A calliper is more accurate in my experience of building wooden historical shipmodels with sails than just relying on ruler for accurate measurements also a tweezer is very helpful
Nice video. I’ve been modeling - airplanes and ships - for 45 years and your suggestions are spot on. I even learned a new trick with the modified bulldog clamps for holding planks. Brilliant. Old dogs can learn new tricks every day. I’ll look for your other vids. Keep it up. Cheers from the Chihuahuan Desert Boat Yard, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
Great video Grant. Here I am over the other side of the world and I have all the same tools. I woold like to see you compare the 3 ships. It's amazing how much difference there is between manufacturers.
It would be nice to see the comparison between the three kits, especially the instructions. Personally I love OcCre, their build videos are very helpful.
@@g-kip Not just any instructions, but amazing color diagrams with easy to follow along pictures. In my limited opinion, I agree that OcCre wins. I just wish it didn't take 14 billion coats of paint when painting over the metal components.
Many years ago my son gave me a model wooden ship: The Pandora. I had started working on it: for reasons which I will not go into, I stopped that work for quite a number of years. I am now actively wanting to start building the boat. I am ready to start the planking. Do I need to plank twice, or is once enough? The instructions I have lead one to believe plank only once: the videos I have seen, seem to say plank twice. Do you, or anyone else, have a response?
Hi Tom, the planking will be dependant upon the kit, a number of kits provide double planking options, a 2to 3mm plank and a 0.5 - 1mm plank if you are happy with the initial planking sometimes there is no need for the second layer, it could also be the case the initial planking uses cheaper timber ie the white coloured timber limewood being one typically used and the second thinner layer is darker ie Sapele. The second layer can also hide any mistakes that have required filling with filler
Thank you. Growing up, hobby shops with people who knew what they were doing were easy to find. Now I think it would be easier to find a 4 leaf clover, than a hobby store. For the next few weeks I will be on periodically, thereafter I should be on line o a regular basis. Talk soon. Tom
Again, nice presentation. It may be usefull to compare models of different brands, but i like to see building in general anyway. Always something there i didn`t think of myself.
@@g-kip Go figure. I was half way through making a video like this...just my luck! I for one will be creating a voiced over build for my next ship which I hope top begin within the next two weeks. Hopefully I do it justice.
Hi Wade, you can get them from Amazon, or any of the kit manufactures, if you have a pin hammer or small hammer you can use that instead, i will be honest i havent used one in over 2 years on my models, so its not something that is essential
For holding parts square. Especially the framing, a set of 1-2-3 Blocks. The Chinesium ones are quite cheap for what they. All 6 surfaces are ground square to their adjacent sides. Plus they are quite heavy. Clamps. They spring type wooden clothes pins. Being wood they can easily be sanded into special nose shapes. They are also available in minature versions. One extra type of clamp l started using on paper models. Bobby Pins.
@@g-kip Not to active now. Too many other things going on. Models primarily ships and aircraft. Plus some of my own designs. One design was an Arsenal Type ship for a contest and another was for reusable cargo or crewed spacecraft. That had a common propulsion module. The main body was 4"/101.6mm in diameter for 1/72nd scale. The ships were from Digital Navy.
@@g-kip There is a gentleman from Poland (1) that is building a T-72 published by Angraf. Amazing work. Articulated tracks. All sorts of goodies. RU-vid channel swag_er 1) All the best paper modelers and models are from Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic. Or at least it seems like it. One beautiful thing about paper or card modeling is if you screw up. Just print more parts. Even the preprinted kits always scan the pages for safety's sake. Plus if you want to build a ship in a different scale just print it larger. Or smaller.