Shipbuilder

I put this on U Tube some time agao, and forgot all about it.   Came across it again today.    It is the building sequence of a miniature of the Norwegian barque Svaerdstad.
Bob
https://youtu.be/eNgATFUqBLA

This is how it all began:
Bob

This is how it all began:
Bob

I am now working on the cargo liner Arabia, of 1947.    The ship belonged to the Cunard Steamship Co.     Scratcbuilt at 32 feet to 1 inch.     I have been working on it for 21 days, with a total time spent so far of 32 hours.    
Hull length 16 inches.     
Bob
 

I am now working on the cargo liner Arabia, of 1947.    The ship belonged to the Cunard Steamship Co.     Scratcbuilt at 32 feet to 1 inch.     I have been working on it for 21 days, with a total time spent so far of 32 hours.    
Hull length 16 inches.     
Bob
 

I am now working on the cargo liner Arabia, of 1947.    The ship belonged to the Cunard Steamship Co.     Scratcbuilt at 32 feet to 1 inch.     I have been working on it for 21 days, with a total time spent so far of 32 hours.    
Hull length 16 inches.     
Bob
 

I am now working on the cargo liner Arabia, of 1947.    The ship belonged to the Cunard Steamship Co.     Scratcbuilt at 32 feet to 1 inch.     I have been working on it for 21 days, with a total time spent so far of 32 hours.    
Hull length 16 inches.     
Bob
 

I am now working on the cargo liner Arabia, of 1947.    The ship belonged to the Cunard Steamship Co.     Scratcbuilt at 32 feet to 1 inch.     I have been working on it for 21 days, with a total time spent so far of 32 hours.    
Hull length 16 inches.     
Bob
 

You must have a lot of patience.   I could never even contemplate anything like that.     I like to see a model well-advanced within the first week!
Bob

Thanks,
No problem with losing small parts as the floor is smooth, light blue lineoleum and it is fairly easy to find dropped items.     The table is 32 inches by 15 inches, and the model on it has an overall length of 16 inches.
My chair is an office type with height adjusting facility.
Bob

Yesterday, I re-organized my work desk.     I raised the top by three inches, creating a space under it for trays of wire, tools, etc.     Also added sides to stop small pieces falling off.    The switchboard at the back has four switches on it.  
Left to right, Desk lamp, DVD player, Soldering iron and Desk power sockets.    Each switch has a neon lamp indicating it is on.      In the past, I have often left my soldering iron on by accident.   The lamps prevent this.
I never listen to music whilst working - I prefer talking books.      I have become so "automatic" that I can take in the story, whilst building the model.
Bob
 

Yesterday, I re-organized my work desk.     I raised the top by three inches, creating a space under it for trays of wire, tools, etc.     Also added sides to stop small pieces falling off.    The switchboard at the back has four switches on it.  
Left to right, Desk lamp, DVD player, Soldering iron and Desk power sockets.    Each switch has a neon lamp indicating it is on.      In the past, I have often left my soldering iron on by accident.   The lamps prevent this.
I never listen to music whilst working - I prefer talking books.      I have become so "automatic" that I can take in the story, whilst building the model.
Bob
 

Yesterday, I re-organized my work desk.     I raised the top by three inches, creating a space under it for trays of wire, tools, etc.     Also added sides to stop small pieces falling off.    The switchboard at the back has four switches on it.  
Left to right, Desk lamp, DVD player, Soldering iron and Desk power sockets.    Each switch has a neon lamp indicating it is on.      In the past, I have often left my soldering iron on by accident.   The lamps prevent this.
I never listen to music whilst working - I prefer talking books.      I have become so "automatic" that I can take in the story, whilst building the model.
Bob
 

Yesterday, I re-organized my work desk.     I raised the top by three inches, creating a space under it for trays of wire, tools, etc.     Also added sides to stop small pieces falling off.    The switchboard at the back has four switches on it.  
Left to right, Desk lamp, DVD player, Soldering iron and Desk power sockets.    Each switch has a neon lamp indicating it is on.      In the past, I have often left my soldering iron on by accident.   The lamps prevent this.
I never listen to music whilst working - I prefer talking books.      I have become so "automatic" that I can take in the story, whilst building the model.
Bob
 

Yesterday, I re-organized my work desk.     I raised the top by three inches, creating a space under it for trays of wire, tools, etc.     Also added sides to stop small pieces falling off.    The switchboard at the back has four switches on it.  
Left to right, Desk lamp, DVD player, Soldering iron and Desk power sockets.    Each switch has a neon lamp indicating it is on.      In the past, I have often left my soldering iron on by accident.   The lamps prevent this.
I never listen to music whilst working - I prefer talking books.      I have become so "automatic" that I can take in the story, whilst building the model.
Bob
 

I always find the hulls much more difficult and time-consuming than the rigging, but I don't have to make the rigging fold down, so that is a huge problem that I don't have to contend with.   Here are two shots of my Preussen.     One is low angle, showing the shape of the counter stern - it took me ages to develop a good method of making counters.    The other image is complete, and all ready for the sea.
Bob
 

Jeff,
I have just been looking at the Preussen build on MSW from the 1st posting to the last.    It has given me the impression that this is the first SIB that you have attempted - is this correct?     Having built two Preussen's (one under sail and one with sails furled), I realise what a complicated vessel it is!     I could not even start to think how I could make all that rigging fold down and up again!    How many sails do you intend to set?    Will the staysails be set between the masts?   It is certainly a mighty ambitious project at that scale which works out at about 71 feet to one inch.    You mention laminated spars, and again, I wonder how it could be done on that scale.
 
The last entry on MSW is someone concerned about copyright of the material you put on there.     As the plans are only part of the main picture, there is no copyright infringement, as the model is the main feature and the part plans are of secondary concern.
 
I am fascinated by this build, and look forward to more progress.    I can see how the sea will all go together inside the bottle now.
 
Bob

My first rule of flying is "avoid if possible!"
2nd and only other rule is that if I have to, someone else must pay!
Fifty years ago this year, I joined my first passenger liner, the 33,000 ton RMS Transvaal Castle, not all that long after this publicity film was made.
https://youtu.be/rrlNrl2Wvyo
It all seems like yesterday.     It was the end of an era, because in a few short years, all the long-haul fixed run passenger liners would be gone.
At that time, I had already been at sea for four years, and the Transvaal Castle was my 7th ship!    I had just left the 21-year-old cargo ship Richmond Castle  and Transvaal Castle was very much of  a culture shock for me after the discomfort and austerity aboard the war-built Richmond Castle.
Bob
 

We weren't cruising, it was a fixed run passenger liner on the route Southampton - Las Palmas - Cape Town - Port Elizabeth - East London - Durban and back the same way.   Round voyage five weeks with 850 passengers and several thousand tons of cargo.   
The Union-Castle line sold all the passenger ships in the late 70s, but I was fortunate in joining the company that took over the run with the 3,150 ton RMS St. Helena, 76 passengers and general cargo, Avonmouth - Las Palmas - Ascension Island - St. Helena Island - Cape Town and back the same way.   Round voyage 8 weeks.     Was there from 1979 to 1990 when we all transferred to the new RMS St. Helena, 6,000 tons with 132 passengers and general cargo.     The new one is still running (I left in late 1992, by voluntary redundancy).     The ship is now in its final year, and will finish in July 2016 when the new airport opens on St. Helena Island.     You can have a "virtual tour" of the ship here:
http://rms-st-helena.com/about-the-rms/virtual-tour/
By rolling your mouse wheel to move through the ship.    
Thank goodness I will never again be required to fly anywhere!         Hated it!
Bob

We weren't cruising, it was a fixed run passenger liner on the route Southampton - Las Palmas - Cape Town - Port Elizabeth - East London - Durban and back the same way.   Round voyage five weeks with 850 passengers and several thousand tons of cargo.   
The Union-Castle line sold all the passenger ships in the late 70s, but I was fortunate in joining the company that took over the run with the 3,150 ton RMS St. Helena, 76 passengers and general cargo, Avonmouth - Las Palmas - Ascension Island - St. Helena Island - Cape Town and back the same way.   Round voyage 8 weeks.     Was there from 1979 to 1990 when we all transferred to the new RMS St. Helena, 6,000 tons with 132 passengers and general cargo.     The new one is still running (I left in late 1992, by voluntary redundancy).     The ship is now in its final year, and will finish in July 2016 when the new airport opens on St. Helena Island.     You can have a "virtual tour" of the ship here:
http://rms-st-helena.com/about-the-rms/virtual-tour/
By rolling your mouse wheel to move through the ship.    
Thank goodness I will never again be required to fly anywhere!         Hated it!
Bob

My first rule of flying is "avoid if possible!"
2nd and only other rule is that if I have to, someone else must pay!
Fifty years ago this year, I joined my first passenger liner, the 33,000 ton RMS Transvaal Castle, not all that long after this publicity film was made.
https://youtu.be/rrlNrl2Wvyo
It all seems like yesterday.     It was the end of an era, because in a few short years, all the long-haul fixed run passenger liners would be gone.
At that time, I had already been at sea for four years, and the Transvaal Castle was my 7th ship!    I had just left the 21-year-old cargo ship Richmond Castle  and Transvaal Castle was very much of  a culture shock for me after the discomfort and austerity aboard the war-built Richmond Castle.
Bob
 

My first rule of flying is "avoid if possible!"
2nd and only other rule is that if I have to, someone else must pay!
Fifty years ago this year, I joined my first passenger liner, the 33,000 ton RMS Transvaal Castle, not all that long after this publicity film was made.
https://youtu.be/rrlNrl2Wvyo
It all seems like yesterday.     It was the end of an era, because in a few short years, all the long-haul fixed run passenger liners would be gone.
At that time, I had already been at sea for four years, and the Transvaal Castle was my 7th ship!    I had just left the 21-year-old cargo ship Richmond Castle  and Transvaal Castle was very much of  a culture shock for me after the discomfort and austerity aboard the war-built Richmond Castle.
Bob
 

I build miniature model ships, sail and steam in display cases.     I really don't have the patience to try and get them in bottles.   I have in the past, but I cut the bottoms off the bottles, put the models in and glued the bottom back, disguising the join with fancy ropework!
I am also building a log cabin (Alaska 1898)    A front view shows the cabin in deep snow.   The back is open, showing the cosy interior with a flickering pot-belly stove and an oil lamp on the table (both lit with light-emitting diodes).
Bob
 

The British topsail schooner Minnie is now complete, although I have not yet built the carrying case.
The scale is 32 feet to 1 inch and the model has a hull length of 2.6 inches on the waterline.
Bob
 

Home-made Curve Cutter, using half a razor blade.    I would imagine this would be just as useful fror SIBs as large models!     I find it indispensable.
Bob