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 Monday at 04:19 AM by scrubbyj427

[KennyH78]

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

[Trussben]

Looks Fantastic JJ.

[scrubbyj427]

On 10/6/2025 at 4:26 AM, KennyH78 said:

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

 

On 10/6/2025 at 10:20 AM, Trussben said:

Looks Fantastic JJ.

Thanks guys.

[scrubbyj427]

Adding the fixed blocks today, it’s pretty simple actually except for the aft one, there’s no covering up boo boo’s with a frieze on this one.

 

lets start with assembling the fixed blocks. 

The fixed blocks come in two halves, you just need to select the one that faces out and assemble the roller and the axle to that half. From  there I sanded the out side down until it almost hits the roller

The idea here is that once we fair the inside of the hull and add the spirketting panels then we can install the other half of the block and fair it down to the spirketting. When faired properly we should be able to see the roller from  the inside as well. I’ll cover this more when we get to this stage.

 

Now onto installing the fixed block half, I started by marking where it goes, it’s important that we place it in the corner of all the structure, it will help in the future when the laser cut panels go in on the inside 

I then traced it with a pencil so I could see where to make Some small holes 

from there I just opened up the hole very slowly and tested the block over

and over again until it had a tight fit.

here you can see it from the inside with the roller in place, this will also help you when fairing the inside, once you get close to the roller you’ll know you’re done sanding!

once it fit well I glued it in place and then carefully flush sanded it to match the hull then covered it up in some wop so it matches the rest of the planking.

the rest of the fixed blocks are pretty easy, they just need to be fitted into laser cut holes in the frieze panels.

i carefully cut the frieze piece free from the hole and glued it down to the top of the fixed block and then opened it up with a #11

[Greg M]

So many amazing little details that really make this pop.  Looking forward to Chapter 3.