HMS Blandford 1:48 POF Modelship Dockyard [COMPLETED BUILD]
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Hello, Here's just a little bit of detailing that I've just made. As many of you know I only make models from what is supplied in a kit, I don't do fine detailing, however I was inspired by Jacks presentation of his galley so I thought I'd make a small effort with the stove base. I didn't want to go to the lengths that Jack did so I just photographed a brick wall, I re sized it then printed it on some highly textured paper, stuck it onto some plasticard, put a wooden edge to it and hey presto! a realistic looking base.
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Hello and welcome, again thanks for your many likes and kind comments.
A roll of drums please and bring on the dancing girls! This is the big reveal; Blandford is released from her build jig and I can see for the first time the hull proper, I must say that I’m delighted. It was a bit of a struggle getting the stern free so I removed a rear quarter section of the jig rather than stress the structure, it now goes in and out easily. To give it some rigidity before giving it its first sanding I fitted the stern beams which support the transom, H6 was the top part of the upper beam, once glued into place four marked sections were cut away leaving recesses which the transom uprights slotted into. I put in some scrap as fillers to fair the lower part into the keel. Everything has gone to plan so far, may it continue.
A roll of drums please and bring on the dancing girls! This is the big reveal; Blandford is released from her build jig and I can see for the first time the hull proper, I must say that I’m delighted. It was a bit of a struggle getting the stern free so I removed a rear quarter section of the jig rather than stress the structure, it now goes in and out easily. To give it some rigidity before giving it its first sanding I fitted the stern beams which support the transom, H6 was the top part of the upper beam, once glued into place four marked sections were cut away leaving recesses which the transom uprights slotted into. I put in some scrap as fillers to fair the lower part into the keel. Everything has gone to plan so far, may it continue.
Awesome! Congratulations on this major achievement Ken! And she sure is a beauty!
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Thanks Paul, Yes a beauty, but not as beautiful as my wife and we’ve been married for over 50 years.
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Thanks for that Peter, I’ve surprised myself, at first I was uncertain that I’d get this far but it shows what can be done if you only try.
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Hi Loracs, Again thanks for your comment, it’s always uplifting to get compliments after you try your best
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Hello, Thanks for visiting my build. Blandford has had it’s day of freedom and is now back in the build jig ready for the next stages. The instructions call for the building of the transom frame as the next stage, to me this structure looks very vulnerable to knocks so I’ll delay that until much later. I’ve now fitted the keelson, the thick stuff bands and the strakes. The keelson was pretty easy, its parts fitted well with just a groove cut into the frames at the bow and stern. The thick stuff band locations were determined by using the height of the deck beams as a reference and their position was pencilled along the ribs. The forward part of the bands were soaked in boiling water for about ten minutes after which they easily bent to shape. I don’t have any suitable clamps for holding these or the strakes down so I used cyno, a small dot was applied to each of the ribs and the band pressed into place and held for about thirty seconds, this worked perfectly with no issues. I did have an issue with the positioning the strakes, there is no guide anywhere on the plans or instructions as to exactly where they fit, and if you get them wrong they could foul later parts of the structure, there are six strakes to fit so I just made a guess and placed them at an equal distance apart and again used cyno, so fingers crossed. I’m surprised just how rigid the structure is now with these fitted, it feels indestructible.
Good morning. True story. That lawn would be right at home at Augusta or St Andrews
. Cheers Grant
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Hi Ken and Grant, Thank you both for your response to my build and beautiful lawn. I have to admit though that I’m a bit of a fraud, my lawn is artificial, I got fed up with with spending so much time maintaining a real lawn when that time could be better spent modelling.
Ken, now this is a lawn that I think both yourself and Paul might appreciate, about a mile from me. The Royal Liverpool, 18th hole.
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Hello again and welcome. A little more progress, this time down in the hold. The breast hooks and mast steps have now been fitted and I’ve made up the pump well. I find that the pear wood has a pink tinge to it which I’m not convinced will have the look that I want. I tried many combinations of stains, oils and varnishes and I think that I’ve settled on one that I like, it’s a spirit penetrating stain, light teak with just a touch of dark mahogany mixed in and for the finish a satin poly coating. The stain goes pretty deep into the wood, it does not raise the wood fibres like water based dyes and dries looking natural fairly quickly. I’ve tried it out on the pump well and got the result that I’d hoped for.
Next will be cutting out the gun ports, SCARY!
Next will be cutting out the gun ports, SCARY!
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