Herreshoff 12 1/2 by Steve116 - BlueJacket Shipcrafters - 1:12 Scale

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Blue Jacket kit

Assembling tools, glue, setting up work station

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Day 1-prepping keel and bulkheads

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Day 2 - Bulkheads painted/ stained and installed

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Day 3. Let the planking begin

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mahogany sheer strake in!

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Slow and steady

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It’s been awhile( Summer vacation?) Happy to be back at it

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Time for the stealer planks

Edited December 17, 2024 by Steve116
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Planking is complete. Difficult to bend basswood planks in 3 dimensions- I’m soaking the planks with boiling water and ammonia. There are several small gaps between planks. I painted several toothpicks the same color as the cockpit interior and glued them to the exterior hull to smooth the plank transitions

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Hull planking and painting essentially complete

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 Soaked the mahogany cockpit coaming with hot water and ammonia (~20%) for 30 mins b4 attempting to bend. One piece split- I was able to mend w CA - and built a simple jig to finish the contouring

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50 minutes ago, Steve116 said:

Yeah, I have one of these piece of wood with a bunch of nails driven into it. This is the perfect and flexible jig that every wood modeller needs.

Glad to see that we share the same jig 🙂

 

Yves

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Hull, mast, gaff, boom and cub, becket and blocks essentially complete. I used Minwax natural for the spars, and mahogany stain for the deck planking

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11/14/2025 update( back to it- golf season in the Northeast is over)

 

Construction notes:

 

1. Entire hull was painted with Rustoleum 2x Painters Touch Flat white

 

2. Exposed interior planking was spray painted Rustoleum 2x Painters Touch Wildflower Blue satin( I would choose a different color in retrospect )

 

3. I used delicate surface Frog Tape to mask the water line. Hunter Green Americas Finest ( Rustoleum) below the water line.  
 

I sprayed the frog tape with matte clear b4 painting with green to prevent color bleed

 

4. SIGSCS642 1/8” Super Stripe black for the water line

 

5. I attempted (unsuccessfully) to make wooden mast hoops as outlined in the instructions. I purchased 13/32” hoops ( part no. F-1504) from Blue Jacket

 

6. Model Shipways makes a wood single sheeve 5mm block MSBB1050- similar in size to the cast components provided with the kit.

 

7. I am fortunate to have some viable Flo Quil model paint. I used this to paint the ends of the mast, boom and gaff.

 

8.  Much appreciated shout out to Sue A. who I met at the Blue Jacket rigging class a few years ago. We’ve stayed in touch since, and she provides great advice and ideas as I progress. She stitched the mainsail and jib- great job- and we opted not to install the bolt rope. 
 

9. I had painted the interior mahogany transom blue, and realized that didn’t look right. I used citric acid to effectively strip the paint.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 18 by Steve116
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