NORDEN by sandorm - FINISHED - Billing Boats - Scale 1:30 - first build

[sandorm]

Now Trying to remember:

 

After many holidays in Denmark - It was my wish to build one of these  little nice fishing boats

which one can see in all harbours of the West coast of Denmark

 

Cheers Steffen

 

I hope my work looks like  this afterwards  :

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Now her the  first step  building   Keel and Frames ( 1st half)

sanding the frames is important , I have  desregarded this a little bit

 

I have fun :

 

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Planking  of  the hull begun

It is very  important to read the hull planking tutorial on this board  !!!

With smoothing the planks in warm water  and tapering them  the hull gets closed  more and more  .....

 

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closed up to here ....

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The  solution was a "homegrown" stealer to fill the gap with 

 

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Here  some detail views of the planked hull

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Now putting the halfs together 

 

Sometimes while struggling with the planking -- I thougt about a plastic Hull for the next time

 

But know I am happy  that I did it with wood !

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---------------------- private  " Recovery"  of build log finished --------------------------

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--- -------------------buiild in progress ....

 

cheers Steffen

[Wintergreen]

Hi Steffen, and good to see you back with your log.

 

I'll follow along to guide you if I can (no promise, just an offer )

[sandorm]

Thank you Hakan for your offer  - I count on you

 

Working with painting last week -- taken pictures - but the board was down

Wanted to continue today but I thougt rebuilding the logs - asap is more  important - for the community and for the board

Now working with cabin etc.

Cheers Steffen

[sandorm]

After sanding  the entire hull I began painting  , an of course I forgot  to fix the rubbing strakes before

 

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For a correct water "line" more than a water "wave"   i used this simple construction ....

[Albuk]

A perfect waterline... Nice!

 

Cheers,

Alex

[sandorm]

After a break of six weeks , and spring will  still not really come  out - work on the Norden has made small progress

 

 

Deck - Buildings   and  Companion

 

 

 

 

 

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Cabin !

 

To avoid the problem  finding  the correct angle of the cabin front

I  used an easy  "helping construction "  - not included in the kit

 

@Alex -- thank you for the hint in your log  

Edited April 2, 2013 by sandorm

[sandorm]

Detail view - Working on window frames ....

 

The painting of the cabin didn't work quite adequate for me

 

and I had to put some glue to the   left cabin edge  at a certain point after painting as well

 

I should have been waiting longer until the drying process has completely finished ,  because  this  made the paint to scrape off

 

Now  I take the the best of it --   looks like corrosion --  Vintage, eldered  

 

Cheers      

Edited April 2, 2013 by sandorm

[popeye the sailor]

your Norden looks great Steffen!   the  "Mary Ann"  pilot house was built the same way.  I wasn't happy though,  because the windows were too small......so I made another one with larger ones.   I 've built a few of these Billing Boats....instructions are not the greatest,  but the kit is pretty good.  I used to have the Mary Ann and the Cux 87 build here,  but they were lost in the crash.  these two were based on a full hull construction,  unlike your build which is a half hull design.......but the hulls are quite simular.   your build looks familiar.......did you start this one before the crash?  I never forget a build 

[Albuk]

Hey, I like that weathered look of the cabin! Nice!

 

Alex

[sandorm]

Hi popeye , Yes I started the log before the crash  and posted ia 2nd time , cheers  Steffen

your Norden looks great Steffen!   the  "Mary Ann"  pilot house was built the same way.  I wasn't happy though,  because the windows were too small......so I made another one with larger ones.   I 've built a few of these Billing Boats....instructions are not the greatest,  but the kit is pretty good.  I used to have the Mary Ann and the Cux 87 build here,  but they were lost in the crash.  these two were based on a full hull construction,  unlike your build which is a half hull design.......but the hulls are quite simular.   your build looks familiar.......did you start this one before the crash?  I never forget a build 

[popeye the sailor]

I thought so.........now I can continue following along 

[sandorm]

Hi guys

 

roundabout   after  3  years , I'm back  to continue and hope I will finsih  the project in 2017 

Everything else  would be a pitty

 

  Merry christmas and happy new year  to all 

Edited December 24, 2016 by sandorm

[sandorm]

Today , started planking the deck

I want to use some black twine to put between the  planks -  for gaining some "calk" effect

 

hope it works ....

 

The best way to get a nice curve on the edges of the planks near bow and stern   is to  cut and taper before glueing !

 

Cheers Steffen 

[popeye the sailor]

well.....hello there!   good to see your making progress     I got this same boat kit for Christmas...guess I'd better be taking notes

 

structures and layout looks super.   very nice choice of colors.   I use an archive pen for the simulated calking........a bit less labor intensive.   planking looks good so far  

[sandorm]

Hi popey - I'm happy to hear from you - after all these years  - hope you will enyoy your kit

greets Steffen

[sandorm]

Deck ist finshed , Dont look at the cutting mistakes

 

The surface  is finally only sanded and finished wit satin clear coat- I did not stain the deck -- "calc" effect looks not so bad i think

 

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Boxes  " handcrafted"     an amount of 8 is enough -   more gets boring

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And now -- a little milestone- for me  -  arranging drivers cabin etc.  on the deck   -  it fits !!

 

cheers Steffen 

[popeye the sailor]

looks even better now!      great job Steffen!

[sandorm]

Today , workin' a littlle bit on  some details ...