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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.

Hello shipmates! So, after all this time, i almost completed the project. The model itself is ready. Just a little more work on the wooden case and its done. All riging, standing and running, its done, it's been a logn trip, a hard one, because i had to research a lot, thank you @Tim Holt for the help you gave me in this area. And to all the rest of the crew for the comments and likes. So, here are the pictures. I hope you like them. You will find, as usual, lots of mistakes, and things that could be better done. So keeping that in mind, i hope you enjoy them. See you next time!! Greetings. Giorgio

Outstanding Karl, as usual. Wunderbar!! Please keep coming more photos!! Greetings. Giorgio

Congratulations!! Anyway, the most important medal is the satysfaction for your personal achivement. Your model is very beautiful and very well made. Cheers. Giorgio.

Hi Kortes. Your carvings are beautifull and very nice. I like the carvings, and the resault is even better than cnc. And more satisfying than having a computer made product. Your model is very beautifull and a pleasure to watch. Keep the good work. Greetings. Giorgio

Hi mates. Little progress here. I made the sails, and already started their setting. For the sails, i followed the Olha Batchvarov's tutorial for sailmaking. I suppose you know it, but just in case, i give you the link. The result is not the same obviusly, but i made it. So, here it goes: Sails, fore sail, has the inscription, Swift of Norfolk on it: The fisrt sails getting set. Some close up views of the rigging in progress. In the next post i will show the main sail in position, and more rigging details. And jib sail is installed too. Fore sail and flying jib sail are still to go. Little work ahead to the end. But a very lovely ship to build. See you soon. Greetings. Giorgio.

Hi shipmates! A little update. I've been working with mast and spars, and of course, their installation. Jack is checking everything is ok. Here you can see Swift testing her sai..... no, templates. This gives an idea of how is she going to look once complitely rigged. So, as i said, just a little update. Next i'll show details about rigging, blocks, lines, etc. And some sail making too. See you next time. Thank you for your interest, likes, and comments. Good work. Greetings. Giorgio.