PeterN67

That's great thanks. 
Peter@norval.co.uk

Thanks a load, next ship on my list.

Excellent  practicum, do you have the plans you used for this model?
 

The small joke was done during last weekend ))
 

Gwl,
 
The two on smaller craft may be a little harder to find.  Here is a pinky I have made at least 7 models of from the plans in Small Sailing Craft. 
This was before bottling her.  I tried some of the pictures of finished models but kept getting the message "File too big to upload"  Maybe I'll figure it out.
 
Alex

These are a few shots of my recently completed Charles W. Morgan.  I'd been reluctant to post anything about this project because of serious doubts whether it would succeed.  It took far too long because I made a number of poor choices and had to go back and redo a number of things.  For example, this is the second hull and it took 16 whaleboats to get the 7 that finally went with the model down the bottle neck.  My eyes aren't quite what they used to be either and that has made rigging a much slower process.  The next project will not be as ambitious.
 

Thanks Gwyl
These blocks are only an imitation. I have tied the threads in knot and added a tiny drop of glue.
I tried to make a block of wood 0.5x0.5 mm, but then I decided that this result is not worth the time.

Hi Igor, that would be very much appreciated, thank you.
Peter@norval.co.uk

Thank you PeterN67!
I can send to you the plans of this boat, if you need they.
I spoke in detail about this construction on my FB page - https://www.facebook.com/igor.brehuntcov/media_set?set=a.515911531894302.1073741849.100004263786475&type=3
and on the forum Nautical Research Guild's MSW - http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/11150-koch-russian-polar-ship-by-igorsky-bottle-11000/
 
Best Regards!
Igor.
 

 

Boat is great but i really like the build box. any chance of some pics of the building box, maybe some plans please. Is really good. 

I wish I was as organized as you guys

I'm also drawn to topsail schooners. Perhaps it's the radical rake that makes them look like they're doing 20 knots even when they're only just making enough way to steer. Perhaps it's the place held in history by these vessels as privateers, pirates and slave traders from the Revolution through the Mexican-American War. They were the mainstays of the US Revenue Cutter Service, which was the closest thing the US had to a Navy at the start of the Quasi-War with France, and remained important to this forerunner of the US Coast Guard well into the post-Civil War period. Most likely I like them because they are uniquely American.
 
Early in my ship bottling I came across the book Architectura Navalis Mercatoria by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1768) and one plate which provided me with SiB plans for several years of building. In those pre-internet days research was very time consuming, so rather than building a named historical vessel I gravitated towards building types using this plate and drawings from other sources. BTW, this book is still in print and available as a large format paperback for US$16.95 from the usual sources. It's fascinating for the awesome wood-cut prints of hull-lines but has little use for masting and rigging. Masts and spars are rarely shown on older ship drawings because these were done by standardized formulas that used waterline length and beam to determine, for example, the height above the deck for the lower mainmast and its diameter. 
 

Plate from Chapman I used to build several "type" models. I found these drawings useful for many years of building SiBs.
These drawings are all to the same scale. Notice the scale that relates the Spanish, English and French foot to each other.
I added the legend which was on a different page in the book. A 10.4MB version (my scan from the book) is available
for the asking, just PM me with your e-mail address.

Here's my current project.  I think I'll send it with a friend to Manitowoc to be in a competition out there.  We'll see if I can get it done in time.  I did a build log for a similar ship that one I gave to a charity auction and I ended up missing it so I'm building another one.  I did a couple different things with this one.  Maily I used cherry darkened with ammonia fuming.  I really like the color deck that gave me.  
 

 

 

This is a project just back in the shop for a visit after an exhibit and back to her owner, who graciously loaned her for the exhibit.  She is the yawl Sandrala, an Alden designed "Off Soundings" cruiser, built in 1940 at East Boothbay, Maine.  Still afloat today, she has been lovingly restored by her current owners.  I was aboard in 2012 and was inspired to look up her lines and create this model in a 5 liter bottle.  The scale is slightly smaller than 1/8" = 1', which allowed working blocks in her rigging.  Rather than represent her as she appears today, this model shows her as she looked when first launched.  To avoid painting, I built her up of natural woods, using aspen for her pale topsides, redwood for her lower hull, boxwood for the boot topping and a variety of pines for her planking, cabin and rail.  The stand in the bottle is oak and the standing rigging is a fly tying line called "French tinsel".  It was a satisfying project that took 137 hours (including one abandoned hull) which I look forward to repeating when another suitable design turns up.

RS 1

 

 
and boat Mediterranean Sea
 

 

Greetings Gwyl,
 
Saw your divided hull photos, and looked around a bit to find two examples I've done similarly. The first was a commissioned model of a yacht, by the owner's employees as a surprise gift. The Romanza model's hull was divided into four parts, the lower hull was just a thin piece as it was a waterline type model. The lower hull had two vertical pins upwards, the middle hull was two separate pieces, split down the middle, with horizontal pegs to align them together, and holes for the pegs from the lower hull. Each middle hull side had a hole to accept pins from the cabin roof/sides piece, with had two pegs on the underside. The bottom and top hull pieces locked the two lower pieces together.
 

 

 
The second model was of the USCG Eagle, done is 1993. It has a vertical and horizontally split hull, horizontal split at the waterline, and vertical split just off center. The slightly off center vertical split allowed me to fasten the masts to the center of the upper hull, I used Hinkley style hidden hinges on all the masts.
 

 

 
I use the technique when necessary, but it does make for a lot more work and design differences.
 
Anchor's A Weigh!
John Fox III
Ladysmith, WI

Thanks Igor, Gwyl,
 
This is detail of the deck.  The planking, cabin and rail are all pine, just the latter two are more seasoned.  The cabin roof is also aspen, same as the topsides. I got started on vertical models by editing an article on it by Paul Stanton of Port Dufferin, NS.  Haven't heard of him for years.  Does anyone else out there remember him?
 
Alex
 

Still on the bench, but it's moved up onto the rigging stand.
 
TJ

July 14, and this is what's on my bench!

My new project - Steam schooner "LENA" 1875
 
 

Alan,
I have Sailing Ship Rigs & Rigging by Underhill. Excellent Book!
I looked at Masting and Rigging the Clipper Ship and Ocean Carrier $$$.
One book I would really like to get my hands on from Underhill is Deep-Water Sail.
Jeff