For lovers of modeling, sheets of pressed and glued wood veneer have always been one of the most demanded materials. They are easy to cut, perfectly processed, drawings of ships made of plywood are easy to find on the net, and therefore it is from plywood patterns that many craftsmen begin their acquaintance with the modeling of various ships.

Making models with your own hands is a very difficult task, requiring a significant baggage of knowledge and a certain skill. In the article we will tell you only about the most basic techniques, and you will hone your further skills yourself.

Materials for work

If you want to make a small ship model, then you will need the following materials:

• Wood - cedar, linden, walnut, or other wood, preferably soft and not fibrous... Wood blanks must be even, free of knots and damage. Wood can be used both as a material for the main elements of the model (hull, deck) and for fine detailing.
• Plywood is perhaps the most demanded material... For ship modeling, either balsa or birch is used, since it is these types of wood that provide the minimum amount of chips when sawing. Model ship plywood usually has a thickness of 0.8 to 2 mm.

Note! Beech veneer sheets of small thickness are sometimes used as an alternative to birch: although they are inferior in strength, they bend much more easily.

• Veneer - thin plates natural wood expensive breeds... As a rule, it is used for veneering, i.e. pasting the surface of inexpensive material.
• Fasteners - fine chains, laces, threads, brass and copper studs.

In addition, we will definitely need wood glue, cardboard and tracing paper for transferring templates, etc. Fine detailing is made from metal casting. As an alternative to metal, you can use colored polymer clay.

Making a souvenir boat

Preparation for work

Any work begins with preparation, and modeling will by no means be an exception.

• First you need to decide what we will build. If you have not previously dealt with the art of ship modeling, then we recommend downloading the drawings of the ship from plywood on the network: as a rule, they contain all the necessary information and are understandable even for a beginner.

Note! Kits are available for sale that allow you to assemble a boat from ready-made parts. Beginners will be interested in such kits (although the price of most of them is very significant), but it is better to master the technology from scratch.

• After analyzing the drawing, we check if everything you need is in stock. In principle, if something is missing, you can buy it a little later, because building a ship (albeit a miniature one) is not a quick business!

• Having printed the drawing, we make templates for the main parts.
• Transfer templates to.

Cutting and assembling parts

You can cut the workpieces both with the help of a manual and with the help of an electric model jigsaw.

The latter is more expensive, but with it you will suffer less when cutting small parts:

• We make a starting hole in the plywood sheet, into which we insert a file or jigsaw blade.
• We cut out the part, trying to move exactly along the marked contour.
• We process the sawn-off workpiece with a file, removing small chamfers at the edges and removing inevitable chips and burrs.

Advice! Working on one element (deck, sides, keel, etc.), we immediately cut out all the parts necessary for assembly. This way we will spend significantly less time, and the work will progress faster.

When everything is ready, we start assembling our ship.

• First, we put on the transverse frames on the longitudinal beam - the keel. A groove is usually provided at the bottom of each frame for attaching to a plywood keel.
• For connection, you can use standard glue, or you can use special adhesive mixtures designed for ship modeling.
• We attach the upper parts of the frames to the deck. Have simple models the deck is a single sheet of plywood, and in complex ones it can be multi-level.
• After the glue on the frames has dried, we begin to sheathe the sides with thin strips of plywood. The thickness of the material should be no more than 1.5 mm, since only in this case will we be able to bend the skin without the risk of damaging it.
• Can be heated and humidified for bending. After that, the material will bend without difficulty, and over time it will acquire a stable shape.

Note! The body for painting can be pasted over with a solid sheet. But to imitate plank sheathing, it is better to use strips up to 10 mm wide (depending on the scale).

• We fix the glued plywood with clamps and clamps and leave to dry.

Final finishing

By and large, this is where the carpentry skill ends, and the art begins.

When the body is assembled and dried, we need:

• Fabricate from thin plywood and secure deck superstructures.

• Build up the sides so that they protrude above the deck plane.
• Paste the surface of the deck with a wooden veneer or outline it with an awl, imitating the boarding.
• Make and install all the small parts like the steering wheel and steering blade.
• Anchor the masts with everyone additional devices(the so-called spars), set the sails and stretch this entire structure using the threads of the rigging.

Finally, all plywood parts need to be stained and varnished. This will provide our souvenir with at least a couple of decades of preservation.

Output

Almost everyone can make a simple boat out of plywood with their own hands - enough patience and minimal skills in working with a jigsaw (read also the article). But if you want to implement a complex drawing with many small details, then you will have to work hard. This is why we advise you to start with the simplest models, gradually building up your skill!

In the video presented in this article, you will find Additional information on this topic.

Similar materials

Sailing ships are subdivided into frigates and battleships. The most powerful three-masted ships are linear ones, which are characterized by displacement, armament and number of crew.

This class of sailing ships dates back to the seventeenth century, with the advent of artillery (cannons), able to conduct linear combat (simultaneously from all onboard guns from the side line).
In an abbreviated form, they are called "battleships".

You can download model drawings for free on the website or from other sources.

In May 1715, the Russian cannon battleship of the 3rd rank "Ingermanland" (64 guns) was launched from the Admiralty shipyard in St. Petersburg. Peter I himself took part in the development of his drawings. The battleship had impressive dimensions for that time: length - 52m; width - 14m; depth of the hold - 6m. Peter's gold standard hoisted from his mast. This ship was for a long time the flagship of the Russian fleet.

Ship ranks in the sailing fleet:

• The first rank - three-deck or four-deck, the largest sailing ship (from sixty to one hundred and thirty guns).
• The second rank is a three-deck (a ship with three decks) (from forty to ninety-eight guns).
• The third rank is two-deck (from thirty to eighty-four guns).
• The fourth rank is two-deck (from twenty to sixty guns).

L "Artemise

L "Artemis was a cannon frigate of the French fleet. Class of the frigate Magicienne, weight 600 tons, on board 32 cannons, of which 26 were twelve pounds long guns and six six pounds. The frigate was laid down in Toulon in December 1791. It had a length of 44 meters 20 centimeters. ...

Frigates were called military one-deck or two-deck three-masted ships. They differed from battleships in their smaller size. Their purpose is cruising service, reconnaissance (long-range), a surprise attack on an object with the aim of further capture or destruction. The largest models were called line frigates. According to statistics, more frigate models than battleships are downloaded for free.

Some people have a strange but very remarkable and colorful hobby. It is called the assembly of ship models from wood. What is needed to make such beautiful thing... It is not so easy to create a model from a tree. In this article, you will learn how to create from wood with your own hands. And also we will make small excursion into history.

Francis Drake

Many history buffs know the name of the "Iron Pirate"; his homeland was England. He became the captain of a sailing ship at only 16 years old. At first he was a ship's priest, and then a simple sailor. But his fame really thundered when he became a brave and very formidable pirate. In the 16th century, he made quite a few voyages and took part in a considerable number of battles.

Golden Doe

At the moment of the dawn of fate, several sailing ships... Its main flagship was the Pelican. This ship was a five-deck three-masters. On board there were 20 artillery weapons. All sorts of maritime stories rarely tell us that a ship that already has a name can be renamed, but it was with the Pelican that such a story happened by the will of fate. In 1578, Francis Drake changed the name of this ship to "Golden Hind" (in Russian this name sounds like "Golden Hind"). It was under this second that it was inscribed in sparkling golden letters in the world history of seafarers. Francis Drake performed quite a few dizzying deeds on it, which were later told in history and adventure books.

It is such wonderful ships that make many people collect models of ships from wood with their own hands. Drawings of many of these structures can often be found on the Internet. So inspired ancient history sailing, we learn from this article information on how to do something like that.

DIY wooden ship model: from the beginning to the rainbow horizons

In fact, the history of modeling consists of several stages. Moreover, each of these stages is associated with several signs. A lover of miniature shipbuilding may need to be able to change available materials... It is also important to expand the selection of objects to be modeled. After he has developed enough, then he can have a mass production of models. The next step will be the development of stand exhibition modeling from those sets that he already has. Subsequently, it is possible to develop up to the formation of separate segments. It can be anything - from ship models and in the flesh to copies of individual motorcycles, trucks, as well as all kinds of other cars.

DIY wooden ship models: drawings, instructions, tools

So, well, let's get down to creating such a ship. Carving prefabricated ship models out of wood is not an easy task. You will need a lot of tools for this. Among them are: a knife, a chisel, a hammer, a block (and, if necessary, a saw), thin fabric, superglue, a long wooden spire, a rope, a drill. In addition to this, you will need two more very important parameters. Firstly, it is time, and secondly, an important quality of those people who are engaged in creating prefabricated models of ships from wood is patience.

Carving a ship out of wood

First you have to work with a chisel. You have to file everything plus remove the old bolts that have a flat head. It won't take you so much time - just two minutes. In those two minutes, the pretreated block will later become a boat. Now you need to clean up the block. You should carefully scrape off the bark. Hold the block itself directly towards the instrument. Let's take standard design as an example for our small models of ships, which we will build according to the principle below. Take a pencil and sketch a preliminary sketch on the block. Following this, process the block with a sharp knife. The tilt of the blade itself should be at an angle of about 10 degrees. When you plan, keep in mind that this is not the most easy job and so be patient. You should not forget that if for any reason you make a mistake, then it will be quite difficult to fix everything. Remove the shavings layer by layer, while doing your best to process the original block as smoothly as possible. It is important that the top and bottom must be parallel.

Please note that you do not need to throw out the shavings. The fact is that, in principle, it can be used as additional material as mulch.

Carving of the front part and sides of the ship

Well, now we need to draw the front, bottom, and also the back. We will cut them out in exactly the same way as was mentioned above. It is necessary to make these parts even. In order for you to get the bow of the boat, you will have to saw off a piece from the front. Following this, you must round off the saw cut with a knife. When making the nose, try to tilt the knife blade itself back. It should point towards the stern.

Drilling holes and subsequent installation of equipment

You should have multiple spiers. Therefore, drill a number of holes, they should be slightly larger in size than the beams themselves. It is important that there are not too many holes. Otherwise, you may get a crack. And because of a crack, as you know, a severe disaster can occur - go to leak. Do not use glue! If you do this, then further work will pass with much more difficulty.

Setting sails on the model

Decide, for starters, how many panels you want to get on your final ship. Let's take as a condition that we will have four panels for the first mast and the second, and three for the last. Following this, take a few wooden spiers and cut them off. Cut the fabric in a trapezoid shape. Then start gluing them together. Make notches on the branches of the sails, fasten each branch with the corresponding notch. Then glue the middle of the edges to the sails. Repeat for all masts. It is best if you build the rear mast first, then the middle mast, and then the bow mast.

Now let's set up the upper flying sail. Cut out the shape from the fabric in the form kite... Take a thread and attach it to the opposite corner of the panel. Leave ends on either side for all corners. Glue a small piece of thread onto the top of the boat. It should be slightly higher than the bow of the boat itself. Measure from the opposite corner down to the middle of the lower sail on the front mast. Then cut the very thread that you measured and glue the tip to the appropriate place.

You should leave some thread on each side. Pull them back and glue them straight into the inside of the boat. Then you can cut off the excess rope. Create and attach the back panel in the same way. It should be attached to the back of the rear sail. Measure, trim, and make sure it fits over the two tabs. Then glue them in the corners.

Well, now you have learned how to make the simplest ship models out of wood. And although this article describes everything only in general terms, we hope that it will help you in your future career as a "shipbuilder". If, of course, you are interested in it. Trust me, it's worthwhile!