Steam Schooner Wapama 1915 by Paul Le Wol - Scale 1/72 = From Plans Drawn By Don Birkholtz Sr.

[FriedClams]

Very nice progress, Paul!  Like all your work, everything is meticulously thought out and executed.  Good call on the brass pattern for the scuppers - that's going in my notes folder. The planking around the stern looks great. 

 

Oh, and I'm having pangs of clamp envy.

 

Gary

[Paul Le Wol]

Hi Gary, thank you very much for your comments. I can’t walk by a clamp without buying it. Might have to have an intervention! 😀

[Glen McGuire]

41 minutes ago, FriedClams said:

Oh, and I'm having pangs of clamp envy.

I'm right there with you, Gary!

[Paul Le Wol]

Hi Glen, I’ll let you know if I ever come across any nano clamps for your SIBs

[Paul Le Wol]

Hi Everyone, I hope all is good. Thank you for the great Comments and Likes. Just have a bit of a planking update today. I worked my way up to the rails and added support for the forecastle subdeck which will be 1/32" plywood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The model had to be removed from the build board and turned over to finish the fairing and planking down to the water line. Once that was done I started to focus on the counter. The first two strakes on Port and Starboard needed tapering, bending and twisting. A combination of CA and white PVA was used to keep them in place. My 2 year old Starbond CA was not up for the job so I picked up some Bob Smith CA. Read a lot of good reviews about Bob Smith and I completely agree with them. Support made from 1/8" basswood sheet has been added at the water line.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The rest of the counter planks have a slight taper and run off the stern so back to using just white PVA. Next post I hope to be finished the hull planking. See you soon.

[Keith Black]

 Nice tidy work, Paul. Everything is so clean. 

[Paul Le Wol]

28 minutes ago, Keith Black said:

 Nice tidy work, Paul. Everything is so clean. 

Thank you Keith, been doing ten minutes of sanding every day so that it isn’t such a big job at the end 

[JacquesCousteau]

Very nice work, those photos of the entire hull show how it's really coming together! Given that it's a waterline model, will you be leaving the bottom open or covering it in?

[Paul Le Wol]

12 minutes ago, JacquesCousteau said:

Very nice work, those photos of the entire hull show how it's really coming together! Given that it's a waterline model, will you be leaving the bottom open or covering it in?

Thank you Jacques, the plan at the moment is to add support behind the planks at the water line. Either a vertical or horizontal piece of 1/8” basswood between the frames to keep the planks from flexing. Other than that I think the rest will be left open. But you know how plans change 😀

[Jim Lad]

Very nicely done, Paul.

 

John

[Paul Le Wol]

48 minutes ago, Jim Lad said:

Very nicely done, Paul.

 

John

‘Thank you John, I appreciate your comment very much!

[Rick310]

Very interesting build!

Rick

[Paul Le Wol]

12 hours ago, Rick310 said:

Very interesting build!

Rick

Hi Rick, thank you very much for your comment!