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Now for something a little different: the Greenwich Hospital ceremonial barge of 1832. There is a draught in the RMG, formerly NMM, collection of this lovely sleek barge that makes an attractive subject. (Image allowable use by RMG.) Normally such small craft are modelled at a larger scale, but as I've been building at 1:48 scale for decades, why stop now? This is a part-time 'fun' project between other professional work, so this log may be rather sporadic. The first task was to develop a workable set of lines from the rather sparse draught. There were relatively few body sections (somewhat fanciful, as it turned out!) and no waterlines. One item that tripped me up for a while was what appeared to be the line of a 'knuckle' on the half breadth. While it more or less fitted the fore body, I could not get this to reconcile aft. Eventually I saw two very faint lines on the body plan: it was, in fact, a proof diagonal. Duh! Once I'd figured that out, everything fell into place and a fair hull form resulted. The clinker planked hull will be built on a plug, so basswood was prepared to exact thickness for the two half-hulls, less the thickness of the keel, stem and stern posts. One interesting complication is the pink-style extension of the stern (see sketch). Next up: cutting out the various lifts and assembling them.
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A question about the hull planking of harbor barges. They are basically rectangular, slab sided vessels with some sloping of the bow (?) and stern areas from the deck to the waterline and down to a keel. Would the planking across the slanting bow/stern areas overlap the boards of the sides or would they be interleaved? The 2" x 6" scale boards (planking) are glued onto a plywood former. I ask as I have an old Sheepscot Scale Products kit of a pile driver on a barge. Pictures are too small or grainy, even with extra light and using my Optivisor, to tell what the configuration is. Just gathering info for a future build. -
Howdy, folks. First build thread here, something I'd actually done not-so-long ago and since I'm thinking about a follow-up build in the same scale, figured I'd share. The '15mm' notation is a wargaming size, particularly popular for WWII Pacific scenarios. As an example, see https://sfdfsfd.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/wwii-15mm-pacific-theater-of-operations-pto-invasion-07sep2013/ or scroll down to the Battle Of Wake Island 1922 http://lockupyoursheep.blogspot.com/2014/02/vapnartak-2014.html These are the 'inner hulls' of those Robert E Lee riverboat steamer kits, each about 13" long (and easily found on ebay). Tell me the lines don't look oddly familiar and at 15mm scale, are right about in the neighborhood of a Steel Truck. For what it's worth, I'd originally been thinking of something like this - British steel coastal freight KYLERONA (1908) 1/24th scale tractor trailer sidewalls being cannibalized. Finally got around to the irritating task of mating the deck (1/24th scale tractor trailer siding material) to the hull, fixing the mainmast and framing out the deckhouse. -
Hello, first I would start this project the next fall, but things come often in an other way as you expect. During the building of the Dragon I often had a look at the model of the Victory from 1765. This model has such a beautiful barge on board, that I decided to build one when I'm ready with my Dragon. A plan was easily found and now I'm building. This is a barge with 10 oars and I think it will by right for a captain of a 74 gunner. I will build this barge in the same way Druxey has build his Greenwich barge. I will not explain so much, because of my english and hope that the pictures explain enough. Here I have painted the block white, so that I could see later better the pencil lines for the planking. The wood is Castello box wood. For the planks I have cut 0,5 and 0,8 mm strips.
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Hi Guys, This log is about the repair and improvement ( I hope ) of the Thames Barge Edme. Edme started out as the Barge Will Everard but was cut down and the boat was mostly a scratch build. Damage occurred during pre-season cleaning and redecorating of the museum, she was dragged from a table by a dust sheet. The damage is mostly to the Masts and Rigging and although annoying at the time it has allowed me to correct a few mistakes. What has made me angry was the need to reduce the visual damage by bending a metal Cross Tree around the main mast, this particular piece could have been used again but not any more, as if that wasn't bad enough string was also wound around the mast and what appears to be about half a bottle of CA poured over the top. Originally Edme didn't have a stand, she was just free standing but I have now made a stand for her which I hope compliments the boat. The first series of pictures will show Edme pre damage and it will show evidence of my inexperience in boat building. This is one of my major mistakes, The Edme only has 3 shrouds, here I have 4 Now we have a few pics of the damage, I'll let you make your own minds up on these. The pictorial story goes a lame from here on, progress made wasn't fully documented and so will have some large gaps. As stated most of the damage was with the masts and rigging so the old has been removed, the first thing I wanted to do was to make a stand for her. Here I covered the hull with cling film and using modelling clay to give me a profile, the stand was started. Using MDF the uprights were cut out and Beech laminate glued on, a few clamps, believe me there is an upright in there somewhere. Both upright are now laminated, they just need to be cleaned up. The completed stand, again the base is MDF with a Beech Laminate and double coated with POLY, the cradles were covered with the fibre part of Velcro, they were then drilled and dowel glued in place. Edme now has a nice ? new stand That's enough for now, I will post further updates shortly. I do hope this all makes sense. Be Good mobbsie
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