Bluenose by TerryPat - Model Shipways - 1:64

[TerryPat]

The kit arrived today. Christmas in July! I knd of feel like a kid again.

It's a blue box just like in all of the build logs I've seen.. Good start.  Lots of wood sticks and slabs as expected. 

You can see by my side view pic of the keel and bulkhead stock, that the keel is basswood and the bulkheads are plywood. I was hoping for basswood bulkheads as well. Seems plywood is not going to sand as nicely as basswood during the fairing process . Oh well, I'll manage. 

I probably won't start any building until sometime in September. In the meantime I'll do research,  read the instructions,  study the plans,  do kit inventory, look at build logs, etc.. on rainy days.

I appreciated any and all suggestions, guidance, and help.

Thanks

Terry

[Knocklouder]

Good luck on your journey,  there are a lot of great logs for the Bluenose  on MSW.  I will pull up a chair as they say,  

Knocklouder 😁 

[TerryPat]

2 minutes ago, Knocklouder said:

Good luck on your journey,  there are a lot of great logs for the Bluenose  on MSW.  I will pull up a chair as they say,  

Knocklouder 😁 

Don't look too close! You'll make me nervous.  Haha. Will be great to have you checking in.

[CPDDET]

Wishing you the best on your build journey. I'll be following.

[TerryPat]

18 minutes ago, CPDDET said:

Wishing you the best on your build journey. I'll be following.

Thank you. Glad you're following. I'll have plenty of questions. I'm already getting a lot from your build log

[CPDDET]

6 minutes ago, TerryPat said:

Thank you. Glad you're following. I'll have plenty of questions. I'm already getting a lot from your build log

It was my first build. Mistakes were made so tred lightly. LOL

[Ronald-V]

Have fun on your journey!

[TerryPat]

Had a rainy morning so I got a few things going. I started inventory then quickly decided to finish it some other day. Everything is probably there .

I cut the keel parts from the sheet and got it all out without breaking anything 

 

 

 

Using my wife's "Christmas" tissue, I traced lines on the drawings to be transferred to the keel sections.

 

I layed the tracings onto the sections. I'll transfer them over with carbon paper. Or I'll poke through the thin tissue with a sharp pencil point and make a series of dots. Not sure yet.  I'll glady accept any ideas.

 

 

Now. Here's a little clue to the operation I'm planning to tackle next:

 

 

Anyone care to make a guess? 😃

 

That's all for now folks. Stay tuned

Terry

[palmerit]

Another option is to photocopy the plans so you can cut portions out and use something like a light coat of rubber cement to adhere them to the frame (the rubber cement let you easily peel it off). I often photocopy portions of plans to that I can cut into them and poke holes in them and spill things on them, knowing that I have the fresh plans stored in the box.

[TerryPat]

54 minutes ago, palmerit said:

Another option is to photocopy the plans so you can cut portions out and use something like a light coat of rubber cement to adhere them to the frame (the rubber cement let you easily peel it off). I often photocopy portions of plans to that I can cut into them and poke holes in them and spill things on them, knowing that I have the fresh plans stored in the box.

 

Good idea!! Thanks

Terry 

[TerryPat]

Summer is over according to the calendar, but here in the upper midwest of the US the summer weather isn't quitting. Ok by me. Regardless, I've gotten into my basement shop to get to work. Very slowly though.

 

I have no idea who will be looking at my build log. Hopefully some. At the very least if someone starts an MSW 1/64 Bluenose build they can benefit a little from what I've done, along with the many fine Bluenose build logs.

 

All of the Bluenose build logs have been a tremendous help. What a fantastic resource. A resource that wasn't available when I did some wooden boat kits 35 to 40 years ago. And I must mention the helpful Bluenose buiders I've contacted.  David Lester is a wealth of knowledge. I think he's on his 4th Bluenose build. He's always available to answer my questions and offer some encouragement.  Thanks also to Retiredguy and CPDDET for answering questions. 

 

So, to continue from where I left off:

 

I assembled the keel by gluing together and keeping it weighted while the glue dried. 

Then I attacked the bearded rabbet.

It was really quite easy to cut the rabbet and shape the bevel from the beard line to the rabbet cut. I found that the bevel on this xacto blade is 1/16 th inch deep. I simply cut to the depth of the blade while cutting the 1/16 th depth of the rabbet. I cut the bevel from the beard line to the rabbet with an exacto chisel. I added a 1/16 in peice of tape at the stern post to give me a guide where to stop carving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bulkheads;:

I wasn't too happy with the bulkheads. The char was really bad. But many builders wrote about dealing with char. I didn't know what is normal char. A few of the stanchions were badly burned. Not normal in my mind. But.. many builders cut those away and replacing them with the false stanchions. So I built. I also sent pics to Model Expo explaining mine looked far worse than the pics I've seen in build logs. They agreed. Apparently they had a run of bad plywood. Since I was in the process of building they offered to cut new bulkheads for me and send everything i need to start over if I want. So I have that going for me. Haha.. I think that's very fair. 

I've soldiered on and all ok.

 

 

I installed the bulkheads to the keel per instructions paying attention to all marked reference lines. I made a simple jig to hold the keel vertically at the bottom. I installed the bulkheads over a few days. After a couple of days I found the keel taking on a bend. Particularly the stern section. It was hooking hard to port so I quickly added support to my jig to straighten out the keel until I could get all bulkheads installed with some struts between the bulkheads. I ended up with sort of a poor man's Fair-A-Frame. It worked

 

 

 

Fairing and stern block:

Fairing took quite a bit of time. I had to add wood strips to many of the bulkhead edges. Lots and lots of sanding and checking fairness with a loose plank. I'm sure I'll be doing more fine tuning of the fairing during my planking stage.

I took a little different approach to the stern blocks. Instead of using the supplied blocks, i laminated cut pieces of scrap laser cut keel sheet. It was likely the same amount of labor. I chose more cutting and less grinding. As far as the initial shaping of the blocks, there's a portion of Bob Hunt's practicum, available free on his website, detailing a method. Very helpful.

 

 

Getting the stern blocks to match the side profile was a bit tricky. Simply lifting the lines from the plans and shaping wasn't going to work. You can see by the photo that a plank would not flow smoothly around the block section to the transom. It would jut out a bit and not fair with the rest of the hull. I took measurements in many places on the plans and found I needed to shim the sides of the last bulkhead "O" with strips and sand in the edges of the blocks to make a smooth plank flow and match the drawings. 

 

 

 

I made upper sides and tumblehome pieces from scrap wood used for my bulkhead struts.

 

 

lots of sanding and checking fair with a loose plank as well as checking fit of the laser cut stern railing piece. 

 

 

Railing:

That was another big project. 

I made one side per instructions by piecing together supplied wood strips. I lifted the shape from the plans and got the curve of the hull by pinning the rail section to the hull and attached a temporary plank below it and penciled in a line on the rail. It came out as an acceptable part. But at my local hobby store I found a 1/16 in thick sheet of basswood long enough to make two single piece railings.  I used my segmented rail as a template. That gave me two clean single piece rails. 

 

 

Ignore that nice piece of walnut sheet

 

 

Rails pinned and roughed in

 

 

 

I made the knight heads from 1/8 x 1/8 stock

 

 

About ready for planking fun.

 

 

Ok! I did some proof reading. I'm not a great writer. I hope it all makes sense. I think it's time for planking which will be a long slow process. I'll keep in touch with updates 

Oh... and all of the burns and car has been either eliminated or covered up

 

 

Edited Thursday at 12:29 PM by TerryPat

[TerryPat]

How do i delete those last two photos. They're not needed and I'm not sure how they got there. 

[ccoyle]

7 minutes ago, TerryPat said:

How do i delete those last two photos.

 

Open up the editing pane. At the bottom is a tray containing all the photos you have uploaded for that post. Click the 'X' to delete any unwanted photos.

[TerryPat]

8 minutes ago, ccoyle said:

 

Open up the editing pane. At the bottom is a tray containing all the photos you have uploaded for that post. Click the 'X' to delete any unwanted photos.

Got it! Thanks

[CPDDET]

Looking very nice. Don't over fret on the hull planking. It's going to be painted over anyway. A thin layer of wood filler and sanding will give you a great looking hull.

[TerryPat]

59 minutes ago, CPDDET said:

Looking very nice. Don't over fret on the hull planking. It's going to be painted over anyway. A thin layer of wood filler and sanding will give you a great looking hull.

 

Thank you!

[SaltyScot]

13 hours ago, TerryPat said:

Apparently they had a run of bad plywood.

 

And THAT is why I have been scratch building a lot of the bad plywood parts from this current Lynx build, Terry. You are progressing nicely, sir, really. Take your time with the planking, slow is pro. I look forward to more updates and will also follow along!

[palmerit]

15 hours ago, TerryPat said:

I also sent pics to Model Expo explaining mine looked far worse than the pics I've seen in build logs. They agreed. Apparently they had a run of bad plywood. Since I was in the process of building they offered to cut new bulkheads for me and send everything i need to start over if I want. So I have that going for me. Haha.. I think that's very fair. 

I do like that Model Expo has a reasonable replacement policy. I wish they’d improve their quality assurance. I’ve had to get several things replaced. 

[TerryPat]

9 hours ago, SaltyScot said:

 

And THAT is why I have been scratch building a lot of the bad plywood parts from this current Lynx build, Terry. You are progressing nicely, sir, really. Take your time with the planking, slow is pro. I look forward to more updates and will also follow along!

 

Thanks Mark! I appreciate the nice comments