News and Info from MarisStella Ship Model Kits

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So, after several days off this topic, I get some free time to come back to you all my friends, dear ladies and gentleman...

 

After finishing some generally introduction of Brazzera and Trabaccolo, I have to get back to Brazzera...

 

...It took almost two years of research business, very pleasent job, to determine the shape and equipment of the Brazzera we built... We get so close to the traditional shape, so I just can not beleive we made any mistake about any detail... The drawing was made in one year, the first model in nine months... And bingo !! It won the bronzed medal in a very tough competition ... This drawing below is what MarisStella Brazzera is looking like, and the photos show the first model made after this drawings... The model is 72 cm over all ... she has completed interior ... so she looks like this :

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hello everyone !

 

   Sorry for being off for several days.... first off all, regarding the kits, i have to say something about materials, which is nothing new actually,...

 

The picture below shows our old Brazzera box... It is really full of very expensive and very good materials... below this plenty of strips are the laser cut panels, mostly of solid walnut wood... so, everything that goes to this ship is made of solid walnut wood... bulkheads are made of high quality plywood, and it is easy to form by sanding...

 

The keel and the posts are walnut wood... as you can see below... bulkheads has the openings, because this model has completely arranged interior...

 

...All of the bulkheads automaticly come to the correct position when the supporting strips are put (very easily)... any glue is not aplied in this phase of work, so it is more easer to put all of these things together...

... To make the things simpler, I put the last picture that shows the Trabaccolo construction...

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So, the next step is the 'keel clamp' -or - the 'work stand' ... the purpose of this clever thing is to make a stable table for working at the model... once, when you put a model into this clamp, you do not separate it until you put a model on to the decorative stand... in the instructions we had to separate models off the clamp to show particulary stages of the work, other ways we would never do this...

 

...so, at MarisStella we love to describe the work stand like this :

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Create a stand in which you will hold the model during its making. Use a flat board as a base, and two flat strips that you should glue on it. They will act as a rail for the keel. It is good too, to make even the stem carrier and stern post carrier, also of straight vertical strips and fix them to the lower, horizontal strips. The whole stand for the realization of the models should be stable and the model on it must stand there tightly and set so that the keel and the posts are vertical to the base itself. This is the only way to work on a model properly.

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There is a photo of a classical work stand ... there are the photos of Brazzera and Trabaccolo during their realizations...

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   So, after putting the construction together, after putting it into the keel clamp, there is the final adjustment of all the elements demanded... And now something interesting... You have to take a brush and glue for wood... and to apply the glue with a brush to the every place of the element's connections... it is the way to glue them together ...


   ... when the glue get dry, you get the perfect connected construction, there is the false keel to be glued to the keel... The interior is coming next ... the strips are to be put from the keel upwards ...

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     When approx the half of the hull is planked (from inside), the bilge and the flooring need to be made of the strips and glued to the place... the floorings in the middle of the ship and those in the cabins to the stern and bow :

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after this, interior needs to be planked to the top, this means - up to the deck :

 

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... then planking the bulkheads... this is to be done with 0,5x5mm strips...

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... placing of these elements is the next : mast step and the beds in the cabins... there are two bads in the aft cabin and four in the bow cabin ... So, with this, the interior is finished... all we should do about this is polishing and varnishing with matt colorless spray varnish ...

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   Hello Dear Friends ... here it is... the monday again, and guess what ... I love it !!...

   I noticed you read this topic quite a lot and I really enjoy that... but just a few of You posts some comments here ... and I think this is about my terrible English  ... but please, do not be afraid of this ... I used to it   :) ... if you have nothing to say or ask, it is OK too, I will keep writing and you keep reading... it is a very good solution too...

So, get back to the model... After the interior is finished it is the time for 'fairing' the bulkheads. this is a very usually procedure... after 'fairing' it is time for putting the filler blocks to the bow and stern ... and everywhere where you feel you will need it to make the planking easier ... In our version it looks like this : (here are the photos) :





 

 

Good luck !!

[mtaylor]

I really don't have any comments.  I hit "like" because I like what I'm seeing.  You're doing some interesting models and some innovative techniques.  Keep up the good work.

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Thanks Mark, I really appreciate it..

   Thanks all for the likes, I hope you find this logs interesting, this is why I do this...

 

... Let me continue please... So, after fairing, as it is usually, the hull planking comes... At this model it is necessery to place the first one, the guiding strip first. It is the one at the level of the deck... This one should be 3mm (or 4mm) thick all along... Another five more strips come below this one. Those, each of them, are 5mm thick all along. They need to be sunk into the water, so they could be formed properly... After this you get the proper base for the rest of the planking... And of course, this should be done at the both sides of the hull...

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,


I would like to inform you that there is the ''Modeller's workshop'' in Montreal, Canada. There you could, if you wish to,and if you think Europe is to far away , get all of MarisStella models... This thanks to Mr. Rick, the owner of this place...

All of the other informations you could get here :

http://modellers-workshop.com/category/maristella-wood-ship-kits/


Dear friends, thanks to all of you...

Best regards,
Zoran

[donrobinson]

Good to see a distributor of these great kits on this side of the pond.   

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   Thanks you all for reading this and for the likes...

   Don, thanks for the comment, I hope this will make the Adriatic and Mediteranean maritime culture closer to you all ... I would be really happy to see more of you bulding this models...

 

Regards,

Zoran

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   ... So, get back to the Brazzera...

   When the upper part of the planking is put, the lower part needs to be put on the hull... these strips need to be cut according to the bulkhead width... Nothing new, just an ordinary process...

 

   This phase looks like this :
 

 

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Hello everyone...

   It is time for planking the freeboard of Brazzera... in the other words it is the time for the bulwark planking... So, this is the planking of the rest of the hull starting from the initial planking strip upward. The widths of the planking strips need to be adjusted in the same way as it was done in the step before, throughout their entire lenghts, according to the bulkheads' unplanked area. At the first planking strip from beyond you need to cut the freeing ports (openings for discharging water from the deck).
Note here : the bow of Brazzera is higher then the middle of the ship, so there is a need to insert the drop plank, or to insert a short plank that is wider at its front end. This is noted on the photographs ...

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After the planking of the hull it is a very good time for planking the deck... The upper parts of the bulkheads need to be removed and the top surfaces of the bulkheads should be beveled to get a proper curve of the deck ...

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   The deck of this model has a base, the deck's base.. Because the MarisStella models are models of the real ships, here are not flat decks... Each deck has a Camber Curve and a Sheer Line Curve... In the other words, each deck is bent across the cross-section and along the longitudinal section... So the deck's base can not be done of some flat veneer or plywood... The deck's base is made of strips placed one by the other and glued to the tops of the bulkheads... After doing this, the base needs to be sanded , treated with the wood putty and polished... After this it is good to draw the lines where the deck beams should pass below the deck. This helps in the next step, it shows the places of the deck's planks connections...

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   Now glue, from the stern to the tip of the bow, 0,5x5mm strips on the so prepared deck surface (base). Start from the middle and go to the left and right ends of the construction. So, plank the deck following the top view shown in the plan.
Before gluing to the deck surface, on each strip cut a thin cut. The cuts are shown in the top view of the deck. It will look like it is, instead of the one long strip, several small bars lined up in a row. This procedure will give a very realistic look to the deck later.

   Now, set up the central part of the deck 28. It may be broken up in the places where there are the warehouse hatch and the opening for the mast. It has not to be formed of one part. When you glue it into place, by grinding inward the central part of the deck askew slightly.

   Now adjust visually fitting of the deck , as in the plan, drilling holes Ø 0.3 mm on the deck (you can use a needle) and fill them with a mixture of glue for wood and brown acrylic paint. You can also use colored putty for wood. When the mixture is dry, sand and polish the deck.

   In this way you get the ideal shape of the deck as if it were nailed with wooden pegs.

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   Dear ladies and gentlemen,

   as you can see , the openings should be cut off into the finished deck... after that step, there is the deck rail to be put, glued onto the deck... the top timber, made of the 3x3 strips, are coming next... in the end of this phase of build the topgallant rail needs to be put and sanded...
 
   There are the photographs below :
 
Best regards,
Zoran

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   The hatch coamings are composed of 8 laser cut walnut panels and a lath... all that is needed is to put all together and polish a little bit... so the hatch coamings looks like this in the end :

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   Here is the forecastle shuttle in the bow and the companionway in the stern ... The interior at this model turn out very well, so let the openings be wide open ...

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So, in the end, when finished, the deck looks like this :

 

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Here are some more photographs of the Brazzera, just to 'feel' the shape of the hull once more, before I do some brief view through the Trabaccolo build...

 

 

 

 

[donrobinson]

She looks very nice the colours look real sharp. Any pictures of the deck?

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Hello everyone,
Don, there are some photographs in the posts before, through building the deck to the finished deck... We are up to make some new photographs of some new models, Brazzera is the one of them, so I will do this in the close future... I hope You will not be mad because of waiting

 

Regards,

Zoran

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   Hello Everyone once again... I hope you all are well and healthy...

   My intention is to move forward, to show you some things about Trabaccolo now... So here, I am goin to do a very brief wiew through the construction, because this is a sort of the Brazzera extension, but design is different... At these days my colegues are arguing about the anchor... They prepared a briliant modell of this Trabaccolo, ready for the competition, but the last thing that is not finished yet is the anchor, so I hope the photographs will be done at the time to show them to you at this log...

 

   So, let's start :

 

   At the begining - the construction of the bulkheads :

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... then it comes the interior :
 
let's start with the planking ... Do the planking until we reach the bilge keelson... Then we install the bilge keelson to the both sides :

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Hello everyone...
We wish you and your loved ones a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and the very best of everything in the New 2017 Year...

All the best to you all...

Zoran
and
MarisStella staff

[donrobinson]

Thanks Zoran, and Merry Christmas to you and the staff of MarisStella