Oostends schipje by G.L. - scale 1:20 - Ostend shrimper - first POF - Edition 2

[G.L.]

14.36

The holes are round off at the outside with a round mill.

[G.L.]

14.37

Gluing them on the bulwark.

[G.L.]

14.38

Another job finished:

[Baker]

Great progress and beautiful work GL

A very clever idea, this tool 

[G.L.]

Part 15:The sheer rail

15.1

The sheer rail is too long to make it in one piece. I make it in three parts. To obtain the shape of it I draw a template on the model with the help of a piece of cardboard.

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[G.L.]

15.2

I cut the template out with scissors and copy it on a plank.

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15.3

I saw the shape well out of the lines with a fretsaw.

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15.4

The joint that makes the connection with the following piece.

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15.5

Continuing at the sides to the stern.

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15.6

All the sheer rail parts are roughly ready.

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15.7

On the original boats all stanchions were incorporated in the bottom of the sheer rail. I will try to do this as well. That is also the reason why I left stick out the stanchions a little bit above the bulwark (See part 14.2).

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[G.L.]

15.8

To find out where I have to make notches in the underside of the sheer rail, I hold the graphite pintle of a pencil in a long nose pliers and mark the stanchions on the sheer rail.

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15.9

I hollow the notches with the help of some chisels.

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[G.L.]

15.10

Then it is time to glue the sheer rails together.

[G.L.]

15.11

When the glue is dry I lay them in position and carefully take over the bulwark shape with a pencil.

[G.L.]

15.12

Now I sand the sheer rails to their shape with the band sander and round off the edges with sand paper.

[G.L.]

15.13

Both sheer rail in place. They are not yet glued because I want to paint the inner bulwark first.

[Wintergreen]

Nice progress!

[G.L.]

On ‎21‎-‎2‎-‎2018 at 7:02 PM, Wintergreen said:

Nice progress!

 

Thanks Hakan

[G.L.]

Part 16: Coloring the model.

16.1

At this stage I want to paint my model. For me this is a very tense moment because now I can spoil all the work I made before. The Flemish fishing sloops were real working boats and they looked like that. It is not my intention to give my shrimper the look of a yacht or a pilot cutter. It has to look like the boats on the pictures below.

[G.L.]

16.2

I start with painting the inside of the bulwark white. It needs several coats of paint before the paint is fully covering the wood. Below you see the first layer.

[G.L.]

16.3

Drawing the waterline on the hull.

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16.4

I give my boat also a white triangle at the bow. Our fisherman call it the moustache.

[KeithAug]

Lovely looking model. I really liked your method for making the rails.

[G.L.]

On ‎7‎-‎3‎-‎2018 at 7:11 PM, KeithAug said:

Lovely looking model. I really liked your method for making the rails.

Thank you, Keith.

[G.L.]

16.5

I have built my hull in oak, the wood that was used to build the real shrimpers. I would like to keep the grain of the wood visible through the paint. Therefore I use oil paint like painters use to paint on canvas. My wife is going to the art school, so I find everything that I need in her painting box.            
I use the paint strongly diluted with turpentine and to avoid that I have to wait several days before it is dry, I add some drips of siccative oil.      
In the 19th century most of the fishing boats in our region were black tarred, I want obtain a color which closes as much a possible a tarred hull. Therefore I mix lampblack with kraplack red. 1/3 red and 2/3 black above the waterline, 2/3 red and 1/3 black below the waterline. Before the paint dries completely, I rub it up with a soft cotton rag to spread the color equally over the surface.

[G.L.]

16.6

Painting the hull. As you can see, the underline of the white triangle is not sharply straight. The diluted paint penetrated below the masking tape. The white will have to be redone.

[G.L.]

16.7

Coloring finished. The coating is finished with a matt lacquer of the kind painters use to lacquer oil paintings on canvas.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 14, 2018 by G.L.

[Baker]

Beautiful painted and very realistic.

 

[Wintergreen]

G.L. it really looks tarred. Well executed I must say.