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Medway Longboat - 1742 - FINISHED - 1:24 Scale - by Ryland Craze


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Superb workmanship!

Cheers, Derek

 

Current build:   Duchess of Kingston

On hold:              HMS Winchelsea

 

Previous builds:  HMS SpeedyEnglish Pinnace, Royal Yacht Caroline (gallery),

                            Victory Cross-section (gallery), US Clipper Albatros, Red Dragon (years ago!)

 

On the stocks:    18th Century Longboat

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Thanks everyone for your comments and for the likes.  I appreciate all the support that everyone has given me on this build.

 

Tim, thanks for checking out my build log.  I am glad you have restarted your Medway build.  This is a nicely designed kit and if you follow the instructions, you will build a model that you will be proud of.  I used medium CA for the planking and Titebond for all of the other wood to wood contact.

Ryland

 

Member - Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

            - Ship Model Society of New Jersey

               - Nautical Research Guild

       

 

Current Build - Armed Virginia Sloop, 18th Century Longboat

Completed Build - Medway Longboat

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This longboat is a little gem, Ryland! What a wonderful work that fully honors the quality of this superb kit.

Jean-Paul

 

'You are not carving a bear with a chain saw here folks',

Chuck Passaro, ´Queen Anne Style Barge´ manual of instructions

 

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Next on list :

  • Santa Maria boat - Korabel (Ukraine) - 1:24
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Thanks everyone for the comments and the "Likes".  I had my Medway Longboat on display at Modelcon on August 7th, which was a ship model show held on the Battleship New Jersey and hosted by the Philadelphia Ship Model Society.  I was displaying it on the fantail of the ship.  Here is a photo of the display:

 

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I had a scare when I packed up the model to bring it home.  I had placed the model on its build board, which was secured to the bottom of a cardboard box, and placed the box on a table.  A gust of wind came through and blew the box with my model in it off of the table.  My heart sank as the box landed on its side and the model was thrown partially out of the box.  Luckily, the only damage to the model was some paint was rubbed off of the bowsprit when it slid inside of the box.  All of the glue joints held.  I was real lucky that the model did not suffer more damage.

 

I finally got back to work on it this week.  I have been working on the oars as I want to display six of them with the model.  I shortened the length of the oars to nine inches, which would be 18 scale feet.  The next step is to paint them with multiple coats of highly thinned paint. 

 

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It is hard to believe the model is close to being finished.  I have enjoyed every minute of building this model.

 

 

Ryland

 

Member - Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

            - Ship Model Society of New Jersey

               - Nautical Research Guild

       

 

Current Build - Armed Virginia Sloop, 18th Century Longboat

Completed Build - Medway Longboat

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7 hours ago, Ryland Craze said:

Thanks everyone for the comments and the "Likes".  I had my Medway Longboat on display at Modelcon on August 7th, which was a ship model show held on the Battleship New Jersey and hosted by the Philadelphia Ship Model Society.  I was displaying it on the fantail of the ship.  Here is a photo of the display:

 

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I had a scare when I packed up the model to bring it home.  I had placed the model on its build board, which was secured to the bottom of a cardboard box, and placed the box on a table.  A gust of wind came through and blew the box with my model in it off of the table.  My heart sank as the box landed on its side and the model was thrown partially out of the box.  Luckily, the only damage to the model was some paint was rubbed off of the bowsprit when it slid inside of the box.  All of the glue joints held.  I was real lucky that the model did not suffer more damage.

 

I finally got back to work on it this week.  I have been working on the oars as I want to display six of them with the model.  I shortened the length of the oars to nine inches, which would be 18 scale feet.  The next step is to paint them with multiple coats of highly thinned paint. 

 

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It is hard to believe the model is close to being finished.  I have enjoyed every minute of building this model.

 

 

Beautiful work.  I hope mine is half as good.  Been a very buy summer with no shop time but the Medway sits proudly on my work bench.  I started on the floor boards today.  Shorter days mean more shop time.

 

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Earlier this week I painted the oars, attached the flag and hung some rope coils on the flag halliard.  My Medway Longboat is now finished.

 

This has been a very enjoyable build.  I want to thank many people for their help and encouragement along the way.  A special thank you goes out to Chuck who offered advice and encouragement throughout my build.  I have seen Chuck's model in person at three ship model shows and I have taken many photos of his model to use as a reference for my build.  I also appreciate that Chuck designed a kit that a novice builder like me can build and the end result is a model that looks way better than what my skills could produce.  I also appreciate all of the builders of this kit that posted their build logs on MSW.  If your build logs were a book, I would have worn out the pages as I referred to your build logs for many of the tasks that I completed in my build.  I also want to thank all of those members who looked in on my build log and made comments or hit the like button.  Your reactions to my posts were a motivating force to move on to the next step of construction.

 

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Ryland

 

Member - Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

            - Ship Model Society of New Jersey

               - Nautical Research Guild

       

 

Current Build - Armed Virginia Sloop, 18th Century Longboat

Completed Build - Medway Longboat

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Superb.

 

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STAY SAFE

 

A model shipwright and an amateur historian are heads & tails of the same coin

current builds:

HMS Berwick 1775, 1/192 scratchbuild; a Slade 74 in the Navy Board style

Mediator sloop, 1/48 - an 18th century transport scratchbuild 

French longboat - CAF - 1/48, on hold

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Fantastic Ryland.  Really exceptional and it shows how much care you took with the build.  

 

Chuck

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Amazing build, it's museum quality! Thank you for sharing your build log with us. 

Current: 

USF Confederacy - Model Shipways (Build Log)

HMS Pickle - Caldercraft (Build Log)

 

Complete:

Virgina 1819 - Artesania Latina (Gallery)

U.S. Brig Syren - Model Shipways (Build Log, Gallery)

 

On the shelf:

Armed Virginia Sloop - Model Shipways

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Really a nice build that you can be very proud of completing.

Kurt Van Dahm

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What a wonderful model! It was a pleasure to follow its build. A big congratulations!

Jean-Paul

 

'You are not carving a bear with a chain saw here folks',

Chuck Passaro, ´Queen Anne Style Barge´ manual of instructions

 

Current builds :

 

Finished build :

 

Next on list :

  • Santa Maria boat - Korabel (Ukraine) - 1:24
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Simply beautiful. A model that would grace any museum. 

Cheers, Derek

 

Current build:   Duchess of Kingston

On hold:              HMS Winchelsea

 

Previous builds:  HMS SpeedyEnglish Pinnace, Royal Yacht Caroline (gallery),

                            Victory Cross-section (gallery), US Clipper Albatros, Red Dragon (years ago!)

 

On the stocks:    18th Century Longboat

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I am speechless looking at this fine build.

 

I will reference your build log when I go to do mine as seeing what you have done has made up my mind what my next build will be.

Paul

Current Build: HMS Winchelsea 1764 1:48

Completed Build: HM Cutter Cheerful-Syren Ship Models 1/48

Completed Build:  Artesania Latina Bluenose II

Completed Build Lady Nelson

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Congratulations on completing an outstanding build Ryland. You can be justifiably proud of your achievement. 

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I want to thank everyone for your comments and the "Likes".  I appreciate the support and encouragement that you have given me throughout this build.

Ryland

 

Member - Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

            - Ship Model Society of New Jersey

               - Nautical Research Guild

       

 

Current Build - Armed Virginia Sloop, 18th Century Longboat

Completed Build - Medway Longboat

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