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Sorry, picture 2 is the one in the instruction, bottom left in the instruction in the picture.
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Everyone tells the beginner, build a dory. After trying to build a couple of ¨ordinary¨ boats with poor results, I bought the Bluejacket Swampscott dory. But it went bad right away. This was a few years ago and I have since put together a few hulls with decent results. Today I took out the Dory kit and I still can't figure out how to fix it or how to start from scratch. I hope you can see picture 2 in the description. That's where everything went wrong. These parts that you have to glue without any kind of jig on something that is not perpendicular anywhere, must of course be completely straight and perpendicular. But how can I achieve that?
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If I would like to build myself a model of, say, Victory in 1:48 scale, I can then start from Shipyard's Victory kit in 1:96? I understand that I have to take into account the different thicknesses of the materials if, for example, I build the hull in wood and the rest in cardboard.
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I have tried a dory but for me it was a disaster. Its a very special building technic completly different than most boats and you must get everything right before glueing. I dont know why a dory is adviced as first kit, its the only boat I couldnt build at all, but maybe its just me. I should copy all parts in a copying machine if you dont get drawings in full scale, then you could make new parts if you have to. The one I tried was from Bluejacket. A build log.
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Occre Polaris is also a good beginner kit with a lot of videos showing each step. I am building it myself and one thing that I really like is all printed instructions that comes in the box. Printed on A3 everything is very easy to read and the pictures are also in big size. There is a printed side with all wooden strips in actual size, just put the real strip beside and compare, so easy, so clever. Of course Occre have taken some shortcuts to make a easy build, the deck is completely level, easier to build but not so correct. Polaris is not a model of a real ship, its a real beginner kit and the best one I have seen so far. I have tried Billing boats, Mamoli, Bluejacket, Amati and some smaller companies modelboats and Polaris I think is best in instructions. We dont have Model Shipways in Sweden I think, but I have read the build logs and got the impression their beginner kits have som problem with fitting issues. Maybe they are a little bit old and the lasercut not so exact? I dont know, read the build logs yourself and decide. Polaris instructions, link from Occres website: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FwgMxKs20rx1Ec5VMwuTVq6lWc7agKw3/view Polaris has at least one very good building log on this forum.
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Endeavour is a good choiche I think. Beautiful boat, have had my thoughts about her myself. Amati doesnt have the best instructions but you can find building logs and ask questions here.
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I recognize your fear of planking but I think you will gain by realizing that the first and maybe even the second boat you build will not be a masterpiece. I think it's better if you choose a smaller build, regardless of whether it involves planking or not. Choose a type of boat that you like and have fun building. This is a hobby, not a competition.
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Dont know if this helps you, its a picture of a doubleblock from Vasas rigg. https://digitaltmuseum.se/011024638916/block
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Does This Wood Model Ship Have Any Monetary Value?
ubjs replied to jtridexter's topic in New member Introductions
I think it would be easy to sell the model to someone in northern Europe that knows what Lilla Dan is. https://www.j-l.com/about/ The model is in the old version, the one you could buy now is a modernised later version. I would say 2-300 euro. -
I have now ordered Polaris but I have also changed my plan. I will build Polaris like it is to restart my modelshipbuilding career. And I will copy some of the parts and build a waterline model for my model railroad modul in 0-scale, Enköpings harbor. I have got some plans from Seahistoric museum in Sweden and I have got a lot of pictures of similar boats and also think that I have found the name of the ship in the link in nr 3, it was called Folke. Why Polaris? Its doubleplanked, its cheap and there is, I think, a very good building log on this forum. I have copied the log to a word-document and will print it.
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Hi I got some answers on a swedish forum and maybe I can use Polaris-kit to build something like this: https://digitaltmuseum.se/011014537628/enkoping-hamnen-gamla-hamnmagasin-och-silobyggnaden-mot-nordost
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First, my english is not good, maybe ¨real role model¨ is not right? If there isnt a ¨real role model¨ what type of ship would it represent? From what country? I wonder if the ship could have been seen in the Baltic sea?
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Hi, I tried some spackle but I saw directly it wasnt good and wiped it away. The card sunk in. I search this forum and found answers about fill with paper or balsa. I shall try that. I have painted the hull with a acrylic spraycan, I think it makes it easier to see where I have to fill.
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Now I have glued most of the first planking. After trying a number of different glues, I chose UHU express. The glue adheres quickly, in a few minutes. So there were no major problems getting the cardboard pieces there. But when I now look at the hull, there is a lot of glue residue and what's worse is that the cardboard pieces have sunk in a little in the middle of each piece. Now I'm thinking about what to putty a cardboard model with. One strike filler? Since this is my first cardboard construction, maybe it's time to try some different methods, it's unlikely to be anything amazing here. :) A variant would be to build on with cardboard on one side of the hull and cover the other with wooden strips. It needs two more layers of cardboard, 2 x 0.6 mm, so it would work with 2 layers of wood or 1 layer with slightly thicker wooden strips.
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Hi I have lost my manual, can I download it somewhere?
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Matching Deck Colors
ubjs replied to hof00's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
Vallejo has a kit for wood and leather, 8 bottles and a guide, ref no 70.182. Colors are 847, 923, 981, 983, 872, 828, 939, 950. https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/product/hobby/sets/effects-en/wood-and-leather-70182/ -
I know that I could use chemical blackening but would it work with some spray paint? Building brass model railroad waggons I have used a primer also used for reparation on cars, zinkspray. Would it work on brass fittings for model ships also or is it too coarse-grained? Some other ideas?
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Gluing deck, will this work?
ubjs replied to ubjs's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
I just wanted to check if someone had tried it. No one has, but many thinks its a bad idea. Well, its not the end of the world trying it, if it doesnt work I just glue plank by plank. -
I think this Marisstella Ontario is not a good kit. Read the two logs on this forum and choose another kit if you not have built several others before. Guess how I found out that the words ¨expert¨ on Billings kit really meant something.
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Gluing deck, will this work?
ubjs replied to ubjs's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
The boat model that I build on is the steamer Bohuslän and the decks are simple in shape but large and quite numerous. Now I will lay the stern deck which is built in and will not be visible so much from the outside so I thought I would try to make it a little easier. There should be a lot of chairs and tables on it as well. I shall test doublesided clear tape as I have used when building roads for Faller cars on my model railroad modules. I used it for securing the guiding metalthread that the cars follow, and I have some tape left. Maybe I tape it on paper and then glue the whole thing at the false deck. -
Gluing deck, will this work?
ubjs replied to ubjs's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
What glue do you use? I glued a deck and it took a lot of time and my wife wandered how I could spend som much time accomplish just that. I glued every plank with yellow glue, but I`m not sure I got glue everywhere, maybe I was too afraid of getting glue on top of the deck. -
Gluing plank by plank takes time and I dont get glue under the whole plank. If I cut and lay all deckplanks and secure them with eachother with tape, then lift the whole thing and glue, put it back. Someone working this way?
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Enköping harbor by ubjs - a model railroad module in 1:45
ubjs replied to ubjs's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
All buildings and I got some inspiration to carry on building them. We run what we like, english, german, us and some swedish. I have a Lenz startset and some brass kits on the shelf of swedish goods wagons.
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https://www.vasamuseet.se/en/exhibitions/vasa-model
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https://internationaldragonsailing.net/the-dragon/
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