captainbob

Sa far as the metric question.  Buy what you are used to using.  My machine is in metric but I don't think in metric, so it's always b problem to change my thinking for the job and a lot of the time I make mistakes in the conversions.
 
Bob

Sa far as the metric question.  Buy what you are used to using.  My machine is in metric but I don't think in metric, so it's always b problem to change my thinking for the job and a lot of the time I make mistakes in the conversions.
 
Bob

Frank, I gota watch this one.  I've always liked the skipjacks.
 
Bob

I finally got a start on the Mariefred.   The drawings I received from the museum in Stockholm were the best drawings I have ever received.  When I get drawings of a boat the first thing I do is scan them into my computer and open them in an ancient copy of AutoCad.   Then I check length, breadth and height as though I were designing her.  Usually there are errors that must be corrected.  But these drawings lined up and were correct.  When designing a boat the designer draws one side of each bulkhead these then have to be redrawn and each one needs to be mirrored to make a full width bulkhead.  These are then transferred to and cut out of wood sheet and mounted on a board.  That is where I am at the moment.
Bob

You're coming along much faster then I thought.  I'll have to pay closer attention to this beautiful build.
 
Bob

So much detail in such a small space.  The funnels are great.
 
Bob

From four simple tubes and a few small pieces, comes such beauty.  Well done.
 
Bob

I finally got a start on the Mariefred.   The drawings I received from the museum in Stockholm were the best drawings I have ever received.  When I get drawings of a boat the first thing I do is scan them into my computer and open them in an ancient copy of AutoCad.   Then I check length, breadth and height as though I were designing her.  Usually there are errors that must be corrected.  But these drawings lined up and were correct.  When designing a boat the designer draws one side of each bulkhead these then have to be redrawn and each one needs to be mirrored to make a full width bulkhead.  These are then transferred to and cut out of wood sheet and mounted on a board.  That is where I am at the moment.
Bob

Russ, I believe the main parts of the boat are wood.  But in some pictures such as one picture of the bow the spray guard on top of the rail is dented so it is metal. 
Welcome aboard, Michael and Nils.  I hope this turns out to be another ‘fun build”.
This is a picture dated 1903.  I will try to build to this time.
Bob
 
Bob

Mariefred
The coal-fired steamship Mariefred was built in 1903 for the trade-Enhörna Stockholm-Mariefred. She has sailed under the same name and with the same steam engine ever since.  The vessel has been owned by the same shipping company, Gripsholms-Mariefred Ångfartygs AB since 1905. All this makes Mariefred one of the worldwide unique ships and an indispensable part of Sweden's cultural heritage! 
Built at South wharf in Stockholm in 1903. Length 32.84 m, width 6.33 m. Coal-fired steam boiler.  Speed 10 knots.  230 passengers.
 
 

I have puzzled about how to make a realistic lug and shackle coupling for the topping lift blocks at the cross trees and decided to use chain, just a couple of links from a very thin necklace chain. The plan was to make a small nick in the card that formed the triangular fore and aft plates of the crosss tree and glue a link into the cut so that half a link showed as a lug, the other link representing a shackle.  To this link would be glued the block.
The idea was OK but trying to secure the links to the four corners, two forward at no 1 hatch and two aft at number 2 hatch, caused a lot of wear and especially tear in the card. So I removed it and started again with wood veneer, the scraps salvaged from the redundant skate board park.  Knowing that these split very easily, I drew the triangles away from the edge of the piece and drilled the holes for the links before cutting out the shapes.  The photo shows the chain threaded.
 
  
 
This has worked well and I now have a foremast with the lugs and shackles ready to be fitted and cut. Must paint first.
 
I have also started work on the bridge house.  I have had to guesstimate the athwartship dimensions as I don't have any pictures taken from aloft or from a forward facing position. So the width of the wheelhouse, for example is a fair guess, I believe, and the width of the outside deck space below, on the level where the master and mate had their accommodation, are again guessed at.
I have cut wood shapes to represent the first two levels and a card cut to plan to represent the visible surface all round.  I wanted to make the windows look real and so coloured the wood block with grey pastel crayon where the windows would be, laid transparent plastic sheet from a supermarket vegetable bag over to simulate glass, and then glued the pre-shaped card into place.
 
       
 
The pic is not as pleasing to see as the actual thing.  It's grainy and should be white, but I have confessed to poor photo work earlier and can only plead incompetence again.  I hope that later photos will be better.
The card curves around the forward corners of the accommodation block and will be joined by a separate length of card covering the currently exposed area.  The seams will be hidden behind the derrick posts that will be situated close up against the curved corners.  The deck, outside the mate's and master's cabins will be sheathed with wood, again taken form the skate board park veneers.  That's next, and then comes the wheelhouse and monkey island.
 
 
 
      

Frank, I gota watch this one.  I've always liked the skipjacks.
 
Bob

Glad you have power back on.  Hope you can stay home through this next round of storms. 
 
I'm curious to know how all the boats in the bay made it through the storm.  Hope not too many were lost.
 
Bob

Fine job, Ken.  The museum should be happy.
 
Bob

I finally got a start on the Mariefred.   The drawings I received from the museum in Stockholm were the best drawings I have ever received.  When I get drawings of a boat the first thing I do is scan them into my computer and open them in an ancient copy of AutoCad.   Then I check length, breadth and height as though I were designing her.  Usually there are errors that must be corrected.  But these drawings lined up and were correct.  When designing a boat the designer draws one side of each bulkhead these then have to be redrawn and each one needs to be mirrored to make a full width bulkhead.  These are then transferred to and cut out of wood sheet and mounted on a board.  That is where I am at the moment.
Bob

Nils, My preference is to build in 1:48 but I live in a smaller house now.  Now I build to keep the finished boat less then 15" long.
 
Bob

Thank you Roger.  I just realized from looking at one of the drawings that she is built of metal.  I had just opened this to correct my earlier statement.  Be that as it may, I am going to build her of wood.
 
Bob 

Russ, I believe the main parts of the boat are wood.  But in some pictures such as one picture of the bow the spray guard on top of the rail is dented so it is metal. 
Welcome aboard, Michael and Nils.  I hope this turns out to be another ‘fun build”.
This is a picture dated 1903.  I will try to build to this time.
Bob
 
Bob

Nils, My preference is to build in 1:48 but I live in a smaller house now.  Now I build to keep the finished boat less then 15" long.
 
Bob

I finally got a start on the Mariefred.   The drawings I received from the museum in Stockholm were the best drawings I have ever received.  When I get drawings of a boat the first thing I do is scan them into my computer and open them in an ancient copy of AutoCad.   Then I check length, breadth and height as though I were designing her.  Usually there are errors that must be corrected.  But these drawings lined up and were correct.  When designing a boat the designer draws one side of each bulkhead these then have to be redrawn and each one needs to be mirrored to make a full width bulkhead.  These are then transferred to and cut out of wood sheet and mounted on a board.  That is where I am at the moment.
Bob

Nils, My preference is to build in 1:48 but I live in a smaller house now.  Now I build to keep the finished boat less then 15" long.
 
Bob

I finally got a start on the Mariefred.   The drawings I received from the museum in Stockholm were the best drawings I have ever received.  When I get drawings of a boat the first thing I do is scan them into my computer and open them in an ancient copy of AutoCad.   Then I check length, breadth and height as though I were designing her.  Usually there are errors that must be corrected.  But these drawings lined up and were correct.  When designing a boat the designer draws one side of each bulkhead these then have to be redrawn and each one needs to be mirrored to make a full width bulkhead.  These are then transferred to and cut out of wood sheet and mounted on a board.  That is where I am at the moment.
Bob

Nils, My preference is to build in 1:48 but I live in a smaller house now.  Now I build to keep the finished boat less then 15" long.
 
Bob

I finally got a start on the Mariefred.   The drawings I received from the museum in Stockholm were the best drawings I have ever received.  When I get drawings of a boat the first thing I do is scan them into my computer and open them in an ancient copy of AutoCad.   Then I check length, breadth and height as though I were designing her.  Usually there are errors that must be corrected.  But these drawings lined up and were correct.  When designing a boat the designer draws one side of each bulkhead these then have to be redrawn and each one needs to be mirrored to make a full width bulkhead.  These are then transferred to and cut out of wood sheet and mounted on a board.  That is where I am at the moment.
Bob

Nils, My preference is to build in 1:48 but I live in a smaller house now.  Now I build to keep the finished boat less then 15" long.
 
Bob