Phantom by OzSatyr - Model Shipways - Pilot Schooner

[OzSatyr]

Thursday 28th August 2014 is officially the big day.  For good or ill, I am now a model shipwright. 

 

As tends to be the case in my house, the plans are always more ambitious than the reality, so my work area is not ready.  I am due to move into my "workshop", which in reality is the second bedroom, on Monday now. 

 

My wife did not quite manage to remove all her sewing equipment, but don't think of me as being mean to her, she volunteered because she also has the sunroom set up as her hobby workshop and there are no other rooms left in this little house.  To further slow proceedings down my daughter has an exhibition to attend in Brisbane over the weekend so today she also arrived for a short visit and moved straight back into her old bedroom, the soon to be whorkshop. <sigh>

 

Impatient soul that I am, I promptly moved a spare folding table from the shed to the living area and got out the cleaner and rags.  What you see below is a loosely assembled collection of tools, glue, paint and sandpaper and of course Model Shipways' Phantom.

 

As I'm an early riser (4am to 5am avg) and everone else in this house sleeps as late as they can (9am or later) I expect most of my work will be done in the quiet, early hours.  I may be in for an earlier start than usual tomorrow though, anticipation being what it is.

[trippwj]

Congratulations, Ulli.  The Phantom is a nice little build.  The good news, I suppose, is that at least for the early stages, most of what you will be doing is light carving and sanding as you shape the hull.  While it can get messy, it is nothing a good vacuum won't clean up, and doesn't require a great deal of space!

 

Take your time on the shaping - the dividends from careful attention at this step are huge as you progress!

 

Enjoy, and I will pull up a seat and follow along - I have 2 of these on the shelf needing some attention (one for each boy).  Hopefully Sjors will bring his popcorn and Mark will bring the beer.

[_SalD_]

Ulli,

 

Hello from a fellow Phantom builder.  I hope you will enjoy building this kit as much as I am.  It’s a challenge but with the help and advice from all the people on this site like Wayne, you should have no problems.  I'm a bit ahead of you but I will be following your build with interest.

 
Good luck,

[HIPEXEC]

Happy ship building, mate!

[OzSatyr]

Time for an update.  Work in the shipyard has unfortunately halted owing to an non-work related injury to the shipwright. An unidentified male (aka the eldest boy) helped me load some stuff into the wagon and rounded off the assist by closing the tailgate on my hand, left one thankfully. Nothing broken, touch wood (like maybe his head ), but the swelling and bruising is quite impressive.

 

Anyways, rather than start my career one handed I'm having a few quiet days.  Then I'm giving him 5 minutes head start so he has a chance at reaching his 24th birthday

[_SalD_]

OUCH!  Ulli sorry to hear about the hand.  Hope everything heals okay.

 

You just can't hire good help these days.

[michaelpsutton2]

Keep posting the phantom is my next build

[OzSatyr]

Okay so the boy got lucky.  Despite a lot of years on football <backspace> soccer fields I managed to reach 60 with nothing worse than a couple of bones in the feet getting broken (noses don't count).  Turns out I did have a little crack in one finger after all.  Looks like I have a few more days of practicing patience to go. 

 

That lad owes me a scroll saw for Christmas after this!