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Hello All, I am starting my third build and my first "plank on". I'm looking forward to this build, but have to admit I'm a bit nervous about the planking part. I have been spending some time reading over the instructions and looking over the plans. I really want to get a strong start, so that when the planking step comes the planks will fit with minimum issues. I have cut out and primed the frames. I primed as I have decided to paint the interior instead of staining/varnishing the wood. I then painted the frames and glued them together. I then started to layout the hull bottom using the plans, a divider and ruler to mark where the frames will go.
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Well, I started my first model. It took a little time to acclimate. The first thing I noticed was that the instructions were very basic. You have to read the detailed plans to answer your questions about how something goes together. This makes sense now that I have spent some time examining the plans and realized it is the separate skill of reading the plans that needs to be developed first to be a successful model builder. For gluing up the frames, I uses some setup blocks I had from my workshop. They are exactly 1x2x3", are perfectly square, and they have good weight to them. I thought they worked out very well. I had drawn a line on my work surface and taped the boat bottom square to the edge of the board. That way, I could use a square to make sure they placed exactly square to the centerline and each other.
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Purchased this kit used off eBay recently, was looking for a fairly easy kit to introduce my younger brothers-in-law to ship modelling, so they will be helping me out with this build. Am also eager to return to a larger-scale Dory, as my first ever build was the 1:24 Lowell Grand Banks Dory from MS. Have gathered some essential tools for this build, which will be worked on when my wife and I visit her family. Have also traced the sails from the plans, which my wife will make. I'm hoping to make this boat water-tight so that it could potentially sail in the pool.
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And so it begins - my first build. The Swampscott Dory kit arrived last Thursday and since then I've been gathering needed tools and supplies, setting up my workstation in the basement, reading the instructions and the build logs of others who have already tackled this kit. I inventoried all the parts, and everything is present and accounted for. I've also researched real-life versions of this Dory and found one that I like here, and will try to build a model that replicates this as closely as possible. I found suitable acrylic paints in Michael's; still not sure about the stains/varnish - will likely be a trial and error process making use of the scrap wood. I'll begin assembling the frames this week, though I plan to build this kit slowly, deliberately and even contemplatively. As I wrote in my new member intro last week, I'm more interested in the learning process than the finished product. I think it will be fun, and I'm looking forward to it!
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Ok, Take II. I started a build and a build log, got very discouraged because it's a beginner's model and I found myself stymied by something new at every step, and scrapped the build log assuming I wasn't going to continue. I've taken a couple of deep breaths and am going to give it another go. Here's the image from after I assembled the frames, placed them (incorrectly) on the bottom piece, and attached the stem and transom (possibly also not quiet correctly.) I'm about one step past that and about to cross my fingers and see how planking goes.
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I chose this Swampscott Dory kit as my first build for it's relative simplicity, good documentation/popularity, and its employment of real world building techniques. I figure if I get stuck somewhere, there's lot of material out there to help. The kit came in today, I managed to restrain myself and not whip out the titebond right away. I unboxed everything and did take-offs against the plan and parts list. Everything accounted for and in great shape I'll be moving slowly through this build. I just read the instructions cover to cover, and I have some prep work to do before the heavy lifting starts. My To Do list for this week consists of finding a suitable construction base, researching a color/finish scheme, and collecting the rest of the recommended tools.
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Pictured below are the 3 models I have built in the last 3-4 years. Before that it had been decades since I last built a model & they were all plastic planes with plenty of gluey fingerprints. So I am now in the middle of building Bluejacket's schooner "Atlantic" with most of the hull and deck work done. Since I had no experience with really complicated rigging I signed up for the rigging class offered by Nic Damuck of Bluejacket Shipcrafters and am really happy I did. Great course. I like photographing different stages of my models and would like to start a build blog but have never blogged before so if anyone has any advice about that I would greatly appreciate your input. Right now blogging seems as complicated as rigging! I learned about NRG at the rigging class and am hoping it is a good resource for my many questions that are sure to arise.
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My first ever model boat build and first MSW post. I was in Bluejacket's shop two weeks ago in Searsport, ME and marveled over all their kits and thought I would jump in feet first and give this one a try. Maybe this is the standard and it gets easier with experience but the directions are really more highlights of the build rather than step by step. Regardless, I'm looking forward to each stage and now get to tackle hull planking, woohoo! I'm using a walnut stain instead of the maple color for the inside of the hull, it will nearly match the mahogany seats, hope that will look ok (mostly because I had this handy and didn't want to drive into town). Thinking of adding spar urethane also to give it the shiny poly look, maybe that will lighten the inside also.
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