Inside the wheelhouse

Hello

Thanks for watching my buildingreport and for the support I get from you. Not only in this report but in forum as whole. Your buildings really encourage me to build.

I worked on the Pelikaan again. On the wheelhouse I wanted something to watch at so I started building an interior. It's meanth to be scematic and it is not on scale. But I think it looks good later when you look trough the small windows of the wheelhouse







And I did some work on the hood.

The roof

Hello fellow shipbuilders,

Meanwhile I made the roof and the so-called "Pet" and that makes the bridge really complete. It was very hard to find the correct shape and it took me more cardboard and ps plate than I wanted. But at the end it worked out well.

If you look closely you can still see something I've been working on. Something which will be nearly vissible when the model is ready.

More work on the wheelhouse

Hello Everybody.

Working on the wheelhouse. Lots of work and time but very rewarding.

Router machine

Hello people,

I wanted to buy a router but the missis wouldnt let me spend the money so I searched the bits and peaces-bin for stuff to make on myzelf. I had an old Kinzo multitool wich I could use and the necessary parts were there too. I built a router-part which is adjustable in height, a part to make circles and a part to make straight lines. 

Here's the result.

On with the moulds

More work done on the KW88.

Prepare the moulds for laminating. It will be a two part mould. First I will prepare and laminate the first half and after that I will remove the wooden plate and laminate the second half. I have never done this before so it will be exciting. It will take some weeks before I can show the results.

Cooling

Cooling at the outside of the hul. I also finishes the bowplate and some other things. Just decided to make a keel also before making the moulds. Than every hull will be complete with keel.

Added registration number

Added registration numbers and did some other jobs on the hull. Next job will be mould-making for wich I bought polyester and other stuff.

Back at work with the KW88

I started working on the beamtrawler again. In the summer it's just to hot at the attic so I can't build there. I have done some home improvement instead and build some showcases for a friend.

I sanded the hull and painted her with epoxy and the sanded her again. She has a babyskin now, soft and smooth. I also made a start with the halfround and the spraydeck.

























All halfround is placed now

Making the hull of the KW88

Hello everybody,

At this moment I have done a lot of work for this model allready. Lots of work will not be vissible when she is ready but is inevitable to get a realistic model. But how good is the feeling when you have (after all the work) a fysical hull in your hands wich look svery good. On the pictures you see the wooden model of the hull. They call this the plug and I will use this in the future to make a polyester mould arround it so I can make multiple hulls out of it. I do this because I want to make two of the same models and maybe I can sell some hull later to other modelbuilders.

The pictures
Here you see a lot of copys of the lineplan to make templates for the longitudinal cross-sections (does that make any sense? I used Google translate so blame them if not.... )



The templates are ready to trace them on the wood

Building the Dutch Eurotrawler KW5

Building Trawler FR927 Propitious

A movie with buildingpictures of Antje

New project: KW88, Pelikaan Dutch Beamtrawler 1999

Last model was a real challenge for me to build. Little was known about the ship, drawings weren't there and photo's were scarce. But I mannaged to build a good looking and correct model and I am very happy with it. But for the next model I wanted something easier. Not easier to build, but a ship from wich is more information available. I found this in the Dutch beamtrawler KW88, Pelikaan.

It's a trawler build in 1999 and named UK153 Lub Senior but sold in 2007 and renamed KW88, Pelikaan. KW means it's hometown is Katwijk. It has a 2000HP Deutz engine and the dimensions are 42,40m long and 8.50m width.
The trawler  uses two bottomtrawls (sumwings) and uses electricity to fish (pulse fishing)

The model will be in scale 1/75 wich makes a model of +/_ 56 cm (22inch)

Here a photo of the drawings I use. They are printed in scale 1/75 so very usefull

End pictures KW49 Antje

Here are the final pictures of the Antje, KW49. It is a ship from the village Katwijk and I made the pictures also in Katwijk.

Last pictures before completion

Some photo's of the progress. I made some nice copper decklights wich I like very much. They are made of ps but are painted and weathered like they are old copper lights. Next update I hope to show the completed build.

Decklights

Decklights fitted. Here will be a mast later

The reardeck with the sail in place

And a last photo from the ship like she was before refit in 1969

Sneak preview

A little sneak preview of the work I did in the paintshop. Next pictures will come when she's finished.

Progress in paintshop

No words only pictures

Lying the wooden deck

 Hello dear readers,

At first I had the idea to paint the deck with wood-effect but when I was at the intermodellbau I saw very thin wooden slats. I bought 10 meters with the idea that this would be mucht to much. But now I know I had barely enough, I had 20 centimeters left. I am very glad with the decision to make a real wooden deck because it looks fantastic. Later there will be stuff on the deck so it looks even better.

Video of the Intermodellbau Dortmund 17/04/2015

Weathering a brass prop using electrolysis

I bought a nice looking prop but its much to shiny. I like to paint the ship like its in use so it needs a little weathering. And so does the propellor. In the past I tried to do this with paint but that didnt work out well. I remembered a proces from scienceclasses called electrolyse with an katode and an anode. How that works you can find on the internet but the pictures below show how I (mis) use it.

Here's what whe start with. A nice and shiny propellor.

Tools I can't do without: Sandingsticks

Some other tool I cant do without. A few years ago I was at a Hobby fair and saw a tool wich was new to me. My wife imidiately recognized it as a nailfile. I never saw a nailfile like that before, I only knew the metal ones. This one was made of firm foam and plastic and it felt very stif. Enought words for now. I turned out to be my favourite tool for filing grinding and sanding. Its suitable for wood and plastic and they are very durable. In the local hobby shop they cost me 2 euro a piece but I found them on Aliexpress for round 2 euro for ten pieces. Not very expensive so just order some and try it out.

Some pictures to show what I am talking about.


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Tools I can't do without: hand-drills (Pin Vices)

When Iam building I have a few tools I would not want to be without. There is the hobbyknife, the steel ruler, a sandingstick and... my handdrill. 

I use is a lot but the problem is you have to change the drillbits every time you need another size. Last month I wrote down the drillsizes I use most and I came up with 5 populair sizes. 

So I ordered 4 more handdrills and I made a good looking socket for them and now I never grab wrong when I need a drill.

Models made by my father

I like to build modelships but it al started with my father. Some 20 years ago he started building a model af the ship he worked on. In the past few years he build a lot of models and some of them I want to show you here. (all models in this message were made by my father H. de Mol)

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Wich paint to choose?

Hello saillors!

And the next thing. If you build a ship from the sixtys the biggest problems occur when you are ready for painting. Because then you have to ask yourself wich colours you need. Well the only colourpicture I have is the pic below. (its the ship in the back unfortunately)



That doesnt help me a lot. But you can see the wheelhouse is green, not white anymore.

Last pictures before painting

These are the last pictures before painting with the airbrush. I special love the first picture because with all the parts on the table it really looks like a modelkit.

Modelkit. Anyone knows the brand? All the piece apart is very handy when you paint them. No masking needed.

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last proceedings building the Antje

Today I did some work on the Antje. Almost ready for painting but there are still some little jobs to do. Here some photo's of how she looks now. She is totally in primer now.

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