28-foot Steam cutter on the James White System (1876) by vladislemm - Piroscaf & Co Scale Models - 1:24 - by Vladislav Lemm

[vladislemm]

28-foot Steam cutter on the James White System (1876), was mounted on the armored cruiser General-Admiral

Scale: 1:24

 

28-foot steam cutter on the James White system was completely wooden constructed and equipped with a single cylinder

steam engine with a power of 2 and 1/4 nominal forces. The cutter was built approximately in 1876 and mounted on the

armored cruiser General-Admiral of Imperial fleet of the Armed forces of the Russian Empire and was used for transportation

of senior officers.

 

Original Specifications:
- length.................28 feet 3 inches (8,61 m)
- weight................72 pounds (1180 kg)
- width..................7 feet 3 inches (2,21 m)
- draught...............4.5 tons
- draft....................2 feet (0,61 m)
- capacity...............2 and 1/4 nominal forces

 

General-Admiral was the world's first ocean-going armored cruiser. Built under the project of A. Popov and ship engineers I. Dmitriev and N. Kuteynikov at Semyannikov and Poletiki shipyard. The builder was the English naval foreman Bane, but in 1873 after his death, russian expert P. Titov became in charge. Building Supervision was carried out by ship engineer captain N. Subbotin. It was placed into service in 1875.

 

Sorry, there are no photos of the content, because the model was started a couple of months ago and some of the parts are already separated.

 

Edited December 12, 2020 by vladislemm

[shipman]

Welcome from Yorkshire, Vladislav.

Your cutter looks like an interesting and unusual subject.

I'm fond of the small boats, from any era,

[vladislemm]

The beginning of the steam cutter model assembly - hull frames, bow part.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 7, 2020 by vladislemm

[Roger Pellett]

Interesting project!

[Ron Burns]

I've seen photos of the prototype of this model I believe. As far as I remember it is a beautifully detailed boat done in really nice wood. 

I look forward to seeing it built as well. Thanks for sharing it with us!

[Jim Lad]

Looks like that will build into a very nice model.

 

John

[vladislemm]

Assembly Instruction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2020 by vladislemm

[Jeff5115]

I have seen another build of this model and the finished kit was beautiful.

 

[Roger Pellett]

I assume that the “James White System” refers to the diagonal planking.  It will be interesting to see how how this works out at scale.  On the real thing, diagonal planking was used to allow wooden boats normally kept out of the water to be launched as necessary without first having to have the planking swelled up.  To help this, white lead or a waterproofed fabric membrane could be applied between the two layers.

[vladislemm]

15 minutes ago, Roger Pellett said:

I assume that the “James White System” refers to the diagonal planking.  It will be interesting to see how how this works out at scale.  On the real thing, diagonal planking was used to allow wooden boats normally kept out of the water to be launched as necessary without first having to have the planking swelled up.  To help this, white lead or a waterproofed fabric membrane could be applied between the two layers.

Yes, this steam cutter has 2 layers of planks: diagonal and longitudinal. Both layers will be present in the model.

[yvesvidal]

Interesting kit. I like the details of the boiler and cylinder.

I will be following your progress.

 

Yves

[turangi]

Do you have a link to a website where this kit can be purchased?

[vladislemm]

On 12/7/2020 at 5:35 PM, shipman said:

Welcome from Yorkshire, Vladislav.

Your cutter looks like an interesting and unusual subject.

I'm fond of the small boats, from any era,

I really like steam and rowing cutter and longboats, and it is a pity that there are not enough wooden kit models in this direction.

[shipman]

These folk seem to be down your way. 'FALCONET MODELS'

 

[shipman]

Then there's these.

'LS MODELS'

'MASTER KIROBEL'

All three do a good range of small boats.

 

[vladislemm]

On 12/9/2020 at 4:20 PM, shipman said:

Then there's these.

'LS MODELS'

'MASTER KIROBEL'

All three do a good range of small boats.

1: 72 and 1: 100 scales are very small for such boats.

[vladislemm]

I continue to assemble the frame of cutter hull

 

 

 

 

Edited December 10, 2020 by vladislemm

[vladislemm]

 

Still assembling the frame of steam cutter

 

 

 

 

Edited December 11, 2020 by vladislemm

[vladislemm]

Completed the frames of the hull and tied it with a keel bar

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 12, 2020 by vladislemm

[Jim Lad]

You're making excellent progess.

 

John

[vladislemm]

I glued the branches of the frames in two layers of 0.6 mm veneer and glued them to the power parts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 14, 2020 by vladislemm

[vladislemm]

I started laying the diagonal planks - anegri wood

 

 

 

 

Edited December 15, 2020 by vladislemm

[pwog]

Wow! She is looking great! Nice work. 

[vladislemm]

I continue to lay the diagonal planks. Moving from the center to the bow and stern.

 

[vladislemm]

Finished the bow.

 

 

[Jim Lad]

Very neatly done.

 

John

[Keithbrad80]

This is really cool model, personally i have never seen this method of planking so ill follow with interest!

 

Bradley

[vladislemm]

A little more progress.

 

 

[BobG]

The planking is very beautiful and very unusual. Was this method of planking actually used on the original boats?

[vladislemm]

55 minutes ago, BobG said:

The planking is very beautiful and very unusual. Was this method of planking actually used on the original boats?

Yes! Laying the planks on the model completely repeats the real prototype - two layers, the first diagonal, the second longitudinal.

Below is a drawing from a similar steam cutter.