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Ciao Shipmates! Today i want to show the construction of the deck, it is already installed by now. For start, i took a template from the model it self, then i made the layout of the deck furniture and other fittings, and then i took the template and i started to plank it. I followed a pattern that i found in an old italian ship modeling book, it turned out very well, at least it dosen´t look like "parquet" 😉and it looks very real to me. For the planking i used brazlilian pine, caulked with black glue (school grade), it leaves a very fine black line, very pleasent for the eye. And for nailing, i made the simplest way, just a hole on the deck, and then i put a peg on it, after that, sanding, and that´s it. The nails and the waterways are made of rauli wood, (Nothofagus alpina), a patagonian wood, wich in this case, is a very apropiate wood to use, who knows if maybe Piedrabuna really used it on Luisito. And now, pictures! Well, i hope you like it. See you soon!! Greetings Giorgio

Hi shipmates! So, i painted the hull completely black, i saw that in various models and i thought it would be a nice effect to give to the model. I used shoe ink to give the color, and then i applied some coats of matte varnish, i liked the effect. I started the deck, but i will show that in the next time, i still don´t have good pictures. So, i hope you like it. Ah, almost forgot, a carpenter showed up, one of the Commander´s helpers. Chapter 4. Colouring the hull and fittings Next, i will show the deck plancking, still under construction. I hope you like it. See you soon. Giorgio

Wowwww!! That´s amazing, a great job, incredible. And now i can imagine the kind of work that it takes, and the headaches!! I can say that learning this, it takes as long as it takes learning to build a model in wood. Very good work. Greetings Giorgio

Ciao shipmates! First of all, thank you for all the likes and comments. They are very important to me. Thank you @Rik Thistle, i didn´t know about the book. I confirm to you that the book is about Luis Piedrabuena, the constructor of Luisito, i´m sure it must talk about in the book, it must be some more information about it, surely. So, with these photos, i complete the chapter. I opened the hawseholes, and gave to the hull some polishing. Brazilian pine is a rather soft wood, but hard enough to stand a good polishing and dye, unlike other types of pine wich aren´t suitable for that. Anyway some scratches were too deep to correct. So, pics: See you in next chapter. Black colored, and hull fittings. Thank you for your interest. Greetings. Giorgio

Ciao Shipmates! So, i finally finished the planking. It´s still raw, still have to do some sanding, polishing, etc., but you can see the idea how it goes. I decided to do not nail it, since the hull it´s going to be dyed in black, and anything of it would be visible. I will let that to the deck planking. I´m not very happy with the result, there are some mistakes wich i wish they weren´t there, but they are! Some of them i just found them with the macro of the camera. They are barely visible for the naked eye. So, a lot to do better next time. I hope you like it and thank you for your comments of course. Also, i made the rudder and modified the head of the stempost, in order to make the space for the bowsprit. Photos: As i said, a lot to be sanded, polsihed and corrected! I will post some picutres or the finished plank after this operations are done, and then.... Chapter 4! Thank you for your interest. Greetings Giorgio

Hello @Dziadeczek, very interesting the video and the method shown. Do you have any more infomration about the next picture, i mean the marking tool in the picture following the video. Is there a way to build it or find it? Thank you!! Greeting. Giorgio

Hi shipmates! I started the planking. First i marked 4 rows, then divided them in to 3, in order to achieve the best number of planks. This done following, not precisley, the David Antscherl practicum. As for the plans of the Luisito, i know that the plans we are using (i say we for all the modelers that are building it), are from of course a survey done, i mean a ¨as built¨ set of plans. Of course Piedrabuena didn´t have any drawings available with him. He later said that he managed to remember the lines from his studies. This set of plans is signed by an architect who happens to be a shipmodeler too, maybe he maneged to draw this set after that survey. You can search in the web Arq. Carlos Rando Ferrer. He is an argentinian architect, teacher and shipmodeler. The bullwarks are planked too, using 3 rows of planks in each side. This wood i´m using is very easy to bend, so no big difficulties so far. For caulking i´m using black glue (school grade), once sanded down it leaves a fine line between planks. So, lets go to the pictures. Chapter 3 - Planking, calulking and nailing. Thank you all for all the likes, the comments, and the views. See you next time!! Greetings. Giorgio

Hello. I´d like to share my new project. It is about a little cutter, wich was built after a wreack of another bigger ship, in order to go back to civilization. A model and a surviving tale. Chapter 1. Introduction and History Luis Piedrabuena (August 24, 1833 – August 10, 1883) was an Argentine sailor whose actions in southern Argentina consolidated national sovereignty at a time when these lands were virtually uninhabited and lacked state protection. His biographers consider him one of Patagonia's greatest heroes. Piedrabuena rose to the rank of Naval Lieutenant Colonel, equivalent to Commander. Today, he is commonly known as Commander. When his brig, Espora sank in March 1873 on Año Nuevo Island, and the possibility of salvaging the ship was ruled out, Luis Piedra Buena, its commander and owner, decided to build a boat to escape the difficult situation he and the crew members of the sunken vessel found themselves in. It is still unclear whether the cutter was armed with timbers from the Espora or with the trees on the island, which was very close to the wreck, an ideal forest for using in the construction of the boat. The original type of Wood used, was ¨lenga¨, (Nocthofagus pumilio). The work was carried out by him and one or two crew members; the others were ill or simply uncooperative, which makes this feat even more impressive, not only because of his effort, but also because it was not based on any plans. He used his memory and knowledge of what was teached to him by Capt. William Horton Smiley, a whaler who was a friend of his father, and gave him the chance of learning sailing skills, and ship construction, and also, remembered the forms of chilean launches tipycal of the Patagonia, wich are very similar to Luisito. In just over two months of work, he built the cutter Luisito, amidst storms and southerly winds. He named the cutter "Luisito" in honor of his deceased first son, who bore that name. Once the ship was completed, he left Isla de los Estados and arrived a few days later in Punta Arenas (actual Chile). Once the cutter was launched and ready, it set sail to Punta Arenas, arriving after 11 days of sailing in May. After a stay of several months, amidst the southern winter, it sailed from the Isla de los Estados, and during that voyage, in August, it rescued the six shipwrecked people from the English brig Eagle, who were half-dead from hunger and cold on a rock. It led the rescued shipwrecked people to Punta Arenas and rescued them again, this time those from the German ship Dr. Hansen, whom it brought back to Punta Arenas. Piedra Buena continued to travel along the southern coast with the Luisito. In 1875, Piedra Buena had to travel to Buenos Aires, where Congressman Dr. Félix Frías needed his knowledge of the south to apply it to the border issues with Chile. In order to raise the necessary funds for the voyage, Piedra Buena decided to sell the Luisito, a sale that would be finalized in early 1876. Ship Information Length: 10.66 m Draft: 1.52 m Average Draft: 1.40 m Displacement: 14 tons Full deck, with a hatch at the Stern, and a storage locker at the bow. One mast, with a trapezoidal sail, jib, and staysail. Tiller. Wales around the hull. Chapter 2. Early stages of the model So, the model is built in 1/48 scale, POB, in brazilian pine mostly, (araucaria angustifolia), and some parts in rauli (nothofagus Alpina). I had the structure laser cut, for more precision, a practice that i will incorporate in my models from now on. The model construction started with the assambly of the structure, and the bulding of a slipway, as usual. After stat stage, i made some fillig between stations, in order to give the model more strength and a surface to do the planking and nailing. Next, installed the keel, sternpost and stem, and of course set up the wales. First i had to build the transom, in order to correctly install the wales. So that is all by now. See you in chapter 3, with planking. Greetings. Giorgio

Thanks again for the kind words. I´ll have a go on DELFTship too, these little projects are all about learning, so i will try it as soon as i can. In the meantime i´ll keep playing with Rhino. I will post any progress on this project. Thank you for the help! Greetings Giorgio

By the way this was the original tug i´m building.

Hello shipmates. So, this is as far as i could get by now. As you can see, i imported the shiplines from AutoCAD, and y pasted every station on the side view, but i still can´t create the surfaces, unless the wales, wich i could manage to. I keep the fight!! I don´t know every time i try to generate the skin of the hull a problem pops up. If any of you had experienced the same situation please tell me. Thank you very much. Greetings

Thank you for the kind replies. I´m collecting your advices in order to find a way to go on. In the moment i am searching for tutorials, specially the ones focused on ships. Thank you very much. Giorgio

Thank you for the answer. Yes, that is what i´m trying to do right now. I´m looking at every YouTube tutorial i can find. I know that is the way! I was asking if there where any more specialized tutorial out there. Thank you.

Hello! I´m quite new in this section, so please be patient. 😌 I´m at the moment trying to start the art of 3d modeling our models in Rhino. Just as a form to understand the models that sometimes don´t have a good plan/drawing, and you have to take care of that (i hope you understand). The problem is that i don´t know how to start. I have found a few tutorials on the web, but i´m having problems with generating surfaces ,curves, so, i´m still at the beginning!! I see those pencil-like drawings that some of you make and i hope to achieve that some day! It reminds me when i started on this hobby at all. My question is that is there any tutorial, made for shipmodelers, that would allow, eventually to achieve those drawings i was talking about? Thank you very much!! Greetings. Giorgio

Hello mates! So, finally the ship is ready to set sails! It's been a pleasure for me to build this model. A very nice model to build, specially for the details and the sails. A lot to improve, for the next builds of course, but i think this is the path. I decided to show a painting of the time, that i took from the Chapelle book, The Baltimore Clipper, ther is a chapter that mentions the Virginia pilot boats. Another thing i wanted to show is the H flag, that as you may know is the international flag for "I have a pilot on board", so i took Jack, made him a bit of a deck, planked, and added the flag. So, i hope you liked it. Thank you for all the likes and comments. See you next time!!! Have a good modeling! Greetings.