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My daughters got me the kit for Father’s Day, and like most projects I immediately set out to over-engineer it.  First wood (ship) kit, made a few mistakes along the way.  I am at sails and rigging now but posting the backlog of build photos.  Dan

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Current kit build(s): Chesapeake Bay Flattie Canadian Canoe 1:8

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Almost got the transom on straight.  Followed the instructions advice to use medium CA and while it speeds up the build nicely, it kills me not to be able to fix mistakes.  Cabin sides are not straight either.  And I used the wrong strips (too big) for the chafing planks alongside the keel.

 

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Current kit build(s): Chesapeake Bay Flattie Canadian Canoe 1:8

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Looks like you've done a great job, including overcoming some obstacles in the build.

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9 hours ago, JacquesCousteau said:

Looks like you've done a great job, including overcoming some obstacles in the build.

Thanks!  I owe a lot to others’ build logs from here such as mark.bukovich and EricWilliamMarshall and VTHokiEE, borrowed a lot of ideas and methods.  Also some great leads for reference materials here for details.

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Very cool! I recognize the top plan as from Chapelle, where do the other plans come from?

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The last one, Plate LXXXIV, is from C.P. Kunhardt’s Small Yachts, 1885.  This looks like the plan forming the basis of the Midwest kit plans.  I directly copied the centerboard details from it.  Found on this helpful substack from a full-scale builder, Duncan Blair.  https://traditionalsailbluewing.substack.com/p/part-two-the-boat

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Added grating in the cockpit, a yacht-style companionway boards closure, and a seat (shellac).  Used the cardstock method for rudder pintles/gudgeons.  Amber shellac on the spars to imitate spar varnish.

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On 8/21/2024 at 3:22 PM, Jim Lad said:

I'm sorry I haven't caught up with your model before. She looks really first class.

 

John

Thanks John!

 

Pine base is nearly done.  4 days of hand-rubbed French polish (shellac).

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Working on the rigging now.  Making an eye splice in 1.1mm miniature rope is fiddly business (the hawser on the Samson post).  The mainsheet is .7mm polyester.  Got all the mini rope from Ropes of Scale.

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Beautiful Chesapeake Flattie halvoric.  I built this model last year as a present for a friend.  I found this to be a very fun and enjoyable build with lots of opportunities to make the model your own.  You did a lot more on the masts and rigging than I did.  It looks like it was well worth the effort.

 

Hope to see more of your work on MSW.  Do you have any thoughts for what's next on the agenda?  I'm partial to the Model Shipways kits.  I think they are well engineered and enjoyable to build.

 

Wawona 59

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Next Project: Gifts for friends:  18th Century Pinnace, Kayak 17, Kayak 21

 

Indefinite Hold for the future:  1/96 Flying Fish, Model Shipways

 

Wish list for "Seattle Connection" builds:  1/96 Lumber Schooner Wawona, 1/32 Hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV, 1/96 Arthur Foss tug, 1/64 Duwamish cedar dugout canoe, 1/96 Downeaster "St. Paul"

 

Selected Previous Completed Builds:  Revell - 1/96 Thermopylae; Revell - 1/96 Cutty Sark, Revell - 1/96 Constitution, Aurora - Whaling Bark Wanderer, Model Shipways - 1/96 Phantom, AL - 1805 Pilot Boat Swift, Midwest - Chesapeake Bay Flattie, Monitor and Merrimac, Model Trailways - Doctor's Buggy

 

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10 hours ago, Wawona59 said:

Beautiful Chesapeake Flattie halvoric.  I built this model last year as a present for a friend.  I found this to be a very fun and enjoyable build with lots of opportunities to make the model your own.  You did a lot more on the masts and rigging than I did.  It looks like it was well worth the effort.

 

Hope to see more of your work on MSW.  Do you have any thoughts for what's next on the agenda?  I'm partial to the Model Shipways kits.  I think they are well engineered and enjoyable to build.

 

Thanks, John!  I decided to upgrade a lot of things like using scale rope and Model Shipways blocks (5mm).  Teaching myself to do seizing serving and whipping.  Lots of new micro tools.

 

I have started a Midwest Canadian Canoe (1:8) and am also kitbashing quite a bit.  Ordered half-round basswood strips for the ribs and a making a number of changes to make it closer to a scale replica of a Peterborough Model 44 horizontal strip canoe (“the Canadien”).  Will start a build page for that one soon.

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Making an eye splice in 0.9mm polyester 3-strand braided rope required finding new tools.  The micro crochet hook I found on Amazon in a set of 6 sizes (it’s the smallest—the hook is less than a mm in diameter).

Unfortunately the strands tended to split and fray from being dragged through the standing part of the line, even after binding the ends with CA.  My first shroud splice I could only get two weaves done before it became a clumpy mess and I just put CA on it, trimmed and called it done.  The third one, after practice, I managed a full four weaves.

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I decided to make a few closed hearts for shrouds & forestay, as I didn’t want to wait for them to be shipped— so the realism is a bit compromised.  Also still trying to find the best technique for tying seizing wraps.  The nail knot method using a fisherman’s knot tying tool works, but it’s difficult to get all the wraps to come off the tool and lay down flat on the line.  I end up with a lot of crossed wraps usually.

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Getting closer to done on the rigging.  Shrouds and forestay are rigged along with jib and its halyard (and tack) and jib sheets (with authentic bowline attachment).  I ordered better cleats from Modelers Central in AUS so waiting for the international post to arrive before I can clean up the sheets/lines.  Centerboard halyard/uphaul still to be done, and I think I will replace my homemade basswood cockpit floor with Cherry grating.  Also need to build something to place the mainsheet cleat in center cockpit.  Will turn to assembling the base/stand now.

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Current kit build(s): Chesapeake Bay Flattie Canadian Canoe 1:8

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You’re extra additions really put a wonderful personal touch on her. 

Current builds: 

Le Martegaou- 1:80 - Billing Boats


Back on the shelf: 

Gretel - Mamoli

Nonsuch 30 - 1:24 - Model Shipway

 

Completed builds:

Mini Oseberg no 302 -Billing Boats

Sea of Galilee boat

Lowell Grand Banks dory,         Norwegian sailing pram

Muscongus bay lobster smack

Peterboro Canoe- Midwest

Captain John Smith’s shallop - Pavel Nikitin

Chesapeake double kayak

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I’m a sailor and kind of a knot nerd, so I used buntline hitches on the halyard belays and boom or snuggle hitches on the gaff (for uphaul) and boom (for the mainsheet attachment).  The mess at the clew of the main I just made up and it looked right to me.

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