April contest - To scale. Winner is Mountain City Bill

[Phil S]

Mountain City Bill is the winner with his great scaled jewelry chest. There were many excellent entries.

Anything you have built to scale - ships, planes, vehicles, etc. Detailed photos please
This should bring in some very interesting entries

 

[AlanJ]

Post and Beam Barn with accessories. The posts and beams are maple all joined by hand with traditional mortises and wooden peg joinery. With 12 1x1 maple posts it’s strong enough for several people to stand on it.

 

[marinosr]

Great theme, can't wait to see all the entries.

 

[AlanJ]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Just a few samples

 

[bob vaughan]

While I've done lots of wooden toys, this entry, I think, is the only one I've done to scale and that's a pretty big stretch. I took the dimensions of my Wife's SUV and a side photo and scaled it to fit the wheels I had. On paper, the original looked sort of goofy so I took some liberty and made the toy cars a little off scale so they would look like toys. I've also made some scaled down tables and chairs for small children but I don't think that's what we're looking for.

 

[Craptastic]

While I've done lots of wooden toys, this entry, I think, is the only one I've done to scale and that's a pretty big stretch. I took the dimensions of my Wife's SUV and a side photo and scaled it to fit the wheels I had. On paper, the original looked sort of goofy so I took some liberty and made the toy cars a little off scale so they would look like toys. I've also made some scaled down tables and chairs for small children but I don't think that's what we're looking for.

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Still, very nice cars.

 

[AlanJ]

While I've done lots of wooden toys, this entry, I think, is the only one I've done to scale and that's a pretty big stretch. I took the dimensions of my Wife's SUV and a side photo and scaled it to fit the wheels I had. On paper, the original looked sort of goofy so I took some liberty and made the toy cars a little off scale so they would look like toys. I've also made some scaled down tables and chairs for small children but I don't think that's what we're looking for.

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Nice SUVs. I’ve made dozens of Four Wheelers as toys. They seem to go over very well with young kids. I bet SUVs are just as popular.

 

[Phil S]

I am quite sure there are some ship builders also out there. Let us see your work please

 

[Mountain City Bill]

Anything you have built to scale - ships, planes, vehicles, etc. Detailed photos please
This should bring in some very interesting entries

Here is a jewelry cabinet I made for my wife. It's 8" deep x 12" wide x 30" tall. This is scaled from a full sized plan in an old Fine Woodworking magazine.

 

[creasman]

Very nice cabinet!

 

[drw]

I wasn't sure if ship models, built from kits, would qualify. That said, although most of the pieces are supplied with the kits, almost everything supplied requires some sort of cutting, shaping, sanding, etc.

The first picture is the Bounty (as in Mutiny on Bounty fame). I completed this in 2017, it took me several years of "on/off" work to complete. The Bounty was not a fighting vessel, it was more of a research vessel. It has a few cannons used more to discourage pirates and unfriendly natives.

The second set of pictures is of the HMS Agamemnon, which is a work in progress. I started on Aggie about five years ago, right after I finished the Bounty. The Aggie is a frigate and was designed for speed and agility. At the time of her completion in 1781 she was an engineering marvel. She carried 64 cannons and sailed with a crew of 500. At my current pace, it will take me another 7 to 10 months to complete; almost all of the remaining work involves rigging. This can be very tedious work (but I enjoy it), small spaces, small knots and fragile structures. You can see that I have a number of the blocks and/or deadeyes mounted on the yards, crosstrees, chains and platforms...all of which will have lines running through and around. Additionally, I need to rig the shrouds and ratlines. I have been working exclusively on the Aggie since December, but I am ready for a break; I will soon be returning to the shop to start some other projects that are not as small or tedious.

 

[AlanJ]

I wasn't sure if ship models, built from kits, would qualify. That said, although most of the pieces are supplied with the kits, almost everything supplied requires some sort of cutting, shaping, sanding, etc.

The first picture is the Bounty (as in Mutiny on Bounty fame). I completed this in 2017, it took me several years of "on/off" work to complete. The Bounty was not a fighting vessel, it was more of a research vessel. It has a few cannons used more to discourage pirates and unfriendly natives.
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The second set of pictures is of the HMS Agamemnon, which is a work in progress. I started on Aggie about five years ago, right after I finished the Bounty. The Aggie is a frigate and was designed for speed and agility. At the time of her completion in 1781 she was an engineering marvel. She carried 64 cannons and sailed with a crew of 500. At my current pace, it will take me another 7 to 10 months to complete; almost all of the remaining work involves rigging. This can be very tedious work (but I enjoy it), small spaces, small knots and fragile structures. You can see that I have a number of the blocks and/or deadeyes mounted on the yards, crosstrees, chains and platforms...all of which will have lines running through and around. Additionally, I need to rig the shrouds and ratlines. I have been working exclusively on the Aggie since December, but I am ready for a break; I will soon be returning to the shop to start some other projects that are not as small or tedious.

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Even if most of the parts came ready to install thats a massive project. Needing to adjust each part and fine tune makes this an awesome achievement. Plus they both look fantastic. What scale are these? I’m doing mostly 1/12 and 1/16th. So my parts are typically still pretty easy to manipulate without breaking.

 

[drw]

Alan, thank you for your kind comments, I am most appreciative. As to the scale, it is 1:64

 

[JNCarr]

Don - awesome work. The detail is amazing.

 

[JNCarr]

Not really contest entries since these were built some time ago.
The Les Paul is 1:1 scale - backwards running hands.
The travel guitar is 1:1 of a traditional classical guitar with all the right "touch points" important when playing. Disassembles for easy travel on planes. Hot pipe bent bouts (body sides).

 

[drw]

Joe, you always have some extremely well-crafted projects with interesting designs!

 

[Jclrk]

Knife carving

 

[rcarmac]

Here is my entry Apache Helicopter

 

[rcarmac]

Can I do 2 entries. Abrams Tank

 

[rcarmac]

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