captainmaniac wrote:Gotta ask what you used for materials? I am assuming the wood work is real wood, also guessing you stained some basic wood as appropriately as opposed to using teak, mahogany, etc separately. How did you form the hull, and what did you create the railings and fittings out of - they look spot on - especially the connections between stanchion bases and railings, and bridge ladder and railings, and the anchor even looks like it properly articulates!
Hey Cap'n
I discussed a lot of the build earlier but to answer your questions ...
The hull was screwed and glued together from a bunch of off-cuts from a deck that my neighbour was having built using that new "composite wood" decking.
I shaped it with heavy duty tools (angle grinder. plane) etc till I got it down to an approximate shape then fine tuned it with Bondo. Took a long time to get all the right lines and complex shapes ... stuff you don't pay attention to till you try to reproduce them.
All the mahogany you see (coaming, flooring, bridge) is real varnished mahogany ... NO staining.
The railings are stainless steel welding rod (from Princess Auto) and are actually what determined the size of the model. I had to find something suitable for all the railing I'd need before I even started and when I found this stuff that became the size of a 1" rail and the rest of the model followed suit.
The stanchion connections were all hacksawed, drilled, filed and polished out of an aluminum heat sink I got out of a computer. At first, I had thought I'd just solder the stanchions to the rail but the logistics of that soon ruled that idea out and I decided to make the fittings ... glad I did. Each one took about a half hour once I figured out a method.
I took up silver soldering to make fastenings on stainless. It's very strong and stays shiny. The bridge ladder was a major challenge what with all the pieces it has and all the solder joins. I built a 90 degree floor and wall jig that I used to fasten the main uprights to then gradually cut, fit and soldered in all the smaller pieces.
The anchor was actually made a long time ago for my own boat model ... a 37 foot sailboat. I went all out on it and, yes, it works properly!
Sorry, I can't remember how I got pictures on here before but there's some pics of the build on this modelling website
if you want to see some ...
https://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/t ... albergman/.
Frank