HMS Blandford 1:48 POF Modelship Dockyard [COMPLETED BUILD]

Ken said:
Hello and welcome once more. Today’s post is about what I learned making up the lower deck and how with hindsight I’m going to change the way I do things to bring about the desired improvement on the upper deck. My first mistake was when fitting the main beams I concentrated on getting a good fit to the ribs and not making sure that the slots for the longitude beams were perfectly in line first. This time my priority will be lining up the slots and then addressing the end fit, adding or sanding as needed to fit, hopefully avoiding the dogleg look of some of the beams which offended my eye.

I had great difficulty fitting the batons consistently even. Because of my hand issue I need to use tweezers to put them into place, using wood glue it took nearly a minute for them to get a good grab but I just couldn’t hold them steadily enough in place for that time and some ended up a bit skew then they were difficult to correct, just a few out of place spoiled the look so this time I’m going to use cyno. The issue with cyno is that it seems to get everywhere and once it gets onto wood it stains with no way back. To avoid issues, once all the beams are in place I’m going to stain, seal and varnish before fitting the batons, I’m going to do the same with the strip wood before cutting up the batons this way even if I get cyno where I don’t want, it won’t stain and can be wiped off, hopefully giving me a better surface finish than before. I’ve done a trial on a mock up and found that with a dab of cyno in place I can hold the baton steady for the few seconds that it takes to get sticky, because the varnished surface is shinny I found that it was then easy to slide the baton to its exact position before it fully sets. As I mentioned it’s good to get a second chance and I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in, it’s great to have a plan.

The photo shows the beginning of the deck.

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Good morning Ken. Second chances- we need those in life for sure - let alone model building. I am enjoying this build immensely and you are owning it. Cheers Grant
 
Hello All and thanks for joining me on my build. Great progress, I’ve almost completed the beams for the upper deck and unlike the lower deck I’m pretty pleased with the result, only one longitude beam is slightly out and I can only notice it when I look at the photos not at the actual model. Unlike making the lower deck I concentrated much harder knowing after what I said that I needed to show an improvement.

Just a few more beams left to do, a good sanding, stain and varnish then on to the batons, I hope that they go as well.

Some pictures showing my progress.


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Maarten said:
What a progress Ken,
Hope you live in a large mansion, with the speed you build your ships you need a lot of space to show all these models.
This one again is certainly worth showing.
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Hi Maarten, Thanks for following my build and for your many recent likes, I hope that I can keep you entertained. It’s surprising how many places you can find in a house to display models, but I think an understanding wife is more beneficial than a big house.
 
Ken said:
Hi Paul, Thanks for that, the problem is you’ve set the bar too high for me, but I’ll still strive to do my best.
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Ha! No bars have been set. We all build with our own goals in mind. I choose a certain approach that others can easily replicate - but my approach takes lots and lots of time which isn't the preferred pace for most everyone...

All I know is you started 9 months after me and you're already 9 months ahead of me. And it looks GREAT!
 
dockattner said:
Ha! No bars have been set. We all build with our own goals in mind. I choose a certain approach that others can easily replicate - but my approach takes lots and lots of time which isn't the preferred pace for most everyone...

All I know is you started 9 months after me and you're already 9 months ahead of me. And it looks GREAT!
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Hi Paul, Thanks. Yes time is a problem, It’s finite, I think that I’m running pretty low on it. I need to work fast as there’s so many models that I want to build before I hang my tools up. I believe that time spent modelling isn’t deducted from ones aloted life span, let’s hope that’s true.
 
Ken said:
Hello All and thanks for joining me on my build. Great progress, I’ve almost completed the beams for the upper deck and unlike the lower deck I’m pretty pleased with the result, only one longitude beam is slightly out and I can only notice it when I look at the photos not at the actual model. Unlike making the lower deck I concentrated much harder knowing after what I said that I needed to show an improvement.

Just a few more beams left to do, a good sanding, stain and varnish then on to the batons, I hope that they go as well.

Some pictures showing my progress.


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Hi Ken. Your Blandford is coming along beautifully and at a very fast pace. Already l can see an improvement with the placement of the carlings. The slight misalignment of a few lower deck timbers will not notice, although, like me you obviously want to do the best job possible and we are our own worst critics but like everybody else on here is telling you it looks amazing. l personally don't like using cyno for this sort of work, but if you find it works for you then good luck with it. Thumbsup
 
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