St. Caterina by Schrader – Small Ship - 1/12 Monography by Franco Fissore - Plans by Ancre

[Schrader]

My New project is the St Caterina. It is a Mediterranean fishing vessel. Plans from Ancre. I started it since October and is well advance so far.

1. I decided this time to go after a old fashion diorama
2. New tech to aging wood (At least for me)
3. New tech for nails (Also at least for me)

Please don't hesitate to make comments

 

[Uwek]

My New project is the St Caterina. It is a Mediterranean fishing vessel. Plans from Ancre. I started it since October and is well advance so far.

1. I decided this time to go after a old fashion diorama
2. New tech to aging wood (At least for me)
3. New tech for nails (Also at least for me)

Please don't hesitate to make comments

Hallo Helmuth,
a great project and I will follow with big interest - please check the photo(s) - they are not working.
Would be great if you would edit your post.....

 

[Schrader]

Take a look i fixed

 

[Uwek]

For everybody interested in the mentioned planset, please take a look here:

Planset review - S. Catarina - 1759, Traditional Mediterranean Fishing Vessel Gozzo" by Franco Fissore

The new ancre monographie of Franco Fissore about the S. Caterina - Traditional Mediterranean Fishing Vessel GOZZO - 1759 was presented by his own model built in scale 1:12 in Rochefort I think this will be one of the standard beginners scratch built monographie -> a planset review you can...

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[Schrader]

Thanks Uwek. I made my own touch. You will see. Let’s see if you like it

 

[Schrader]

Our Dry Dock

 

[Schrader]

Frames

 

[kohlndk]

great job so far

 

[donfarr]

VERY INTERESTING WILL FOLLOW YOUR BUILD

 

[Ondras71]

Great start !! I'll watch.

 

[Schrader]

Planking

Note the finishing in the Kneel an wale. This was done on purpose to simulate an old an used boat.

 

[Schrader]

Aging.....

Once the planking is done I proceeded applying danish oil......



Then with a drill wire brush I went to mark the wood as it was a real weathering or attrition.....



Then..... with cement grout (not that liquid) I proceeded to “paint” the hull. Wait until it is almost dry. Make sure that the grout is going to all the scratches you made with the wire brush



The with a cloth or kitchen towel take the grout surplus.... The result should be lake this...

 

[Jimsky]

Very good and steady progress! Please keep the photos coming.

 

[Schrader]

I started in October last year. Im organizing photos to go after next topic. NAILING

 

[Schrader]

The nailing has been done with sewing pins.

To the main hull, I cut them. Flat them with a sander belt and blue them. Also I decided to tape the hull in order to protect it. As a drill bit I used one of those pins, it worked really well, and the hole was perfect to ensure the pins.

MORE THAN 1000 PINS WERE NEEDED!!

 

[Schrader]

For the wale, I decided to use “square head nail”. This was done with the same pins but instead to cut them I flatten the head and form the square head, both with the belt sander

 

[Schrader]

So far, the wood used has been “Tolúa”. Which is Ceiba, a tropical wood. For the floors I’ll use Cedar with the same process of weathering - aging

Nailing was done in the same way

 

[Jimsky]

Very good treenailing job!! Some of them are with the square heads, on the gunwales? What technique do you use?

 

[Schrader]

For the wale, I decided to use “square head nail”. This was done with the same pins but instead to cut them I flatten the head and form the square head, both with the belt sander

 

[Schrader]

Today I’ll show you the process I used to build the benches.

First, I cut the templates





With the belt sander and router, I finished all of them but the middle one, which has this middle circle, where the mast will located



For this particular bench, in order to make sure the half circle will be perfect, I used doble side tape, I taped a piece of wood (with the same thickness) beside it.....



I drilled the hole.....