On this channel, I will share with you my ship modeling projects, the process of model building, and some technologies, tools, and secrets I use with my passion for tiny details.
If you are looking for ideas on how to design and construct elements of wooden ship models to keep them small while maintaining details, I will be pleased to share my experience with you. Or maybe you just like to watch the process and results of ship model building? Then this channel is for you too!
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I can't look at this calmly. I'm actually shaking with excitement. I also have to make some trim for my Santa Maria. I've been dreaming about this for 40 years.
Beautiful. I, personally, would not used high gloss on any exposed wood. The original teak decks and cabin trunks were not glossy. The deck would be far too slippery.
Some good ideas that simplify the building of the ship's hull, improving the original kit. Great set of skills, namelly the Autocad's - have you considered some videos regarding the use of CAD in ship's building? Great job!!
Thank you for good words and an idea. Probably I will do it sometime. However there is nothing special in using CAD for shipmodelling. Principles and tools are absolutely the same. Only the scale may differ. What is mire important- how you going to machine the designed part. And this is where g-code for particular CNC comes. With printers, though, it’s a bit more simple.
@@shipmodelideas I'm not a CAD's expert. I only use it for 2D. Unfortunatly, CAD 3D is, to me, a black area, so to speak. So I welcome your eventual efford to do a video on that! ;o)
I think you should use your natural voice please. I'm also researching to know as much as I can before trying to build a wooden plank on model ship. I would greatly appreciate any information you can give me.
There are many books available, I learnd a lot from them. Also there are many videos on RU-vid. Some are on my channel. Also you may check Olha Batchvarov www.youtube.com/@OlhaBatchvarov she has many logs of hulls building. And forums, of course. I like the one called 'Ships of Scale'.
Dear Michael, thank you for your comment. It would be great if everything were as you write. In practice, using a soldering iron, an iron, or even a metal desk lamp are well-known and accessible old-school techniques that work, but in some cases, they do not provide optimal results.
Yes, in principle it works, but you have to slightly change a device. I quickly made a kind of it for 1 mm thick plank here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DOLHlq8irSQ.htmlsi=_SSsBaMeXqiUMCZ0
Thank you for this useful idea! I don't know if I can build a tool like this, but maybe I can. It was good to hear your natural voice too, it's an attractive voice.
Definitely, you can! My first version of the tool was made even without a CNC. I simply glued thinner planks to thicker bars using cyanoacrylate to ensure some level of water resistance. The thickness of the thinner planks should be slightly greater than that of the planks you're planning to bend. 😉
Do you mean a curved pattern? That's a good question. I don't know where you can buy this now. I have had my pattern since my student days at the engineering university. But I think now it can be drawn in CAD (for example AutoCAD or Fusion 360) and then cut with a laser or on a CNC machine.
@@shipmodelideas Hi friend, Thanks for the answer. I bought the curved pattern in China. I'm building Santa Maria based on your changes and without a model, just with Amati's plans. Keep up the excellent work.
