Jasco
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Holy cow that is just beautiful! Work to be really proud of. My cats knocked my "Cruiser" sandbagger off the top of the china cabinet where it had resided for 9 years. I don't know if I have the heart to repair it.
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Beautiful progress. I trust you found the top rail of the cockpit coaming as confounding as I did. How did you arrive at the shape?
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Beautiful work. I love all the detail, which I guess is why I love models in general. The closer you look, the more you see.
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Beautiful! The daggerboard itself looks like a work of art and the metalwork is superb.
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Nice work! As far as I'm concerned, solving these problems is what makes modelling so much fun!
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Although evergreen styrene strip would very likely be the easiest method and probably indistinguishable from brass or wood, I shy away from plastic on these wooden boat builds. I'd go with brass. Don't get me wrong- I build plenty of plastic and cardstock models and think they are fantastic, Maybe I'm being puritanical or snobbish but a wooden boat needs to be a wooden boat! Unless you want it to be mixed media. How's that for a definite maybe?
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I didn't put that detail on my model, so I don't have a tried and true method, but it looks like some time with a square file and a piece of brass should do the trick.
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That's good progress. Looks great, too. You are lucky to have enough time to get so much accomplished!
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To be fair, I didn't build the model until 1990, so you were about as old as I was when I got my first exacto-knife cut! But of course that was before men stepped on the moon! If memory serves, I think there were only 2 or 4 crewmen allowed for racing. There was a sail handler and a helmsman and 2 men to move the sandbags from one side of the boat to the other to balance the enormous rig. (Hence the Sandbagger moniker) Now if you'll excuse me I've gotta go take Geritol or Centrum Silver or something!
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The model I used for my inspiration was presented in the NRG Journal March, 1986 by Rob Napier. He cites a number of sources which I obtained from the library (remember-no internet back then!) to draw up my plans. Lots of pictures in the books and the Journal to help with the rigging. These are beautiful boats and makes me want to build a full size one to sail on the lake in Wisconsin.
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I'm currently framing a Virginia Sloop from the book by Clay Feldman and just now fairing the bulkheads and fitting them to the keel. I'll have to consider using blocks of wood between the bulkheads. What are you using? Basswood? Balsa?
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My shrouds are cable and held tight with simulated turnbuckles, but the mast band at the head of the mast keeps slipping down so the shrouds keep loosening up. Still, she doesn't look too bad after 23 years. The hull is basswood, the deck, and cockpit coaming is apple (I cut the branches off the apple tree myself!), mast, spars and seats are walnut and the cockpit ceiling is cedar and pine. I look forward to seeing you plank your hull. I've never had the intestinal fortitude to even attempt planking a hull. After years of building balsa model airplanes I know how easy it is to pull a structure out of line with a plank and I'm always wary of getting myself into projects that I will abandon because they are not living up to my expectations. I started the Digital Navy's V108 torpedo boat card model 4 times before I produced something I liked. I'll dig around in my files to find what resources I used that you might find helpful. Great boat!
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Here are some shots of my sandbagger. Solid hull, all rigging and most gear handmade. I bought a couple of turnbuckles, 2 mast bands, and various thimbles and eyes from Bluejacket. I think the scale was 1/32"=1"
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CA glue question
Jasco replied to MikeB4's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
I have models I built over 20 years ago that I used CA in some spots. No problems yet. I'm still like smearing Ambroid on my fingers so I can peel it off. Pure modeling enjoyment! -
Oh, absolutely! I took the boat down from it's perch in the living room last night, did some minor repairs and started to clean it. I never built a case for it and the dust bunnies have gotten pretty noticeable. Oddly, I got the inspiration for the model from a NRG Journal piece over 20 years ago. I just haven't had the chance to dig through my own archives to find the source material I used. I know I found the books with the lines in it, drafted my own plans and used photos in books and magazines for the detail work. I just have to dig out what they were. My model was built before the internet and about the time Mark Zuckerberg was hitting middle school, so all of the research was as gratifying and effort-intensive as the actual build. I'll get some photos this evening and post them. You're in Israel, so you're 8 hours ahead of me. (I'm near Chicago).
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I'd love to post pics of my sandbags on your thread. I need to get some digital shots, though. I built it before the advent of digital cameras and never took any more pics!
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I'm new to the forum, but not modelling. The Sanbagger "Cruiser" was my first scratch built model. Beautiful lines, easy to understand rigging. Mine was built with a solid hull, though. I'm enjoying watching your build. I wish there were somewhere I could get laser cutting done cheap.
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