Lake Boat

For some reason these huge long narrow vessels are called boats, not ships. They mostly carry bulk cargo such as grain and iron ore. This picture gives an idea of just how long they are.

At souvenir shops along the St. Lawrence Seaway one can buy books that can be used to identify the lake boats and the companies that own them, by the colours and markings of the exhaust stacks.

Senator of Canada Goes Through Iroquois Locks

In scanning my family slides I came across a set of photographs of the Lake Boat Senator of Canada going through the Iroquois locks on the Seaway. I am posting them here as these photographs may be of some interest and hopefully will provide some useful details.

May 2014 Meeting

The Capital Marine Modellers Guild's May meeting will be May 06, 2014, 7:00 p.m. at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley Ave.

April 2014 Meeting

Capital Marine Modellers' Guild's next meeting will be on Tuesday April 01, 2014 starting at 7:00 p.m. at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley Ave.

Dave Omond will be continuing his rigging demo with a discussion on knots for the model builder

Ed Chan will have some information on Chinese Aircraft carriers

As always bring out what you are working on.

Hope to see you all there.

Jim Russell

March 2014 Meeting

The March 2014  meeting will be on Tuesday, March 04, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley Ave.

Dave Omond will continue his series on Masting & Rigging. Specifically he will deal with masts and spars, how they are shaped and how to make all the fittings that go on them.

As usual bring out your work in progress and show and tell items.

February 2014 Meeting

Our next meeting is scheduled for February 4, 2014 at Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley Ave at 19:00 (7:00 pm).

Dave will start his rigging presentation. Morley Verdier will attend to disburse some magazines, bring cash if interested.

Remember to bring out your work in progress and show-and-tell items.

January 2014 Meeting

Happy New Year!

Capital Marine Modellers' Guild first meeting for 2014:

Tuesday January, 7, 2014
Nepean Museum
16 Rowley Ave
7:00 p.m.

Dave and Guy will be continuing their discussion of Drafting/Hull construction.

Remember your show and tell items and your work-in-progress.

Bill Williams for Jim Russell

Building a 1/700 Scale USS John F. Kennedy CV 67 Part 3

The model of the 1/700 Scale USS John F. Kennedy is now complete. Here are some photographs of the completed model.

Ed Chan

Building a 1/700 Scale USS John F. Kennedy CV 67 Part 2

Ed Chan

December 2013 Meeting

The December 2013 Meeting will be Next Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley Avenue.

Guy & Dave will be presenting on Plans and Hull construction.

Bring out any on-going projects, or anything else you have of interest for show-and-tell.

Building a 1/700 Scale USS John F. Kennedy CV 67 Part 1

Ed Chan

Mitchell Abraisives Products Useful for Ship Modelling

While looking through a recent copy of the Stewart MacDonald tool catalogue I noticed an item that would be useful for rigging, among other things. The item is abrasive round cord. For guitar makers this is useful for holes and slots for guitar strings. For ship modellers it would be useful for smoothing the inside of holes for rigging, as well as pulleys and so on.

These cords are available in a variety of sizes. You can get them from Stewart MacDonald and from amazon.com. There may be other sources.

Mitchell Abrasives also makes flat abrasive tape, which should also prove useful for ship modelling.

Their product line is very specialized but you may like to check out the company's web site to see what else they have available.
Mitchell Abrasives

Bill Williams

2013 October Meeting

The October meeting will be on Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 7:00 p.m. at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley Ave.

There will be a discussion on how to interpret and digitize ships' plans.

As always, members are encouraged to bring out their show and tell items, including their work in progress, finished models, favourite books or whatever else they have of interest.

Bill Williams for Jim Russell

2013 September Meeting

Our first meeting of the season will be on Tuesday, September 3, 2013 at the Nepean Museum, 16 Rowley Ave.

This year we are looking for presenters for the following topics:

How to read a lines plan.
Digitizing plans
Hull Building techniques

Deck Layout

Masting & Rigging

As usual, members are encouraged to bring out their show and tell items.

Bill Williams for Jim Russell

Cunard White Star Liner Queen Elizabeth On War Service

This picture shows RMS Queen Elizabeth circa mid 1940s in World War II camouflage loaded with troops bound for New York. From what I have been told the men you see on deck spent the entire voyage stationed where they are in the picture. There was a kitchen crew on board that spent eight hours a day without a break bringing food to the men where they were stationed on the ship.

On the original picture from which this was scanned there was a square in the upper right hand corner where a person could write their name and the date. I have done my best to use photo editing software to remove that square and blend the sky so that it would not take attention off the ship.

Bill Williams

Sailboats in Antwerp ca 1940

These were scanned from souvenir photo packs purchased in Belgium in 1944.

Bill Williams

A Couple of New York Pictures from the Thirties

I found a package of souvenir photographs of New York City from the late thirties or early forties. In it there were two pictures that might be of interest to ship modellers. They should be self explanatory. Here they are.

Bill Williams

Why Did I Add Revlon Beauty Tools to the Tool Manufacturers Links?

I just added Revlon to the Tool Manufacturers links. Why would I add a link with beauty tools to a blog for model ship builders. If you were to click the link and look at the tools on that site you will find several items that you would probably find very useful with your ship model building. There are a variety of sanders, scissors, cutters and tweezers available among those tools. Think you might be able to benefit from using some of those things? I thought so, too.

This is a diamond grip tweezer with a slant tip. It has maximum gripping power for fine hairs. You could very likely use this to great effect with your rigging tasks.

 

 

These are compact emery boards. You can call them detail sanders. They have a fine grit cutting surface and they can get into hard to reach spots.

Keep your eyes open. You never know where you will find tools you can use with your model making.

Bill Wiliams

New Links Category: Tool Manufacturers

I have added a new category to this site's links. The category is 'Tool Manufacturers.' I think the title is self explanatory. I have started of with a few such manufacturers and will add links as other brands come to mind or as CMMG members inform me of their favourite brands.

I thought that a set of such links would be helpful. Often suppliers cherry pick what manufacturers make. They will often special order things that they don't normally stock, or you can go looking for a supplier that does stock an item you're looking for.

Bill Williams

Scrapers from Stewart-MacDonald

At two meetings now it has been suggested that in many cases it is preferable to scrape a surface smooth rather than sand it. These two scraping tools from Stewart-MacDonald might be of interest for the job.

These scrapers have been designed for finishing guitars, but I see no reason why they could not be used for ship modelling.

You will find more on them by clicking here.

Bill Williams