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  1. ubjs
    How are you planning to bend your planks? I like my electric plank bender, but there is other ways to bend planks. You can easily make sanding tools by gluing sandpaper to a piece of wood in the shape you want. I usually use contact glue for this. You need a straight board or something to put the frames on the keel. Something to check that you are gluing them perpendicularly. I usually use Lego pieces!
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    Spray from Bluejacket.
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    How do you do when you make the holes in the second layer? You don't have any problems with cracks in the second layer when you make the holes for the cannon ports?
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    I'm thinking if it would be worth trying on the 1st planking. Speaking of planking guides, I can forget most of what I've read if I want to build a model that looks like the real ship. If I look at the Vasa ship, they have planked it completely wrong, pointed planks in the bow, etc. So the question is should I build according to the model building gurus or should I build it as it looks in real life? As for the Vasa, it is easy to check how it is made, perhaps many of the ships of that time looked exactly like that in reality and not as perfect as model builders often build them?
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    Start planking with gun ports, pros and cons? In Dressel's book Planking technics I saw an idea to start with planks at gun ports. I think it looks interesting.
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    The thing about wooden ships is that most things can be fixed. The important thing is to start building. You will make mistakes but they can be fixed. If you fail to plank Polaris, you can always plaster her and paint. When you do the second planking on Polaris with the thinner strips, I suggest that you finish planking one sian first. Then the other side will probably be better and you can turn it towards the ¨audience¨. My tip, whatever ship you choose, buy it now and start building. You learn step by step by building, not by reading.
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    Can you motorize it? I have some Märklin carriages in 1:32 scale and a garden railway, but mostly LGB trains.
  8. ubjs
    Reminds me of Torborg, a small Norwegian rowing and sailing boat from Billings. Build log: https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/torborg-billing-boats-1-20.6226/
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    There are of course a lot of options. I searched at Krick on simple and here is the list. https://www.krickshop.de/Models/Static-Models.htm?shop=krick_e&SessionId=&a=catalog&p=80&filter=k10g53p55 Billing boats are hated by Americans, I understand, but for Europeans, they have many interesting ships. Here we Europeans have the opposite compared to Model Shipways, Billings kits are relatively cheap in Europe and probably more expensive in the US. I have built the fishing boat Norden and it is nice and absolutely suitable as a first boat. Link to Norden, the instructions can be downloaded. Billings instructions are based on exploded views instead of text. https://www.billingboats.com/index.php/modelboats-footer/39/120/boats/the-beginner/P-bb603-norden-cutter
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    I have the Norwegian Pram (because it's a Norwegian boat) and I don't think it suits everyone. It is small and the wood material, I don't know what it is, something between balsa and linden. Fragile material that I don't like to work with anyway. Maybe it's linden but of a soft kind? The parts are also very thin. Probably depends on who you are, probably fits well for small hands. The wood material in the Occre Polaris is the same as in their larger ships. If I were to choose a dory as a start, I would buy one from Bluejacket, it is in any case something to take in and you get big, nice drawings.
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    I really like this one. A fast way to search build logs here is to use the web browser and write modelshipworld polaris build log.
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    Over 200 euros for this one, but I think it's a lot of boat for the money. Good materials and construction. Maybe the best choice as a beginner boat if you can afford it. https://www.krickshop.de/Models/Static-Models/Saucy-Jack-Well-Smack-Bausatz-1-64.htm?shop=krick_e&SessionId=&a=article&ProdNr=25319&p=80 I have built Occre Polaris, the material is ok and the instructions is the best I have seen, got all printed in the box. There is a lot of videos also. But Vanguard is top quality. Another way to think about it is that the first boat is rarely great, so maybe buy cheap and save the money for your second ship.
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    No, no! You can buy Model Shipways in America, in Europe they cost a fortune. 90 euros for a dory, that's a joke. The Polaris from Occre is a pure beginner's kit, a real ship for about the same price as a dory from Model Shipways. https://occre.com/en/products/polaris
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    JS Elcano is rubbish, the material is bad, the scale is difficult. AL probably has several other good kits, a lot has happened in 40 years. I have their Vasa for example which is not perfect but ok, not a beginner model though. I think Vanguard is good, don't know where in Europe you live but there is a German dealer. https://www.krickshop.de/Models/Static-Models.htm?shop=krick_e&SessionId=&a=catalog&p=80
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    I click on the 1501-1750 pdf and it opens but nothing happens when I try to click on the build that I want to see? It looks like the file is downloaded?
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    I think Vanguard could be a good choice. I would like to build a Vanguard model myself but no shop in Sweden sells it. After Brexit its difficult to get anything from UK.
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    Here you could download instructions and plans. https://www.billingboats.com/index.php/modelboats-footer/79/120/boats/the-expert/P-bb5005-danmark My build is on hold. I have just taken up Santisima Trinidad, cross section. Because I always get problem with firewall when trying to upload pictures on this forum I now write my building log on Ships of Scale.
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    If I had the money, the time and the skill. I look forward to follow building threads on this one.
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    Yes, the link to the video above works now.
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    Yes, 1 hour and 50 minutes now. Swedish/spanish time.
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    Somewhere I read time 21.00, 1 hour and 10 minutes from now.
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    I think the question is interesting. Sometimes you see models of old boats that look as if they were built with fiberglass hulls without the slightest joint between the boards. So it all depends on what the role model looks like, right? So the advice is to try to look at real boats, preferably in real life, but you can find most things online. If you now want to build a model of what a boat might look like in reality. I have noticed that many build ships according to other criteria, and nothing wrong with that, of course everyone must be allowed to decide on their own model and build as they wish.
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    I think Occre Polaris is a good beginner kit. A good build log:
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    Could Occre or Artesania Latina be something? I like the larger scale (1:45 and 1:48), maybe easier to fix things in the larger scale?
  25. ubjs
    There is a list of everything included in the kit. Under Plans and instructions is only Instruction manual listed. So, I was so disappointed. For me, drawing is important. I think Blue Jacket's drawings are very nice. If you make a kit, you have to make a drawing, right? Then you might as well insert it into the instruction sheet and just ignore stapling it together and the problem is solved?

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