Fischkutter by Bryan Woods - Laser Creation World - 1:35

[Bryan Woods]

This I believe is a mid 1900 German fishing boat. Skills of their trade were passed down through generations. This kit is a part of a diorama that I don’t intend to build. Hopefully I can furnish it with proper equipment. I would like to try the weathered look.

 

 

 

The frames and spine are plywood. The planking seems to be .5 mm basswood, the was laser cut. It has 3d printed tires, drums, fuel containers and small crates. The captains wheel, rudder and light are also printed.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 24 by Bryan Woods

[Knocklouder]

Good luck on your adventure with this build,     tagging along 😀 

Bob  M.

[SiriusVoyager]

I have seen some of their videos on YouTube.  I'm looking forward to seeing how this comes out.

[tmj]

15 hours ago, Bryan Woods said:

This I believe is a mid 1900 German fishing boat.

Yep, this would have been a coastal vessel used for shrimp, herring, cod, etc. in Bavaria. Nice subject!

[Bryan Woods]

1 hour ago, SiriusVoyager said:

I have seen some of their videos on YouTube

They have quite a few. You have to look around for them on their channel, they are mostly part of dioramas.

 

48 minutes ago, tmj said:

this would have been a coastal vessel used for shrimp, herring, cod, etc. in Bavaria.

 I have little knowledge of any boats. I love to build them but not great at research. I would like to find some type of rigging used. I’ve found some pictures but I can only make out the mast. I would think some had winches on them.

[yvesvidal]

What a cute kit !!

 

Yves

[tmj]

11 hours ago, Bryan Woods said:

I would like to find some type of rigging used. I’ve found some pictures but I can only make out the mast. I would think some had winches on them.

Maybe 'this' stuff will be helpful... 

 

1582619702_1495448238-bb474-cux-87-main-plan.pdf

[Bryan Woods]

43 minutes ago, tmj said:

Maybe 'this' stuff will be helpful... 

Wow! Thanks tmj that’s exactly what I was looking for:-)

[Bryan Woods]

The planking has begun. On my last build I glued the false keel on before I faired the hull. Resulting with sanded down areas of the keel. Which may it harder to fit a pedestal on it. This time I left it off. I built up the bow to give a little more gluing surface.

 

 

 

 

With just these four planks on it may look like I know what I’m doing. But now the guess work begins. I’m going to try to do a little math but that doesn’t mean I’ll listen to it.

[JacquesCousteau]

Nice start!

 

How big is the model? It looks like it's around 10 inches long? The large number of closely-spaced bulkheads is nice, too often you see so few widely-spaced ones that planking can be a challenge.

[Bryan Woods]

Thanks Jacques, It’s 8 1/2” long. And yeah the close bulkheads are nice. The planks are going on easy but because they are so thin there will be little room for error. I can already see through them before sandpaper even hits them.

[Bryan Woods]

Besides working on the planking I laid the planks on the deck. I decided to use a smaller width than what was provided with the kit. That’s some of it on the right.

 

I’m about halfway completed on the planking.

 

 

 

The way I chose to plank , it can’t be the best way. But it only uses second grade math. Of course, it’s not done yet. I just measure the longest bulkhead and divide it by 4, (my plank width ). Take that number, that I round to whole and divide it into the measurement of the first bulkhead at the bow. And that’s what I cut the taper at the bow end. I’ve ended the taper starting. #5 but the last few I went to #6. At the bottom, about the third plank, ( when it went past the first bulkhead and landed on the bow stem) I started tapering them also. It’s probably just this hull but it has stayed pretty consistent. There will be 4 or 5 planks with both ends pointy.

[tmj]

Looks really good Bryan! Keep an eye on how those port and starboard planks align with each other at the bow and the stern. Your math seems to be working well, however. You also sometimes have to ditch the math and go by eye alone! Math is perfect, but our human hand crafting methods... 'not so much'! If it were 'me', I'd put the next 'port' upper plank on first, then ditch the math for the starboard side. Make 'em look even on both sides and then proceed with the math again until things once again start to get out of alignment, then revert to the ol' eyeball once more. 

 

Keep up the good work! You're doing a great job! 

[Bryan Woods]

8 hours ago, tmj said:

I'd put the next 'port' upper plank on first, then ditch the math for the starboard side.

No arm bending needed here:-) That’s what I’m going to do. Thanks so much for the advice! 

[Bryan Woods]

Last week I had a major distraction and I when to the Fischkutter to try to keep my mind off of it. Well, days later I was looking it over and saw my mind wasn’t on Fischkutter. I cut two planks off at the stern where I had clamped the plank on the deadwood too far up. In the YouTube video they  don’t plank the deadwood so the last few bulkheads just right angles with the spine. I would have glued some wood on these if I noticed it earlier before I faired the hull.

 

This still left a sunken spot.

 

 

I just filled it the best I could with a splitter and called it unique:-)

 

 

I’m down to just 4 planks on either side. They aren’t being as cooperative as the first. I’ve been using PVA and after shaping them to fit the hull. I just been mainly using rubber bands while it sets up. The last two planks I could only glue 2-4 bulkheads at a time without raising an edge of the plank.

 

 

Above is the area of repair.

 

Here where I’m at.