KennyH78
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Well, I'm back at cutting out bulkheads. I was able to get 7-8 of the rough cut out today. I will get them all sanded up the lines after they are all cut out. Bulkheads K-W and the forward most false keel piece had to be scraped. The forward false keel piece didn't look quite right against the other 2 pieces and when I put the dry fitted assembly up against the plans, I could clearly see why. Seems that the printer I used to print the templates did not print them to 100 scale. I reprinted them all, checked the scale bar on the last page and everything is good now. Just had wait another week for more plywood sheets. So bulkheads K-W will have to be recut as well. Not sure what went wrong, I used the same setting for the printer (same printer); only difference is the computer that was used to send the files to the printer (I printed them at work; don't tell my boss). Anyways, all is good now and I am back on track.
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Glenn, I just finished reading through your entire log (took a while) and I must say that your Winnie is a work of art! I will definitely use your log along with Chuck's and a few others as I start my journey down the path of the HMS Winchelsea Group Build.
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Reading through Glenn's log as I begin my journey on my own build of the Winnie; I have been saying the same thing as I sit on Amazon adding things to cart and checking out.
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Started cutting out the bulkheads and false keel. So far I only have bulkheads K-W cut out and mostly shaped. My process is to cut them out on the scroll saw staying outside of the line at around 1/16-1/8 of an inch. As you can see, I am not that great at it. Then I take the bulkheads to my spindle sander and sand up to the pencil line on all of the areas the spindle will reach. The rest will be hand sanded to the line. The slots where the bulkhead slides onto the false keel will be sanded to fit to ensure a good tight fit on the false keel. I have also cut out all three pieces of the false keel and carefully sanded the puzzle piece connections to get a good tight fit. I still need to file/sand the slots for the bulkheads, but plan to do that in conjunction with each bulkhead to ensure a good fit.
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So the more I look at the planking so far, the more unhappy I am with it. Plus the sweep ports do not have a nice flow to them on the port side. So I have decided that I am going to rip off all of the planking and start again. I have already requested extra planking strips and sheet 5 of the plans for the templates from Model Expo. My plan is the rip off all of the planks currently on the model, lightly sand to get the bulkheads smooth again and then redo the port sweep locations and restart the planking process. In the meantime, I will practice planking a hull with the NRG's half hull planking kit that I purchased. I am trying to figure out the best way to get the nice smooth curve for the planks at the bow. I may even decide to use a different type of wood other than the supplied basswood. I have a couple of billets of roasted maple, a nice big billet of maple and some cherry that I can mill down into planks for the hull. Any and all comments and suggestions are welcomed and encouraged.
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Matt, just read through your whole log in 1 day; and I must say that your model of Winnie looks really good. I can only hope to build one just as good as yours. I will be following along now, even though I'm a little late to the party.
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Hull planking above the wales is in full swing. I have the port side completed through the channel wales. I did have to redo the bow on the port side about 3 times before I was happy with it. The starboard side is about halfway done to the point of the port side. Once I get it there, I will continue to plank up to the sheer line on both sides. Progress is slow, but I'm learning a lot and having fun.
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Thanks for the tip Matt @Matt D. I have already read through a few build logs and made sure that my bulkhead templates were printed to scale using the scale that Chuck added to the PDFs. Once I get the false keel cut and fitted, I will check it against the plans. Progress is slow on this one, life tends to get in the way a lot.
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Jim, I must say that your Winnie looks absolutely amazing thus far. I only hope that my build will come out looking that good. I am about to start cutting out the bulkheads. I also purchased the NRG half hull planking kit. Guess I should get cracking on it to get some good planking practice in.
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My order of 6 sheets of 1/4 x 12 x 24 midwest plywood came yesterday. After letting the wood acclimate to my environment in the packaging for 24 hrs, I am almost ready to make a little saw dust. Impatience has gotten the best of me, so I have decided to cut the bulkheads and the former pieces with my trusting old scroll saw. I kinda feel like that will be less stressful as well. The CNC does exactly what you tell it to do; and if my calculations are off by just little bit, then all of that plywood becomes firewood. So, I have all of the bulkhead and former templates cut out and glued onto the plywood; got them all to fit on the 6 sheets. I will start cutting them out later today or tomorrow.
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Hull planking above the wales has begun! I have completed the lower counter and have completed 4 strakes on the port side. I started with the top strake of the wales, then added the black strake above it and have also gotten 2 more strakes completed above the black strake. All of this work was completed in about 8-10 hours total over 2-3 days. I am taking my time and checking the plans frequently for each strake.
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Huge milestone achieved today. I finished up the simulated hull sheaves and that means that it is now on to Chapter 5; planking the hull. I started by running a batten on both the port and starboard sides at the reference marks to establish a smooth run for the top of the wales. Tomorrow I plan to get the gun ports painted red and start planking the lower counter. I do have to admit that I love the lines on here. She is a very majestic looking ship in my opinion.
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That's a good distance. I only ask because I have family there. My mother's side of the family. Haven't been back in a very long time. Too expensive to fly from the States.
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Servus! Welcome to MSW. How far is Augsburg from Eschenbach opf from you? Lovely looking model as well.
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I got the dip in the fwd part of the false deck and the sheer line straightened out. Took a couple of shims to get it right, but it looks a lot better now. I then proceeded with finishing the fairing on the sweep ports and installing the extra framing pieces needed to install the hull sheaves. Getting very close to having her ready for planking. That will be a huge milestone for me.
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Happy New Year to everyone! I hope that 2024 brings all of you good fortune. I have finished the longboat. The rigging was a little nerve racking to get done at this size, especially since this is the first model that I have rigged. I kept knocking the boat around while trying to get all of the lines rigged with some resemblance of tension on them. Luckily I didn't break anything. Anyways, here are the pictures of the completed model. Now to build the display case shelf for her and to shift my attention mostly to my USF Confederacy build.
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Glenn, I’m sure it will. The plywood seen above is not what I will be using for the skeleton. These are just test pieces to ensure that all of my settings are correct in the CNC program
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Thanks, this has been a fun build. I can't wait to get it finished and on display. That way I can concentrate more on the Confederacy which can be seen in some of the photos. Also, the Stones are cool. I like most early rock-n-roll and Lego (got a huge Lego Star Wars collection). And we have two GSDs (German Shepherd Dogs). Axel (the photo is kinda grainy; pulled it off of my iPhone) Bella (she is very submissive/loyal when it come to me)
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I was able to spend a couple of hours to work on rigging the backstays today. Making the tiny hooks to strop to the blocks was a pain, but I did my best. Next step to get the rest of the rigging done on the front of the boat. I'm getting excited because this build is finally coming to together and will be finished soon.
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So I have started the process of getting the bulkhead PDF files converted into a file type that my CNC likes; SVG. I have also went ahead and did a test cut of 2 of the bulkheads to see if I got the measurements right. As you can see by the pictures below, I have them sized a little too small. I will adjust the sizes of them in the program and cut them again on some more scrap 1/8" ply that I have laying around.
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Thank you for the warm welcomes and Happy New Year to you all! This build will be slow going to start with since my CNC’s main job is to make me money to feed my hobbies. I am currently working on importing the bulkhead PDFs and getting ready to cut a test bulkhead to ensure that I got them sized correctly.
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Thanks, the wife lets me build in there because it keeps me close to the family. She knows that if I was told to go build in the garage, then I would never be in the house lol.
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I was digging through my giant ship modeling tub and found some .012 tan rigging rope that I must have bought years ago from Model Shipways. After some debate, I decided to take a few steps back and removed all off the kit supplied tan string on the rigging and replaced it with the Model Shipways rope. Took a few hours to do, but I am very happy with the result. The model looks a lot better now. Only thing left to do is to remake the rope coils and add them back to the model. Then I can proceed forward with rigging the backstays and bowsprit. This photo below shows the difference of the kit supplied string and the Model Shipways rope.
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So I got some happy mail today from Chuck! The laser cut pieces for Chapter 1 minus the bulkheads and bulkhead former. I elected to go with cherry wood. My plan for the bulkheads and former is to cut them out on my X-Carve CNC. My first step is to take the pdf files and get them loaded up in the program; hopefully at the right scale.
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Finished rigging the starboard shroud today. All in all I am pleased with the result.
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