USS Constitution by Buick nut - Model Shipways - 1/76 scale - father and son build

[Buick nut]

Constitution model shipways father and son 1/76 scale

[Buick nut]

The above pics are of how my father plans on holding true and square

[HIPEXEC]

That's the way to start!

[AntonyUK]

Hi.

Sounds like a bundle of fun.

SO... Who is the shipwright ??

I have built a model with my young person and I really enjoyed the build. Great fun.

Nice to use a good jig at the start..insurers everything is square and true.

 

Regards Antony.

[Buick nut]

For this build my father will be the Shipwrights. But as he builds this I'll be making two sets of templates so I can build the sister ships the uss United States and the Uss President from scratch and once I get the piece's made I'll start my own build logs for those in scratch build log section of this site

[Buick nut]

Ok a little bit of an update he has done some work and I'll post some pics of what he has done so far

 

The top pic is what he made to hold the planks against the hull.which is plastic cloth spins with nails epoxied in.

 

The lower pic is of his home made miter box for his razor saw from a couple of blocks of red oak

Edited June 17, 2015 by Buick nut

[Buick nut]

Another update it looks like it's starting to look pretty good

Edited June 25, 2015 by Buick nut

[S.Coleman]

It is looking good. Looks neat as well.I like your use of clamps!

[DanO]

I have found, and your photos show, that it is not just a matter of taking the wood out of the box and gluing it together. It is more of a science from the standpoint of creating the tools to insure allingment and integretiy of the build.

 

Thanks for sharing

Dan

[Buick nut]

Thanks Coleman and Dan,

My father is a natural inventer/engineer, and we have a blast with the little stuff like that you are right it is more of a science to us but it's the way we think we like to have our ships looking straight .i say we because ill be building two more hulls from this kit having made copies and templates of all of the parts before they get used

So I can make her sister ships as well from scratch

[Buick nut]

So far the model is a beautiful model but who ever had drawn up these plans as my father says " should be shot" because he didn't know how to represent things properly. We never had this problem when we were building R/C 1/4 scale airplanes

[DanO]

Please send some more photos of your build, when you get the time, for you guys have me hooked.

[Buick nut]

Here's another pic he changed the holddown clamps fit on the outside of the ship

Edited July 1, 2015 by Buick nut

[DanO]

Looking good!!

[AntonyUK]

Hi Shipwrights.

Nice progress and she is realy taking shape.

Keep the photos coming.

Looking forward to the next instalment.

 

Regards Antony.

[Buick nut]

Ok here's the latest its almost time to start switching to larger size planks the starboard side is almost finished

Edited July 8, 2015 by Buick nut

[DanO]

Looking good  and I like the PVC system for the lumber on the left side of the photos.

 

Dan

[Buick nut]

He has them lettered from and to ribs like from A to E and so on and a they are all precut

[Buick nut]

Ok I have some more pics

Edited July 17, 2015 by Buick nut