Artesania Latina 1/50 - Dallas Revenue Cutter New York 1815

[Guest]

Looking good, The deck planking is nice and neat

[Guest]

Enjoying this you are doing a great job of the planking.

[bluriusz]

Hello guys!

Ufff, planking is finished! Finally! That was a veeeery very very very demanding task I must say. Only couple more thing to place on and around hull and I'll be able to work on the rest. Can't wait to be honest. I had a crisis at some point, as I haven't seen anything else than planks I'm quite happy with the result, but I know that some experienced ship builders will have a laugh looking on my work

Anyways:

I was a bit surprised to see top planks a bit dark, but completed looks great

I've tried hard but didn't manage to acheive perfect symmetry

Next things to do:

Waterway on the deck. I did one and it was a nightmare, as the wood is quite fragile and I need to make a very very big bow. Hard to do, but managable.

Then one more waterway in the stern, drill the holes at correct angle in the splashboards and then make and attach knighthead bitts on it. Locate it at the bow and then move to the stern to finish back of the ship. That might be tricky, as there is three bits of wood need to be shaped plus one needs to be cut inside.. After this is just attach keelson.

Found few more mistakes in the instruction book. Couldn't find needed piece of wood, turned up that I've been looking for wrong type of wood.. :/

One question to some shipbuilders. There is nothing about it in the book.. Do I use the pin to finish planking or should I leave it as it is, just glued?

Thanks.

[Guest]

Hello guys!Ufff, planking is finished! Finally! That was a veeeery very very very demanding task I must say. Only couple more thing to place on and around hull and I'll be able to work on the rest. Can't wait to be honest. I had a crisis at some point, as I haven't seen anything else than planks I'm quite happy with the result, but I know that some experienced ship builders will have a laugh looking on my work

Anyways:

I was a bit surprised to see top planks a bit dark, but completed looks great

I've tried hard but didn't manage to acheive perfect symmetry

Next things to do:

Waterway on the deck. I did one and it was a nightmare, as the wood is quite fragile and I need to make a very very big bow. Hard to do, but managable.

Then one more waterway in the stern, drill the holes at correct angle in the splashboards and then make and attach knighthead bitts on it. Locate it at the bow and then move to the stern to finish back of the ship. That might be tricky, as there is three bits of wood need to be shaped plus one needs to be cut inside.. After this is just attach keelson.

Found few more mistakes in the instruction book. Couldn't find needed piece of wood, turned up that I've been looking for wrong type of wood.. :/

One question to some shipbuilders. There is nothing about it in the book.. Do I use the pin to finish planking or should I leave it as it is, just glued?

Thanks.

Once the glue has dried I remove all the pins, from the hull planking.

[Guest]

Looking good bluriusz, nice start, keep up the good work.

John

[bluriusz]

@Graham D cheers. I wasn't sure as if you follow the plans it'll tell you that there should be pins in. Good, some work saved

[Guest]

I was just re-reading the posts about plank bending. I just saw the post saying that the kit was 35 year old. The wood does become more brittle with age, which might explain why it split when you soaked it, and I had no problems .

[papa 695]

Iv'e never built a boat in wood but seeing what you have achieved so far it looks very good indeed. Looking forward to more updates

[bluriusz]

Ufff, It's been a while since my last update. Had some guest for a week, then Telford and visiting brother. Finally, hungry for modelling I've managed to do something

Keelson is on:

It looks more like a ship now

As the planking is done, I can finally work on some bits that go on the deck.

But first I did channels on the sides. Then I moved to bell tower which was easy. Well, fastening bell on that piece of brass was a bit of a challenge, but sorted

In the meantime I've done the splashboard (that was a nightmare, as the wood was quite hard and needed to be drilled at correct angle). Have placed the knighthead bitts on too:

The same from the back:

Can't wait to do more tomorrow

[bluriusz]

Hello.

Some more work done.

And again, what should be a nice enyoing work is quite annoying, because of the plans. Plans, instructions and pictures doesn't match at all. Simple hour work extends to three hours work, because I basically need to plan in all by myself. I don't really know if this is how it should be as it is my first ship build, but it's kinda joke..

You simply can't work depending on the dimensions given in instructions. Now I know that I need to plan it before using any glue and stuff.

What I've managed to finish so far:

Gratings and chimney:

And a hatch with cannonballs:

Sorry about white balance on pictures, but it's not easy to take pictures with poor light I have and I didn't wanted to take out my "studio" to do in progress pictures.

Thanks, see you soon.

Bart.

[flyjoe180]

Well that is looking A1!

[Guest]

considering you have never built a wooden ship before you have done a very good job and as i found out myself AL's idea of beginner and ours are two different things,just remember to take your time and double check things especially when it comes to rigging as plans and booklet on mine at least dont match up and always remember when you plank the hull do it evenly ie one plank one side then one plank the other side as usually if you plank all one side then try the other you will find it has twisted or bowed the hull but well done and if you need any advise just ask

cheers steve

[bluriusz]

Quick update.

I've done cannon base and riggings. Again, not an easy one. No information in the instruction about how to make the riggings, how to use blocks etc. If that's a begginers kit, I don't want to even see na pro kit..

But the result is well.. Rather nice

@steve244 : thanks. If I'll have any questions, I'll ask, for sure Oh! there is one. Do you finish the hull at the end by waxing it somehow? What should I use? I've seen somewhere that people use oil for wood, but not sure about it.

Thanks,

Bart.

[Guest]

You have got the cannon rigging correct. On the wooden models I have made, I used a matt varnish, you can use oil as well, it all depends on what type of finish you want. The oil will give a satin sheen on the wood.

[bluriusz]

@Graham D : thanks. I found someone who did Dallas and have some reference photos instead of just text

Should I put some dirt on the ropes?