Charles W Morgan tryworks by MrBlueJacket - BlueJacket Shipcrafters - scale 1/2"=1'

[MrBlueJacket]

The Charles W. Morgan whaling ship was launched in 1843, and is now a museum in Mystic Seaport CT. Bluejacket has made a large scale cross-section model, and also offers just the tryworks as a stand-alone model. It would make a great dislay next to a model of the entire ship.

 

Here's the plans and instructions:

 

[MrBlueJacket]

First step is to  remove some pieces from their carrier.

 

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Next, a box is assembled, with the brick locations marked on the outside. Did I mention there are 800 individual bricks to glue in place?

 

[MrBlueJacket]

The next step is to  put the brick floor inside the box. I decided to paint the bricks before gluing the sheet in place. I used automotive red oxide primer as a color.

Then to simulate the mortar, regular wall spackle was smeared on and rubbed off with a wet paper towel.

 

 

[SallyNye]

I'm working on this model now. I've just laid my floor, however I didn't paint it first. I'm going to disassemble it ...paint the floor as you did ...and reassembly. I like what you did 🙂

[MrBlueJacket]

It's primarily for the interior, the hearth will get re-sprayed when the front bricks are painted.

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So here's the brick floor glued down

 

Then the front face is attached. That thin CA spill will disappear when the front is sprayed

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That's a lot of bricks to cut out of the sheet!

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And so we start laying bricks. It's easy to follow the shell's pattern. This should bring hours of great fun.

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After laying the first course of bricks, the 1/64 spacer was glued on.

Then, of course, lay down more bricks. After another row, the spacing looks really good.

 

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Slow but steady progress laying bricks.

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Doing another layer of bricks every few days.

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More layers. Almost to the top.....