SEGUIN by Dan Hall - BlueJacket Shipcrafters - 1/4" scale

[Dan Hall]

Just started the “Seguin” Bluejacket kit today, have done smaller models but liked the looks of this ship so I thought I would give it a try. I have followed the Instruction manual for assembling the five frames by gluing and pining the parts to the drawings that is secured to a 5/8” plywood base.

The first mistake I made was not to pre drill a hole for the push pin, so I split one part, predrilled a small hole, glued and pined it to the board without any more brakeage.

On the Drawing there is a statement, “FOR IDENTIFICATION ONLY”, “Images may not be actual size of the lasered pieces”. This is a true statement but what is right the drawing or the lasered pieces? I have taken a guess at this and filed, sanded and got as close as possible to the outside contour on the drawing, it’s not perfect so I see future shimming. Time spent today is 4 hours.

[schooner]

Hey Dan, glad to see a build log for this kit. Are you going to be making it Radio Controlled?

[MrBlueJacket]

FYI - trust the pieces, not the drawing.

 

Nic

[Dan Hall]

On 12/2/2020 at 10:50 AM, schooner said:

Hey Dan, glad to see a build log for this kit. Are you going to be making it Radio Controlled?

No, not radio controlled.

[Dan Hall]

On 12/3/2020 at 10:28 AM, MrBlueJacket said:

FYI - trust the pieces, not the drawing.

 

Nic

Thank you, I was hoping the pieces was right.

[Dan Hall]

12/05/2020 Day Two

Assembled the keel, had no problems until I got to paragraph 4 it says, “To center these tubes on the keel, shim one side of the keel with scraps of 1/64” plywood,” Well Shimming one side does not center the tubes , the Drawing says,” 1/16” thick laminations apply to both sides of keel (Shaded area) K8”. I’m wondering way you apply lamination at all? I did not. Doing the math it looks like I can just file out for the shaft tube. Spent a lot of time trying to figure out this but will probably find latter that I should have applied the lamination, we will see. Fabricated a jig as called out in Paragraph 6.Time spent today 4 hours.

[Dan Hall]

On 12/5/2020 at 1:16 PM, Dan Hall said:

12/05/2020 Day Two

Assembled the keel, had no problems until I got to paragraph 4 it says, “To center these tubes on the keel, shim one side of the keel with scraps of 1/64” plywood,” Well Shimming one side does not center the tubes , the Drawing says,” 1/16” thick laminations apply to both sides of keel (Shaded area) K8”. I’m wondering way you apply lamination at all? I did not. Doing the math it looks like I can just file out for the shaft tube. Spent a lot of time trying to figure out this but will probably find latter that I should have applied the lamination, we will see. Fabricated a jig as called out in Paragraph 6.Time spent today 4 hours.

Paragraph 7: Placed the assembled keel in jig, fits snug. Paragraph 8: check to see if vertical post fit subdeck, then glued the fore and aft section (D1, D2) of each subdeck half together. I don’t know if it’s proper to deviate to the assembly manual & the drawing, but at this point I feel need to. The glue point where (D1 & D2) of the subdeck meet is so weak and the frame horizontal support are not centered at the glue joint, I have decided to add a block on the horizontal support to give to glue joint some support, It will never be seen. Something else I have done is to add 3/32” scrap wood braces to the frame/keel junctions before I glue the frames, paragraph 8 says to do this after gluing the frames. It just makes the assembly a little bit more stable.  Time spent today 6 hours.  

[Dan Hall]

12/9/2020 Day Four

 Paragraph 8: Glued the subdeck to frames. I’m glad I added the support block to the forward side of frame 3, because of the glue joint of the subdeck being foreword of the frame. Time spent today 4 hours.