puckotred

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...

Hello Ship model builders...
I am Puckotred from Göteborg and this is my third model and the first without sails.
 
A picture of the real thing:

 
From Atlastmodels: (With some minor corrections from me)
 
"The steamship S/S Bohuslän was built at Eriksbergs shipyard in Gothenburg 1913. For more than 40 years the traffic route of Bohuslän was between Göteborg- Lysekil-Smögen-Gravarne (Kungshamn) on the Swedish west coast. Later it was used as a ferry between Sweden and Denmark and between Sweden and Norway until it was taken off to be scrapped in 1963. A number of enthusiasts decided to rescue it and restored Bohuslän to its original condition and is still running it in the west coast archipelago in the summertime. "
 
Build size: 95 x 16 x 40 cm.
 
Made by Türkmodel on behalf of NCB – Nordic Class Boats
 
So let's start with the unboxing:
 
 
Presentation:

 
 
Box:

 
 
Lid off:

 
 
Closeup of metal cast fittings etc:

 
 
The other half. on the right are the davits (or "lifeboat hangers" as the instructions state them)
made of "plexiglass".

 
 
The stuff underneath:

 
 
Curtains!!!!:

 
 
Wire and aluminium foil(?!) for the funnel:

 
 
"plexiglass" OK for the windows but the small sheet on top is for the winch and sunroofs.

 
 
 
 
To be continued...

Another error in the building instructions.
 
The marked area is upside down.
 

 
had to soak the whole area in debonder to rebuild and is now right side up. The construction is for one of the masts to rest in.

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...

Another error in the building instructions.
 
The marked area is upside down.
 

 
had to soak the whole area in debonder to rebuild and is now right side up. The construction is for one of the masts to rest in.

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...

Looks very good Mr. Pucko,
 
Looks like you have overcome the mismatching parts and you are haveing fun again in Fitting out the interior and ist furniture
 
Nils

Puckotred,
 
You're doing a very good job on her, and I didn't quite realise how big she is. Re. the wallpaper. If that's what the wallpaper is, then... I can also see that re-working the interior must be a pain, but then what a joy to get it correct! Yours could be the only model Bohuslan like that.
 
Btw, re. the hull. Good idea about the lips over the windows, but have you ever thought about adding the rivets? I believe you can buy packs of rivet heads.
 
 

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.

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

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

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.