have a workshop. I was using a small table in a spare room and whilst maybe not very convenient was adequate.
Anyway, by far the most difficult part for me was the planking but I just took it slow and with the help of filler etc I think the end result is reasonable, considering the hull is painted finished.

I also have the Thermopylae kit and I was intending that to be my next build ….. but I think I will go for either the Vanguard Fifie or Zulu. I’ll do this because I also have ambition to (at some point) do a steam herring drifter and the Fifie and Zulu were the predecessors and so figured I would build up the history of models for herring fishing here in the North Sea. Also the Vanguard models seem to be a good size and come with excellent picture by picture build manual.

I’m sure you will have visited the Aberdeen Maritime museum and in there there is a superb model of Thermopylae which is well worth a visit. I have attached a couple of pictures of it for anyone that may be interested.

Good luck with this and remember … slow and steady wins the race.
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Brocher said:
Hi Tom
Welcome to the forum. I am also from close to Aberdeen and am a lapsed modeller intending to take up the tools again when I retire next year. For the last 2-3 years I have been a viewer only on this forum …. trying to pick up tips and tricks from the vast experience of the assembled highly skilled members.

I do not consider myself experienced, only having completed 2 models (Billings Mary Ann and Norden) and like you do not have a workshop. I was using a small table in a spare room and whilst maybe not very convenient was adequate.
Anyway, by far the most difficult part for me was the planking but I just took it slow and with the help of filler etc I think the end result is reasonable, considering the hull is painted finished.

I also have the Thermopylae kit and I was intending that to be my next build ….. but I think I will go for either the Vanguard Fifie or Zulu. I’ll do this because I also have ambition to (at some point) do a steam herring drifter and the Fifie and Zulu were the predecessors and so figured I would build up the history of models for herring fishing here in the North Sea. Also the Vanguard models seem to be a good size and come with excellent picture by picture build manual.

I’m sure you will have visited the Aberdeen Maritime museum and in there there is a superb model of Thermopylae which is well worth a visit. I have attached a couple of pictures of it for anyone that may be interested.

Good luck with this and remember … slow and steady wins the race.
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Hallo and welcome to the active part of the members - I am looking forward to see your drifters under construction
 
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