cobraman Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 (edited) Finally got to start one of the wooden ship models I have . This will be the first wooden kit I have built or tried to build . The instructions are not very good . Just all drawings and no description at all . May not have been the best kit to start with but I will give it a try . Have to find some color pics so I know what gets painted or stained or maybe just cleared ? Edited April 17, 2018 by cobraman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoopdog Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Looks pretty cool, keep posting pics for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 Thanks. One pic may be of it in the trash can . We will have to wait and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Hang in there. I have faith in you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthehobbyguy Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Ray I know you can do it. Will be following. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 Thanks guys. It's the instructions or lack thereof that has me a little confused. Not much more than a line drawing about the masts and rigging. I hope the other one I have has better instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 Been working on this ship a little . Did some sub assemblies . The cannons are made up of 8 pieces each . The photo of the ship with sails is the only reference as to how they should look. No plans as to how they should be cut . Sail material is just a piece of plain cloth . This should be fun . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoopdog Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Well your cannons are looking good. 18 hours ago, cobraman said: It's the instructions or lack thereof That's for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthehobbyguy Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Ray for the sails I suggest using a file card to make patterns. Also finding some reference pictures should also help. You'd think that you would have been given a little more to work with. However I know you will get a handle on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 Thanks, that's a good idea. Hopefully my other kit will have better instructions. I feel I'm flying blind on this my first wooden ship model. I should be able to post some pics of where I am now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 This is where I am now . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSNJim Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 What vessel is it? It is coming along nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 Thanks Jim. The kit is by a company called Asewin but I don't have a ship name and don't seem to be able to find one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthehobbyguy Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Ray try a google search on sailing ships. Here is one picture that looks close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSNJim Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 This is all I could find on anything similar so far. Sorry for the long URL, but that's the way Walmart created it. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Asewin-Hobby-Wooden-Ship-Models-Boat-Ships-Kits-Sail-Boat-Wooden-Model-Kit-Toy-White-Apricot/804849646?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=7215&adid=22222222227138444423&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=247874718609&wl4=pla-408281065641&wl5=9007722&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=115056135&wl11=online&wl12=804849646&wl13=&veh=sem There are some pictures of it assembled; not very large, but pictures. Just so you know, that ship isn't a ship. It's a schooner. There are many different types of sailing vessels, but the only one called a ship has three masts and is square rigged. Narrowing the Google searches to schooners may help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 Thanks Bob, that does look close. Thank you Jim. That is the kit I have and I did get it at Walmart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSNJim Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Had you seen the pictures before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim B Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Walmart sells wooden ship kits for $15? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10thumbs Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Looking good Ray, she looks like great one for a first endeavor and can be built up to look excellent on the shelf! Great choice. A boat with this type of rigging is called a schooner-brigg, also a brigantine. The foremast is for square rigged sails while the main mast is for schooner sails, the triangular types. This was a great handling boat, needed a few more hands on board to handle the square sails, but a lot less than a brig, which had both masts set up for square sails on yardarms. This was a popular type vessel around 1770's and further on throughout the 19th, and a very successful design, and very common along the Chesapeake Bay....read Baltimore Clipper, the original clipper ships, later to become the big 3 masted fully rigged tea clippers. These boats didn't hold a lot of cargo as the hulls were sleek and built for speed and handling, they look really radical with hull sitting deep in the water and a huge amount of cloth in the wind....magnificent. Also, these boats greatly enabled the Revolution to become a success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 Thank or the info Michael. I am pretty sure I will not be able to get the sails they way they should be on this my first wooden kit. Thinking if I could somehow do the sails in the rolled up position. Jim, yes this kit was only 15 bucks and sold on the Walmart website. At only 15 dollars I figured it could be a first attempt trial kit. Said to be a 45 dollar kit. I don't see it being worth 45 but I don't know. Does anyone have a solution to keep the sail material from fraying once it is cut into shape ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim B Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Might just have to pick one up. I have a solid hull woods ship kit in the stash. Started it, but as usual, my mind's eye was way out of whack with my talent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 Free shipping if I remember right. Get one and get going on it and maybe you can teach me how to do the stuff ahead ! The masts, rigging and sails are going to be a big problem I believe. Oh, and the planking as well. Looks like I will need to buy a planking tool. The instructions are about the worst I have ever seen in my over 50 years of building models although never a wooden one before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SfanGoch Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 23 hours ago, cobraman said: Hopefully my other kit will have better instructions. Go here and download the instructions for the whaleboat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 Thanks Joe ! My wife actually bought me that kit . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthehobbyguy Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 9 hours ago, cobraman said: Thank or the info Michael. I am pretty sure I will not be able to get the sails they way they should be on this my first wooden kit. Thinking if I could somehow do the sails in the rolled up position. Jim, yes this kit was only 15 bucks and sold on the Walmart website. At only 15 dollars I figured it could be a first attempt trial kit. Said to be a 45 dollar kit. I don't see it being worth 45 but I don't know. Does anyone have a solution to keep the sail material from fraying once it is cut into shape ? Ray if y8u look at the edges of the sails of the picture I posted . Along the edges the material is folded over. If you do that and glue the overlap the edges shouldn't fray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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