G'day Maarten
Thanks for your words and support. You are correct, there are still plenty of ways to make my RC unique.
I've been resting these last few days and I'm now eager to start the ship's boat.
Havagooday
Greg
ROYAL CAROLINE 1:30 by Zhl my version, by Peglegreg
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Thanks for your words and support. You are correct, there are still plenty of ways to make my RC unique.
I've been resting these last few days and I'm now eager to start the ship's boat.
Havagooday
Greg
G'day Greg, sorry to hear about your health, but I think you have made the right decision, so now mate its heads down and bums up and go get cracking on it, your a battler mate and a bloody bottler,
best regards John.
best regards John.
G'Day John
Thanks your for your words and encouragement mattie. i have re-read your Boat's log and I'm quite apprehensive knowing that I have some 'huge shoes to fill'. to get anywhere close to your standards.
Happymodeling
Greg
G'Day Pat
thanks mate for your kind words. This kit was my birthday present from my loverly wife , which was last December.
happymodelling
Greg
Has anybody added a detail like this:
It only requires a piece of wood and at least two figurines.
I rather to see a person having a long walk on a short pier.
It's still nice and tidy mate!
I've only just done a day out there so far.....trying to get my PD under control.Hopefully I'll be out there today.
Happymodeling
Greg
The ship's boat
I decided to start on the ship's boat to get my hands into something very quick..
the two boards where all the boats materials can be found
After reading John's log on this boat, I knew it was going to be quite difficult.
The first step was to assemble the plug's base board. This was very simple and after getting it all level and the strength support square I put The Chair doctor glue on the dry fit.
Then I noticed that it was slightly bulging on the short ends, using a large clasp fixed the problem.
the plug's base board after removing the clamps the following day
Trimming the beveled edges wasn't that hard, the first bulkhead was trimmed by using a scaple. This was time consuming and the result wasn't that good.
I tried to use the small drum sander on my dremel at speed number 5. It was fast enough to grind away the ply, and was at the speed where it was very easy to control.
Using my finger at the back of the bulkhead to stop the sander digging down, I guided the hand tool to the front of the the laser line.
Then using a half round/flat file, a flat surface was attained very easily.
Placing all the bulkheads into the base to check fit, my next step was to mount all the bulkheads on the centre spine before placing it finally on the plug's base board.
Checking to see if the all the bulkheads with the spine attached layed flat on my workbench, I found out some were higher. After some minor sanding of the bulkheads joins, the 2nd result showed all the bulkheads were flat on my bench.
Now came the hardest part of the plug build. Assembling them on the base board.
Bulkhead 5 and 6 has to have some minor, adjustments made.and they were all on the board.
When all the bulkheads were attached to the base, turning over to see if the joins were all uniformed, told me I was close.
Checking the keel's fit was a quite simple matter. Using the keel itself and slinging it from one bulkhead to the next, quickly showed I was off by some degree.
Using my gentle persuader, I tapped the bulkhead down on the port or starboard side to align each of them so the keel can slide easily.
By looking down the keel's bulkhead slots showed a straight line.
To make sure the bulkheads wouldn't move even by a minute amount, I dabbed same craft PVA glue on each bulkheads to hold it.
Then removing any excess glue so the glue wouldn't make it more permanent that I wanted. I thought it was almost done.
Now came a very difficult and a 'will I, or wouldn't I' monment. Bulkhead 1 don't fit coreectly. I decided to lift it up to be better inclined with the other bulkheads and the bow keel post.
I dug away very carefully the base of the bulkhead to allow for the planks. Bulkhead 1 is very fragile and great care must be observe to clean away the excess wood.
The result wasn't as beautiful, as I hoped, but it will do. I just don't want to expire my luck anymore.
A dab of Chair Doctor Glue on the joins will help hold it in place.
My next job will be attacking the keel.
I'm planning to do some major alterations from the kit's instructions.
More information will follow in days to come.
Thanks for watching and happymodeling.
Greg
G'day Greg, you're going great, there is a lot of manipulation to get everything lined up, just watch out for glue seepage, I had some and it made for hard work removing the boat from the jig,
Best regards John,
Best regards John,
Thanks for the heads up. The spots I've put on so far wouldn't be an issue, but I think that you're talking about glue dripping from the planking. If that's the case, I might run same vasoline are the bulkheads and base board to stop the adhesion problems.
Thanks again and happymodeling
Greg
Good to see, that you started the permanent works of your ship.
and it will be a beautiful and informative building log -> great post my friend
KEEP IT GOING
and it will be a beautiful and informative building log -> great post my friend
KEEP IT GOING
Thanks Uwe for your nice compliment.
I'll try to keep up to your expectations.
Havagoodone mate
Greg
Interesting build log. Showing us the difficulties and concerns shared by others is great to see.
Greg, it's good to see you getting back into the build.
My mind tells me that Vaseline on plywood, if applied too much, will get absorbed and not dry. Meaning, that the wood will swell slightly. Be aware of jamming.
Greg, it's good to see you getting back into the build.
My mind tells me that Vaseline on plywood, if applied too much, will get absorbed and not dry. Meaning, that the wood will swell slightly. Be aware of jamming.
Thanks Peter for your warning. If all goes to plan, the vasoline will only be on for about a day, time enough to let the planking glue to harden. On the planks I mean. LOL.
I'm planning to bend all the planks before gluing, to keep the time for gluing to a minimum.
That is, if my planning works out.
Havagoodone mate
Greg
Interesting! Why would you want to do that? I mean, it suggests that you might be gluing more than one plank at a time. If you are, based on my limited experience, I prefer to take it one plank at a time. Letting each plank time to dry. So when I apply the next plank, I can really lean the plank into the glued plank.
If I glued a few planks together at the same time, there is a chance of a plank twisting, or worse, climbing/slipping over the other. When the glue sets, it can be noticed that a plank is slightly raised (climbed) above its neighbour in certain places.
Well Peter you are partially correct, but not in this case.
I hoping to use my favorite glue on this job, it's balsa glue. This glue is amazing and it can glue some hardwoods as will. I know it can glue walnut, because I have used it before and raw results were very impressive. This glue is movable while your are moving it around and once you stop moving it, it drys hard in less than 5 minutes. After 10 minutes it's rock hard. It can be sanded and stained afterward if needed.
I'll be doing a test with the offcuts of the planks to see I if the glue would adheae to the planks. If there're problems, I will havta use CA (super glue).
But that's only half of the story.
The kit's instructions says to sand about 50 mm of planks for the bow and stern sections of each plank and glue it to the keel.
What I'm planning is to do a rebate of about 0.7mm into both sides of the keel so the planks will be held into place by the keel.
I would have to wedge the 1mm thick planks, so the planks will lay flat.
By doing all the plank bending before going to glue them down, I can easily adjust the shape that I want and it will be a simple matter of gluing.
I hope that explains why I'm doing it, this way.
Havagooday mate
Greg