Ships Boats

[turtle]

To show that occasionally I get to finish things 
@ 1/75th - odd scale I know, but the scale I have chosen for my larger RC ships  , what I call my multi-media 'kits' - uses anything laying around that might fit be it wood/styrene/resin/brass/tin or whatever. Hulls are vac-formed then details added. Top three photos are from a commission build that severely tested my sanity. 

[Ray Dunakin]

Holy carp, that is nice work!!

[Andi Little]

Really lovely work there Roger ... I wanted to do something very similar a while back - but ran out of talent and ability whilst I sat there and thought about it.
Would like a few words as to how you went about this? - reference, plans or thinking - etc.

Once again - pretty damn brill'.

[finescalerr]

Incroyable! Some of the finest boat models I've ever seen! -- Russ

[5thwheel]

I like them. Nicely detailed.  Tell me why/about the folding stacks. I have not seen that before. Lots of low bridges?

[turtle]

Cheers to all for the comments.
Bill - these are pre-WWI era battleship ships boats and the folding stacks were a prominent feature of the Soviet ships, there seems to be various theories for the folding stacks but most agree it helped reduce entanglement during raising and lowering and stowing.
Andi - you're a curious lot  . I'm more than sure you have the abilities to build these sorts of thing, as I say - if I can do it then anyone can  .
"Reference, plans or thinking - etc" this is where I strike lucky, I enjoy researching this type of thing and have amassed a quite large reference library and now enhanced with the miracle of the interweb  , plus I have a few very well placed contacts who help feed my appetite for info  . So - even with all the reference material, good plans are still a fairly rare commodity and those available you have to pay with your first born child to get copies from some museums.






Thinking - more like what the heck was I thinking doing this sort of thing  . As mentioned the top three photos were for a commission build of a pre-WWI Soviet battleship, before I even start on the battleship hull I like to get the ships boats done first plus a few other prominent pieces - no real reason, just the way I do things. For that particular build there were 19 ships boats of various types from the Captains launch down to a jolly. Each type requires a different approach.
As an overview it breaks down:
a.  Plans, reference and 7P's
b.  Build buck for vac-forming, or individual planking for clinker types
c.  Vac-form base hull or plank entire hull for clinker types.
d.  Line out the hull interior and/or add decking
e.  Add minor details
f.  Place out of sight for 2+ weeks, then drag out and review faults etc
g.  Fix faults/shoddy work
h.  Final paint and polish
i.  Sit back and think 1 down just 18 more to go 

Sorry it's a bit abstract in format and wording - brains not really functioning too well lately (last 40+ years  ).
Just give a yell if there's something more specific you want to know and I'll try and give a answer.

Cheers again to all for popping in for a nosey.       

[Gordon Ferguson]

Beatiful models Roger, think I would be satisfied just building one of those ...... Actually more than satisfied 

But to build that many , to that standard


Any chance of seeing the completed ship ?

[Chuck Doan]

Wow! Beautiful work!

[turtle]

Any chance of seeing the completed ship ?

No  .
But here's a teaser  :

Even though it is an RC boat, it was built as per 'Builders Display Models' hence all the brass work and to 'test' the competition rules  , unfortunately for the owner that aspect turned out to be a very expensive experiment  . Can only find a handful of photos mostly of bits'n'pieces during the build but there should be some of it's first test launch somewhere.

Cheers for that Chuck, much appreciated.

[JohnTolcher]

Hi Roger
Yes indeed, really beautiful work! Brilliant!

Cheers

[Ray Dunakin]

Wow!!

[finescalerr]

Indeed. And again, guys, please remember Roger is a mediocre modeler and this would be a pretty elementary project for most of us.... -- Russ

[shropshire lad]

Indeed. And again, guys, please remember Roger is a mediocre modeler and this would be a pretty elementary project for most of us.... -- Russ

That's right. , Russ . In fact , I am surprised you allow such mediocre modelling to see light of day on your superior and highfalutin modelling forum . Standards are certainly slipping these days .

    Most unsatisfactory .

[turtle]

 

Yay, I finally got a "Most unsatisfactory".
Guess I should collect my things and head to the corner till my skills improve  .

[shropshire lad]

Yay, I finally got a "Most unsatisfactory".
Guess I should collect my things and head to the corner till my skills improve  .

It is probably for the best if you do . However , make sure you only go to the "mediocre modellers " corner because I don't want you in the "quite good modellers" corner because  I'm rather fussy who I let join me there !