So who makes or has made a ship or boat model from wood/sctratch-built,etc?

Thanks for this - she certainly appears to have been a true labour of love, and with excellent workmanship in her construction.
Do you have any larger photos of her that you can post, to show her off in more detail please?

 

I started with a small model which expanded into a 12ft "half size model that could be tested under power on the lake to confirm numbers before a full size commitment.

 

Scratch built from my own drawings. 4mm Ocumee skin, made the finished boat about 250 grams over design weight after machinery and batteries were installed. Quarter scale of a full sized sailing skiff that was built by a friend. Yes, I know that this does not look like a sailboat. It can be converted to sail and it has appropriate bottom rocker to get the transom above the LWL. A centerboard trunk is in there somewhere. LOA 40 inches.

I have a garage cluttered with all sorts of models from homely little prams to full on racers. The model was not to be depended on to assess the performance of the full sized dinghy. It Does not work that way as you may know.

 

I haven't run across an example in years, but there used to be a sort of stereotype of a guy wooing a woman by serenading her on a canoe in moonlight.

As a sort of a joking gift, and liking rowing better, I made a model halfway between a dory and a skiff, with oars and a guitar. The moon dangled on a long wire from above. I didn't attempt to model the occupants. Presumably the wooing was successful and they'd run off..... Dory types can be a bit tender.

My other boat work has been 1:1. I designed and built a short, sort of squareboat dinghy for a friend's sailing boat. He'd been using a rotund inflatable boat propelled with ping pong paddles. My boat had oars and oarlocks. Plus I finished a couple of other boats someone else started.

 

TRBRZ, that tug is beautiful. I built quite a few boat models from kits, wood and plastic. But I did build one from scratch to my own design. In my teen years I was particularly enamored of catamarans. So I decided to build a model. It was 24 inches. Can't remember the other dimensions, and over the years I have lost the sketches. But I do have a photo of it. No idea what happened to it.
it.

 

Here is a hull I put together to check for design flaws (and yes it failed):






I am trying to develop lines for the Lynaes 14 based on images from the Internet:






Having built the model I find a number of problems with my design. So at this point its back to the drawing board.

AlanC

 

Started this for a lead sled design a couple years back and have posted much of this already.
Here is a 1:4 scale model of a 15" LWL 26'6" LOA and it's Offsets, construction planes, 1/2 mold, and a snippet of some of the specific in the spread sheet below.
Took a break from it and have been doing some graphite drawings of some schooners while I finalize some of the particulars and changing some other parts of the design for this little boat.
I am standing on the shoulders of giants and owe much to some of the members here at Boatdesign forum.
Thanks to thoughts who have shared their knowledge freely.









Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
C. Darwin

 

@Howlandwoodworks,

Now your model is a work of art.
I am rather ashamed to have presented my work.
I can only console myself as a first attempt I was learning the process/mechanics of modelling,
and the purpose was to debug my hull curves rather than a finished product.

Regards AlanC