Whaleboat by Heinrich der Seefahrer - GK Modellbau - 1/48 - PoF

[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

Hello,

 

as I told you I'll do some small short turn projects in between. Here is N°1.

Todays noon I did start a whale boat by GK-Modellbau/Kirchlengern (Germany) in some strange vaneer based PoF style.

 

Mondfeld critics this buildingtype very hard in his new Encyclopedia of Modelbuildung (3.1/3.2 the Hull part I. & II.) Here my shipcat on the vaneer, gypsum mould kit - and the quite nice stand within.

It is a coaster boat of the XVII.century hunting the whale in a small villages whalemen group. So there is no need for a big whaling ship to be built, too. 

The formers lay quite well on the gypsum moulds surface - wetted with water and pressed on by a soldering iron.

The holes for the formers are not aline with the grooves in the keel - so the formers are diagonal... 

Hope you like todays progress and the scratching freestyle on the fore and aft lockers topsides. 

Here the sideview of todays progress; that ruler shows how small the hole kit is at the very end.

 

Wishing you a good night.

 

[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

I have to admit

 

...I could not stop to build this night...

...only five plankes are placed till noon...

...and the plankes were side by side when I placed them. But by the soldering irons heat they shrink so canyons not gaps appear  - some more than frustrating thing! These "gaps" are as big as a plank is thick!

I am told in the instructions  to paint thehole planked hull with wood glue, wipe it off the planks - sand them and the saw dust would fill the gaps and magically the do disappear...  

 

But due to the size of the gaps I cannot belief in the successfull use of this simple technique. And I do think of the inlaying of squaresized stripes of the planks to fill the gaps before the wood-glue-& sanding trick.

What do you think about this? Can anybody who planked a boat in 1/48 tell to me what to do?

[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

The breakfastdaylightpictures (yes in German we can make such long words at Scrabble) show the biggest malus and bonus of this kit:

 

The formers were swung aft  due to the mispositionation of the gypsum mould on the predrilled plywood!

 

But what works is my wood craft artwork, yesternight I was in doubt - but it does it

[Norbert E.]

Hi.

I built the same ship, maybe due to a later version of the kit I have not seen same issues.

I was able to fill the small gaps between the plankes follow the instruction (white glue and sanding)

Have you finished the kit?

Thanks. Norbert