A different kind of woodwork

**Wongo** · 5th January 2005, 11:49 AM

I took it as a challenge a few years ago when my father-in-law said “Why don’t you build something a bit more meaningful then plastic cars and aircrafts?” The next day I went home with a big box of ship model kit and some tools after spending a few hundred dollars at Hobbyco.

Initial response from my wife was “Oh no. Do you know what you are doing?” Frankly I didn’t have a clue and I wasn’t sure if I could do it.

Well actually it wasn’t that hard. A pair of steady hands, a lot of patience and 500 hours is all it takes. The ship is a replica the HMS Bounty. The hull is double planked. The inner layer is Walnut plank and the outer layer is Walnut Veneer strips. The worst part of the project was probably the wiggings because it is so repetitive.

I met a guy at the National Martine Museum. He is a model ship builder himself, we chatted and I invited him over to see the Bounty. He came over a few days later and liked what he saw. As a result my model ship was displayed in a couple of exhibitions at the museum. Not bad for a first timer hey?

**Wongo** · 5th January 2005, 11:51 AM

BTW Happy New Year

**Wongo** · 5th January 2005, 11:53 AM

**HappyHammer** · 5th January 2005, 12:45 PM

Wow Wongo that's great, very impressed with the patience required.

Does it float?

HH.

**silentC** · 5th January 2005, 01:10 PM

Zed and I tried to get him to put it in the bathtub for a maiden voyage but he wouldn't be in it

**Slavo** · 5th January 2005, 01:14 PM

Well done Wongo, nice work. Just watch out for a guy called Fletcher Christian, he might be part of a mutiny and steel your boat.

**journeyman Mick** · 5th January 2005, 01:18 PM

Nice one Wongo! Well you've built the scale model, when will you start on the full size one? :eek:

Mick

**Grunt** · 5th January 2005, 02:25 PM

Is Roger the Cabin Boy on board?

Far too much time on your hands.

**HappyHammer** · 5th January 2005, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by Grunt

Far too much time on your hands.

I thought that Grunt but unlike you I'm too polite to say anything.

HH.

**Wongo** · 5th January 2005, 02:45 PM

Oh come on guys, it only took a couple of weeks.

**HappyHammer** · 5th January 2005, 02:48 PM

If you can find 250 hours a week of spare time then you have way too much time on your hands.

[This face should be green not purple]

HH.

**Peter36** · 5th January 2005, 05:58 PM

Thats a fantastic effort Wongo and lets face it 250Hrs per week is only 35Hrs per day . A fit fella could do that before breakfast .

**ozwinner** · 5th January 2005, 08:13 PM

Wongo, Wongo, Wongo.

Just because you dont like cricket doesnt mean you have to sail away and leave us!!

Al

PS nice job of the ship.

**Peter36** · 5th January 2005, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by Wongo

I took it as a challenge a few years ago when my father-in-law said “Why don’t you build something a bit more meaningful then plastic cars and aircrafts?” The next day I went home with a big box of ship model kit and some tools after spending a few hundred dollars at Hobbyco.

Initial response from my wife was “Oh no. Do you know what you are doing?” Frankly I didn’t have a clue and I wasn’t sure if I could do it.

Well actually it wasn’t that hard. A pair of steady hands, a lot of patience and 500 hours is all it takes. The ship is a replica the HMS Bounty. The hull is double planked. The inner layer is Walnut plank and the outer layer is Walnut Veneer strips. The worst part of the project was probably the wiggings because it is so repetitive.

I met a guy at the National Martine Museum. He is a model ship builder himself, we chatted and I invited him over to see the Bounty. He came over a few days later and liked what he saw. As a result my model ship was displayed in a couple of exhibitions at the museum. Not bad for a first timer hey?

Hi Wongo . I meant to say this before , but are you having a go at how we speak

**Rocker** · 5th January 2005, 08:57 PM

I thought the cabin boy was called Nipper; wait, that was the Venus, not the Bounty

Rocker

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