Imai/Aoshima 1/60th Junk build

[Big Jake]

Sides are washed, when the black fills the crevices, the paint seems to pop. Once you paint the water base wash in, you pat off the excess with a paper towel. I earned a bowl on this one.

 

[Big Jake]

Painted the sail battens a basecoat of Bamboo color, once dried I tested out the grimy effect on the painted sail battens, the grime also darkened the sail cloth to my liking. I'm going to try to dry brush a spot of sand to see if I get a more bleached effect. Depending on how the light hits the sail, in some pics it looks darker and some lighter. I lIke it.

 

[Big Jake]

Back from the Cruise and working on another 'cruise ship' A cruise up the Yangzi River. Back on the Junk....rigged the boat winches, the anchors and started painting the bamboo sail reeds, looks a bit sloppy, but will be trimmed in with boxcar red and a wash. Because I'm not using the drop-down rear hatch, I decided to use the deck winches as the lifting winches for the lifeboat. The instructions do not even mention as to how they would have lifted it or even properly rigg it. I added 2 eyebolts to the boat to be used as the tackle points, but I may just use small hook to secure.

 

[Big Jake]

It was too hot to work long in the shop yesterday, but I was able to get the Foresail trimmed and touched up from the over paint. hopefully, I'll finished the main sail this evening and them be able to wash it and start the main rigging.

 

[Big Jake]

All toll, about 10 hours on the 3 sails from the base coat of boxcar red, the bamboo trimming, cleanup, touch-up, and weathering (not counting drying times). I stepped the masts and have the backstays ready. I'll hit the sails with a final coat of flatting agent before mounting.

 

[Na Daeyong's Apprentice]

The paint job is very convincing! But the planking on the sides of the ship hold perplex me a bit. Are they meant to represent thicker timbers?

 

[Big Jake]

The paint job is very convincing! But the planking on the sides of the ship hold perplex me a bit. Are they meant to represent thicker timbers?

Thanks, your guess is as good as mine on the weird planking on the sides, I've tried to find better photos on the net to see, in researching, I found there is just not a whole lot written on the building and workup of these type boats. The crazy part is they were sailing generally before most of Europe. I think there is only one or 2 books on the subject, but they really don't focus on the vessels, just trades.

 

[Na Daeyong's Apprentice]

There's more documents on them in Chinese (so not very helpful if you don't read it), but the vessels of of ancient Asia is a subject woefully neglected in Western academia. The irony is that you are correct; they were sailing earlier in the west, coming up with innovations like watertigher bulkheads, sternpost rudders and the compass centuries before them, yet they are less romanticized.

Anyway, looking good!