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Hi Pete,
thats the impression, after the vacum cleaner was at work, you should have seen it before and an angry wife, just after a sanding and table saw session. All shoeprints all over the carpets !
 
Meantime I have received some blocks and cotton cloth for sewing the sails, brown and red, or will do two of the five sails in red. I still have some Morope  for the bolt ropes
 
Nils
 

Many thanks to Steve, Johann, Denis and Piet,
also thanks to all the "likes" for looking in
 
It must have been two weeks or more since I posted last, and your kind comments encourage me to carry on, the steam was a bit out of the kettle, and I do`nt realy know why....
Instead I spent some hours with my Trainz 2009 train simulator, a program I have on my PC. There is a favourate download add-on I have saved there, it is a historic logging line, down in breathtaking Murchison county, New Zealand.
This is covering standard gauge- and narrow gauge tracks in mountains,  over many scary wooden threstles over rough canyons with animated waterfalls, and along flowing rivers to get to the logging camps, with interactive log-loading and dumping functions.
Best of all are (amoungst many other vehicles in the train park),  the old geared puffing locomotives, like Shay, Climax, Heisler, etc.
 
Steve,
a very nice comment of yours, much appreciated. Yes, much is with hand tools, and because I neigther own a lathe nor a milling machine, I always have to evaluate how the job can be done altrnatively.
With pleasure I`ll provide a little overview of my favorate tools in use....... (ref. to the enclosed pics)
 
Johann,
thank you very much for nice comment, much appreciated, am pleased you like the details...
 
Denis,
thanks for your nice comments, am pleased you like the details. I`m stuck a bit with the deck in the moment, but will groove myself in and carry on....
 
Piet,
thats a very nice comment, and I`m pleased you like the workboat...
 
Nils
 
Pictures:
I have a small room in our cellar which I use for rough-work cutting, sawing, grinding, glass casing assembly, and wood storage.
The assembly work, designing, soldering, and finer fitting sub assemblies is done in my other, more office-like  hobby room, where I also display the finalized models in glass casings
 

this is very old kitchen furniture that could be saved from dumping many years ago, here are my favourate tools
 

this table saw is my latest achievement, a birthday present of my son in Oct. this year
 

this multy use sander is very much in use, and I ca´nt miss it anymore...
 

for sharpening chissels and drills
 

the small IXO Bosch Drill is very much in use, i`ts usualy for taking up hexogonal headed bits, and here also a bit for spanning small drills  0,5 - 6 mm for all purposes...
further a a sander belt ( cost much less than a Proxon or so), but is a pofessional tool
further two grinder / sanding tools for appropriate range of bits
And of course the good old  hand jig-saw
 

odd plankes and dowels, bits of wood, ply bits and remaining plate rests, etc. are saved for future purposes....
 

 
 

also all sorts of brass profiles and tubes are saved
 

 
 

drawings, design evaluations etc. are saved in card tubes
 
 

Many thanks to Steve, Johann, Denis and Piet,
also thanks to all the "likes" for looking in
 
It must have been two weeks or more since I posted last, and your kind comments encourage me to carry on, the steam was a bit out of the kettle, and I do`nt realy know why....
Instead I spent some hours with my Trainz 2009 train simulator, a program I have on my PC. There is a favourate download add-on I have saved there, it is a historic logging line, down in breathtaking Murchison county, New Zealand.
This is covering standard gauge- and narrow gauge tracks in mountains,  over many scary wooden threstles over rough canyons with animated waterfalls, and along flowing rivers to get to the logging camps, with interactive log-loading and dumping functions.
Best of all are (amoungst many other vehicles in the train park),  the old geared puffing locomotives, like Shay, Climax, Heisler, etc.
 
Steve,
a very nice comment of yours, much appreciated. Yes, much is with hand tools, and because I neigther own a lathe nor a milling machine, I always have to evaluate how the job can be done altrnatively.
With pleasure I`ll provide a little overview of my favorate tools in use....... (ref. to the enclosed pics)
 
Johann,
thank you very much for nice comment, much appreciated, am pleased you like the details...
 
Denis,
thanks for your nice comments, am pleased you like the details. I`m stuck a bit with the deck in the moment, but will groove myself in and carry on....
 
Piet,
thats a very nice comment, and I`m pleased you like the workboat...
 
Nils
 
Pictures:
I have a small room in our cellar which I use for rough-work cutting, sawing, grinding, glass casing assembly, and wood storage.
The assembly work, designing, soldering, and finer fitting sub assemblies is done in my other, more office-like  hobby room, where I also display the finalized models in glass casings
 

this is very old kitchen furniture that could be saved from dumping many years ago, here are my favourate tools
 

this table saw is my latest achievement, a birthday present of my son in Oct. this year
 

this multy use sander is very much in use, and I ca´nt miss it anymore...
 

for sharpening chissels and drills
 

the small IXO Bosch Drill is very much in use, i`ts usualy for taking up hexogonal headed bits, and here also a bit for spanning small drills  0,5 - 6 mm for all purposes...
further a a sander belt ( cost much less than a Proxon or so), but is a pofessional tool
further two grinder / sanding tools for appropriate range of bits
And of course the good old  hand jig-saw
 

odd plankes and dowels, bits of wood, ply bits and remaining plate rests, etc. are saved for future purposes....
 

 
 

also all sorts of brass profiles and tubes are saved
 

 
 

drawings, design evaluations etc. are saved in card tubes
 
 

many thanks for catching up Pete,
 
thanks for commenting the oven and other details...., and yes the etched fish will be used, I will try to pad them up a bit with Fimo clay and bake it over if it works, to get them a bit more flechy 3D looking. I also wanted to do some eels wiggling in the fish boxes.
I have ordered some reddish (bordeau colored) cotton cloth for the sail making, but may also try a more brownish tinted color, perhaps even two colors on the 5 sails, like some of the actual Zeesboots have
 
Nils

waterkettle (scale 1:24)  for tea or coffee making
 

oven chimney tube
 


 
revoveable chimney-tube rain cover

Hi Martin,
 
thanks for your check-in, and for your nice comments...
For further fitting out gadgets I was searching for an oven (Cabin heating and boiling up water for tea / coffee). I was looking for doll house furniture or so, etc... but these were all in wrong scale 1:12
Then by luck found one in brass  at Ebay in scale 1:24, did a bit of modification, painting to it, built a setz off tube over the cabin roof leading chimney tube, and here we are... Even found a small waterkettel in scale 1:24..
the fire extinguishers and the ax are also in the correct scale. I`m also looking out for some red/brown polyester or dralon cloth (surplus rest bits from an actual sailmaker) for making the sails from.
Also many thanks to all who clicked the "likes"
Nils

 
 

 
 

one fire extinguisher near to the engine and gasoline storage
 

 
 

the chimney top will be modified
 

 
this view into the cabin is from the outside, here without the ladder
 
 

Many thanks to Steve, Johann, Denis and Piet,
also thanks to all the "likes" for looking in
 
It must have been two weeks or more since I posted last, and your kind comments encourage me to carry on, the steam was a bit out of the kettle, and I do`nt realy know why....
Instead I spent some hours with my Trainz 2009 train simulator, a program I have on my PC. There is a favourate download add-on I have saved there, it is a historic logging line, down in breathtaking Murchison county, New Zealand.
This is covering standard gauge- and narrow gauge tracks in mountains,  over many scary wooden threstles over rough canyons with animated waterfalls, and along flowing rivers to get to the logging camps, with interactive log-loading and dumping functions.
Best of all are (amoungst many other vehicles in the train park),  the old geared puffing locomotives, like Shay, Climax, Heisler, etc.
 
Steve,
a very nice comment of yours, much appreciated. Yes, much is with hand tools, and because I neigther own a lathe nor a milling machine, I always have to evaluate how the job can be done altrnatively.
With pleasure I`ll provide a little overview of my favorate tools in use....... (ref. to the enclosed pics)
 
Johann,
thank you very much for nice comment, much appreciated, am pleased you like the details...
 
Denis,
thanks for your nice comments, am pleased you like the details. I`m stuck a bit with the deck in the moment, but will groove myself in and carry on....
 
Piet,
thats a very nice comment, and I`m pleased you like the workboat...
 
Nils
 
Pictures:
I have a small room in our cellar which I use for rough-work cutting, sawing, grinding, glass casing assembly, and wood storage.
The assembly work, designing, soldering, and finer fitting sub assemblies is done in my other, more office-like  hobby room, where I also display the finalized models in glass casings
 

this is very old kitchen furniture that could be saved from dumping many years ago, here are my favourate tools
 

this table saw is my latest achievement, a birthday present of my son in Oct. this year
 

this multy use sander is very much in use, and I ca´nt miss it anymore...
 

for sharpening chissels and drills
 

the small IXO Bosch Drill is very much in use, i`ts usualy for taking up hexogonal headed bits, and here also a bit for spanning small drills  0,5 - 6 mm for all purposes...
further a a sander belt ( cost much less than a Proxon or so), but is a pofessional tool
further two grinder / sanding tools for appropriate range of bits
And of course the good old  hand jig-saw
 

odd plankes and dowels, bits of wood, ply bits and remaining plate rests, etc. are saved for future purposes....
 

 
 

also all sorts of brass profiles and tubes are saved
 

 
 

drawings, design evaluations etc. are saved in card tubes
 
 

Hi Pete,
thats the impression, after the vacum cleaner was at work, you should have seen it before and an angry wife, just after a sanding and table saw session. All shoeprints all over the carpets !
 
Meantime I have received some blocks and cotton cloth for sewing the sails, brown and red, or will do two of the five sails in red. I still have some Morope  for the bolt ropes
 
Nils
 

Many thanks to Steve, Johann, Denis and Piet,
also thanks to all the "likes" for looking in
 
It must have been two weeks or more since I posted last, and your kind comments encourage me to carry on, the steam was a bit out of the kettle, and I do`nt realy know why....
Instead I spent some hours with my Trainz 2009 train simulator, a program I have on my PC. There is a favourate download add-on I have saved there, it is a historic logging line, down in breathtaking Murchison county, New Zealand.
This is covering standard gauge- and narrow gauge tracks in mountains,  over many scary wooden threstles over rough canyons with animated waterfalls, and along flowing rivers to get to the logging camps, with interactive log-loading and dumping functions.
Best of all are (amoungst many other vehicles in the train park),  the old geared puffing locomotives, like Shay, Climax, Heisler, etc.
 
Steve,
a very nice comment of yours, much appreciated. Yes, much is with hand tools, and because I neigther own a lathe nor a milling machine, I always have to evaluate how the job can be done altrnatively.
With pleasure I`ll provide a little overview of my favorate tools in use....... (ref. to the enclosed pics)
 
Johann,
thank you very much for nice comment, much appreciated, am pleased you like the details...
 
Denis,
thanks for your nice comments, am pleased you like the details. I`m stuck a bit with the deck in the moment, but will groove myself in and carry on....
 
Piet,
thats a very nice comment, and I`m pleased you like the workboat...
 
Nils
 
Pictures:
I have a small room in our cellar which I use for rough-work cutting, sawing, grinding, glass casing assembly, and wood storage.
The assembly work, designing, soldering, and finer fitting sub assemblies is done in my other, more office-like  hobby room, where I also display the finalized models in glass casings
 

this is very old kitchen furniture that could be saved from dumping many years ago, here are my favourate tools
 

this table saw is my latest achievement, a birthday present of my son in Oct. this year
 

this multy use sander is very much in use, and I ca´nt miss it anymore...
 

for sharpening chissels and drills
 

the small IXO Bosch Drill is very much in use, i`ts usualy for taking up hexogonal headed bits, and here also a bit for spanning small drills  0,5 - 6 mm for all purposes...
further a a sander belt ( cost much less than a Proxon or so), but is a pofessional tool
further two grinder / sanding tools for appropriate range of bits
And of course the good old  hand jig-saw
 

odd plankes and dowels, bits of wood, ply bits and remaining plate rests, etc. are saved for future purposes....
 

 
 

also all sorts of brass profiles and tubes are saved
 

 
 

drawings, design evaluations etc. are saved in card tubes
 
 

Post 39
 Rails and Swivel Gun pedestals
This is the last main hull construction job outstanding.
The kit provides a pre-formed Rough tree rails with the slots for the pedestals and timberheads pre-cut.

3550
I used the provided rail as a template to mark the positions of the posts and timberheads.
The kit part is perfectly fine as a simplified arrangement, but the rail of necessity is too wide, as it is designed to allow the Swivel gun pedestals to run thro’ it.
Both the Alert book and the Admiralty plan show the typical octagonal shape applicable to such pedestals, and a narrow Rough Tree rail that runs thro’ them, or tenons into them.
The pedestal bottoms are angled as they run down the drift rail with the tops horizontal.

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I made the octagonal pedestals from Boxwood Square stuff and used a simple jig to cut the angles using the kit parts as a template.

3580
With the Swivel crutches made the holes can now be drilled to take mountings.
At this point I have glued the posts into place as I need a solid base to fit the swivels and more importantly the Rough Tree rail.

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Testing the fit of the swivel guns and mounts. Since the previous post I have re-visited the Swivel mounts and made them slightly smaller.
 
That is the easy bit.
More tricky is the fitting of the Rough tree rail running between the posts and topping the Timberheads each side of the port before ending in a hance on the Drift rail.
For the Rough Tree rail I planed down a 1x4mm Boxwood strip supplied in the kit, until it was 2.0mm wide.
I am then faced with the problem of how to fit between the swivel posts. Mortise them in perhaps or pin them; the main issue is keeping a smooth transition between the posts.
I will report on how it goes in my next post.
 
B.E.
23/11/2019

Hello Nils,
 
I also caught up with your magnificent build.  As a succor for details myself I really like all the things you are adding to this working boat.  It makes it realistic and alive.
 
Cheers,

catching up on your progress Nils....and what a lot of progress you've made!    the deck sheer really looks great........the coamings work quite well!  she's shaping up to be another of your stellar achievements........you've done a fantastic job so far    I agree with you on the portholes.......they are awesome  

Hello Nils,

a very nice model, what you have created there.
I love these little details.

Nils,
Your work is an ongoing feast for the eyes, made even more wonderful by your creativity with what appears to be all hand labor with a minimal set of tools.  You've probably done it before but would you mind sharing what, if any power tools you use and what are your favorite hand tools?
Thank you
Steve

Many thanks Pete and B.E.
for your nice comments... 
also thanks to all the "likes" for pressing the thumb up icon...
 
Nils

thanks for catching up Pete...
 
I`ve been tied in with so many other things the last days, so the decking of the Zeesboot was cooking on small flame. Now on stb. are fitted the edge planks and the first regular plank, beginning from stern. It looks a bit untidy in the moment, due to the cured out CA used, because of the tensions through the curving, but sanding and scraping will be done at a later point in the process. I have to work around the flat brass members sticking upwards from the ply deck, and I have a good feeling that they are safely anchored to the supporting deck structures below. Caulking is done with a soft HB pencil
 
Nils

the blackened Fittings hold the shrouds, the ones momentarily still in brass hold the foot-rails leaving a horizontal gap to the deck, to hawse the overcoming water quickly
 

 
 

the 3 mm wide edge planks (1,5 mm thick) are from beechwood, they come out a bit darker after varnishing, and the 3 mm wide deck-planks will be of 0,7 mm thick pine
 
 

The little gaps in the deck, next to the brass fittings are closed with little ply bits

Good morning Pete,
many thanks for your words, and your nice idea ref. to smoke and sound... much appreciated...
I will save it up in my mind, just as for the oily cloth you once mentioned.
My next activities will be to carry on with the decks planking, I`ve been postponing this for quite some time already, but need to "jump into the cold water now", before concentrating on rigging and sails
 
Nils

many thanks for catching up Pete,
 
thanks for commenting the oven and other details...., and yes the etched fish will be used, I will try to pad them up a bit with Fimo clay and bake it over if it works, to get them a bit more flechy 3D looking. I also wanted to do some eels wiggling in the fish boxes.
I have ordered some reddish (bordeau colored) cotton cloth for the sail making, but may also try a more brownish tinted color, perhaps even two colors on the 5 sails, like some of the actual Zeesboots have
 
Nils

waterkettle (scale 1:24)  for tea or coffee making
 

oven chimney tube
 


 
revoveable chimney-tube rain cover

Thank you for your words Keith,
i`m pleased you like the details....
 
Nils

Hi Martin,
 
thanks for your check-in, and for your nice comments...
For further fitting out gadgets I was searching for an oven (Cabin heating and boiling up water for tea / coffee). I was looking for doll house furniture or so, etc... but these were all in wrong scale 1:12
Then by luck found one in brass  at Ebay in scale 1:24, did a bit of modification, painting to it, built a setz off tube over the cabin roof leading chimney tube, and here we are... Even found a small waterkettel in scale 1:24..
the fire extinguishers and the ax are also in the correct scale. I`m also looking out for some red/brown polyester or dralon cloth (surplus rest bits from an actual sailmaker) for making the sails from.
Also many thanks to all who clicked the "likes"
Nils

 
 

 
 

one fire extinguisher near to the engine and gasoline storage
 

 
 

the chimney top will be modified
 

 
this view into the cabin is from the outside, here without the ladder
 
 

Many thanks Geert,
your remark. is much appreciated...
 
Nils

Status:
cabin roof and slide hatch both planked and varnished. For the two crew members I made two mugs from brass tube and a big jug for fresh drinkwater (made from wood dowel)
The porthole flanges are pinned to the cabin walls.
I`m intending to fit an oven with a waterkettel on it, also inside the cabin, as well as a fire exstinguisher and a fire axt for safety reasons
Have meanwhile also received the textile for making the berth pillows, unfotunately there was no old shirt I could sacrafice for that job...
 
Nils

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 

Status :
Raw deck is on, new glassed portholes with rivet holes, openable cabin hatchway, outcuts for viewing cabin  and chain pan, deck and cabin roof and will be planked sperately...
The cabin will be mounted permanently when the deck is planked. A water can and two mugs will be stowed in the little locker between the berths. As soon as I find some waste-cloth with checkered blue white decore, the pillow cases will be made, and last not least the small iron oven will be set between ladder and portside berth, perhaps with a kettle on the top...., the oven exhaust will be led over the cabin roof....
 
Nils

front view engine, flywheel, waterpump, generator and transmission V-belts
 

view of working cockpit and rudderstand for helmsman, also access to mizzen mast and its sail lines
 
 

outcut in cabin and deck for cabin inside view
 

cabin hatch closed, with removeable slide pannel and slide hatch cover
 

cabin hatch opened
 

open hatch with access to the ladder on the innside. The main mast slides into the 8 mm square socket
 

the ladder will be shifted a bit, in order for the drawers under the berth to be opened. if access is required there
 

view to chain pan in front compartment. Access to the chain-and storage compartment is through the hatch in the openable front cabin bullwark under deck
 

ladder down to cabin floor
 
 

Thank you very much Pete,
 
you seem to feel my present attitude, yes I am realy smiling, also for relief, that the deck side could fit quite well without fractures. The ply is so thin and there are so many small outcuts to be transfered from wood to card to ply, and all to be brought into alignment.  I did`nt want to do it (except for two halves only, stb. / port ) in smaller sections...
 
Nils

status
 
the stb. half of the base deck (without planking) is now on, clear to be seen  is the curvature of the deck in two dimensions....
The 0,8 mm ply has been cut out acc. to the card template. The little rectangular gaps at the outside edge will be filled out with little ply plates, prior to planking
 
Nils

 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Eberhard,
thanks for your suggestion, but unfortunately I have zero machining capabilities (no milling !). The portholes were sold as brass material, and after scratching off some chips from the rear side, it still looks like brass cast.
 
Nils