Captian Eddy by petehay

[petehay]

Decided to try scratch building the “Captain Eddy” from the plans seen in this topic thread. Got the keel and the bulkheads drawn at 1:48th scale and have started cutting out the pieces from bass wood.

[Roger Pellett]

Good choice!  Look forward to following your progress.  Nice progress so far.

 

Roger

[petehay]

Thanks for the kind words Roger. I’ll continue to take pictures and if things go well, I will put together a build log.

Pete

[Keith Black]

 Bravo!

[petehay]

Progress over the weekend - bulkheads/framing in place. Probably time to move to a real build log.

Pete

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[petehay]

Did I upload too many images to show in the post?

[BobG]

No, I think the heic file format is not compatible. I think you need to convert the file format to jpg.

 

Did you use an iPhone? iPhones sometimes use the heic format:

 

To save photos in JPG on iPhone:

Step 1. Go to the Settings app on your iPhone.

Step 2. Scroll down to choose "Camera" and tap "Formats."

Step 3. Select "Most Compatible" and your photos will be saved as JPEG files.

 

[petehay]

Thanks Bob.

Odd thing is I took and uploaded the previous images using the iPhone. I’ll convert them to jpg after dinner and reupload

[petehay]

Progress over the weekend. Bulkheads/Framing in place.

[mtaylor]

Heic is basically an orphan format that Microsoft came up with but it never caught on with website developers or anyone else for the most part.   

[petehay]

except Apple

[petehay]

First I want to thank Chris Coyle for his help in moving my previous posts in the "Ship Plans & Project Discussions" forum to this build log. Below are the photos of my progress thus far.

[petehay]

Thanks for looking. I will have some questions regarding how to proceed in my next post.

Pete

[FriedClams]

Interesting little boat, Pete - and nice work so far.  Reminds me of this abandoned little boat on the west coast of Ireland.  Somewhere in the 30'

range I imagine.  Nice project and a good choice.  

 

 

Best of luck on this build - I'll be following along.

 

Gary

[petehay]

My next question regards the structure(?) on the wheelhouse roof.as shown below:

These plans are based upon a fictional lobster boat from the comic strip "Non Sequitur" by Wiley Miller. In the images below there is a shop's wheel up there. Is this correct or is it artistic license?

(I hope I'm not breaking any copyright rules here)

[FlyingFish]

17 hours ago, petehay said:

Is this correct or is it artistic license?

No - it's a flying bridge. Here's an example.

[petehay]

@FlyingFish…and there would also be a wheel in the “wheelhouse”?

BTW - the detail on the Orca is absolutely amazing. 

Edited January 18 by petehay

[FlyingFish]

Thanks, yes connected together.

[petehay]

Thanks for the clarification.

[petehay]

My next step will be figuring out how to create the ship wheels from scratch at 1/48th scale. Any suggestions? 

Edited January 19 by petehay

[AON]

Pete

If you go to the Model Shipwrights of Niagara club website (link below) and scroll down to this months newsletter, January 2024 Issue 15 and scroll to pages 9 and 10

https://modelshipwrightsofniagara.weebly.com/monthly-newsletters

We had a presentation on making a ships wheel that you might be able to adapt

Edited January 20 by AON
Issue 16 was a typo

[petehay]

Alan,

It looks like issue 16 is not available to non-members yet. I will keep an eye out. Thanks

Pete

[AON]

Typo, January Issue 15

Sorry

[petehay]

Got it. Thanks

[petehay]

My attempt at a ship's wheel for the flying bridge. Made with an O-ring, some straight pins and some beads for the handles. It's 3' in diameter from tip of handle to tip of opposite handle at 1:48th scale. My old hands don't have the dexterity to go much smaller.