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Funny, ive found it much too warm to do anything other than sit in the workshop Models looking good so far though.

Thanks Antony, The walnut is a pain to do in some areas, but will look much better as you say in the end. I bought and received some Leds after much head scratching on google, but i forgot to get a battery and some other pieces, so havent experimented with them yet. I looked at the premade ones Helmuht linked, but decided to buy the leds,resistors and wire seperately, both to learn another skill and by wiring my own i think it may be easier to fit them into certain areas. Got some yellow and orange, but not flickering ones, which sound good. Need to look into making a flickering circuit. Certainly plenty of scope to customise the interior of the kit, as the kit supplied stuff is fairly limited. Ive just about finishing making the lower holdwell then its onto some scratch building of cabins etc.

Ah, good catch !

Thank you Sam, those prices are much better! Handy site for future use also. Take a look at some of the other build logs on here also, https://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/10059-hms-bounty-by-thomaslambo-artesania-latina-–-scale-148/&tab=comments#comment-298892 https://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/11039-hms-bounty-by-bryanc-artesania-latina-scale-148/&tab=comments#comment-335221 https://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/15600-hms-bounty-by-grendel-artesania-latina-scale-148/&tab=comments#comment-484986 Funny thing i noticed yesterday on the front of the box. The starboard side is the side to be exposed, according to the instructions. Yet the box's two larger images of the boat both show it from port side, one exposed and one fully planked. (Image from another's build log)

Looking good so far. My first build was by Constructo, and if that was anything to go by, expect the instructions to become even worse. Writer seemed to lose interest 1/4 of the way through. I do like the way they put the parts in bags and have them numbered though, makes easy to find the right parts.

Hopefully Hellmuht doesnt mind me asking in here. What country are you in and where did you buy the book from Sam, and how much did it cost? Im UK and looked, but its either not available or extremely expensive. Amazon has it for £80, which seems way overpriced?

Thanks hellmuht, will give this a try out on a test panel.

You've certainly picked it up very well ! Yeah, you mentioned in your first posts using Vallejo Ochre, graphite and a rubber.Do you go over it with the rubber to rub some graphite into it, then give the full thing a coat of vallejo Ochre? Varnish or anything afterwards? Might give it a try myself if you dont mind a copycat ! Rolled sails could be a nice compromise.

Brilliant build, looking great. Still impressed with the weathering look you've achieved. Are you fitting sails? After my last build i was thinking of building my Bounty "admiralty" style with just stubs of masts, but yours looks pretty nice with just the rigging. May do it that way instead. I think the sails on my last build hid too much of the work, and didnt look that great anyway. Certainly not by the time i was finishing sewing them

Ive been watching your thread Hellmuht, its a nice build. Lights are a definite improvement. Can see in the bottom bits with no lights are pretty dark and most of the detail is lost. Think i will put some in,seems a waste not to. Need to to do some research on how to do it though,and id quite like to hide the cabling somehow, so need to have a look at that also. Probably behind the cabin walls.

Thanks Sam, Not much progress since my last post.Started to make the kit supplied interior walls, then ill be scratchbuilding some more cabins for the rest of the lower deck. Trying to decide whether i add some led lighting for cabin lighting, but i dont know much about electrics. Looks good on the other builds ive saw done with it, but undecided yet. Think i might need it, probably too dark without it on the interior.

Looking great! What treatments has your top deck had? Quite like the look of it. Or is it natural wood?

Beautiful stuff. Do you have any pictures of the process from the start? Would be interested in seeing how its done.

So, my bottom decks are now fitted. As to the question above, whether to file the holes round or tenon the masts later, i went for fitting the decks and then cut the masts to fit later. But mainly because i forgot all about it and went ahead with gluing the decks down. I also forgot to varnish the decks before fitting them. I now dont know whether to varnish the decks while still able to access them, or whether it will cause issues when gluing some of the interior fit-out in. I painted the ply templates black and left a 0.5mm gap between planks to simulate the caulking.Used a pencil to mark the nails, but for the top deck i think i will try a different method. Possibly drilling holes and using a filler. Tried a golden oak stain to make the boards look more aged, but i quite like the bare wood look. And then if i age/weather these boards, would i need to weather the entire boat? Before fitting the decks i cut some 0.5mm walnut and fitted them over the exposed plywood frame edges, takes the bad look off it. Intend to do this all over. Since my last post i have received a new LED desk lamp, and a mini wood lathe. The lamp is fairly helping me see some of the more awkard bits, didnt realise how bad it was before without it. The wood lathe was a luxury item. I looked at the Proxxon mini lathe, but i couldnt really justify £160 for something i will rarely use, but i noticed on Ebay a few cheap chinese types for £30. Didnt look much, but looked at some youtube videos, and took the risk. Took just over a week to get here from China, but it works pretty well. The plastic housing around the motor was broken on arrival, but it works fine. I have thoughts about making a little frame for it so that i am able to use it as a disc sander and perhaps try it with one of the mini circular saw blades. £30 well spent so far though. Not quite at that stage yet, but i had to play with it. So ive cut the bow section mid deck crossbeams, and dry fitted them. They will need removed to do the lower deck interior. My first tests with the lathe. The longer piece was just trying out the diffrent tools and shapes i could make. The top piece was a test of column shape, but i caught too much with the tool and the wood split apart. Testing another column shape Not decided on the shape yet. I think a square foot top and bottom would look better. Hardest part will be making multiple columns of whatever shape i decide on, and have them all be the same. Need to do some more test shapes. Good fun though !

I knocked a bottle of superglue over and spilled quite a puddle on my desk,there was some toilet paper handy so i soaked it up with that. I noticed it felt hot in my hand when wiping,then i tossed it in the bin. Didnt think anything of it until my eyes started to sting, i turned round and there was quite a bit of smoke coming out of my bin! Pulled the tissue out and it was very hot to touch, and dumped it down the toilet. Fumes off it were pretty bad, and i suspect it was just short of catching fire, which could have been interesting. So yeah, no more wiping superglue with paper towels or tissue !

Looking great so far ! Is the top deck weathered the same way as the lower decks? Looks alot darker, but maybe its just the picture. Looks great though. Whats the name of the tool that says "patent pending" that you are using for bending the wire?

Thanks Y.T Took this picture to ask a question, but i think ive found the answer by browsing some of the other build logs, but ill ask anyway.Ive checked through the instructions, but it seems they skip over the fitting of masts. The mast which is 10mm diameter sits in this slot. The slot on the keel is 10mm, but the block that gets glued over it has only a 6mm gap, and is rectangular.So is the correct way to file the block to have a 10mm hole, or does the mast get cut like a tenon to fit into the rectangular gap? From another build log it seems shaping the bottom of the mast is the way to go ? In case it helps anyone in future, i seemed to be missing the two 61 parts, but turns out there are some mistakes between the cutsheet and photo instructions. From cut sheet to picture guide - 42 is a crossbeam 42 is 43 43 is 44 44 is 61 Easy enough to figure out, but caused me a bit of head scratching to begin with.

This is my second build, first was the GJOA by Constructo. Happy enough with that one apart from the sails and rigging work. Sails seemed a bit bulky material wise, and the rigging i was sort of clueless on,the writer of the instruction book seemed to give up long before reaching the rigging stage, so i winged it. Hadnt discovered this forum until recently, so hoping to do much better with the HMS Bounty by following some of the advice posted on here. Though whether i do the rigging and sails on this one is yet to be decided. I mostly lurk here reading other peoples logs for ideas and tips on how to do certain things. Wasnt sure whether to create one myself as my camera isnt the best, but ill give it a shot and hopefully keep it going. I need to get better lighting sorted which will hopefully make the photos a bit clearer. I started about a week ago. Very impressive box on opening it, well packaged. The drawings (Multiple!), written instructions and picture instructions all look very impressive, though from reading on here it seems these become less impressive further in. First task was to label all the precut sheets of wood for easier reference from the paper cut sheet, mark the frame numbers and then cut them out. Next was to sand the laser char off. Started by hand as i was afraid of taking too much off, but ended up using a dremel (cheap brand version) jammed in my vice with a sanding attachment on it to do the heavy work, finishing off with a narrow hand file. Not too sure how much you need to sand off, i dont get them spotlessly clean but the glue seems to hold anyway. Do kit manufacturers leave extra wood on the parts to account for sanding off the laser char? All sanded and dry fitted. The slip is the Hobbyzone small building slip,purchased for this build. Would have preffered the bigger one as you can rotate it, but didnt have the desk space. Though the small one can apparently turn 180 degrees either way, but i dont see how. The arms rotate, but they sit flush on the bottom, so one side can rotate up, but the other cant go down? The instructions werent the best for it, only several parts to it, but i still managed to glue several parts in the wrong place before i realised. 😄 Next task was to stain all the parts. I used Littlefairs Dark Walnut wood stain (Is it alright to mention brand names here?).One coat was enough, any more felt a bit too dark compared to the supplied walnut wood. Couldnt decide whether to stain the parts that get glue later or tape them off. Going by google apparently wood glue wont stick to stained wood, but ive seen alot on here glue onto the stain. Did a quick test and the glue seems to hold, so i coated everything. Perhaps not as strong as before, but enough for model purposes hopefully. I intend to follow Thomaslambo's way of doweling, and dowel some of the cross beams into the frames which should strengthen it all quite a bit anyway. I didnt stain the outside edges to give the planking a better grip, though i forgot some of them will be exposed in the open hull, though i intend to follow other builds again and veneer the exposed ply edges with 0.5mm walnut, think it will look a bit better than exposed ply layers. Ive fitted half of the frames now. They arent perfect,hoping once the decks etc are on it will square them a bit further.I messed about with the first 2 alot, the fore and aft, trying to get them as square as i could so that i could measure off of them,the ones after that were installed using a combination of 2 levels, a square, and some balsa jammers cut to size. Turns out my desk or floor has a run, so i had to glue packers to the bottom side of my building slip to get it level first of all. Then i could keep one level on the first frame which was set the day previously, making sure it stays level and then set the other frames with another level. The instructions state that the slots on the keel for the frames are at regular spacings. Maybe im interpreting that wrongly, but to me that means they should all be the same? They arent anyway, so i have several balsa jammers cut at 32,35 and 36mm so that i can clamp onto the previous frame when gluing up. Am also using the middle deck to align the frames, along with the jammers. First half of the frames are fitted, almost have the lower crossbeams fitted to them all, and thats the stage im at so far. I also moved desk in between those photos, as i outgrew my small one. So the computer is now on the small desk and my modelling stuff has taken over the large desk ! Looking towards the next parts. Id like to scratch build some of the interior cabins,fittings etc as several other build logs have done. I dont really need a wood lathe, but considering getting one to make some columns and bannisters etc for the stairs. We'll see 😉

I too like the weathering,looks good. Just started this build myself a few days ago, so ill be following along. Are you gluing straight onto the laser char?

Thanks for the comments, Definitely David. When i started on the first one i was all for it, but the enthusiasm kind of withered away after countless hours planking, then picked up again afterwards, then withered away again. But i hadnt really realised just how much work was involved in wooden models to begin with, so im better prepared for it now, both with better tools and mentally! I do keep considering buying a mini wood lathe, drill press and scroll saw, would open up scratch builds. Been following some of the Triton builds here, fascinating stuff. Truthfully the only thing holding me back is my lack of space. So yeah, i can understand how you have to manage your money

Admiralty style sounds good! Though from past experience with other hobbies, by the time i get to the rigging and sails stage with another build, ill be thinking "it cant be that bad" and try it again. Thanks for the tips, been using the search feature already, and found a few build logs of the HMS Bounty by Artesania Latina, which is a full boat with part of the side exposed, which looks a nice combination. Learned alot in the short time ive been browsing this forum, lots of handy tips and information.I think ive spent as much time recently reading threads here as i have building. Ive forgotten most of it of course, but will definitely be browsing for info here during the next build.

Thanks. I enjoyed it, nice to look at it and know that it started from a bundle of wood, so pretty satisfying that way. Definitely doing another model, just browsing through the build logs at the moment for an idea of which one to do. I like the idea of doing a cross section model, though there doesnt seem to be a great deal of choice online, and im wondering whether i would regret spending the money on a cross section instead of a full boat. Looking for something a bit heavier on the woody side of things rather than the rigging etc. Though thinking about it, for the time i spent on the current model and no doubt any future ones, the cost divided over the hours spent must work out at pennies. Not rushing into this one though !

Hello, In the process of finishing up my first model, Amundsen's Gjoa by Constructo, a few more sails and bits and pieces and its done. Been lurking here for the past few weeks now, reading through some of the build logs and wow, some impressive stuff. I bought my kit in February 2017, so its taken me a while. Id like to say there was a great deal of research went into which kit to buy and whether this was a hobby for me, and what tools were required. But none of that happened. I was bored one night, considering buying a plastic kit, when wooden kits started to appear on my Amazon listing. Ive always had an interest in doing some woodworking, but no space for it, so a wooden model seemed like a good choice. I lost interest (and patience!) every now and then, but ive finally almost reached the end. Lots of mistakes were made, due to laziness and/or lack of knowledge, and the instructions were pretty vague, to me anyway. I have a couple of pictures so may post them later. Its not terrible,but far from the standards on here, but hopefully i'll do better with my next one. Though, one thing i have taken away from it all, is that i do not like rigging,sails or sewing at all. Next model one without sails i think