HMS Winchelsea 1764 by shauer - 1:48

[shauer]

Hello everyone!

 

Starting my build log.  Ordered the laser cut bulkheads, chapters 1&2 and they arrived yesterday.  Already started making sawdust.

 

I'm getting back into wooden ship building after 25 years and Winchelsea will be my introduction back into the hobby.  I've been lurking for several months, reading a lot of build logs and selected Winchelsea for a lot of the same reasons that Chuck gave as his reasons to create this project.  I was looking for something in a larger scale that 1:64 and with design elements that I had not dealt with before and a Frigate seemed to be the logical choice.  I was seriously considering Speedwell, but the more I thought about it, the more my rational brain told me that starting with a POB model that is already a completed project that does not require rigging is a much better way to begin again.

 

Jumping right in, spent the day building up the stem and knee assembly.  Picture below is a rough sanding following the glue up.  I still need to taper the assembly and add the gammon knee.  Very little adjustment was needed when fitting the pieces and i used a jeweler's file (needle file) as I find them more precise than sandpaper.  Worked carefully and slowly until I could not see any light through the seams.

 

I also prepped the false keel pieces, tapered the false keel to the bearding line, and dry fit.  I'll fine tune the taper once I add the rabbet strip.  I was impressed that for such a long assembly the three pieces locked together with no wobble and dead straight as measured at the bottom of the false keel.

 

Steve

 

Edited Sunday at 11:36 PM by shauer
Added name

[Chuck]

Wonderful start.  Glad you could join us.

[glbarlow]

Welcome to the club.

[shauer]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome and the follows.

 

Past couple of evenings I started shaping the taper at the bobstay piece, bringing it down to just over the 1/8 inch width called out.  Does anyone have a picture showing the shape of this taper?  I have not purchased the printed figurehead yet and would like to get this taper close to correct before gluing the assembly onto the model.  See my partially completed taper below, how much further do I need to go?

 

Also have the bulkhead formers glued up and just dry fitted the rabbet strip which I'll glue tonight.

 

Steve