HMS Diana 1794 ship's boats by Ray - FINISHED - 1/48 - SMALL

[Ray]

Scratch build Dana’s boats @1/48
                        a 26ft Launch,18ft Cutter,24ft Cutter and a 32ft Pinace

After building a set of much modified ships boats for my HMS Diana which I really enjoyed doing, I decided to scratch build a set at 1/48 scale, using the plans in A O S Diana and include masts and rigging, the builds will run along side my deans marine kit build of the WW2 military class trawler HMS Royal Marine  (bought on ebay for less than half price) as practice build before building the Hunt Class Destroyer HMS Tanatside my father served on her at the time of the d-day landings on Omaha.
The boats will not be woodworking master builds, leaving the outside hull showing bare planking, they will be painted as they would have been in service,which gave  them protection, when stored on-board ship, for weeks or months at a time,I will build them depicting  carvel built hulls which according to Ships Boats by q e may they would have been for foreign service,as the clinker built boats were for English Channel use. So they will be a mixture of wood and styrene and I will use grating and anchor kits and possibly oars.
First photos show the set of boats on my model of HMS Diana,these were virtually scratch built.

 

The first boat a 26ft launch.

The frame plans used, were from The Anatomy of the ship HMS Diana, copies of the half frames were doubled, and then glued to 2mm ply,and the keel plan to 3mm ply,I then did a mock up of a section to see how the planking would look with the first planking with .5mm timber and the second with 1mm. The frame were cut out with my £25 jigsaw buy from good old ebay, I cut the frame centres so they could be broken out and this would leave the ribs in the hull, but added some strips to hold everything together whilst planking. I hope the frames left in the hull will be OK and look like a nice set of ribs, but I do have a contingency plan if they are to rough I will remove them and replace them with dummy ribs made from plastic strip which I know will look nice and sharp and after all they will be painted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[rtropp]

I will enjoy following along. I will be trying the same thing in the future and appreciate watching your work.

Richard

[mtaylor]

Looks like a great plan, Ray.  I'm pulling up a chair for this.

[Ray]

The hull was double planked firstly with .5x3mm planking, sanded down, and the second planking was 1x4mm, all planking was fixed with std super glue, after the second planking, had been sanded down this gave a hull thickness of around 1mm. The inner part of the frames were broken out exposing the ply ribs, I thought they looked to rough so I decided to use the contingency plan and removed the ribs firstly I added the false keel again from evergreen styrene, I then sanded the inside of the hull,and then added the dummy ribs with styrene which look even and sharp.

Planking

Finished hull

frame removal

Keel added

Inside hull ribs removed and sanded first dummy rib in

New set of ribs

 

 

 

[Ray]

With the ribs fitted the inside has now been fitted out with the floor and decking.

 

 

 

 

 

[Beef Wellington]

Clearly I'm late to the party, hadn't noticed you'd started.  Following closely Ray as I find these small boats a little intimidating.  Looking great.

[Ray]

The stern seats were added and the winch and davit made, the davit will just be stored on board as it cannot be in place with the rudder mounted,the rudder has also be made, but I will alter the arm,the wash strakes have been added to the hull and the oar slots cut,the boat has been masked up and sprayed with quite a few coats of primer rubbed down after every two coats. Spray painting the boats will be a new venture as I have invested in a small compressor and air brush, and it will be a learning curve, but so far after just doing the primer, I am well pleased with the results, the main thing learnt so far is just how thin you need to get the paint (acrylic) to get a good result.

 

 

[Ray]

This update is just on the painting progress

[Ray]

The mast bowsprit and the rigging has now been completed, with the ropes, buckets, barrels,boat hooks,and oars added, only the barrels were bought the rest made,I will cover that on the next boat in the group,I also made a simple stand out of ply,so the 26ft launch is finished,one down three to go.

Mast

Stand

Rigging started

Inboard views

Finished boat