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  1. The Charles W. Morgan whaling ship was launched in 1843, and is now a museum in Mystic Seaport CT. Bluejacket has made a large scale cross-section model, and also offers just the tryworks as a stand-alone model. It would make a great dislay next to a model of the entire ship. Here's the plans and instructions:
  2. Hello, and welcome to my first build log in the MSW forums. This is a kit from the Spanish manufacturer Artesanía Latina. It is labeled as suitable for beginners, however, there are several details that increase the difficulty somewhat, mainly because of omissions or lack of clarity in the instructions. It is not too complex to build, but I still would not recommend it to a total noobie, unless they already have some experience with other kits—like plastic—or wood working in general. Some familiarity with nautical terms will surely help. I bought it from Amazon USA in 2018, but apparently all Artesanía Latina kits have become scarcer since. I picked it up for two main reasons: I wanted to practice my technique with something easy and cheap that I wouldn't mind too much if I botched something, and my love for 1800-era ships and the whaling industry in general. Since I have some experience with other engineering, hobby and DIY house projects, I already had most of the necessary tools and instruments. Without further ado, this is what happened: I will refer to the small pictures in a normal, Western-style reading order (left to right, top to bottom). In the first two pictures: frames and keel are fitted and glued. Some of them had to be properly aligned using clothespins. bow and stern reinforcements were glued in place too. The instructions are not too clear about these. Pictures 3 and 4 shows an ad hoc solution for holding the wooden parts in place: clothespins are too weak, but the foldback paper clamps are too strong and damage the soft wood. To prevent this, tissue paper is used over the contact surfaces. Some planks had to be soaked in warm water to allow for better shaping and curving. Five minutes submerged was enough, and the shaping was done by hand. All were previously cut to the proper size and sanded. If everything looks neat and clean that's because it is. Every part is first sanded to a smooth finish, and then glued to the kit. This proved useful later, saving time and unnecessary hassle. I carefully studied beforehand the whole instruction booklet, and every visible part will be given this special treatment from the beginning. In picture 5 some weight is added to keep the centerboard in place while the glue dries. The first floor planks have been glued too. Pictures 6 and 7 show the last planks being glued and the inner "tub" ready. In picture 8 you can see the sanding and shaping of the keel, bow and stern (close-up detail in picture 9). The tools used can be seen in the background. This particular kind of boat is designed to be highly manoeuverable and speedy, so both ends are symmetric in case a quick reversal of direction is needed. Up next: the clinker hull.
  3. 1. Introduction Since a couple of months I am busy with a new model, but I did not take the time yet to sort my pictures and to start a log of it. It is time to get started behind the keyboard before the backlog becomes so large that it is no longer manageable. Here we go: The plan of my next model is drawn by Jules Van Beylen, former curator of the Belgian National Maritime Museum in Antwerp. Just like the gaff sailing boat, one of my previous models it is described in Mr Van Beylen's handout for making plank-on-frame models that I bought some years ago from 'Nederlandse Vereniging voor Modelbouwers' ( http://www.modelbouwers.nl/ ). In the early 1950's, when Mr.Van Beylen was the museum curator, he measured a model of a Norwegian Whale in the Belgian National Maritime Museum collection and drew it out for the 'Nederlandse Vereniging voor Modelbouwers'. On this forum we saw and we still see the construction of several beautiful models of the New Bedford whale boat, so I thought that it would be interesting to build another one. The Norwegian whale boat dates from the same era as the New Bedford whale boat and looks in general very similar but there are some major differences: The Norwegian one is clinker built, has no rudder and has no center board. (picture MAS (Museum Aan de Stroom) since 2008 Administrator of the collection of the former Belgian National Maritime Museum) My bibliography for information to build this model: - Booklet 'Modellen op spanten' by J. Van Beylen for information about this particular type of whale boat. - Drawing 'Walvissloep' by J. Van Beylen, model construction plan at scale 1/10, for sale at 'Nederlandse Vereniging voor Modelbouwers' ( http://www.modelbouwers.nl/ ) - Modelmaker's guide 'To build a whaleboat' by E.A.R. Ronnberg, Jr for information about the whaleboat inventory. - Study 'The whaleboat' by W.D Ansel for information about the whaleboats in general. - 'The whalers' of the seafarers collection of Time Life books for general information about whaling in the 19th century. - 'Moby Dick' by H. Melville for the atmosphere. - and of course several building logs on this forum in which members build their model of the New Bedford whaleboat.. Till next week!
  4. Hello, as I told you I'll do some small short turn projects in between. Here is N°1. Todays noon I did start a whale boat by GK-Modellbau/Kirchlengern (Germany) in some strange vaneer based PoF style. Mondfeld critics this buildingtype very hard in his new Encyclopedia of Modelbuildung (3.1/3.2 the Hull part I. & II.) Here my shipcat on the vaneer, gypsum mould kit - and the quite nice stand within. It is a coaster boat of the XVII.century hunting the whale in a small villages whalemen group. So there is no need for a big whaling ship to be built, too. The formers lay quite well on the gypsum moulds surface - wetted with water and pressed on by a soldering iron. The holes for the formers are not aline with the grooves in the keel - so the formers are diagonal... Hope you like todays progress and the scratching freestyle on the fore and aft lockers topsides. Here the sideview of todays progress; that ruler shows how small the hole kit is at the very end. Wishing you a good night.
  5. Dear friends, The Whaling Schooner AGATE is a motivation project that will give some successfully moments to me. Whalers are an other side of my intrests hidden to public as it is no good for your career to stay too close to this blood soaken side of shipbuilding in the eyes of a TV-educated population. That is what she will look like. I'm not completely shure with my choice of scale and may alter it to 1:64. The Ship is an ordinary schooner of the mid-fifties. Some quite little whaler with her four boats. The boats will be a chapter of its own. Our sources are very simple as these are two: Howard Irving Chapelle American Fishing Schooners p.80. She appears in this book as she is relatived to the Grand Banks Schooners. Chapelle gives a fine set of drawings to us - telling us she was built for whaling especially. Traditionally she was the last vessel of large size (Lpp 74"-10' 1/2) built at Essex/Mass. built from local white oak and pine. V.R.Grimwood tells us in American shipmodels and how to build them some quite simpler drawing - but added some transom and stem decor to us plus details of the galion. There are added some details for the rigging ...and hull,too. Also the cutting station is drawn in detail. Trypots and deck furniture is also passed over to us. These were all my sourcrs and I think about the scale changing to 1/64 sceptical because of the built of the whaling boats. On the otherhand why not to try it out by plastic stripes planking? Hopefully AGATE of Privincetown brings me back to some good mood. EDIT: I due to the legth of the rigged model of 23 1/2inch or 588mm and nearly 22inch or 550mm tall at 1/64 I decided to reduce the scale factor down by 25% so the model will fit to an usual book shelf.
  6. I received an email today from the New Bedford whaling museum. They have put together a data base of American whaling voyages. It is an amazing collection of data. Voyages, logs, crew members, etc. Searchable in many different ways. The data base seems to be huge. I just stared poking around and the info is great to anyone interested in whaling history. Here's a link to the PDF about the data base Whaling History pdf ..And here's the site. The data takes some time to load. Give it a minute. I have just started to scratch the surface of what is avialable here. It's a little tough to navigate, but worth the effort.
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