HMS Portland 1770 by scrubbyj427 - 1:48 - 4th rate 50-gun ship

[scrubbyj427]

The port side planking is complete. Played around with some WOP on the Hawes pieces. Going to start on the garboard strake tonight. 

[Ronald-V]

Woah that looks nice! 🙃

[KennyH78]

She is looking really nice.  I love the CNC'd figure head and stern carvings.  I think I may not have mentioned this before, but I love how you combined POB and POF model into a hybrid model!

[westwood]

It looks great!

I'm already looking forward to what you'll show us in the third chapter.

[scrubbyj427]

On 9/30/2025 at 12:30 AM, Ronald-V said:

Woah that looks nice! 🙃

Thank you Ronald!

On 9/30/2025 at 5:15 AM, KennyH78 said:

She is looking really nice.  I love the CNC'd figure head and stern carvings.  I think I may not have mentioned this before, but I love how you combined POB and POF model into a hybrid model!

Thank you Kenny. I think the design works well at producing a navy board model without having to fully frame the entire hull only to cover up a ton of expensive pearwood!

 

On 9/30/2025 at 11:49 AM, westwood said:

It looks great!

I'm already looking forward to what you'll show us in the third chapter.

Thank you Dusan. Soon!

[scrubbyj427]

 I began fairing the inner hull, as mentioned earlier, the bow needs to be done first in order to install the beak head beam and finish the channel wales. 
I began by cutting all the extension reenforcement hoops out with a small excel saw blade. MDF cuts like butter so this goes quick

from here I faired all the bulkheads down to the first hance piece. I faired enough of the bow aft of the beak head bulkhead beam that I won’t have to worry about coming close to that area then I finish fairing the inside. 


Now I can complete the channel wale. But before I finish that I moved onto finishing the lower garboard strake plus an additional one. With this complete I could finally add some WOP to the remaining portside hull and frames. Moving on to finish the portside gunports now and finally the last strake at the channel wale.

[shauer]

Nice update, thanks for taking the detailed pictures of the important steps. 

 

I'm hoping to be able to have this be my next project after I complete my Winnie build, so I appreciate the level of detail you are documenting.

 

Steve

[scrubbyj427]

On 10/3/2025 at 10:04 AM, shauer said:

Nice update, thanks for taking the detailed pictures of the important steps. 

 

I'm hoping to be able to have this be my next project after I complete my Winnie build, so I appreciate the level of detail you are documenting.

 

Steve

Thank you Steve. I’m producing instructions to go along with the kit that a more detailed than my poorly assembled build log lol. 
 

Cutting two kits now. More to follow.

[Thukydides]

She is quite the model. This will be a very impressive kit. It really is a pleasure to follow along and see how it developes.

[scrubbyj427]

4 hours ago, Thukydides said:

She is quite the model. This will be a very impressive kit. It really is a pleasure to follow along and see how it developes.

Thank you Thukydides. There’s more coming soon!

[scrubbyj427]

Almost done with Chapter 2, here’s where the model is at this point, warts and all!. A few more things to wrap up and I will begin fairing the inside and getting ready for chapter 3.

 

Edited 7 hours ago by scrubbyj427

[KennyH78]

She's a beaut, JJ!  Very impressive model; can't wait to see what chapter 3 has in store.