Hi Harry, I have been a long time member to your Channel and loved every video. Keep up the fantastic work and tips you provide and show. I have been building wooden model ships for over 40 years and still Learning and doing new ways of doing thinks 🤔. 👍. Keep it up. Love your humor and tips. Stay safe and stay well my frie.😷. 😷. 👍. 👍. Jason from New York City,
Awesome idea! There is so much information on model ships out there, but even with diagrams it can be so difficult to make sense of, especially rigging. Looking forward to this series!
Glad it was helpful! The last few videos on my Revell Bounty explain in detail how do square ship rigging. But it will be easier to see what I am doing on a bigger wooden model.
Harry I wish you all the best with your ship adventure. While this will be interesting HHM has offered some really interesting insights across the hobby, the Airfix BMW for example. I hope you will find time to keep these updates and subjects coming. Best wishes from the UK.
Entertaining, as always, Harry , which means I will watch, even though I'm not a ship builder. I think the wood ship builders will find these extremely useful though! :)
Great Idea, in fact it is the BomB, you will have an avid viewer here. And am sure you already know that it is me sitting waiting on the Bounty planking video, before I do the same thing as the previous owner. The instructions a you say are helluva hard to understand especially for planking the hull. keep up the fantastic work.
Please Harry! I would LOVE to watch videos about this subject... Love ships and YOUR WORK on it... I AM considering on starting the Heller Victory ir even finishing my Heller "Lá Sirene"... Do you know a good referênce for the Victory? I really want to do everything as it should be... Even the canons with the ropes to orevent thise from going back to far when they shot! Stay safe please!
Hooray!!! Finally the bearded man has listened to his crew below deck! I think it is your best idea so far (?). Why not set up a new channel for wooden ships? Looking forward to your next video.
Hi Harry always a pleasure watching your channel and can't wait for more. Back in the 80s i built a wooden model of the Mayflower and it said in instructions to soak planking in hot water to soften them then ben them round which did work. Is it an help for you.
I enjoy seeing the wooden ship videos. Keep them coming. I tried it because I think they are beautiful and love the history but found it was not for me. I just end up butchering a bunch of nice wood.
It is more an art. You need a feel for working with wood. Hopefully I can share what I know and show a few simple tricks to get things done without too much stress.
Good Idea but if I could early 20th century ship's (dreadnaughts for example) have a rigging system that is almost as difficult to figure out as wooden sailing ship's.
Harry, love your videoes, it's like attending a model building club meeting and getting to see my favorite buddies and enjoying modeling with them. Thank you, my friend!
Hi Harry, have you taken a look at a youtube channel John Aliprantis, he builds nothing but wooden ships and they are works of art. He also gives out Tips and Tricks, i hope you don't mind me mentioning it.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Hi my good man, hope you are in good health down under and thanks for replying....the videos are great and I'm looking forward to the wooden HMS Bounty videos. what dose B.O.M.B meanpls :-)
Building on Marina Balcony. My new wood ship workshop is an enclosed balcony at my house. Could also be Boats On My Balcony. That was at the start of the video.
I say bring it on big fella, In my humble opinion all the best hobbyists are multitalented so bring on the rigging skills and wood lore as well as your paint and plastic... Fantastic
Your skills and patience to build such sailing ships deserve all our respect mate! It looks to me like it has so little in common with the stuff we tank modellers do.
Hi Harry, I found your fantastic channel a while back due to the model ships, I am currently building a 1/72 flower class corvette. I want to build a wooden sailing ship next so more of this please. Keep up the great work. Big love from Essex UK.
Hi Michael… I am restating the wood ship builds after a few years absence… life just got in the way… and I had more requests for the plastic stuff. But wood is back. New video out this weekend plus you have about 10 Constructo Bounty videos to rewatch.
Fine go thru the wood builds..enjoy seeing coming together . Sailing ships kits rather awesome when built well..will pay close attention...the Beagle kit shipped fast ..cool...hve two wood kits here yet to tackle....wagons I'm afraid....but plenty for me..simple is best ..would not have said that fourty years ago..lol...again, I say enjoy your videos much..awesome builds ..
Great idea Harry, l’ll watch as many fart 💨 as long as you keep them coming. See it dose rub off, ordered a laser cut ship just to dip the proverbial toe. Built a Billing Boats ship when I was 10 with my Dad & never got finished. Us pommys love a good sailing ship. Looking forward to the segments Harry. 😁👍🏼
This is really a great idea Harry. I do really admire your work because this is way out off my comfort zone. But I really love to see how you do it because I find it absolutely interesting.
Next video out this weekend. Would have been earlier in the week but work was crazy with lots of requests for advertising as we come out of lockdown down under.
I would also like to see more ship videos Harry. I just recently bought two wood ship models and I don’t know a thing about how to build them, so I’ll be watching your videos. I turned 60 in may and I’ll be retiring in about 6or 8 months and I have a fair amount of plastic models to build and two wooden ships. Take care brother we will see you hopefully later on:)
Go for it Harry...there are tonnes of channels out there for armour and planes,but very little in comparison for wooden boats. From one Commonwealth Commoner to another,do 'er up bud...I'll definitely be watching from across the pond for more of your boat videos,maybe someday I'll have the nerve and patience to try my hand at wooden boat building myself lol.
I'd love to see more on wooden boat construction, always wanted to give it a shot along with my planes and tanks, but it's quite intimidating. Please keep dropping your BOMB as often as you like!
blinding idea harry.looking forward to the bombs and farts.(good thing you live down under eating all the curries )the ships you build are fantastic.the way you explain things makes it easy to understand even to a muppet like me.cheers tom
Well , as you know , I'm one of those tank guys . Some of the rigging gets a little esoteric for me . I'll watch as much as I can . The best parts are the Houdini irreverent humor and the boat buildin' blues music . But where are the rivets ?
Yep A great idea Harry, but to be fair you could assemble a jigsaw and I'd watch it and don't mention B word to often or you might be getting a visit from gentlemen in suits wanting to know where the B omb is.
Definitely up for the Bomb mate, really would love to learn the art of building a Wooden kit, just bk into modelling 3 months ago first time in 35yrs, so all I've known is plastic kits, think planking is the only thing I wouldn't be confident in doing. Keep up the great work loving the videos.
Planking just requires a plan, plus the ability to measure a curve and use your calculator to work out how many or how thin the planks need to be on it. I will show how simple that can be this weekend in my next Bounty video.
@@HarryHoudiniModels I love my DIY Harry and have been able to Measure and cut wood for 36 years, be it hanging doors and drillingand inserting locks to wooden doors, Laminate flooring, stud walls etc... So hopefully I'll have the basics to get on with.
One kit that keeps finding its way back onto my bench is the Artesania Latina Bluenose II. It is a spectacular kit and the details and parts are superb. Its the only kit I have ever built that has two layers of hull planking. It has the core which is the strength and then a thin veneer of walnut and I have built it by painting the original color and a few by leaving that beautiful walnut natural with a sealer. I have also taken one of the kits and made a fictitious Bluenose 4 (3 was taken and there is some legal issues using it so they are in plans to build number 4 and skip 3). Anyway, defiantly worth a look and it is noob friendly, as wood ships goes but you will need to work on your skills for the hull as it is a bit of a challenge. Still in the end it makes for a display model that you would be proud to put where everyone can see it. Of course be careful or you will end up like me and giving them away or selling them because everyone wants one...;)
@@HarryHoudiniModels I know what you are referring to but this model is different because the walnut veneer is super thin and has not structural quality and will for sure show any first layer planking errors or defects. There for and what is critical is to ensure the first layer is flawless, otherwise dont apply the walnut veneer because it will accentuate any subsurface flaws and thats why I pointed this one condition of this model out. Still looking forward to watching your technique, comparing it to mine and hopefully learning something new...;)
What I meant by forgiving is you have that first thicker layer to get smooth by any means necessary. Then yes your thin second layer of a beautiful wood can go on without issues. If you just do one layer of planking, then you better be bloody perfect 1st time. But that is too much stress.
I purchased the Modellers Shipyard “Colonial Schooner Port Jackson 1803 “ It’s my first wooden sailing ship , looking forward to watch your builds and learn . My first wood boat is the Billing Boats “Cux87 Krabbencutter 🤙🤙🤙
Hell yes mate, I’d sure like to see videos on that too, I really dig your work , on everything from plastic to wood! Keep on keeping on matey! Arggg! lol
Harry if you really want an eye opener check out he folks at modelshipworld.com in the US. Website is Thenrg.org. When on the site two of the better ones are "Le Flueron" 1:24 scale plank on frame built by Gaeten Bordeleau a French Canadian. For a couple of home grown varieties, HMS Vulture 1:48 plank on frame by Dan Vadas this model is on display at Port Macquarie I believe. This site has plenty of info for the inquiring mind into all facets of model wooden boats.
@@HarryHoudiniModels On that note I do build myself in various mediums. Wood, paper (card), plastic. Do not keep records of my build as only have camera on mobile phone. Can send shots of some of my builds though. Current build is Card HMV Victoria Louise.
Hope you are good in spirit and health my good man. my old lass Pushkin (Cat) sends her greetings to your wee lass. Looking at your bounty...plastic build. I really enjoyed that. where on earth did you get the rigging exploded views from...I'd luv to get hold of some pls
