• Win a Free Custom Engraved Brass Coin!!!
    As a way to introduce our brass coins to the community, we will raffle off a free coin during the month of August. Follow link ABOVE for instructions for entering.

Kingfisher 1770 1:48 POF [COMPLETED BUILD]

dockattner said:
Expensive day yesterday. I went to print a template for laying out gun ports and my printer was broken. Went out to the garage to rough-sand a frame replacement and my spindle sander was broken (in this case I got what I paid for). Sigh...
Click to expand...
Then you had one thing ‘with you’, you had everything against ……. ;)
Regards, Peter
 
Once again there is very little progress to report - which doesn't mean I haven't been spending time on my ship. Indeed, there has been a lot of head-scratching in terms of figuring out how to do things - and a lot of brain power spent on determining how I want the final ship to be presented (what will be covered with planking and what will be exposed).

In the 'figuring out' department was how to cut the notches for the upper and lower gunport sills. After some trial runs and experimentation, I ended up using an XActo knife and files - but I can't help but wonder if in the future it would be better to make these notches off the jig using chisels (that is, cut the notches before the frames are installed). I think chisels would give me a more precise notch.

IMG_9490.JPG

IMG_9493.JPG

IMG_9496.JPG

No, the upper sill is not upside down...apparently, it's supposed to be this way despite what intuition might suggest.

IMG_9499.JPG

With these gunport sills in place it was now time to do some preliminary fairing - but the slight forward tipping of the cant frames was like a pea under my mattress (translation: driving me crazy) so I added two full frames and everything is now perfectly vertical.

As you can see in the images that follow I have decided to add infill timbers between the frames at the floor of the ship (not a part of the kit). Right now the plan is to plank half of the ship, but I still chose to include the filling timbers on both sides because I don't know which side will show the frames - and I was also concerned about keeping the keel straight. It's not that much more work to cut out two pieces and it will give me some flexibility going forward if I end up changing my mind about planking half the hull.

IMG_9498.JPG

IMG_9500.JPG

Thanks for visiting!

By the way, if for some reason you haven't seen the finish photos of the Bluenose model created by Peter Voogt you're missing out. Do yourself a favor and check these out:

YUANQING BLUENOSE - Peter Voogt [COMPLETED BUILD]

Rivets: There are folks who make and sell rivets on decal film for the armor/military, railroad, and aeronautical modeling hobbies. The products essentially are 3D-printed pips on clear decal film and they come in a myriad of rivet patterns appropriate to the intended prototype and scale...
shipsofscale.com
 
Daniel20 said:
This is impressive Paul. I guess you have to eyeball the two pieces of cant frames sitting on the upper gun port sill?
Click to expand...
Thanks Daniel. Yes, I just had to eyeball them while simultaneously using this opportunity to partially correct the tipping (not fully resolved until the second full frame). To my eye it all turned out fine (though everything is still in the building jig waiting for glue to dry).

For the record, I am not gifted in the area of waiting for glue to dry.
 
dockattner said:
Once again there is very little progress to report - which doesn't mean I haven't been spending time on my ship. Indeed, there has been a lot of head-scratching in terms of figuring out how to do things - and a lot of brain power spent on determining how I want the final ship to be presented (what will be covered with planking and what will be exposed).

In the 'figuring out' department was how to cut the notches for the upper and lower gunport sills. After some trial runs and experimentation, I ended up using an XActo knife and files - but I can't help but wonder if in the future it would be better to make these notches off the jig using chisels (that is, cut the notches before the frames are installed). I think chisels would give me a more precise notch.

View attachment 371374

View attachment 371375

View attachment 371376

No, the upper sill is not upside down...apparently, it's supposed to be this way despite what intuition might suggest.

View attachment 371378

With these gunport sills in place it was now time to do some preliminary fairing - but the slight forward tipping of the cant frames was like a pea under my mattress (translation: driving me crazy) so I added two full frames and everything is now perfectly vertical.

As you can see in the images that follow I have decided to add infill timbers between the frames at the floor of the ship (not a part of the kit). Right now the plan is to plank half of the ship, but I still chose to include the filling timbers on both sides because I don't know which side will show the frames - and I was also concerned about keeping the keel straight. It's not that much more work to cut out two pieces and it will give me some flexibility going forward if I end up changing my mind about planking half the hull.

View attachment 371377

View attachment 371379

Thanks for visiting!

By the way, if for some reason you haven't seen the finish photos of the Bluenose model created by Peter Voogt you're missing out. Do yourself a favor and check these out:

YUANQING BLUENOSE - Peter Voogt [COMPLETED BUILD]

Rivets: There are folks who make and sell rivets on decal film for the armor/military, railroad, and aeronautical modeling hobbies. The products essentially are 3D-printed pips on clear decal film and they come in a myriad of rivet patterns appropriate to the intended prototype and scale...
shipsofscale.com
Click to expand...
Hi Paul. To do ‘some head-scratching’ is always good in such a complex build. And it’s good to see the frames are line out well. It took some time, but this looks like a very solid base. Thumbsup
And what a privilege that you set the link in your build-log to my final photoshoot. Thanks very much for that!
Regards, Peter
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top