Jolly Jo
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Phil, thanks a lot for the advice and information! I don't think I will or can be as accurate as Mark but rather then just going along with the plan and material provided to "just" learn the basics, my idea is to make improvements were I can to get a result I am still happy with in the years to come when I hope I'll be an experienced modeler. -
Fortunately I was able to glue the cracked caprail. But as I just went with the shape of the bow on the first piece, It isn't shaped right going aft (yet). So today I grabbed some scrap wood, shaped it like the complete side of the hull and glued it on a base plate so it doesn't bend. The caprail wood was soaked over night and held over a pot with boiling water. Then I did some gentle bending, clamped it on the sides with spring clamps, loosely fitted the F-clamps and carefully pulled them tighter. I also redid the "frame" on the stern. I thought it was too thick and bulky so I reshaped it and now I'm happy with it When I loosely laid out the deck planks I thought they are off in scale too much. A model plank is 4mm wide which would make 228mm on the real ship (although it's fictional, I know)... Thanks to the great literature post on Schooners SaltyScott started I've ordered Howard Chapelle's "The Baltimore Clipper" and Karl Heinz Marquardt's "The Global Schooner". Hopefully I can determine the correct width of the deck planks or at least a plausible range. Splitting my planks into 2mm would make for 114mm in reality. That sounds plausible... Also I would like to make cover boards.
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I made a jig to cut the deck planks Later I added another jig to poke the fake nail marks Then I cut out the gun ports and shaped a piece to add to the transom (the black line on top is left from tracing the shape with a pencil) Shaping the caprail didn't go that well because it cracked. I'll let it dry over night and hope to fix it tomorrow.
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Great post, Mark, very much appreciated! It helps me too and I ordered Chapelle's and Marquardt's Books (Thank you for the list, Phil!). Marquardt also wrote a book about the rigging of schooners in German but I passed and bought "The Global Schooner". So not only do I learn how to rig my model correctly but the English terms as well (if I should join a German forum I will have to buy the other book too haha) Cheers One more Joachim LOL
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Thank you very much for your nice welcomes, mates!
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Thank you very much!
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This is going to be an exciting build! I gladly follow
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looked nice but not too simplistic and toy-ish. Something to learn the ropes, literally, before tackling a more serious build. In the end the ship should be displayed as a waterline model under full sail. Looking at the build logs of theoracle09 and maso and their Newport models (here and here) encouraged me to keep going and that I was doing okay so far (I think). As of now I finished planking the hull. The transom in picture 11 was just loosely put in place and as I didn't like the flat top I added another stripe and shaped it round. All the pictures I found of these vessels showed curved transoms. The Lynx/Mosquidobit schooner build of SaltyScott which I am totally excited about and all the wisdom posted there confirmed my resolution.
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Ahoy everyone! When I was looking for something I can do quietly after wearisome hours in the store and on dark winter weekends, I decided to build a model ship. The idea was going round in my head for quite some time and in January I finally got started. Why ships? Maybe watching Master and Commander a 100h time or the rebuilt of the classic sailing boat Tally Ho on YouTube/Patreon (I am following and supporting the project for years now) got me into it. Maybe the seed was planted even further back when I visited the Naval Museum in Karlskrona, Sweden, with all it's original ship models from the 18th century, or the Technology Museum in Berlin and its many models of historic ships on display. Anyway, I bought a model that was in the „simple to build“ category without looking to simplistic, the Schooner Newport by Mamoli. Unfortunately, I felt the manual could be better, at least for beginners and was left wondering how to properly plank the hull. As I found a lot of information here and two build logs which helped me through the process, I thought I might as well join the club and contribute my own build. I am looking forward to further browse the forum, learn a lot, get new ideas and hopefully can be of help to the community too. Cheers Joachim
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