HMS Enterprise by Kevin - CAF - 1/48 - August 2020

[Kevin]

Good evening everyone

 

Day 16 keel and frame cleaning and test fitting

 

not much to say, another 4 hours sanding, and cleaning ribs, tonight i put what frames that have been made in place, about 50% need more sanding to allow them to fit correctly

 

 

[Trussben]

Very nice,

 

16 days to get to where you are is soo fast, took me a couple of years to do that on my scratch swan class sloop!

These new kit designs from the likes of CAF, Syren and Vanguard are going to transform this hobby.

[VTHokiEE]

Nice job! A CAF model is certainly on the list of future purchases.

[Kevin]

9 hours ago, Trussben said:

Very nice,

 

16 days to get to where you are is soo fast, took me a couple of years to do that on my scratch swan class sloop!

These new kit designs are going to transform this hobby.

it is the only way, with my lack of skills to make anything decent, i fully realise the amount of time required to scratch one of these, and admire you and all the others who do it the proper way

[yvesvidal]

Beautiful work Kevin !!

 

Yves

[Kevin]

Good evening eveyone

 

day 17 fitting frames 8 to 26 

this morning i managed a better clean up of frames 8 to 26, and made a decision (right or wrong) to go ahead and fit them, the elastic bands keep them in place whilst the glue sets, they have been pinned to strengthen them, the yellow lines are just highlighting the fact that frame 14 is not fitted,  as it needs to be remade, no fairing of internal timbers has been made, other than removing the laser char,

[yvesvidal]

Nice work, Kevin. I am glad you went ahead with the glue!

 

Yves

[kljang]

Lovely job Kevin.  You got tucked in straight away and making great progress.

 

cheers,

 

Kerry

[Kevin]

good afternoon everyone

 

bit the bullet today and ordered kit parts 2 and 3, not told the wife yet

[clearway]

it is good when all the brain ache comes together and looks like a ship😁.

 

Keith

[Old Collingwood]

If we hear you have moved into the  out house we will understand 😉

 

OC.

[Kevin]

lol i told the wife and her reply was, dont understand why you didnt order it all at the same time, it would have cut down shipping costs and export duties

[GuntherMT]

13 minutes ago, Kevin said:

lol i told the wife and her reply was, dont understand why you didnt order it all at the same time, it would have cut down shipping costs and export duties

She's right you know!

[Kevin]

9 minutes ago, GuntherMT said:

She's right you know!

of course she is, and she knows that i know she is😁

[clearway]

unwritten law of the sea- the admiral is ALWAYS right😁

[James H]

You're doing this real quick and those frames look great, and smooth.

 

Nice straight keel line too.

 

[Kevin]

30 minutes ago, James H said:

You're doing this real quick and those frames look great, and smooth.

 

Nice straight keel line too.

 

thank you

only the char has been removed, nothing wrt to the laser fairing lines has been done yet, at present i have just got back into making frames as ive had a few days away from the build

 

[Kevin]

1 hour ago, clearway said:

unwritten law of the sea- the admiral is ALWAYS right😁

i did 34 years at sea, and on 3rd wife, lol so yes

[BobG]

7 hours ago, Kevin said:

and on 3rd wife

So that's the secret of success! 😄

[Kevin]

2 hours ago, BobG said:

So that's the secret of success! 😄

and i like wedding cake

[BobG]

1 hour ago, Kevin said:

and i like wedding cake

🤣

[KentM]

Looks like a great kit.  You're doing great.

Kent

[mtaylor]

On 9/10/2020 at 2:24 AM, Kevin said:

i did 34 years at sea, and on 3rd wife, lol so yes

Third time is apparently the key. LOL...

[Kevin]

On 9/5/2020 at 9:57 PM, Trussben said:

Very nice,

 

16 days to get to where you are is soo fast, took me a couple of years to do that on my scratch swan class sloop!

These new kit designs from the likes of CAF, Syren and Vanguard are going to transform this hobby.

its taken me 4 days to think of an acceptable answer, and i still dont have one, 

 

for me this works well, and it gives use without the skills to make a semi decent representation, in a much shorter time, however i wish i had the skills to do my own full scratch, after all this is still just a kit

[Kevin]

good evening everyome

 

Day 19 full frames and cants

 

i delayed putting the cants in for as long as possible, they seamed quite difficult, so best to leave them, but the time had to come

 

i may have mentioned it previously. that there are laser etched lines on a lot of the ribs, these provide a rough fairing line, 

so the same goes for the cants, also there is a angle template provided for each numbered cant to help achieve the correct angle, this template is to set up the bench sander at the correct angle, mine kept moving so i devised my own answer by gluing the template to the cant and then sanding to the correct line, it worked

having done that, i then found i did not have enough room to get access to pin the cants, 

so

i removed the top level of the jig

glued starboard cants 2 to 7 in position, when the glue set, i removed the hull from the frame to pin, this will be repeated on the stbd side

 

 

the hull drops back into the jig quite easy, im not sure how difficult its going to be to put the top level back on

 

 

[yvesvidal]

2 hours ago, Kevin said:

Thank you for publishing this picture. It really gives us a sense of how large the model is and how complicated. This is going to be a great model, no doubt.

 

Yves

[Old Collingwood]

Excellent work  - really taking shape  with all those frames,     should be built in no time with that giant building her😉

 

OC.

[mtaylor]

11 hours ago, Kevin said:

, however i wish i had the skills to do my own full scratch, after all this is still just a kit

This project will give you a lot of the skills needed, Kevin.  

[Kevin]

yipeeeeeee parts 2&3 are in the UK, been stuck in Holland for over 24 hours, Presently at Castle Donington

[Kevin]

 

good evening everyone

 

Day 21 last of the cants

 

been a quite week, lots of things happening, and not a lot of boat building, but today the last of the stern cants were put in, that leave the hawse timbers and stern timbers, 

 

Parts 2 and 3 arrived and i will show photos at a later date