Bluenose by Mfelinger - FINISHED - scale 1:50

[Mfelinger]

Hello everyone,

 

 

 

 

A few years ago I made the  fishing and racing schooner Bluenose in the scale of 1:50.

 

 

Here I will show you all the phases of making the model.

 

 

That ship is the most famous but here are some basic data:

 

 

Designed by William Roue and built by Smith and Rhuland, Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on August 26, in 1921.

 

 

After a season fishing on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland under the command of Angus Walters Bluenose was the next 17 year won in the International Fishermen's Trophy competition.

 

 

  In 1942 she was sold to the West Indies Trading Co. Her life ended on a reef off Haiti on January 28, in 1946.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Displacement: 258 tonnes

 

 

Length: 49 m (160 ft 9 in) o/a

 

 

             34 m (111 ft 7 in) LWL

 

 

Beam:    8 m (26 ft 3 in)

 

 

Draft:     5 m (16 ft 5 in)

 

 

Mainmast, height from deck 38 m (124 ft 8 in)

 

 

Foremast, height from deck 36 m (118 ft 1 in)

 

 

Sail area 1,036 m2 (11,150 sq ft)

 

 

Mainsail area 386 m2 (4,150 sq ft

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bluenose photo:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my drawings:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matija

 

 

 

 

[Mfelinger]

...hull is made out of plywood and maple:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greeting Matija.

[matand321]

 Glad to see that you started a build log of your beautiful Bluenose ship. I will be following this with a lot of interest.

[Mfelinger]

...continuing...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the deck is made of cherry

 

 

 

 

 

[Mirabell61]

Hi Matija,

 

even if its a few years ago, many thanks for sharing your build log of this wonderful schooner.

Also nice planking job

1:50 is a very nice scale and with appr. 98 cm length the model will require an adequate place in your home. hopefuly you are rigging the sails...

 

Hope to see more soon......

 

Nils

[Mfelinger]

Thank you Nils,

 

in this scale is easier to make the details.

of course I will show all, metal works, rigging and sails.

 

greeting, Matija.

[Mirabell61]

Thank you matija,

 

thats what I love to hear, I`m curiously looking out for those announced Details to come.........

 

cheers

 

Nils

[Mfelinger]

deck, continued..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matija

[Mfelinger]

Cabins and equipment on deck:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matija

[Mfelinger]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cheers, Matija

Edited December 1, 2014 by Matija

[AON]

very nicely done!

[Mfelinger]

new steering wheel:  

 

 

 

 

bilge pumps:

 

 

 

 

Matija

[Elia]

Matija,

 

Very nice detail work.  That second ship's wheel looks great, and an improvement over the first.  I also really like those pumps.  On my schooner model those are still two details (the ship's wheel and the pumps) I'm not quite happy with yet.  Did you cast one or both of those?

 

Cheers,

 

Elia

[Mfelinger]

Elia,

pumps are made with hand tools (milling, grinding and soldering).

Ship's wheel is assembled of pieces which are made on a lathe and are soldered with silver.

I'm sorry I did not take any pictures when I made them, I did not think was important.

 

Cheers, Matija.

[NenadM]

Very nice work. Waiting for more

 

Nenad

[Mfelinger]

Thanks everyone,

.. more pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matija

[Mirabell61]

Very nice metal work Matija

 

Nils

[Mfelinger]

on bow of the ship had drawn decoration. II made that part wrong,

 

.. first attempt of wood:

 

line is 0.5 mm wide

 

 

 

... does not looking good

 

 

 

 

... attempt with metal, wire 0.5 mm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

greetings, Matija.

 

[NenadM]

Exelent soldering work on that scale

[Mirabell61]

Beautiful art work Matija,

 

performed like a jewelery maker (very smart idea with the brass wire !),

 

Are you silver-soldering with a mini Gastourch ?

 

Nils

[NenadM]

I am curious too

[Mfelinger]

Thanks Nenad and Nils,

 

Yes, I make silver-soldering with a mini Gastourch, I have several:

 

 

and stronger  for complex works

 

 

Matija

[Mirabell61]

Lucky you Matija,

 

good Equipment is what a "master" Needs....

 

Nils

[Mfelinger]

... Winch:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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... follows more pictures ...

 

Matija

[NenadM]

Just ...WOW !!!

[Mirabell61]

lovely winch Matija,

 

are you using old clockwork toothwheels ?

 

Nils

[Mfelinger]

Nils,

toothwheels are cut from brass sheet

 

Here's another example (black toothwheels is from  unknown machines) :  

      

winch which was used on Adriatic traditional ships - Trabakul & Bracera

[Mfelinger]

Winch,:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and completed winch

 

 

Matija

[NenadM]

I stayed speachless ...

[Elia]

Beautiful work Matija.