HMS Snake by Vane - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64

[Edwardkenway]

Hi 

Vane are you working on these builds together or on alternate  days?

However you are doing it they are all looking good😀

[Vane]

I got several kits going on at the same time. When it come to planking its kind of effective to do two alternatively. You put a board up on one… and then do the other kit while waiting for the first one to dry.

Edited August 9, 2019 by Vane

[Vane]

Time to start fintuning the gunports and adding the wales!

Edited August 27, 2019 by Vane

[Vane]

This took much longer time than I expected... 

[kier]

Hi Vane,                                                                                                                                                                                                   Blimey, I can't believe how quick your building work is going. she's coming along nice. I love the hull work.

[Vane]

Thanks, i really enjoy this part of the work and snake is kind of straight on model with not too much planning and thinking. I done a few misstakes that take some extra time but soon the hull will be finished and next stage of the building process will began.

[Vane]

Some extra work needed for messing up previous stages...

[The Lazy Saint]

Hi Vane,

I have enjoyed looking through your build log, l will have to find your others too. It certainly sounds a good idea to alternate between builds while waiting for the glue to dry. Your second planking is very good indeed, are you using wood glue or a super glue?

Keep up the good work.

Best wishes  as always, 

The Lazy Saint. 

[Vane]

Thanks. You can find quick links to my other builds at the end of the first post. I am also doing the Granado, Diana and Corels Victory. 

 

I mostly do wood glue. But I am slowly moving towards CA. It takes some time to learn and I am not there yet.  Lots of planks get more stuck to my fingers than the hull 😛

[Vane]

I couldnt figure out how to add a signature with my builds... any tips?

[The Lazy Saint]

Hi Vane,

Your Victory looks great, l am looking forward to seeing the rigging take shape.

1 hour ago, Vane said:

 

I mostly do wood glue. But I am slowly moving towards CA. It takes some time to learn and I am not there yet.  Lots of planks get more stuck to my fingers than the hull 😛

Ha ha, l know what you mean, l had a practice with CA, but only on the deck which is much less challenging. With practice we will get there.

 

1 hour ago, Vane said:

couldnt figure out how to add a signature with my builds... any tips?

Sorry Vane l have no idea at all.

Best wishes as always, 

The Lazy Saint. 

[Vane]

Here are some of the better buildlogs I have found on HMS Snake. There are quite many in the MSW overview but many abandoned so my advice is to check out these first:

1) Almost finished build by Beef Wellington - Unfortunately put on hold as he is building the HMS Jason

2) Almost finished build by Jim Smiths - Great build
3) Almost finished build by drtrap - Great build
4) Recently started build by duncbe - Early in the process, but really good planking!

 

Edited September 22, 2019 by Vane

[BenD]

Hey Vane. If you want to add a signature go to your account settings at the top. Go to signature and within there is a button to link you're builds.  

[Vane]

Thanks! It worked :-)

[Vane]

Finally, inner walls done!

Now on to a very delicate part of the process which will really be visable once the kit is finished: finetuning the gun ports and adding wales.

 

So i better dont screw this up.

[GrandpaPhil]

Looking good!

[The Lazy Saint]

Hi Vane,

Good job, she is coming along great. You are right about the gunports being so visible when the build is finished and it is no easy task to get them perfect either. 

Good luck. 

Best wishes as always, 

The Lazy Saint. 

[Vane]

I just got a visit from the German Santa Claus... so I hope this will speed up the process of my builds 🙂

 

[Vane]

Been Working on the whales today 

[Vane]

This weekend has been focused on sanding and filing, getting the deck prepared for planking. You really need to put alot of work into getting this right and the question is what is "good enough"?.   

[Vane]

The waterline will require som decision making again. Depending on where I place the ship in the stand the stern will go deeper and the waterline will change. So how deep should this be?    

[The Lazy Saint]

Hi Vane,

l hope I am not over simplifying things but is the waterline not marked on your plans/drawings. I have taken these measurements and adjusted my waterline marker so that is correct for both bow and stern. I then drew the line.

I hope my explanation helps, if l have miss understood you please excuse me.

Best wishes as always, 

The Lazy Saint. 

[Vane]

Made quite a lot progress with my Snake the last days and are now into the copperphase. This will likely take some time but after that its time to do some really nice photos in my studio. Now it start to look like a ship!

[VTHokiEE]

On 8/31/2019 at 12:00 PM, Vane said:

I couldnt figure out how to add a signature with my builds... any tips?

So this is quite late, but look in your account settings. I took a screen shot on Mobile that will hopefully help.

 

 

[The Lazy Saint]

Hi Vane, 

The coppering looks like it is going on very nicely indeed. 

Best wishes as always, 

The Lazy Saint. 

[Vane]

Thanks VThookiEE,  I have figured out now 🙂

[Vane]

This is like running a Marathon... twice considering i have 2 sides to complete...

[Vane]

First I hated it... but then it turned out to be some kind of therapy 😛

[Vane]

Done! 

Its abit messy with CA all over the place. Any suggestions on how to clean it?

[Vane]

Still have some finetuning to do, but next is to start the deck planking.