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Back in 2008 I had developed and was producing a CNC milled plank on frame kit of the Royal Yacht, HMY Fubbs. The kit was designed to be built as a Navy Board model. It was inspired by a scratchbuilt model I built years earlier of the ship using the plans drawn by Portia Takakjian.
The kit was developed using AutoCAD. It was done mostly in costello boxwood. The kit featured special paintings along the sides (a painted frieze) of the ship and on various bulkheads on the deck that I drew using Adobe Photoshop and printed on a glossy peel and stick sticker paper. I knew that given the level of detail and complexity of these drawings, most modelers would not be able to duplicate them. Since they were a major aspect of the beauty of the ship, I felt it was important to include them in the kit.
The model and kit also featured a very special parquet floor in the great cabin. This floor used a number of species of wood including boxwood, holly, and swiss pear.
This build log will show how the model was assembled/constructed from the kit parts. No modifications were made to the kit. What you see here is what you got in the kit.
I no longer produce this kit or any other kit for that matter. The cost and availability of costello boxwood in the required thicknesses is prohibitive for such a kit and the demand dropped off completely by 2009 and the housing market crash.
I hope you enjoy this build log. The Fubbs is one of 5 plank on frame kits that I used to produce.
Bob
Back in 2008 I had developed and was producing a CNC milled plank on frame kit of the Royal Yacht, HMY Fubbs. The kit was designed to be built as a Navy Board model. It was inspired by a scratchbuilt model I built years earlier of the ship using the plans drawn by Portia Takakjian.
The kit was developed using AutoCAD. It was done mostly in costello boxwood. The kit featured special paintings along the sides (a painted frieze) of the ship and on various bulkheads on the deck that I drew using Adobe Photoshop and printed on a glossy peel and stick sticker paper. I knew that given the level of detail and complexity of these drawings, most modelers would not be able to duplicate them. Since they were a major aspect of the beauty of the ship, I felt it was important to include them in the kit.
The model and kit also featured a very special parquet floor in the great cabin. This floor used a number of species of wood including boxwood, holly, and swiss pear.
This build log will show how the model was assembled/constructed from the kit parts. No modifications were made to the kit. What you see here is what you got in the kit.
I no longer produce this kit or any other kit for that matter. The cost and availability of costello boxwood in the required thicknesses is prohibitive for such a kit and the demand dropped off completely by 2009 and the housing market crash.
I hope you enjoy this build log. The Fubbs is one of 5 plank on frame kits that I used to produce.
Bob