Panart: San Felipe 1:75 Scale Build Log [COMPLETED BUILD]

Hello Donnie

Great job you are doing on your planking, the little extra effort sure makes a great difference, WELL DONE, ENJOY.

Regards Lawrence
 
G'day Donnie, lovely build with some very innovative solutions to some of the problems you encountered , a very nice and descriptive build log,

best regards John.
 
I finally got in some time planking some more of the hull with walnut strips. The darkness is because I put water on the planks to simulate poly stain. I also found out that using CA while the strip is wet really helps alot in bending and it seems the CA soaks into the strip better.

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Hi Donnie,
Nice looking ship. I live in the UK and was born and bred in Cornwall the best county in in England. I am going home to visit in Sept and when I contacted them to order the ship OCCRE Aurora Brig 1:65 the girl was very polite and offered to keep it back for me so that I could pick it up whilst on my holidays there. I am glad yours arrived safely and shows that CMB are a good company to deal with. Roll on Christmas so we can all see the start of your build. :handgestures-thumbup:
Roger.
 
Thanks I appreciate the feedback. The following images are of the wood dry. The circles are of using a compass and using measurement arcs to determine how close I am of the sides being equal in width of planking. Maybe off just a little, but can't really tell that much. I am fairly satisfied so far with my planking and I can't imagine covering all this work up with white paint. That is why I am thinking of just using polyurethane.

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She is looking great Donnie, nice crisp planking, Panart make a nice kit, I know what you mean about covering up tha t lovely planking,

best regards John.
 
G'day Donnie
I have spent the last 2 to 3 days reading your incredible tutorial log. WOW. There isn't enough thank you left to say how well you have done, not only with the build, but with your amazing logs. I've haven't had the pleasure in building a model for this kit's manufacturer. But I have done an AL kit and after a few pages of instructions, I threw it out because of the translation problem. E.G. It mentioned a rubber band in the introduction and after a few hours of frustration, I discovered they were talking about bumper bars like in cars, so it was the WALE that they were referring to. Well mate keep up with your great work and can I ask for more of your videos please.
Happymodelling
Greg
 
Thanks guys, I really appreciate the positive feedback. I was able to get a lot done today. I used a wet paper towel over the planking to accentuate the grain and how it might look once poly urethane is applied. I am not sure if I want to treenail all of this or not. I really need to get a drawplate. Never used one anyway, but it is time to learn I guess. Does anyone know of a good one to buy and where?

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Hi Donnie

Good to see you back in the shipyard.

Brian and I both have Jim Byrnes Model Machine Drawplates.

http://www.byrnesmodelmachines.com/drawplate5.html

They are excellent quality.

Cheers
Geoff
 
So, a dumb a question from me. Where do I get the bamboo from? Let me be a bit more clear on this. Where do I get the bamboo dowels that would be the size to start with. It would be obvious that I would not want to buy a pack of 4mm dowels. I would need to start out with something smaller is diameter right?
 
Donnie ,use wooden tooth picks,stainable and easier to pull through the drawplate.
 
Ok, so not the best pictures in the world. These pics are of the wood naturally - doesn't have too much personality to it. But, I am not yet finished. The other pics are darker wood only because I can use water to simulate the effect of urethane satin. I am not going to treenail it, but instead, I am going to resort to an old trick of just drilling holes and sanding to fill the holes with powder from the sanded wood. Then coat with Poly Urethane Clear Satin. Then go over it again. The first image is a drawing I made that shows the planking pattern I used.

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Donnie

Great to see you back in the Ship Yard .

I look forward to seeing more of your posts.

One thing I have learnt since taking up Model Ship Building about 4 years ago. You can meet very good friends in the hobby. There is always a member to give suggestion on how to go about a task on a Model Ship

Cheers
Geoff
 
Very nice planking. I'm interested in seeing the results of your tree nailing technique.. a huge time saver if it looks good.
 
You might want to check this ,interesting technique from Igor Capinos.

http://navyboardmodels.com/tips/speed-nailing
 
It is really amazing the things people think of - that is pretty neat device. Ok, so, a while back, I tried using annealed steel wire and as I sanded the side of the planking, black steel dust was being embedded into the wood and really never got it out. However, I see that brass is being used. I might try a piece of brass on some scrap walnut.

Thanks
Donnie
 
Brass and maybe copper wire used by european and russian ship model builders with lot of success.
 
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