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Wintergreen reacted to Jim Lad in Herzogin Cecilie 1902 by Jim Lad - Four Masted Barque January 28

Reminds me of Baldrick - "I have a cunning plan, my Lord." 😀

John
Wintergreen got a reaction from KeithAug in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage February 12

Thanks for likes and interest so far.
Something to report before the work week consumes most of the time again.
The covering boards are mainly done bar the rearmost ones. Those are a later headache.
Focus then is to get the perimeter of the deck in place.
I started with the short king plank to have the center all secured. Then it is a matter of more finicky filing and testing of scarph joints.
They came out not half bad, so I'm happy. First three boards on port side glued in place. I will then shift over to starboard side and attack the acute curve at the rear last.

And the overall shot. Apologies for the fuzzy focus, but it hides the little less than perfect second joint.

Til next time, ta!
Wintergreen got a reaction from FriedClams in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage January 28

Thanks Keith! Much more rewarding than the outer boards with all their nothces for the stanchions.
Wintergreen got a reaction from Elia in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage February 9

Thanks for likes and interest so far.
Something to report before the work week consumes most of the time again.
The covering boards are mainly done bar the rearmost ones. Those are a later headache.
Focus then is to get the perimeter of the deck in place.
I started with the short king plank to have the center all secured. Then it is a matter of more finicky filing and testing of scarph joints.
They came out not half bad, so I'm happy. First three boards on port side glued in place. I will then shift over to starboard side and attack the acute curve at the rear last.

And the overall shot. Apologies for the fuzzy focus, but it hides the little less than perfect second joint.

Til next time, ta!
Wintergreen got a reaction from FriedClams in Herzogin Cecilie 1902 by Jim Lad - Four Masted Barque January 28

What Keith said. Looking ship shape John!

Keep it up!
Wintergreen got a reaction from FriedClams in The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50 January 28

That is a relief really. It would be very stressing having to clean up glue residue on that delicate structure.

I do wonder though how you did those fine lines on the stems? Did you use scrapers?
Wintergreen got a reaction from Valeriy V in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage January 28

Thanks for likes and interest so far.
Something to report before the work week consumes most of the time again.
The covering boards are mainly done bar the rearmost ones. Those are a later headache.
Focus then is to get the perimeter of the deck in place.
I started with the short king plank to have the center all secured. Then it is a matter of more finicky filing and testing of scarph joints.
They came out not half bad, so I'm happy. First three boards on port side glued in place. I will then shift over to starboard side and attack the acute curve at the rear last.

And the overall shot. Apologies for the fuzzy focus, but it hides the little less than perfect second joint.

Til next time, ta!
Wintergreen got a reaction from KeithAug in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage February 12

Hi guys!
Well, filing on those covering boards had me thinking of another project that I've put up for too long time. So, I got a bit sidetracked from the Atlantica build and went all in.
A drill press table.
Some might argue that it is too pretty. But knowimg how I function, I know that the first quick-and-dirty ugly solution that I slap together will usually last a long time. So, doing it properly the item of focus will probably last me a lifetime. Hence, why not also make it pretty?
One litttle hickup about the finish of the fence though. The table had two coats of floor lack, very durable, but the fence I thought would look nice with the Osmo oil. Well, it does look nice, however the oil refused to harden. You see, the wood used in the fence is some quite oily species from central Africa (Zaire). My parents brought it back from their stay there a long time ago in the form of some crude looking furniture. So I planed it down to save some later project, and here we are. Anyway, I wiped the surface with acetone and that seems to take away the ickiness. All good.
I made the top table easy detachable with machine screws so I can switch it out for some other, unbuilt, auxillary item in the future. The sub support is from solid oak (sourced from old 60s church benches that also was given to me a long time ago).

Back to Atlantica.

Cheers!
Wintergreen got a reaction from druxey in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage January 27

True @vaddoc, there is not so many peculiar items. The lamp is a kerosene lamp (I think it's called), the type you need to preheat before light it up. Bright as day when burning.
Above the lamp, the aft end of the rudder from my sailboat can be seen, hangs from the ceiling.
Then there is the mechanical tiller under the workbench that will get a couple of layers of rust proofing before going back into the boat.

But yes, it is a very nice workshop. And for every corner I tidy up it gets every so slightly even better. The plan is to stay here a loooong time. All the kids have suffered from been moved around too much during their early years, so our message to them is that grandpa and grandma stays here. They know where they will find us.
Wintergreen got a reaction from KeithAug in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage February 12

Thanks Keith and John 🙂
Yes John, I have. I am very fortunate to have an entire workshop to mess around in. About the supply of timber... you should see my garage... what is in the picture is only a fraction of the supply available to me.
Quite a lot of birch, however lot of it is curly grown. Decent amount of apple (own harvest) and then the common pine. Some fine/slow grown, which can be used to spars, I have salvaged from old furniture and railings and stuff.

Here is my organized sanding station. Shopvac is connected to the aft end of the box. I might redo the contraption witht the white top. At present it can hold a Dremel, but I'm contemplating using a power drill instead, that can take larger cylinder/drum sanders. Future will tell.
The two drawers came from a scrapped desk. I still have one door and a larger drawer at my disposal from that desk to use somewhere in my shop. Haven't figured out where just yet.
And the power outlet from the shopvac is used so it starts simultaniously as the tools.

Now back to the build.
Cheers!
Wintergreen got a reaction from KeithAug in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage February 12

Well, thank you Gary! Most appreciated.
At the moment the build is somewhat stalled due to an sudden, unexptected bout of organizational frenzy energy that I got. (plus the fact that I noticed that my rediculously expensive Osmo oil had started going off in its can, had to find something to use it on). So I made a mess of the workshop in order to organize it. Makes sense, yes?
You can see the shiny benchtops in the background where I used some of the precious Osmo oil. Hint, the six drawer cupboard and the table behind the bandsaw. Still over a liter left so I poured it into a more suitable jar instead of the original 2.5 liter one it came in.
What is hiding is my newly organized sanding workstation. Picture to come tomorrow.
Also happy to answer any questions of peculiar, out-of-place items in my shop 😄

Cheers to all!
Wintergreen got a reaction from Elia in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage February 9

Thanks Keith, yes, as part of this community it is easy to get addicted to the perfect fit or the exact representation...
Just a short update. Another couple of boards are filed and dry-fitted. Glue will have to wait a fair bit still.
When it is time for glue the inboard plank will be fastened first. Then I can do the final fine trim of the outboard plank against it.

"I worked all nitght, then it dawned on me" ... well not that it matter now, but I think I planked the hull with aspen instead of birch.
And how did you come to that conclusion. Well, I scrapped a veneered cupboard and used the bulk wood for planking. But when I thought of it now, it seemed pointless to use birch as bulk when the veneer was birch... so some searching the www gave me the plausible wood aspen instead. Similarly light coloured and the grain is not obvious. However, aspen is lighter and softer than birch. So, a quick comparison on the scale of similarly sized pieces gave that what I thought was birch (ie the aspen) was a fair bit lighter than actual birch.
But as I said, not that it matter now.
Will however be 100% consistent in using birch for the deck. Hence, the covering boards (or margin planks) are my 2nd attempt...

Thanks also for all the likes, fellows!
Wintergreen got a reaction from Elia in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage February 9

Thanks for likes and visits!
Progress is steady and slow.
Slow because the do and then the undo habit.. I thought to plan ahead and paint the bulwark stanchions white while they were unobstructed.
Turns out it was a bad idea. They are left unpainted on the real ship... so I had to scrape of the paint... instead I dug around my selection of stains and found a suitable colour to mimic weathered oak.
Then there is a lot of fiddling around with the plank sheer inside and out. Inside the stanchions it is quite straight forward bar the lapped joints, which will be handled later. Outside is a lot of templating and then careful sanding and filing to get a good fit.
Pictures in order of work.

I am particular happy that I did not go ahead and glue the king plank in on the entire deck because it will only be found in front of the bollards up front. For the remainder of the deck there will be regular deck planks all the way to the centerline.
Although I will keep the plank in full length when I actually glue it down to have the short piece up front to be dead centered.

The overhang will be trimmed down to just about an inch (0.8mm in scale) later on.
And this picture I just let in here for I find it wholesome. 😉

More templating to come... Cheers!
Wintergreen reacted to Keith Black in The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50 January 27

Siggi, I think the wood is beautiful and very pleasing as is.
Wintergreen reacted to Siggi52 in The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50 January 27

Good morning,
many thanks for the likes and nice comments.

Håkan, that is only one scraper, and he is a little too wide. Half an millimeter would be better, but this is the smallest one I could build. But it dominate the planking a lot as I saw at the last pictures. In nature it's not so much. Christensen measured these profiles, and it were 1600 m at all. Lukily they used at the Gokstad ship only one form. These were at least a little more complicated then the one I build. At the Oseberg ship they used 7 different molds!

At the picture you see also my test planking, now oiled. I don't know if I shoulld stain the oil a little.
Wintergreen got a reaction from FriedClams in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage January 28

Thanks for likes and interest so far.
Something to report before the work week consumes most of the time again.
The covering boards are mainly done bar the rearmost ones. Those are a later headache.
Focus then is to get the perimeter of the deck in place.
I started with the short king plank to have the center all secured. Then it is a matter of more finicky filing and testing of scarph joints.
They came out not half bad, so I'm happy. First three boards on port side glued in place. I will then shift over to starboard side and attack the acute curve at the rear last.

And the overall shot. Apologies for the fuzzy focus, but it hides the little less than perfect second joint.

Til next time, ta!
Wintergreen got a reaction from AON in HMS Bellerophon 1786 by AON – scale 1:64 – 74-gun 3rd Rate Man of War - Arrogant-Class January 27

Edited my previous post because I missed a "can" in "you can always step back.." so you dont think I'm a complete tart.
Wintergreen got a reaction from Mike Y in HMS Bellerophon 1786 by AON – scale 1:64 – 74-gun 3rd Rate Man of War - Arrogant-Class January 27

And then there is only, how many more to do?
I guess it becomes some kind of therapy once you work out a feasible step by step progress for them.
And it is true, the close up photos hides nothing. You can alway step back an arms length an shoot from there 😉

It looks really good Alan, keep it up!
Wintergreen got a reaction from druxey in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage January 27

Thanks for likes and interest so far.
Something to report before the work week consumes most of the time again.
The covering boards are mainly done bar the rearmost ones. Those are a later headache.
Focus then is to get the perimeter of the deck in place.
I started with the short king plank to have the center all secured. Then it is a matter of more finicky filing and testing of scarph joints.
They came out not half bad, so I'm happy. First three boards on port side glued in place. I will then shift over to starboard side and attack the acute curve at the rear last.

And the overall shot. Apologies for the fuzzy focus, but it hides the little less than perfect second joint.

Til next time, ta!
Wintergreen got a reaction from berhard in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage January 27

Thanks for likes and interest so far.
Something to report before the work week consumes most of the time again.
The covering boards are mainly done bar the rearmost ones. Those are a later headache.
Focus then is to get the perimeter of the deck in place.
I started with the short king plank to have the center all secured. Then it is a matter of more finicky filing and testing of scarph joints.
They came out not half bad, so I'm happy. First three boards on port side glued in place. I will then shift over to starboard side and attack the acute curve at the rear last.

And the overall shot. Apologies for the fuzzy focus, but it hides the little less than perfect second joint.

Til next time, ta!
Wintergreen got a reaction from FlyingFish in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage January 27

Thanks for likes and interest so far.
Something to report before the work week consumes most of the time again.
The covering boards are mainly done bar the rearmost ones. Those are a later headache.
Focus then is to get the perimeter of the deck in place.
I started with the short king plank to have the center all secured. Then it is a matter of more finicky filing and testing of scarph joints.
They came out not half bad, so I'm happy. First three boards on port side glued in place. I will then shift over to starboard side and attack the acute curve at the rear last.

And the overall shot. Apologies for the fuzzy focus, but it hides the little less than perfect second joint.

Til next time, ta!
Wintergreen got a reaction from Siggi52 in The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50 January 27

That is a relief really. It would be very stressing having to clean up glue residue on that delicate structure.

I do wonder though how you did those fine lines on the stems? Did you use scrapers?
Wintergreen reacted to Ian_Grant in The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50 January 27

I built a 16ft cedar strip canoe years ago, on plywood bulkheads mounted on a T-bar of two 2"x10" boards. After fiberglassing the outside, it was time to lift the hull off to sand the inside. Don't recall the glue I used, but the glue runs on the inside WERE as bad, and as concrete-like, as I expected. There's no joy like sanding a large concave cedar wood surface......🙄

And Siggi, your ship looks outstanding!
Wintergreen got a reaction from Colin B in Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage January 27

Thanks for likes and interest so far.
Something to report before the work week consumes most of the time again.
The covering boards are mainly done bar the rearmost ones. Those are a later headache.
Focus then is to get the perimeter of the deck in place.
I started with the short king plank to have the center all secured. Then it is a matter of more finicky filing and testing of scarph joints.
They came out not half bad, so I'm happy. First three boards on port side glued in place. I will then shift over to starboard side and attack the acute curve at the rear last.

And the overall shot. Apologies for the fuzzy focus, but it hides the little less than perfect second joint.

Til next time, ta!
Wintergreen got a reaction from mort stoll in HMS Bellerophon 1786 by AON – scale 1:64 – 74-gun 3rd Rate Man of War - Arrogant-Class January 26

And then there is only, how many more to do?
I guess it becomes some kind of therapy once you work out a feasible step by step progress for them.
And it is true, the close up photos hides nothing. You can alway step back an arms length an shoot from there 😉

It looks really good Alan, keep it up!

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