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So here is the stern yawl finished in a fashion similar to the #1 cutter shown above. The rails are actually white not cream or buff as the look in the picture (at least on my monitor). I added the towing ring and moveable rudder as on #1 cutter. Simulated lap-strake siding created using "O" scale 1 X 4s (approx 0.02 X 0.08). (I just noticed that one of the thole pins on the port side has come adrift - I will fix before putting the yawl in "storage"). Working the #2 cutter and reading ahead for pointers on building the "real" ship.
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After several tries I finally gave up trying to build the Niagara boats using formers as shown in Hubert Sicard's site. The major difference in the appearance of boats built using the kit's bread-and-butter material and using formers is the appearance of the planks on the boat's interior (see picture above). However, it turns out once all the internals (thwarts, seats, gratings, etc.) are added there is very little of the boats interior that can be seen. In addition, my attempt at doing the stern yawl and doing the lap-strake planking from the start was pretty much a failure. Using 5/64's wide planks I was unable to keep anything like a consistent (or at least smoothly varying) overlap and it came out pretty ugly (see photo below - the one showing bare wood). Sooo, I decided to use the kits bread-and-butter materials to build the ship's boats and have finished the first of the launches. I made the rudder so it can be detached as I find it hard to believe that the rudder was left attached when the boats were carried in the davits. Wave action (it can get pretty stormy on Lake Eire) could have unseated the rudder or beaten it to death. I also added a towing ring at the bow as I believe these boats were probably towed frequently.
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Thanks Frankie GLH
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Good news and bad news. First the good, "turned out" the hull from the cradle without undue difficulty and it doesn't look too bad after a coat of filler was added and then sanded down. The bad news, the hull is considerably wider than the one made from the "bread and butter" pieces in the kit and wider than the plans show. See picture below. I attribute this to my failure to correctly follow the directions and reduce the contours of the formers created from Mr. Sicard's plans to account for the rib and planking that would go on top of the former. Am creating a new set of formers now with due regard for the thicknesses involved.
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As for the launch(es) the first one is "on the building ways" utilizing Hubert Sicard's site (Wooden Ship Modeling for Dummies) instructions for doing it this way. Here is how it looks with three rows of planking on both sides. One of the potential issues with this method is you wont know until all the planking is complete how much difficulty will be encountered getting the hull "turned out" of the cradle. There is always the possibility of glue getting where you don't want it.
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The yawl boat has had its final filler "clean-up" and the keel/rudder has been added. Next a coat of primer on the inside and the lap-strake planking when the materiel (.0206 thickness HO scale 1 X 3s and 1 X 4s from Northeast Scale Lumber) arrives. Not sure why the redish tint. The filler is pinkish but there isn't enough there to cause this.
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Tom, Welcome aboard. I am going to Erie in September to take a ride on the Niagara replica and get a bunch of pictures of what the "real" Niagara looks like today. Gary H
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Bondo arrived early and I was able to get a first (and second) layer of fill on the yawl boat. Still a few places that need attention but given that the sides will be recovered for the lap stake I am not inclined to make additional efforts on the exterior. Also cut the tabs off and am working on the keel that I will add before adding the additional planking.
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So here is my first pass at the stern yawl. And I haven't sanded through anywhere (yet). My tube of Bondo 801 arrives tomorrow so I will sand a bit more before putting on the first coat of filler. The plans indicate that this boat is lap-stack planked and I have some material that is also supposed to arrive tomorrow. With regard to the other two boats, I have instructions from Hubert Sicard's site (Wooden Ship Modeling for Dummies) for building them using a frame-on-bulkhead approach which appears very similar to that used for the seine boat in the Benjamin W. Latham kit. I managed to pull that off (although I did cheat somewhat and double plank it) so I may give that a try once I get a little further along on the yawl.
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While this is not my first model ship it is my first attempt at a build log. My previous kits were all fore and aft rigged fishing schooners so this is my first real attempt with square rigged sails and all the yards, rigging etc. that comes alone. I have scrolled through many build logs and will follow what I have seen numerous times by starting with a picture of the kit box sitting on my workbench. I plan on working the ship's boats first as I am waiting for my new Byrnes disk sander to arrive and the ship's boats look like they will be a challenge while I wait.
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Richard, Am considering building this to replace a similar sized "store bought" model of Endeavour. Are there instructions provided in English with the kit? Best Gary
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