USS Cape (MSI-2) by Dr PR - 1:48 - Inshore Minesweeper

[Jim Lad]

Just catching up, Phil. She's coming along very nicely.

 

John

[SaltyScot]

You did a nice job on that deck house framing, Phil, very neat and precise. What wood are you using for that?

[Dr PR]

Mark,

 

The 1/8 x 1/8 inch strips are boxwood. This could be anything since it is hidden inside the deckhouse. The deckhouse sides and decks are SIG 1/16 plywood - I don't know what type of wood.

 

The deck planks are 1/16 x 1/16 inch strips. That is to scale, but is pretty small. Nibbing will be pretty tricky. The grout was 1/4 inch (6 mm) on the ship. That comes out to about 0.005 inch at 1:48 scale. I think thin black paper would make a nice clean grout, but that means working with a LOT of thin paper strips! I did this on the schooner build. I have experimented with pencil on the sides of the strips, but it is inconsistent and pretty lame looking.

 

Of course I could use some of the original calking goo we used on the Cape - I saved some in a bottle for use on models, and I even planked a model ship deck with it back in the 1970s! But it is extremely messy. No thanks, once is enough!

[SaltyScot]

6 hours ago, Dr PR said:

but it is inconsistent and pretty lame looking.

 

Yes, it most ertainly is.I tried that on the Endeavour build. Very disappointing.