Beckmann

I will have to somehow rebuild the missing tips.

I printed the bulkheads again and tried to find out, what happened. There are two or three things that sum up. The biggest is my inaccuracy, when I cleaned up the bulkheads after cutting them out. I often sanded the tips of the bulkheads too much.

That is 90% of the problem. The rest is about having not pushed it  down into position enough.

Ok that seems to be a severe Problem. I will check out what happened and then try to correct it. Maybe I cut the bulkheads too much on the line + sanding, they became too small, in this case I will add a new bulkhead-half and glue it next to each bulkhead to correct the shape. 

I glued the bulkheads into position. That was the easy part. Then I startet sanding the bulkheads, that appears to be the challenging part. I am not totally happy with the result so far, I need to go over it again. 

One or two bulkheads jump a little bit back behind the line of the others.  I have to see, wether I glue something in the  gap or sand the others down.

Hello Jack,

I would like to purchase the boxwood Carvings,

Thanks

Matthias

Everything ready for the bulkheads now. 

I'm looking forward to it!!!

Don't wory,  I wont get ahead of you. Your careful step be step instruction and the laser cut kits makes it so easy. I rather wait on chapter 2 than making mistakes.

They fit, I took care about that.

great fun, how the puzzle matches 

the plywood that was left from making bulkheads was just enough for the brackets

I must admitt, without all the assistance you provide chuck, people like me would probably never start such a model projekt. If I come home after work I have about 1 hour time every second or third day to go into the Workshop and make some progress. You make it all very easy, so fulltime busy people still can have some model-building fun and make some progress late in the evening. 

is that enough tapering? I'm not shure, if the top of the head knete Muster be reduced to 1/8" as well.

I started assembling the knee of the head and gluing the rabbet Strip to the bulkhead former.

I did transfer them. I made a cut in the surface of the bulkheads with the chisel. One can hardly see it on the photos, but they are there.

I have never seen a model kit with so many bulkheads.  

They are a ready for the next step now.

The bulkheads are all cut now. They just need to be cleaned up a bit. Yesterday I received the starter kit. So things become interesting now.

There might be a problem to get it planked. MDF has a good surface, but if you cut it, the surface is a bit fibrous and extremely absorbent. Another Point is, that it as far less stable then plywood, the narrow beams of bulkhead 27 for example will probably just break of, if you sand them in shape. That might actually happen to all the small top parts of the bulkheads.

Hello everybody,

to finish this build Log, here are some photos of the Display case. I altered the baseboard by reducing the mirror-surface. I think it looks better like this and confuses not so much, if one looks at the model. The mirror area still allows , seeing the unplanked bottom of the barge. Now I just need to finish the varnish of the baseboard, and thats it done.

One word to Chuck:

Thank you for this fantastic kit, it was really fun to build it. Looking at the barges in NMM, Greenwich or the book about the Kriegstein-Collection makes me think, how nice an oarsmen-crew would be. Maybe one day, you should talk to your chinese carver, (Jack was his Name?) to develop a resin-casting for one ore two types of oarsmen. This is such a popular model, I am shure you will sell hundreds of oarsmen, to man all the barges. How many did you sell by now? Maybe 150 barges, that is a demand of 1500 oarsmen :) !!!

Matthias

Matthias

Okay, I will use cedar then. 

Just a question: using the cedar laser cut kits and planking with boxwood strips is propably not a good idea? Or do the both match well together?  

There are quite a few examples of figureheads not looking straight forward. Usually animals do so. The huge Lion- figureheads for example. Here is the figurehead of danish Prinz Friderich (1761), looking almost  60 degree to the right side.

40 minutes ago, Beckmann said:

 

They look really fancy. If I would buy them, my daughters would take them away anyway for bookstands on their  shelfs, so I better make some simple ones myself

Okay, that makes sence. I thought, you seperated it, because of the size, to make it easier for shipping. At the moment it doesn't look too bad, but I will have to watch out.