Jump to content
MSW Spring Donation Drive

Mike_H

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    228

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Mike_H

  1. Mike_H
    A bit of light relief painting some buckets and a barrel. More praise for admiralty paints
  2. Mike_H
    Deck planks installed. Required 1mm spacing, and having recenlty re-hinged and hung most of our doors I had plenty of plastic packing spacersand used strips cut from them. Worked a treat.
  3. Mike_H
    Keel, stern post and prow attached. Second planking done. Much better job than the first - and while it's easier there was much learning from the first. Rick was right about the keel needing to be packed away from the false keel - it was quite difficult to clamp the boat from now on because the keel only just sits proud. No real impact on appearance, but annoying. While I didn't follow tht bit of advice I paid close attention to the suggestion that the gunwale cover go on after the work within the hull is completed. Learning Cyano glue is astonishing. The instructions suggest the use of contact adhesive. Suspect if I had, the hull would be orange and I'd still be stuck to it. The cyano takes a couple of minutes to go off - time to adjust things, but not long to wait. For anything fiddly, or remotely difficult to clamp it's a wonder.The stuff I used was much more friendly than conventional superglue. Do buy some cleaning solvent for your fingers and tweezer Make sure the full length and width of the strip has a thin coating of glue. Un-coated parts are likely to sit a little proud and you can't sand them back Admiralty brand acrylic varnish goes on beautifully and looks lovely.
  4. Mike_H
    First planking started and finished. And oh-boy did I learn a lot. Soak or heat the strips. I used an Amati nipper, and frankly, don't. The pins are only temporary, so you need to pull them out. For that reason don't use cyano glue (only did it a couple of times, no idea why) Don't taper the strips to anything like a point. I've since read some very old advice on what to do - let's see how it works on the next project - if it does, I'll share. Do fill the gaps and then sand, sand and sand
  5. Mike_H
    Here's a close-up of the transom with one degree of remedy. It's rotated a small amount about both a vertical and a horizontal axis. The vertical-axis rotation is remedied by a thin layer of filler. The horizontal means the that the top of the transom is not quite horizontal when the boat is on an even keel. That just needs a bit of 60/120/180 grit sanding.
  6. Mike_H
    Strengtheners on. And the misalignment of the transom discovered
  7. Mike_H
    Does that transom look square to you? It's sat absolutely snug in its slot, but it's not 😒
  8. Mike_H
    Bulkheads are a nice tight fit. Assembled them dry. Disassembled and then assembled with PVA glue. Plenty of use for a T-square. Bought a pack of two glues - Speedbond PVA and Roket Max Cyanoacrylate. The PVA bonded quickly (10 min) and was easy to work with. The Cyano was an eye-opener as will become apparent.
  9. Mike_H
    And so it begins. Nice simple (false) keel, laser cut from ply. Never occurred to me to sand off the char. Correctly, at this point, I think. The keel is clamped to a Hobbyzone Small Building Slip, which worked pretty well.
  10. Mike_H
    Technically this is not a build log - since I've built her! But not having discovered this forum until about halfway through, I feel I've missed out, so I thought I'd post a few pics, point out what I got wrong, and just chat about how much fun I had. Chat back if you like! There is one complete build log on the forum for this boat - by @Rick01, and a few partial logs. If you want to see the full evolution of the build have a look at Rick's log.
  11. Mike_H
    Hello! Or G'day, or perhaps ey up! Probably not ahoy! Anyway, my lifelong interest in 18th and 19th C. naval history means my lovely daughters have been dragged through endless museums and across endless ships - the Victory three times, I think. So perhaps a birthday present of an Artesania Latina kit should not have been a surprise - but it certainly was a delight. A few months later and I am completely hooked - in fact it's finished, as I will explain, and I have dreadful withdrawal symptoms waiting for its successor to be delivered. The AL kit in question was for Endeavour's Longboat, but I started it before I found this forum so didn't create a build log - I'll do something like that retrospectively, to point our how much I got wrong, how much I learned, and how delighted I am. I'll do that in the build logs section for ease of finding. I've just read a post in the New member Introductions saying essentially don't run before you can crawl. And in that respect the Longboat is a great starting project. It remains to be seen if crawling through that was enough to prepare me for jogging through Caldercraft's HMS Snake. Time will tell - but you will see it on this forum.

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...