Schooner Polotsk 1777 by Mike Y and his daughter - Master Korabel - 1:72

[RickyGene]

Have enjoyed your thread very much.  I have been eyeballing one of these from a local dealer here in the US.  I am very impressed with the quality.  I too enjoyed your tutorial about melting PVA w/a iron.  Does work with thin wood.  I use a iron, I used to apply Mono-kote to RC planes.  Works great for the applying glued planks and adjustments.  Looking forward to more of the build.  

Rick 

 

PS:  I have noticed several times, individuals talking about contact cement.  This also works after you get the piece just where you want and lightly run a iron down the plank, warms the material and flattens the plank for a tight lay with no edge curl.  Burnishing also works well.  I am no big fan of contact cement, in my past working life, I applied Formica to counter tops!  Can not stand the smell of the stuff anymore.

 

 

Edited September 4, 2019 by RickyGene

[Mike Y]

Stem assembly required a bit of fitting and fairing, laser kerf was not taken into account when pieces were laid out.

But overall the glue-up was going easy.

There are some small gaps, but I decided not to be a perfectionist here  

 

Now the stem needs to be rounded and sanded:

End result:

[cog]

Beautiful, Daria, I couldn't do it that well myself

[lmagna]

You are really moving right along Daria. Very nice work.

My wife likes your nail polish.

[gjdale]

Excellent work Daria. You sure are showing Dad how it should be done!

[Mike Y]

Time to install top railings. Daria learned how to use a blade for scraping to turn rounded edge to a flat one:

Installed: 

 

Also added an extra layer of wood for whales, etc. 

 

.... And then we had a long break .... 

She finally got a rabbit that she was planning for a long time, we started mountain biking together, and her baby sister needed attention too, etc etc (excuses, excuses).

Modelling was a bit on a backburner for a while.

 

... A year later we got back to it. 

- Hm, daddy, I think we haven't been building our ship for a while? 

- Say no more! 😎

 

Now time for some fiddly things. "Fashion piece" imitation. I am proud that she could fine fit such a delicate part on her own (very thin and prone to splitting).

 

Catheads. She does not like the feeling of a file rubbing on skin, but masking tape helps with that  

 

She wanted a timelapse: 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mike Y]

And here is the current state of things:

[Wahka_est]

Really nice, same stage as my Polotsk for now.

 

My 10y old daughter is also interested in building one with me but we are doing some smaller projects first as she needs to understand that it will take minimum a year to make. She usually gets bored after few hours so small training needed  

[cog]

Wow!!! Lovely result. Good starting point for the new year.

[EKE]

Beautiful work!  Thanks for sharing. Started following your build with great interest. 

[gjdale]

So nice to see you back working on your lovely model Daria. The time lapse video was a good idea too - now we can see that you really are doing all the hard bits and just leaving Dad to do the easy bits!

[VonHoldinghausen]

Great progress! KUTGW Daria

 

Kind regards, Pontus

[Wintergreen]

To use Mads expression on youtube channel Sail Life: Pretty dang spiffy!

Keep it up!