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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
*MAJOR UPDATE*
I've gotten a lot done since the last update, but as usual have been remiss with the uploading. Some of the deck details such as windlass, fife rails and fore companionway finished awhile ago, and I've just gotten around to installing them. I've also built the box for the anchor chain, and installed the anchor cable which is made with Syren rope.
Masts were turned in an electric drill to taper and the details were added with brass and stripwood. The bands are actually painted paper, which was easier consdiering the taper in that area. The spreader lifts were made form boxwood, as they will take some strain during rigging and I was not going to trust basswood with that task.
The plans are just fantastic with regard to the mast fitting details, and there are still some things to add.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Bit of an update.
The model is mounted on it's baseboard, which is made from rosewood, with two simple brass rods to hold it in place. Rare event for me to get this done so early, as I'm usually trying to carefully mount a fully rigged model! I also completed a number of deck fittings such as the main and fore hatches, the galley hatch, the wheel box, dory cradle, quarter bitts and a few other little things. It's fun to have to scratch build most all of this as MS only provides wood and plans.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
First update in a while. Once my company lifted travel restrictions, I've gotten very busy at work, which I'm actually quite happy about, but it has kept me away from the bench more.
Finished the trunk cabin. It's a straightforward build, and the plans are good. The iron bars that make up the skylight framing were a bit tricky. I ended up using small gauge brass rod and they worked out great. It's just tricky getting them all the same length. I ended up sanding to final height with the sandpaper on a piece of glass. I used boxwood for the skylight, as basswood would have certainly split drilling all the holes for the bars. The porthole rings/frames are not supplied so I fabricated them from appropriate sized styrene tubing. I still need to make the smokehead cover.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Painted the dory and added a few little details. I'll add oars and maybe a few more things later on.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
I've finished most of the main work on the dory. Bottom is installed, sheer rail,intermediate frames, interior details etc... Everything will eventually be painted and final details added such as thwarts, rope coils, oars and such.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
There are only a few frames on the dory plans. I traced those onto some basswood sheet to make formers, and also installed the transom at the correct angle. Small strips were bent to shape to form the frames (very severe bends at bottom), and the hull was planked with basswood strips. As the dory has a flat bottom, I did not worry about taper, as it gets sanded flat before the bottom of the hull is installed. It was more important to get the uppermost plank fitted correctly to the sheer.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
The Latham carried a dory in addition to the seine boat, to secure the other end of the seine as it was circled around a school of fish. There is a plan for one included on the sheet with the seine boat, but it is not very complete. I found a plan online that was noted as "free". I scaled it to 1/48th and printed it out. A simple building board will be constructed and frames made out based on the plans. Shouldn't be too bad to build as it has a flat bottom. I'll build it out of basswood, since it all gets painted anyway.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
I've finished cleaning up and repainting the chainplates. . I also painted the decorative element around the hawse hole. A nice 20/0 brush and a careful hand got it looking good. This wasn't the first attempt, but re-doing acrylics is easy. The really hard part was getting both sides to look the same doing this free hand.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Chainplates are installed on the hull.
Rather than try to carve slits through the two rails, I decided to cut appropriate full-depth gaps. Not a big deal since it all gets painted anyway. After the chainplates were glued and pinned in place a small piece of wood the width of the rail was glued over the top. I then puttied with Tamiya putty. Once all this is dry I'll sand it smooth and touch up the paint. Since there will be a final overall flat coat it should blend in just fine.
This all had to be done after overall painting, as there was no good way to mask and paint the cove stripe with it being under the chainplates.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
I'm currently working on some plastic models as well as the Latham, so things aren't proceeding as rapidly at the moment. I did get the cap rails installed and the hull painted. Hull was painted with the airbrush. I was going to scribe the cove as per prototype, but tests showed that was not going to work very well in the basswood so I decided to just paint it on, which turned out much better.
I used water slide decals from Microscale for the name. I couldn't find gold in the font/scale I wanted so had to use white.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Finished the seine boat. I did not take in-progress pictures past that initial one on the build board. Let's just say the process between there and finished was not pretty, but in the end came out reasonably well. The plans themselves are very good, it's the method MS gives you to get there that isn't...
There is still a good bit of finished detail to add, but I'll leave that for later on at this point.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Deck has been planked (including windlass pads and thick pads at the masts) and painted. I masked from templates I made copying the plans and airbrushed the white. The areas that I stained should be gray, based on the instructions, but I didn't like how much of the plank detail disappeared under the white paint, so I elected to just stain it a weathered color.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Not a big update, but bulwarks planked to the main rail. Now working on the deck.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
The false stanchions are complete. They're a bit time consuming, as each has a different inboard and outboard shape to follow the curve of the hull. Next to plank up the remaining area of the hull tot the top of the extensions.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Hull planking is complete to the level of the main deck. I did edge bend where necessary, and the basswood is quite compliant in that regard.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Planksheer outer strip is installed and the bulkhead extensions that were previously removed have been replaced and shaped to follow the curve of the hull, both inboard and out. Next up will be fabricating the false frame extensions that go between the ones shown here. There are two between each bulkhead.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Planksheer and transom installed. I think my decision to remove the bulkhead extensions was a good one as it made getting the planksheer installed much easier. From the look of things a few of the extensions would have had to have been removed anyway to get it to fit. The transom is a tricky piece to get shaped correctly and installed at the proper angle. The plans are good though and it matches up well in that regard.
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jwvolz got a reaction from yvesvidal in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
With summer at an end work has begun on the Benjamin W. Latham kit.
With the large 1:48 scale I hope to add a nice bit of super-detailing, and I'm especially intrigued by the seine boat, a whole separate model unto self. Fittings are decent, though I may end up replacing some with scratch-built items. Plans are very nicely done other than the rigging sheet.
I haven't done a ton of soldering on past kits, but that will certainly change on this build with all of the ironwork.
The keel is a sandwich of two thicknesses of laser cut parts, and mine was just slightly warped. You can see below the eclectic collections of weights that happened to be nearby in my laundry room to help hold it down after wetting and clamping... It came out nice and straight.
Rabbet was cut and reference lines were drawn on keel former and bulkhead as per the plans. First dry fitted and then subsequently glued in place. The bevels are on the plans and I did a large amount of pre-beveling with the Dremel and a sanding drum attachment before installation as the plywood bulkhead are very hard. Less prone to damage this way.
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jwvolz got a reaction from Landlubber Mike in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Thanks Bob. She's actually finished, and has been for a couple of months. I just need to get this log caught up.
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jwvolz got a reaction from Landlubber Mike in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Richard,
Thanks.
The rope is Syren. For the baggywrinkle I simply placed the appropriate length of rope in my serving machine, and then attached the piece of the peacock hearl with fine thread. I then wrapped it around the rope for the distance necessary and seized it off on that end again with fine thread. Final step was to paint with diluted tan acrylic paint. It's actually incredibly simple.
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jwvolz got a reaction from BobG in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Thanks Bob. She's actually finished, and has been for a couple of months. I just need to get this log caught up.
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jwvolz got a reaction from BobG in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Richard,
Thanks.
The rope is Syren. For the baggywrinkle I simply placed the appropriate length of rope in my serving machine, and then attached the piece of the peacock hearl with fine thread. I then wrapped it around the rope for the distance necessary and seized it off on that end again with fine thread. Final step was to paint with diluted tan acrylic paint. It's actually incredibly simple.
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jwvolz reacted to Retired guy in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
Brilliant rigging Joe do like your baggywrinkle do have a few to make for the Bluenose, do you have a drawing how you made them.
Did you use the rope from the kit or did you buy or did you make your own.
Regards
Richard
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jwvolz reacted to BobG in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
I just read over your build log again, Joe. Gorgeous, meticulous work! Any further progress on this wonderful model?
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jwvolz got a reaction from bobandlucy in Benjamin W Latham by jwvolz - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:48
More update photos as promised. These show the gaff rigging and some of the topmast rigging. As mentioned earlier, these are Bluejacket blocks and Syren line.
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