Monthly Archives: June 2023

Foundation Franklin Repair

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While the Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights group may not be meeting these days, Paul Reck shows that members are still active. His latest work is the repair of a very nice looking model of the tugboat Foundation Franklin. Below is a photo of the model that was apparently damaged by the bane of all ship models: the cleaning lady…

The Foundation Franklin, according to this Wikipedia entry, was a salvage tug, built in 1918 for the British Royal Navy and originally named HMS Frisky. Operating for Foundation Maritime after 1930 as the SS Foundation Franklin. The ship survived World War II only to be badly damaged in a hurricane in 1948, which led to her being broken up in 1949.

However, as far as the model is concerned, the simulated hurricane damage was not beyond the ability of ship modeler Paul Recks repair work…

She is now happily back in the hands of her owners. Hopefully, they’ll consider putting her in a nice, acrylic case to keep her from further damage! Ω

Adventures in Trunneling

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Some thoughts on trunneling or treenailing the deck.

Ship Modeler

Recently, I made an Instagram post about the trunneling work I recently started. It’s something I used to do more of, but I’d been doing some paper models recently, as well as many Japanese boats, and smaller scale ships, so it’s something I stopped doing much of. Also, I started using pencil to just do the ends of planks on several models. But recently, I’ve been looking at some 1/64 scale models, which in my book are just large enough to show trunnels, so I’ve been back at it recently.

I decided to return to my original method of representing trunnels. To make the trunnels themselves, I’m using the smallest hole in a draw plate that I think I got from Micromark at least 15 years ago. The holes are drilled with a #72 drill bit. This results in trunnels that are about 0.025″ in diameter. While I use this…

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New Franklin Expedition Ship – HMS Erebus from OcCre

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A second ship model kit from the Franklin Expedition. Now, you have a choice of building HMS Terror or HMS Erebus… or build them both!

Ages of Sail

First, there was HMS Terror, one of two ships of the Franklin expedition, that disappeared in the Arctic during a search in 1845 for the Northwest Passage. OcCre introduced that kit back in 2018. OcCre’s newest release is the other ship of that ill-fated expedition, HMS Erebus.

Of the two ships, Erebus was the lead ship, under the command of Sir John Franklin himself, but the two ships were very similar. Both ships were converted bomb vessels, received the same modifications for Arctic service, including the addition of steam propulsion, and both had similar deck layouts. Now, you can build a 1/75-scale reproduction of this most famous ship, or model the Franklin Expedition with OcCre’s 1/75-scale HMS Terror kit.

The kit includes laser-cut wooden parts for the hull framing and many structural details. Wooden strips for a double plank-on-bulkhead construction, wooden dowels for masts and spars, planking material for rather unusual…

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