Bluenose by Retired guy - Model Shipways - scale 1:64

[Retired guy]

Hi Julie thanks for looking in and your comment, yes the model is small hull is just under 27” scale 3/16” = 1’-0”

 

Regards

Richard

[The Lazy Saint]

Well done Richard, you are making a fantastic job of you Bluenose, it is very inspiring indeed. Thanks for sharing it with us. 

Best wishes as always, 

The Lazy Saint. 

[Jond]

Richard

 

I just enjoyed reading your blog all the way through. I appreciate all the little things I learned along the way.   It is wonderful when folks with your skill show us trick.......your set up for soldering such little pieces. It is so much about how does one hold things in place.    After building my Bluenose at 1:24 ,where one can actually hold onto things, it is a marvel that you keep andeven expand on the detail at this small scale

 

congrats on a great build and thank you for sharing.

 

jon  

[Retired guy]

On 2/8/2020 at 10:41 AM, KeithAug said:

Me too Richard - in 1969 / 1970, in my mind it's not that long ago, it's in my body that I notice the years.

 

My Apprenticeship was from 74 to 79 in Poole Dorset and totally agreed with your statement 😄

  

On 2/9/2020 at 10:54 PM, The Lazy Saint said:

Well done Richard, you are making a fantastic job of you Bluenose, it is very inspiring indeed. Thanks for sharing it with us. 

Best wishes as always, 

The Lazy Saint. 

 

Do appreciate your kind words Lazy Saint I am thoroughly enjoying myself building this great Canadian schooner

  

12 hours ago, Jond said:

Richard

 

I just enjoyed reading your blog all the way through. I appreciate all the little things I learned along the way.   It is wonderful when folks with your skill show us trick.......your set up for soldering such little pieces. It is so much about how does one hold things in place.    After building my Bluenose at 1:24 ,where one can actually hold onto things, it is a marvel that you keep and even expand on the detail at this small scale

 

congrats on a great build and thank you for sharing.

 

jon  

 

Thanks very much for looking at my blog I hope I can help other modelers, I have looked at other modelers builds and it sure has helped me, you are correct regarding how you must hold pieces to solder you cannot have them moving at all if you want to solder multi pieces together, I do like making the small scale I always am thinking how am I going to make the pieces 🙂

 

Again thanks for your posts

 

Regards

Richard

 

 

[Retired guy]

Changed the height of the catheads now they look like the drawing I must have not divided by two 

 

 

Made a stand which helped me hold the model while I painting the hull black 

 

 

 

 

Now started to look at the cabin and this is what they give for details

 

 

 

Started by making a jig to match the inside of the coaming so that I could build sides of the model, this had to be made with the concaved shape stern to bow and convex starboard to port

 

 

Then took the shape to make the outside coaming which was the same as shape which is on the model

 

 

With this I can start making the sides

 

 

Took a piece of 1/8" square boxwood and machined flats as per corner detail

 

 

Then cut some planks four for each side height took off drawing put them in a bend jig used the male jig to know what the bend was and put a dab of CA to hold 

 

 

 

Cut planks which were glue to length and also the 1/8" square corner pieces mounted in the female jig and got the shape I wanted 

 

 

Check to see if ok with coaming

 

 

So this all worked great and have four sides glued and at the same time I added 1/8" square boxwood all around the top

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards

Richard

 

[Ronald-V]

really, really beautiful! It is a joy to look at!

[The Lazy Saint]

I totally agree mugje. 

Best wishes as always, 

The Lazy Saint. 

[Justin P.]

Just stunning.   Another one of those "God I hope to get there one day..." builds.      Really, really nice. 

[Retired guy]

6 hours ago, mugje said:

really, really beautiful! It is a joy to look at!

The Bluenose was a beautiful ship and I am trying to capture her look thanks Mugje

1 hour ago, The Lazy Saint said:

I totally agree mugje. 

Best wishes as always, 

The Lazy Saint. 

Thanks again Lazy Saint forgot to say I added some beams across the top for roof support 

 

Until next time 

Regards

Richard

[Retired guy]

15 minutes ago, Justin P. said:

Just stunning.   Another one of those "God I hope to get there one day..." builds.      Really, really nice. 

Thank you Justin 

 

Regards

Richard

[md1400cs]

Richard,

 

Beyond so envying your skills  I can now also dream about having a shipyard as perfect as yours. lol

[KeithAug]

Beautifully crisp and clean work Richard. I love the attention to detail.

[Retired guy]

8 hours ago, md1400cs said:

Richard,

 

Beyond so envying your skills  I can now also dream about having a shipyard as perfect as yours. lol

 

Hi Michael I was taught how to use machines and how to fit by just using a hacksaw and then file and had to be made to thousands of an inch in my first year as an apprentice  at a technical collage, and the teacher would check our work with a vernier and if we were out he would chuck it in the bin, I tried not to have anything chucked in the bin 

Found a house here on the Island with the basement not done so I had a plan to build and did include making it for my wife to enjoy her hobby as well  

 

3 hours ago, KeithAug said:

Beautifully crisp and clean work Richard. I love the attention to detail.

 

Thank you Keith do love the detail 

 

Regards

Richard 

[Retired guy]

Put some beams in and then added beams were skylight and companionway would go just went off drawing for dimensions, then made a couple of air ports out of wood but might change them to brass.

 

 

 

Cut some cherry and made the side rails for the roof 

 

 

 

Next up was to grind a shape on a blade to match the moulding shown on drawing, then made a jig to hold boxwood while I scraped

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is how it came out, for the corners I machined a contour approx same as moulding and cut into four

 

 

 

 

Cut some boxwood planks 1/16" thick for the roof each one was then tapered to fit

 

 

 

 

Last one to go in, and at the same time cut cutout for skylight

 

 

Then a light sand

 

 

 

Got the skylight made up again using boxwood for sides lid but used a small bit of cherry right on top

 

 

I was looking at a picture of the skylight and I could see that there was a recess for the glass and underneath was the bars so put a recess in to hold glass, pictures is to help with build if not allowed please delete.

 

 

 

to make the bar grates I cut a strip of boxwood 1/32 x .025" cut into four and drilled .016" holes spaced .039" apart then glued in the bars

 

 

Then installed inside still have to make hinges and add the glass/plastic

 

 

 

Again thanks for all your comments and likes 

 

Regards

Richard

[md1400cs]

Richard,

 

Super well detailed. That razor blade trick is something that I always have wanted to try - your work is just perfect. 

[Retired guy]

Thanks Michael, the razor blade worked a treat but have heard a hacksaw blade works better will try for another time 

 

Regards

Richard

[JeffK]

I’m just starting to build a generic fishing schooner and am following your log for ideas and techniques. I am in awe with what your are able to do and hope mine is a tenth as good. I’m also amazed how fast you are moving in this. 

[KeithAug]

Superb work on the mouldings Richard. Have you considered scratch building?

[jwvolz]

Coming along beautifully Richard!

[Retired guy]

8 hours ago, KeithAug said:

Superb work on the mouldings Richard. Have you considered scratch building?

Thanks Keith, have done a lot of scratch work using brass, plastic but would like to build a boat from scratch.

3 hours ago, jwvolz said:

Coming along beautifully Richard!

 
Do like this Model shipway model Joe she is beautiful and find I am having a lot of fun building her

 

 

Regards

Richard

[CPDDET]

First let me say your workmanship and attention to detail is astounding, congrats on doing such fine work.

 

One question. When creating your razorblade scraper is the molding shape done by eye, using some sort of template or perhaps drawn first with a stylus?

 

Dave

[md1400cs]

Ooops,

 

FYI mates; Just remembered (I had forgotten) that some time back I had purchased this set of pre-shaped edge trimmers. Have not used them yet.

 

Regards,

[Retired guy]

On 2/16/2020 at 9:01 AM, JeffK said:

I’m just starting to build a generic fishing schooner and am following your log for ideas and techniques. I am in awe with what your are able to do and hope mine is a tenth as good. I’m also amazed how fast you are moving in this. 

 

Hi Jeff thanks for looking in and commenting on my build, what fishing schooner are you building it would be nice to see your progress

 

6 hours ago, CPDDET said:

First let me say your workmanship and attention to detail is astounding, congrats on doing such fine work.

 

One question. When creating your razorblade scraper is the molding shape done by eye, using some sort of template or perhaps drawn first with a stylus?

 

Dave

 

Thanks very much Dave trying to capture her in all the nice detail, and yes did grind the moulding shape by eye, used my Turbo carver with a diamond bit then finished it off with a very small diamond file

 

 

 

4 hours ago, md1400cs said:

Ooops,

 

FYI mates; Just remembered (I had forgotten) that some time back I had purchased this set of pre-shaped edge trimmers. Have not used them yet.

 

Regards,

 

They look nice can you tried one and shows us what comes out, what is the thickness of them?

 

 

Regards

Richard 

[KeithAug]

Richard, nice diamond file set. Where did you get them please?

[Retired guy]

1 hour ago, KeithAug said:

Richard, nice diamond file set. Where did you get them please?

 

Keith they are very nice, got them from Gesswein Canada but they are an American company

 

 

 

This is how big they are 

 

 

Bought quite a few tools from this place.

 

Regards

Richard

 

 

[Ronald-V]

Very nice micro file set! Not very cheap tho  

[CPDDET]

It's about what I paid for my set of Swiss escapement files. Good tools don't come cheap.

[Retired guy]

8 hours ago, mugje said:

Very nice micro file set! Not very cheap tho  

No not very cheap but as one says cheap = break 😁 since I bought them I have used them a lot 

31 minutes ago, CPDDET said:

It's about what I paid for my set of Swiss escapement files. Good tools don't come cheap.

Dave where did you buy your Swiss files

 

Regards

Richard

[md1400cs]

19 hours ago, Retired guy said:

 

Hi Jeff thanks for looking in and commenting on my build, what fishing schooner are you building it would be nice to see your progress

 

 

Thanks very much Dave trying to capture her in all the nice detail, and yes did grind the moulding shape by eye, used my Turbo carver with a diamond bit then finished it off with a very small diamond file

 

 

 

 

They look nice can you tried one and shows us what comes out, what is the thickness of them?

 

 

Regards

Richard 

First try - May need to re-do my current ship upper deck railing details hmmmm?

seems to work just fine on a harder woods as well - need to go-back-and-forth several times of course

 

FYI: Don't know this site.  https://www.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?I=LATR7300

 

 

 

Edited February 20, 2020 by md1400cs
adding info

[CPDDET]

I believe I bought my set of Glardon Vallorbe escapement files at Rio Grande, a jeweler supply house. But it may pay to shop around.

 

Dave