Good day to you all,

Let me introduce myself. My name is Wouter and am living in the south of the Netherlands. I came across this forum when I got a link from a collegue who sent it to me about the topic of the Bourbon Orca. I have to say I really enjoyed watching it seen built and decided to place a topic also about my current project.

The build project is the Union Manta:

The build will be in the scale of 1:50 because the club I'm a member from is having all the ship in the same scale.

Some dimensions of the model:

Length: 150 cm
Breath: 36 cm
Draft: 13.2 cm

The engineroom of this model will be powerred with 2 or 4 graupner 900BB torques who are driving 2 fixed pitch propellors in Kort Nozzles. the model will have 2 working bow and stern thrusters which will be propelled by Protech 600 electric motors running on 6 volts to make it more realistic.

At the moment I do not have picture at hand but these will follow at the end of the weekend when I have progressed with the build.

So for the time being,

A good build,

Wouter

A Warm Welcome Aboard Our Fellow Modeller from the Land of Windmills.

The forum tends to be a wee quiet on weekends. I'm very sure the guys will be looking forward to seeing the progress on this impressive project. Scratchbuilders are a rarity and building at large scales are even more rare. If you can spare the time do tell us a little bit about yourself here:
New Member Introduction

Looking forward to the progress pics.

wouter,

A warm welcome to our forum, proud to have you here. Hope you'll enjoy your stay.

AHTS Bourbon Orca, that’s me who was built it. Yes I’m building it with very limited sources and limited materials in fact I’d no blue print as for references. BTW …It’s finally done. I’m lucky if you’re willing to share with us.

In fact we has Peter from German who was scratchbuilt a BOW as well.Here his thread...

http://z12.invisionfree.com/ScaleModelsMal...?showtopic=3436

Looking forward to see a Union Manta in progress.


Regards
Naza

Hi Wouter. Welcome to the forum.

Another scratchbuilder and also a ship buildier in this forum. I'm looking forward to seeing the progress.

Being 1:50 scale, this is going to be another huge ship in this forum together with the ones build by Peter a.k.a offshore and Naza a.k.a dremel.

Hope to see the Union Manta build-up soon. :D

hi there here are some update pictures for the build. this weekend was a quite productive one ;)


this is the progress so far...

All the frames have been placed and the bottom has been attached.... from now om the progress will be slow... I had a small accident and dislocated my thumb which is now fixed for 5 weeks so...

gr,
wouter

Wow! progress looks good. What do you use for the frames? I'm assuming normal plywood.

Dislocated your thumb? :blink: Hope you can be back at your workbench soon and continue showing us this magnificent build.

Hi,

The plywood used is 8 mm plywood. this is the similar material used for the bottom.

gr,
wouter

Hi wouter,

Good progress so far....like your equipment as well....what type of glue you used for the plywood? how about the drawing ?do you draw your self...hope to see the next progress soon....take care...

Hi everybody,

I have showed you the beginning of my model and to be honest these are pictures which are already two weeks old. since two weeks I have made a lot progress and because there where some questions about the real status of the model I have take some pictures...

As you can see the hull is allmost closed up the hull except for some gaps which will be filled with styrofoam. after this the hull will be sent to a colluege who wants to make a mould from it.





@ Dremel,

Thanks, I use regular Bison Woodglue. The drawing come from the company itself who supplied them to another scale builder. I had the chance copy these and build the ship from it.

have a good build everybody,

Wouter

In two weeks you have done so much on the progress of this ship... It's looking good. One question though, what type of wood did you use for the ship's hull? Balsa I presume?

From the size and looks of it, I'm sure you have a big working room there. :D

The only thing i could't do is duplicate the hull....otherwise i can have more BOW now days. :D

Just curiouse about plywood glue. Its not a fast dry type right?,did you have to hold like that all the time. I used clear epoxy for plywood its dry in 3 min.

Can't wait to see the next progress.

The material used for the outside of the ships hull is 4 mm plywood. I glueded it with regular woodglue because the rapid dry formula is not water resistant. In order to keep them in place I used small nails.

g.b.
wouter