Cangarda 1901 by KeithAug - Scale 1:24 - Steam Yacht

[Keith Black]

Keith, the green is spot on. I really like the looks of the hull. 

[mcb]

Beautiful hull there Keith.

Thanks for posting,

 

mcb

[Ian_Grant]

A true work of art!

[wefalck]

I think I would have had a cardiac arrest while the first paint went on ...

 

Loosk like my favourite green, British Racing Green or RAL 6007 Bottle Green. Difficult to get these days, but I had it mixed up in acrylics for the paint-jobs on my machines.

 

And I think this is enough paint to give a balance between the realistic impression of the real thing, while preserving the beautiful planking and varnishing job.

 

Edited March 1 by wefalck

[BANYAN]

Agree with Eberhard. Great job on the masking Keith, those lines look good. So, has the heart rate stabilised?

 

cheers

 

Pat

[KeithAug]

 

Glen, Rick, Keith, MCB, Ian, Eberhard, Pat - thank you all for your continuing support and thanks to everyone for all the likes and visits.

 

Eberhard, I don't get very stressed about paint it's drilling holes in the hull that traumatises me.

 

I have been making a bit of progress with the ships bow decoration.

I had previously made the oval feature.

I bought some .04" bearings to create the fringe. They were fixed in position with clear varnish.

I then applied 3 coats of gold paint.

I masked the carvings on the bow and painted them gold.

I also did a bit of repair work to the paint. In one position the masking tape had covered the very edge of the reinforcing plate. I applied a further piece of tape and painted the edge by hand with a very fine brush.

Then it was time to cut the hull from its building board. I used my pull saw to cut each frame in turn.

It took a while but eventually the hull was free and in its building cradle.

I now need to cut all the up-stands off.

 

 

 

 

[druxey]

Terrific work all round. I presume that you counted the number of ball-bearings to match the original, didn't you?

[Keith Black]

47 minutes ago, druxey said:

I presume that you counted the number of ball-bearings to match the original, didn't you?

 And they're so evenly spaced. Terrific bit of work, Keith. The freed hull looks neat.

[Tony Hunt]

That's a big moment in any ship model's life.  The equivalent of launch day! Congratulations. I hope you had a glass of champagne handy when you finished?

[MAGIC's Craig]

Simply magnificent!!

 

[Dr PR]

Keith,

 

I took one look at all the bead thingies on the bow decoration and wondered how you would carve them. Ball bearings! Great idea, and the resulting part is very nice!

[FlyingFish]

Goodness gracious, great balls.....

[wefalck]

Nice work on replicating this 'granulation' or 'filligree' as jewelers would call it. 

 

There is also a little-known tool called a millgrain-wheel that can be used to create decorative beaded wire. It's kind of a concave punch-wheel and sold for different bead-sizes and spacings.

[KeithAug]

2 hours ago, wefalck said:

There is also a little-known tool called a millgrain-wheel that can be used to create decorative beaded wire.

Eberhard - I wasn't aware of that but I did find an interesting youtube video. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

13 hours ago, Keith Black said:

And they're so evenly spaced.

Just pushed one against the other Keith.🙂

 

12 hours ago, Tony Hunt said:

I hope you had a glass of champagne handy when you finished?

No - just a cup of tea Tony.

 

Thank you Andy, Phil, Craig, Druxey.

[BANYAN]

Well here's raising a cup of very strong tea (only slightly laced with ...) to your success with the gingerbread Keith; that is some very nice work.  We are becoming accustomed to your very fine work but you continue to impress us.

cheers

 

Pat

[Rick310]

Absolutely beautiful work Keith, hard to tell the model from the real ship!

Rick

[FriedClams]

Sweet work, Keith and creative solution with the BBs.

 

Gary

[KeithAug]

Thank you Pat, Rick & Gary.

 

Another week has passed but unfortunately not all weeks go to plan - more of that later.

 

You will recall in my last post the hull came off the mounting board.

The next task was to remove all the up-stands to deck level. Those of you with long memories will recall that when I cut out the frames I scrolled along the deck line leaving only a small un cut attachment section. You can just about see the cut at arrow "A" in the next photo.

Removing the up-stand therefore only involved two vertical saw cuts at "B" and a horizontal saw cut at "C".

I tried doing the horizontal cut by plunging in a small Dremel circular saw. The saw did a lot of snatching so I tried a diamond cutting disc which proved to be a lot more successful.

I left a small section of building board at the bow to anchor the decoration with an elastic band while gluing.

I then went on to finish the wall cladding inside the engine / boiler room. This small section had been inaccessible from the outside while planking. The cladding is necessasary to produce a smooth internal finish as per the original. The cladding was glued in place using PVA wood glue. The cladding was held in place with pieces of up-stand and clamps while drying.

However this turned out to be a stupid plan because the PVA expanded the hull planks and damaged the hull finish. I am very stupid!

 

Fortunately only light sanding was required to get the hull smooth again.

Now I get some more varnishing practice.

 

For the cladding on the other side I have a different plan.

The workshop has been a bit warmer of late so I am hoping for 2 coats of varnish per day. Oh what fun!

 

 

[yvesvidal]

59 minutes ago, KeithAug said:

Now I get some more varnishing practice.

There is always a silver lining in every problem we face.

 

Yves

[druxey]

Sorry about the water content in PVA doing that. How frustrating!

[KeithAug]

34 minutes ago, yvesvidal said:

There is always a silver lining in every problem we face.

 

32 minutes ago, druxey said:

Sorry about the water content in PVA doing that. How frustrating!

Yves / Druxey - The most annoying bit is that it was predictable. I don't suppose I will make the same mistake again.

[Rick310]

Keith, the bow decorations are amazing!!

I keep hoping one day I’ll actually learn from my mistakes!

Rick