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Furniture in rear cabin. (Smoking room)

 

 

 

 
 
Mid cabin.

 

 
Size and proportions are all wrong, quite irritating.
Manual is also wrong here. The benches to the right should not be here but in the foremost cabin.
Will see if the CA-debonder can fix the problem...

Small update:
 
new piece from Turkey

 
Door openings still too small. Turkmodel: "Doors not meant to be functional. Glue them to wall."

 
Fitting the upper cabinswalls. 

 
The walls have a strong curve upwards at the aft that the deck, or anything else has, have to fill up with strips.

 
Painting and fitting some other stuff

Well, I could not keep away. Just had to do a little more...
 
Finished the cafeteria
 
   
 
 
Started attaching the roof. Does not fit at aft. Have to do some thinking on how to fix that.
 

 
Testing lightning. The windows are dim since the protective film is still on.
 

 

 
 
From aft.
 
 
 

 

Planking of second deck
 

 

 

 
 
Outside benches on second deck.
 

 

 
11 strips of 1x1mm to make up the seats.
 

 

 

 

Planking of second deck
 

 

 

 
 
Outside benches on second deck.
 

 

 
11 strips of 1x1mm to make up the seats.
 

 

 

 

Planking of second deck
 

 

 

 
 
Outside benches on second deck.
 

 

 
11 strips of 1x1mm to make up the seats.
 

 

 

 

Hi all,
Just realized I have not thanked you for the comments. Stockholm tar, Nils, Nirvana, Uwe, Burnside63 and Clare: Thank you for visiting and commenting my log. And tanks to the others for the likes.
 
Now, curtains(?!):
 

 

 

 

 

 
Planking the deck is up next.
 
Stockholm tar, no rivets. So many details are missing and/or wrong on this kit so I won't bother with them. 

Hi all,
Just realized I have not thanked you for the comments. Stockholm tar, Nils, Nirvana, Uwe, Burnside63 and Clare: Thank you for visiting and commenting my log. And tanks to the others for the likes.
 
Now, curtains(?!):
 

 

 

 

 

 
Planking the deck is up next.
 
Stockholm tar, no rivets. So many details are missing and/or wrong on this kit so I won't bother with them. 

Furniture in rear cabin. (Smoking room)

 

 

 

 
 
Mid cabin.

 

 
Size and proportions are all wrong, quite irritating.
Manual is also wrong here. The benches to the right should not be here but in the foremost cabin.
Will see if the CA-debonder can fix the problem...

Just a quick note:
If anyone wonder about the hideous wallpaper on my model, here's a pic from the real ship:
 

Cabin construction continues.
 
Not much to say here.
 

 

 




 
next up is furniture.

Small update:
 
new piece from Turkey

 
Door openings still too small. Turkmodel: "Doors not meant to be functional. Glue them to wall."

 
Fitting the upper cabinswalls. 

 
The walls have a strong curve upwards at the aft that the deck, or anything else has, have to fill up with strips.

 
Painting and fitting some other stuff

Well, I could not keep away. Just had to do a little more...
 
Finished the cafeteria
 
   
 
 
Started attaching the roof. Does not fit at aft. Have to do some thinking on how to fix that.
 

 
Testing lightning. The windows are dim since the protective film is still on.
 

 

 
 
From aft.
 
 
 

 

Hello all
 
I've been doing some odds and ends on the Bohuslän.
 
Oak stain on the front deck:

 
Aft wall of cafeteria did not fit so good. It may be me having trouble getting the planks to lay flush to the frames aft.
Filler, sanding and paint plus the sofas will hide this mess I hope.

 
The lip of the windows where marked with the lasercutter. They would disappear when painted so I cut some silver wire and made a rather simple ornament.
 
 
I tried doing the curly bit on the ends but it was impossible (for me) to get them all identical so I went for the simple variation.

 

 
First of many, many, many coats of paint.

 

 
No portholes included so I ordered from CMB.

 
Companionway and "lifebelt boxes"

 
Kind if weathered look.

 
The plywood is very bristle and breaks all the time. 

 
Well, I'll be doing some rigging again on my other builds for a while so the next update will not be too soon.

Hello,
While waiting for some paint to arrive from England I thought I could do the upper cabins.
 
Outside panels:

 

 
 
Some wallpaper on the inside:

 
 
Windowframes:

 

 
Windows mounted (scrathces from mat underneath):

 
 
Front:

 
 
and a double doors:

 
 
The doors where 5 mm too tall and about 3 mm too wide. Extremely sloppy considering it is laser cut! Had a hard time with frames breaking when I was sanding the opening wider. Not happy!!!
 
Then I discovered this:

 
The main deck is apparently curving upwards at the aft. there is no hint of this in the plans. They show planking following the top of the frames, but then there's no curve. Almost 10 mm gap at most. The walls of the upper cabins are curved for this but I did not realize it was that much. Looking at the few pictures I could find of this model shows no curve either.I have no I dea how to fix this. I thought I could maybe mount some scrap strip on top of the rear windows. 
 
Then I discovered the next catastrophe:

 
A gap from the upper cabin walls to the front of almost 5 mm!!! No way to attach upper deck there. And this is LASER CUT!?!

 
 
The light from the LEDs will spill out here.

 
 

 
Shaving off the top of the front will free the window frames and the doors on each side. Cutting the bottom cuts the doorframe. Since the doors where too big, there's no marginals left!!!
 
To say the least I'm really pissed off right now!
 
Will take another look at this the day after tomorrow since tomorrow I have some real boats to renovate.
 
   

I HATE SMALL chairs made of ply that crumbles if you stare at it too hard.
But now they're done. All 27 of them.
 
Here's six:
 

 
I have since painted the cushions using Model Master's Gun Metal. It was adequate as that worn leather look.
 
Now on to attaching  the benches, tables and chairs to the deck.

Thank you Nils,
The interior is included with the kit. Hopefully it will look cozy with the lightning.
 

 

 
 

Planking of cafeteria:
 

 

 

 

 
The original floor is darker but I only varnished the planks so there will be some contrast against the tables and chairs.
 
And here is some tables:
 

 

 
The ply for the tables and chairs is 0.5 mm and extremely bristle. brushing the ply with sanding sealer gave it enough strength for assembling.
 
On to glue 30 chairs....

hello Uwe,
Wish I had a building cradle like that when I assembled the frames. It would have made life easier....
 
I don't know how hard it would be to handle 1 metre long planks, but what I would have done is this:
 

 
The white is how the planks meet now. The bluish is the preferred way of doing it. Letting the planks meet overlapped.
I imagine the planks would be more manageable.

Hello and a happy new year.
 
A small update,
 
Here is the double frames where the planks will meet in the middle:


 
I would have prefered to do a overlapping of the planks at the two middle frames but the planks are too short for that.
They are supplied in two lengths with the shorter that fits the rear.
 
 
I also missed this problem with the deck and had to break it up again.

 
First two planks:

 


 
 
The deck shape does not follow the shape that the planks make at the frames... A lot of heavy sanding and use of woodfiller to come.
 
I found out that the thin veneer supplied is VERY bristle an breaks very easy. It breaks even when I try to sand it so one has to sand with a light touch and so takes a lot of time...
 
 
This is as far as I got yesterday...

Hi all,
Just realized I have not thanked you for the comments. Stockholm tar, Nils, Nirvana, Uwe, Burnside63 and Clare: Thank you for visiting and commenting my log. And tanks to the others for the likes.
 
Now, curtains(?!):
 

 

 

 

 

 
Planking the deck is up next.
 
Stockholm tar, no rivets. So many details are missing and/or wrong on this kit so I won't bother with them. 

Well, I wanted to finish the rigging of my other model but I just wanted to dry fit some parts of the hull.
 
 
All of a sudden the parts just seemed to glue themselves together....

 
 
The keel was made up of three parts and it was impossible to fit the other parts without gluing these together with some reinforcements of scrap plywood:

 
 
On the middle bulkhead an extra part was to be glued on.
The end of the planks shall meet here. Long planks forward,
And shorter planks aft wards...


 
 
Midship reinforcements:



 
The laser cutting has quite good accuracy so far. After filing away the burnt wood everything fit nicely.
 
The three-part keel is quite flimsy so I think I have to glue on some more hull reinforcements tomorrow... 

The last batch:
 
 
A bag of mahogany:

 
 
Doors, panels and steps:


 
 
Tables and chairs:

 
 
Closeup of the doorpanels:

 
Colour scheme?:

 
 
This is the full written instructions on the left: On the right parts list.

 
 
Building plans: Quite good actually. But it feels like building a plastic kit...


 
 
Example of the wiring plan:

 
 
And that's it from the box! 
 
I'm quite satisfied with the quality of the kit. I don't like the plastic parts though.. The winch is made of partly white metal and partly plastic. Strange...
 
I don't understand why they have instructions in bad English since the kit is manufactured for Sweden. How hard can it be to translate one page of instructions (that mostly explains how to soak planks) and a few sentences scattered around in the plans...
 
Not that it is a problem for me personally but I know some old farts that don't understand a word English and shy away just because of that...
 
The LED kit is a fun extra. It usually cost SEK 180 but I got it for free. The kit cost me about €280 and that makes it a lot of ship for the money.
 
I have some rigging to do on another model before I start building Bohuslän. A couple of days...

More:
 
Various decks: with grooves for wiring.


 
 
Lifeboats:

 
 
various:


 
 
Benches:

 
 
various:

 
 
Hull parts:

 
 
 
To be continued...

More of the stuff in the box:
 
Bag with plans:

 
 
Planks:

 
 
Quality kind of OK: Called Ayous, like harder balsa and easy to bend. will be difficult to get a smooth finish.

 
 
A small box...

 
 
...with lighting LED's!!! 

 
 
Plastic sheet for windows:

 
 
Bag of plywood:

 
 
Stand:

 
 
Hull parts:

 
Lower decks:

 
 
To be continued...