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A bit dull on the colours though

Nevertheless, looks good. What shades of grey do you use, or are you applying washes?

She looks like a boat with teeth! Love the hull planking colours. Well done mate

put some tarpauline on top to hide it. If it is glued in ... it could be hard to get it out without damage.

I can't imagine that to be so maaaslo, as the launch is already a ships boat ... besides, you must be a bonsai midget to fit in that at the scale it is ... it doesn't belong in there

Very nice work Hartmut,
 she is showing her future shape, and details. It won't be long before she is all dressed up and ready. Didin't know we Dutch had such colourful boots/yachts, when you look at the paintings from that period, we are wearing such a depressing dress colour

It's a pitty you will put her in a bottle. A lot of this wonderful detail will be harder to spot!
Cheers

She already looks like the real cutter, Igor. A wonderful little build

My apologies for lack of intermediate-step photos. I got a bit carried away with progress, so the photos jump ahead a bit as I describe details of the construction process.

As I mentioned earlier, I'm using hinoki, Japanese cypress, and the American equivalent of hinoki, Port Orford cedar. Again, I'll just be referring to it all as hinoki as the two woods are so similar in properties, including the scent.
 
Oh, one correction. I was mistaken about the location of Bear Creek Lumber. I got it mixed up with a place called LnL Lumber Outlet in Oregon, which I first contacted. This is the place that's located in the area where Port Orford cedar grows. Bear Creek Lumber is actually in Washington state. I think I got the two places mixed up at the time and ordered my wood from Bear Creek Lumber. Next time I buy Port Orford cedar, I'll maybe do it when I visit my sister up north and detour to the Oregon coast and pick it up in person.
 
Because hinoki is very light in color, I am dyeing the wood using a product called TransTint, which I thin with denatured alcohol. I just mixed a few of the dye colors by eye to get a more aged wood color. The stuff is not cheap at $25 a bottle, but it goes a long way. I bought mine at the local Rockler Woodworking store. Nice this is that this can be applied to the parts before assembly, as it doesn't interfere with glues.

The first thing I did after the lower hull was done was paint it using artist's acrylics. This entire portion of the hull will be painted black, and will be the only paint on the model, so it made sense to do it before adding other wood to it. Somewhere along the line, I realized I had created a couple small dents in the soft basswood sheathing of the main hull. A pin prick through the paint layer and a drop of water swelled the wood are of the dent right up and back into shape, so all is well. 
 
The next step was to create the trapezoidal platforms at each end of the vessel. Some images of paintings I referenced show similar boats with these planks running horizontally. I ran them lengthwise, thinking the planks might hold up better against any waves hitting them. Also, if the planks ran cross-wise, I would think it might add some awkwardness to the construction of that platform. 
 
In this close-up image, the arrows point to the planking I'm referring to. You can see that these run horizontally. However, this is a much smaller boat and I'm sure it was only used on rivers.
 

 
The next image is from a modern painting, so I don't necessarily take the details for fact. But, it is a useful interpretation. I like in particular how it shows the straw mat sail, which is too unwieldy to actually furl, so it has to be rolled up instead, though I don't know if it would be quite as bulky as depicted here.
 

 
So, the planks of these platforms must have been fastened down to the bow hull section, presumably by nailing. It would be interesting to learn how this was actually done, as those very end planks in the image above couldn't be fastened into place without the hull planks being there. Or those planks could have been edge fastened together. Or perhaps the platforms were nailed together to those lower hull planks first, and then the whole assembly was put into place. It's all speculation and I doubt we'll ever know for sure.
 
For these platforms, I cut some hinoki sheet into strips 1mm x 12mm wide. For the deck planking, I matched the measurements from the drawing, and will be using 1mm x 8mm planks. These come out to about 16” wide boards in full size. Seems wide, but 12th and 13th century Japan would certainly have the trees for it.
 
Here's the underside of the bow platform on the umibune model.
 

 
Again, I apologize because I didn't take photos of the platform at the time of construction, so I had to take a late stage photo. The hull paint job will get a touch up later. 
 
At this stage, were I to build the model again, I'd probably just run all the planks side-to-side to match the paintings. The planks are pretty well hidden, and even if this arrangement might be stronger (even that assumption is questionable), if the swells were high enough to be hitting this platform with any force, this boat was probably in trouble. 
 

Thanks to Patrick and Carl
Hello Carl, this colourfull design is the result of the researches which Ab Hoving and the other builders of the 1:1 Utrecht had made. I think that such wonderfull colors were usual in the baroque. Especially when the upper ten of the cityes wanted to show who they are.
 
Some pic of the mast, the loops of the shrouds and the back and fore stays
 



And the Heart block of the fore stay
 


 

 
Regards Hartmut

Mobbsie, she does look nice, the colour variation is spot on in my oppinion.
regarding up/down dilemma, try to remember: if you want to put something out for others to see you are uploading. If you want to grab something for yourself to have, you are downloading.

Regarding using isopropil, i thought of that too, but got scared it might attack the inner planking... i will probably just cover it with something. Maybe a bundle of rope, or powder barrels...

Great to have you back Mobbsie. She's looking wonderful.
 
Bob

Hi Guys,
 
Pav,  I think your little rescue boat is for the ships cat mate, as Grant has suggested copious amounts of isopropyl alcohol should do the trick. If it's a CA type glue then you could try some nail polish remover, just depends how long it's been cured.
 
Now if I can remember how all works I will try to download or should I say upload ( never sure which it is ) some pictures. Unfortunately the pictures aren't as comprehensive as I would have liked.
 
The kits gun carriage timbers were substituted from ply to Swiss Pear, the kit parts were used for template purposes only, they went together quite well and on fitting suspended by either end and nothing in the middle. A bit of jiggery pokery and we have the semblance of a fit.
 
The gun was fun, whatever I tried to blacken it, it would just come out mottled, I cleaned it to within an inch my life but it wasn't having any of it, out came the trusty paint pot, something I didn't want to do on this build.
 

 

Just tying up a few blocks and tackles for rigging the gun.

 
I'm going to call it a day there as I want to see if the pics upload ok, I will post some more later.
 
Be Good my Friends
 
mobbsie

put some tarpauline on top to hide it. If it is glued in ... it could be hard to get it out without damage.

I can't imagine that to be so maaaslo, as the launch is already a ships boat ... besides, you must be a bonsai midget to fit in that at the scale it is ... it doesn't belong in there

I can't imagine that to be so maaaslo, as the launch is already a ships boat ... besides, you must be a bonsai midget to fit in that at the scale it is ... it doesn't belong in there

put some tarpauline on top to hide it. If it is glued in ... it could be hard to get it out without damage.

I can't imagine that to be so maaaslo, as the launch is already a ships boat ... besides, you must be a bonsai midget to fit in that at the scale it is ... it doesn't belong in there

probably a file or a sharpening stone. Sanding sticks tend to run smooth rather quickly ... unless you like to polish

Many thanks, Carl and Nils!
Yes, Karl, unfortunately it is so, but I will to know about these details
 

put some tarpauline on top to hide it. If it is glued in ... it could be hard to get it out without damage.

I can't imagine that to be so maaaslo, as the launch is already a ships boat ... besides, you must be a bonsai midget to fit in that at the scale it is ... it doesn't belong in there

They neither had a lot of mines in the 18th century ... Marvelous details. I especially like your setup of heavy metal to keep a piece of paper into shape!

It's a pitty you will put her in a bottle. A lot of this wonderful detail will be harder to spot!
Cheers