I bought the "Bluenose II 600" by Billing Boats in 2014 and it's such a nightmare. Lack of instructions, confusing instructions, wrong drawings, etc. I did some work on it and stopped working on it 4 years ago. Now I am back to work and willing to finish it, doesn't matter how this ship is going to look like at the end, because I can't just keep researching forever until I am sure that I am doing the right thing. I will never buy another model from Billing Boats again. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and for all your videos.
Hi Gary,, I will take you up on your kind offer of a few beer's the next time I am over the pond. Welcome to our frustrating world of wooden ship building..lol. I admire you for taking on such a build for your first plank on frame ship. If you need any obscure parts or any help just shoot me a message. After 30 year's of building these things my parts bins are over-flowing-- so if I can help you,,no problem. I hope to be up and running with my vid's in a few weeks. All the best,,kind regards Graham
Thanks....That,s good to know I will keep you in mind. I picked this ship because it only had two mast and just a few deadeyes. Plus the hull looked simple enough to plank and it is twice the size of my HMS Bounty, making it easier to work on. Also I saw on a forum that Model Shipways had the best plans. If that is so than how bad are the other models. It's just that these model makers need better quality control over there product. I should not be finding this many mistakes. Send me a comment when you get your first video up. I will be watching for it.
Unknown object!!! RE-watching your videos and got to this one. I reckon that object is an old fashioned compass binnacle box with the compass mounted on gimbals inside. One of the big ones with compensating weights for correction. The Helmsman would have stood to one side or the other looking forward, up at the sails and down at the compass.
Hi Gary - I am an R/C wooden ship builder, following your Bluenose build with interest. You hit on an important fact in your first video - if you don't have any background with ships, especially sailing ships, take a little time and learn some of the terms. And it makes a big difference what time period the ship is from and what type of ship it is. The Bluenose plans are drawn fairly typical of the average nautical plans, you often have to refer to two or more different plans sheets to determine the actual size of any given object. I really enjoy your approach to the videos and especially the "guy next door" atmosphere - keep up the good work.
Hello Gary, I wanted you to know how much I am enjoying your videos. I just finished a wooden model of the Robert E Lee paddle wheeler and I am researching the construction of a plank built ship. Your videos have been very informative and humorous at times. I am currently on part 4 and I look forward to the rest of the series. Thanks again, Rick Couch
Gary, I've been a tall ship enthusiast since I was a wee child. Now I am 66, and even though I have a great understanding of who, what, where, when and why in regards to model ship construction which includes both wood and plastic. I seek the assistance in not only one but two online internet model ship forums. If you don't already subscribed to a forum, you can view almost everything on their sites, you just can't comment until you subscribe.log is one as a guest. They all seems to have the same attitude where as: The only stupid question, is the one not asked.
+William Guy Thilgen Jr. Thank you....I do read the forums when doing my research, they are always a great help. And yes I also am subscribed to one. Thanks for the info.
The reason they haven't looked at the original plans for the bluenose is because nobody actually has the original plans. They had to make this model as accurate as possible based on pictures and whatever other research they could do. That's why some things may be unidentified, because they were visible on the ship, but they could discover what the object actually was.
On the (p-s) that you mentioned. I was a Navy guy back in 78, and yes you figured right port and starboard. They tend too be Vieque on things like that. Right on, on the pully or block reality is just that a wooden case with a part metal roller and that's your block and tackle. My Bluenose 11 only has half of the correct size deadeye so I'm gonna have to order 22 more for mine. I got a lot of nice info from you refreshing my Navy knowledge. I did a Uss Constitution back while I was in the Navy and my X wife smashed it while I was on duty one day. I was devastated. Needless to say that's why she's my X. Great job Gary I'm waiting to see the finished ship. Looking good. :)
Jeff Lawson OUCH...Women have a way of knowing where to hit you where it hurts the most. Just be glad it was a model ship and not you. Thanks for watching.
Hi Gary... Following your video series on the Bluenose as I am preparing to undertake this model as well! LOL! Looks to be a challenge for sure, but should be a beautiful model when complete. At any rate, pretty certain the P and the S (or P/S) on the blocks represents Port and Starboard. I see what you mean though... figure that for all the effort they went through they could have included some kind of a cheat sheet for us landlubbers to follow along with their nomenclature.
ModelFlags.com is no longer an active site, but they provide links to their product manufacturer who has identified their other vendors. I used CastYourAnchorHobby.com and got the flag I needed.
It's called a learning curve, Gary. I have been building wooden ships for forty years and I have built this model. Not from the kit but from the plans and I had no problems. (Same plans btw.) Quit complaining and understand that the exact sizes, in all cases, would be impossible. Build the model and use your own solutions to problem area.
You know what, you realy don't deserve a reply. You been building for 40 years and been with you-tube since 2007 and don't even have one video posted. Why don't you share some of your knowledge so I wouldn't have to complain because I expect more for my money.
There will always be issues where you are left alone. I am currently building the Frigate Jutland by Billing Boats and as the model is being rated for the 'expert builder' the plans are very basic. I have turned to the internet for pictures and videos for reference and actually found things that were wrong in the model compared to the real 1:1 scale model. :o) For this ship I am lucky that it still exist despite being built in 1860 so I can actually go and check details out if I want to. Correcting wrong or missing details is also part of the fun, I think.
dont know if anyone has commented on it. and its a while back but if you havent worked it out how to find the size of a hole on the plan or in instructions if its a one to one plan then measure the hole diameter on the plan lol!!! just saying. and the air vent with dotted lines mean its on the other side as though your looking through the wood this is the same on all the plans if you dont know how far say the cabin is from the back measure the plan. like i say bit late and now i shall carry on watching.
The Bluenose is a good starter ship if you know or do research on what all the different parts of a ship are. Things like running rigging, standing rigging, main mast or fore mast, dead eyes, belay pins, capstan, ratlines,etc. As you may have seen I started with the Bounty, made by Constructo, which had a solid hull (no planking). I would look for a small sail boat with one mast to start with.
Ahoy Gary Welcome to the world of shipmodeling, I have their Baltimore clipper kit all plank and frame same procedure as your kit. To get an good understanding of the plans you have to know naugtical terms and meanings. I admire you for choosing a difficult kit I myself took that plunge. The more you ingest the plans the better understanding you will get out of them. I been building shipmodels for over 60 years I have a vast collection everything from sail to steam. Check out my liberty ship I done I am building this for a client, Today I went to my hobby dealer and purchased the Bluenose kit I already have the hull frames inplace using a jig and the bearding line has been completed. So far in the construction you are doing very well the key is to keep checki9ng the plans and study them before you know it you will have no difficulty it will be smooth sailing from then on out. Great video buddy you need any help on the build shoot me a pm Frankie Day
Yes that's true about naugtical terms, I know the basic terms from building the HMS Bounty. This ship does not look that hard since I done most of this stuff on the Bounty. The planking has no sharp bends so I should be able to get through that ok. I have seen your Liberty build, very very nice for a scratch build. How is the Arizona coming, need to see more of her? Thanks for your support.
Ahoy Gary Thanks for the reply Gary the Arizona still on the ways, I haven't done nothing to her since the last video I posted on her. But I will resume shortly I need to get some things done on her to keep on the schedule so I will have her done on the 7th of December this year. Remember buddy keep looking at your plans you will see new doors begin to open up then things will become clear and the build will be a breeze Your doing great. Thanks Gary I be watching your build with entrest Frankie Day
I had a problem with this EZ Line you talked about, in one of your Tips and Tricks videos. I think it was this SMS Dresden model you had used it on. I found a dealer in my hometown here in Denmark, just to find out that the store had closed. )o: No other dealers in Denmark, had to buy it in Germany or Great Britain.
I bought the "Bluenose II 600" by Billing Boats in 2014 and it's such a nightmare. Lack of instructions, confusing instructions, wrong drawings, etc. I did some work on it and stopped working on it 4 years ago. Now I am back to work and willing to finish it, doesn't matter how this ship is going to look like at the end, because I can't just keep researching forever until I am sure that I am doing the right thing. I will never buy another model from Billing Boats again.
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and for all your videos.
Hi Gary,, I will take you up on your kind offer of a few beer's the next time I am over the pond. Welcome to our frustrating world of wooden ship building..lol. I admire you for taking on such a build for your first plank on frame ship. If you need any obscure parts or any help just shoot me a message. After 30 year's of building these things my parts bins are over-flowing-- so if I can help you,,no problem. I hope to be up and running with my vid's in a few weeks. All the best,,kind regards Graham
Thanks....That,s good to know I will keep you in mind. I picked this ship because it only had two mast and just a few deadeyes. Plus the hull looked simple enough to plank and it is twice the size of my HMS Bounty, making it easier to work on. Also I saw on a forum that Model Shipways had the best plans. If that is so than how bad are the other models. It's just that these model makers need better quality control over there product. I should not be finding this many mistakes. Send me a comment when you get your first video up. I will be watching for it.
Unknown object!!! RE-watching your videos and got to this one. I reckon that object is an old fashioned compass binnacle box with the compass mounted on gimbals inside. One of the big ones with compensating weights for correction. The Helmsman would have stood to one side or the other looking forward, up at the sails and down at the compass.
Hi Gary - I am an R/C wooden ship builder, following your Bluenose build with interest. You hit on an important fact in your first video - if you don't have any background with ships, especially sailing ships, take a little time and learn some of the terms. And it makes a big difference what time period the ship is from and what type of ship it is. The Bluenose plans are drawn fairly typical of the average nautical plans, you often have to refer to two or more different plans sheets to determine the actual size of any given object.
I really enjoy your approach to the videos and especially the "guy next door" atmosphere - keep up the good work.
Hello Gary,
I wanted you to know how much I am enjoying your videos. I just finished a wooden model of the Robert E Lee paddle wheeler and I am researching the construction of a plank built ship. Your videos have been very informative and humorous at times. I am currently on part 4 and I look forward to the rest of the series.
Thanks again,
Rick Couch
Gary, I've been a tall ship enthusiast since I was a wee child. Now I am 66, and even though I have a great understanding of who, what, where, when and why in regards to model ship construction which includes both wood and plastic. I seek the assistance in not only one but two online internet model ship forums. If you don't already subscribed to a forum, you can view almost everything on their sites, you just can't comment until you subscribe.log is one as a guest. They all seems to have the same attitude where as: The only stupid question, is the one not asked.
+William Guy Thilgen Jr.
Thank you....I do read the forums when doing my research, they are always a great help. And yes I also am subscribed to one. Thanks for the info.
you mentioned 2 websites, but failed to mention the website. would you inform us? thank you.
The reason they haven't looked at the original plans for the bluenose is because nobody actually has the original plans. They had to make this model as accurate as possible based on pictures and whatever other research they could do. That's why some things may be unidentified, because they were visible on the ship, but they could discover what the object actually was.
On the (p-s) that you mentioned. I was a Navy guy back in 78, and yes you figured right port and starboard. They tend too be Vieque on things like that. Right on, on the pully or block reality is just that a wooden case with a part metal roller and that's your block and tackle. My Bluenose 11 only has half of the correct size deadeye so I'm gonna have to order 22 more for mine. I got a lot of nice info from you refreshing my Navy knowledge. I did a Uss Constitution back while I was in the Navy and my X wife smashed it while I was on duty one day. I was devastated. Needless to say that's why she's my X. Great job Gary I'm waiting to see the finished ship. Looking good. :)
Jeff Lawson OUCH...Women have a way of knowing where to hit you where it hurts the most. Just be glad it was a model ship and not you. Thanks for watching.
I hope you keel hauled her?
Hi Gary... Following your video series on the Bluenose as I am preparing to undertake this model as well! LOL! Looks to be a challenge for sure, but should be a beautiful model when complete.
At any rate, pretty certain the P and the S (or P/S) on the blocks represents Port and Starboard. I see what you mean though... figure that for all the effort they went through they could have included some kind of a cheat sheet for us landlubbers to follow along with their nomenclature.
ModelFlags.com is no longer an active site, but they provide links to their product manufacturer who has identified their other vendors. I used CastYourAnchorHobby.com and got the flag I needed.
It's called a learning curve, Gary. I have been building wooden ships for forty years and I have built this model. Not from the kit but from the plans and I had no problems. (Same plans btw.) Quit complaining and understand that the exact sizes, in all cases, would be impossible. Build the model and use your own solutions to problem area.
You know what, you realy don't deserve a reply. You been building for 40 years and been with you-tube since 2007 and don't even have one video posted. Why don't you share some of your knowledge so I wouldn't have to complain because I expect more for my money.
There will always be issues where you are left alone. I am currently building the Frigate Jutland by Billing Boats and as the model is being rated for the 'expert builder' the plans are very basic. I have turned to the internet for pictures and videos for reference and actually found things that were wrong in the model compared to the real 1:1 scale model. :o) For this ship I am lucky that it still exist despite being built in 1860 so I can actually go and check details out if I want to. Correcting wrong or missing details is also part of the fun, I think.
The Sheave is a part of a block. It's the round roller part.
dont know if anyone has commented on it. and its a while back but if you havent worked it out how to find the size of a hole on the plan or in instructions if its a one to one plan then measure the hole diameter on the plan lol!!! just saying. and the air vent with dotted lines mean its on the other side as though your looking through the wood this is the same on all the plans if you dont know how far say the cabin is from the back measure the plan. like i say bit late and now i shall carry on watching.
paul bishop Thanks Paul....Yeah I figured all that out some time back but thanks for the info any-way.
Air vent issue, p is port stbd is starboard, both sides used to move air. Think. Air moves where you direct it.
Wil Sharpe Thanks for the info but that was over 6 months and 34 videos ago, I'm all ship-shape now.
Port is left STBD is right meaning starboard.
you are saying it not for a first time builder never build a wooden ship be for
and what should i start out on as to a wooden model
The Bluenose is a good starter ship if you know or do research on what all the different parts of a ship are. Things like running rigging, standing rigging, main mast or fore mast, dead eyes, belay pins, capstan, ratlines,etc. As you may have seen I started with the Bounty, made by Constructo, which had a solid hull (no planking). I would look for a small sail boat with one mast to start with.
thx you
S is for 1/64 scale, it is called S scale for trains.
Ahoy Gary
Welcome to the world of shipmodeling, I have their Baltimore clipper kit all plank and frame same procedure as your kit. To get an good understanding of the plans you have to know naugtical terms and meanings. I admire you for choosing a difficult kit I myself took that plunge. The more you ingest the plans the better understanding you will get out of them. I been building shipmodels for over 60 years I have a vast collection everything from sail to steam. Check out my liberty ship I done I am building this for a client, Today I went to my hobby dealer and purchased the Bluenose kit I already have the hull frames inplace using a jig and the bearding line has been completed. So far in the construction you are doing very well the key is to keep checki9ng the plans and study them before you know it you will have no difficulty it will be smooth sailing from then on out. Great video buddy you need any help on the build shoot me a pm
Frankie Day
Yes that's true about naugtical terms, I know the basic terms from building the HMS Bounty. This ship does not look that hard since I done most of this stuff on the Bounty. The planking has no sharp bends so I should be able to get through that ok. I have seen your Liberty build, very very nice for a scratch build. How is the Arizona coming, need to see more of her? Thanks for your support.
Ahoy Gary
Thanks for the reply Gary the Arizona still on the ways,
I haven't done nothing to her since the last video I posted on her. But I will resume shortly I need to get some things done on her to keep on the schedule so I will have her done on the 7th of December this year. Remember buddy keep looking at your plans you will see new doors begin to open up then things will become clear and the build will be a breeze Your doing great. Thanks Gary I be watching your build with entrest
Frankie Day
The www.modelflags.com is closed down. The owner has retired I just found out.
Yes I know.....That was my go to web-site for all my flags. I'm going to mis that place.
I had a problem with this EZ Line you talked about, in one of your Tips and Tricks videos. I think it was this SMS Dresden model you had used it on. I found a dealer in my hometown here in Denmark, just to find out that the store had closed. )o: No other dealers in Denmark, had to buy it in Germany or Great Britain.