Topic: Building the FV Cornelia Marie (Read 167774 times)

missyd · « **on:** March 22, 2013, 10:58:36 am »

After watching the "deadliest job" season 1-8 over and over again I decided to build the FV Cornelia Marie. There is a german webpage with a plan of her in PDF version. It can be used for reference but has some flaws ... Scale is 1/32 which is 132cm long and 27cm wide. It will have 2 motors, working lights and sound. And with the help of pumps the storage tanks for the king crabs will be filled with water.

Starting with the templates ...

Cutting the 8mm plywood

arranging the bulkheads for simetry ...

... and finally glueing the bulkheads together.

escipion · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2013, 03:51:26 pm »

Hello!!!!
Nice job missyd
I don't know the boat or the specifications, but I have one question, won't be to heavy using that ply?

Best regards

coastie · « **Reply #2 on:** March 22, 2013, 05:26:04 pm »

got a link to website?

chris gillespie · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2013, 07:25:31 pm »

Good luck missyd

Im currently in the process of making most of the fleet, i havent cut my forms for the cornelia yet, but the structural drawing is done.

Can you just confirm your dimensions, as from many sources the cornelia is 125 feet which would make it 38.1m at 1/32 scale this would make it 1190mm long her breadth is 275mm as in real life its 8.5-8.8 m

im not sure how the americans measure their boats but the cornelia isnt the same length as the northwestern its noticably shorter, i have allowed for this in my plans. I have an overhead shot of the NW CM TB and wiz you can see how they compare

good luck i will be following your progress

Sven · « **Reply #4 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:33:44 pm »

hello,

for the plans try : http://www.rc-schiffsmodelle.com/Modellbauplaene they are free !

Sven

coastie · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2013, 06:56:02 pm »

Cheers Sven

missyd · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2013, 07:44:21 am »

Thanks a lot!

You're right I did miscalculate the length of the CM ...

Anyway I still can change the lenght without any problems.
I downloaded the plan from the link and it is not exactly to scale ... therefore the boat is too long ....
The heavy ply will make it heavy but maybe I may save some ballast by using heavier ply for the bottom part of the CM?

BTW we have made some crab pots too!

Cheers Danielle

madrob · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2013, 10:09:21 am »

I can't wait to see this progress, keep us up to date please

missyd · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2013, 01:02:31 pm »

We (I and my love Anita) have also built some crab pots for the CM. Planned are 48 pots sofar ... maybe even more.

We use 1.5mm2 copper wire normally used for houshold power lines. Easy to cut bend and soldiers well with a soldiering iron from Weller.

just a few pics how we made them ... we have some wooden blocks as templates. A lot is done by eye. Without any measurements.
Pot are around 70x70x30mm

Templates for bending the parts.

Checking the crab pot size with a 1/32 fisherman made out of FIMO by Anita

Netting is from my local frabric shop. Its silver and I do spraypaint it before its fixed to the pot.

Size is just right!

Sewn together before they get spraypainted.

Its fixed to the pot itself with very thin copper wire

Finished crab pot ... buoy and rope (both selfmade) ready to be attached to the pot.

Ready to get some King Crabs out of the Bering sea!

Cheers Danielle

chris gillespie · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2013, 02:55:08 pm »

nice pots Danielle

i take it Anita is a fan of Freddie and his mohawk

missyd · « **Reply #10 on:** March 26, 2013, 08:11:49 am »

Yes she is! Phil will also be in the wheelhouse!

tt1 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 26, 2013, 01:33:21 pm »

Following this one with a real interest

Your obviously a very accomplished scratch building team (?) Danielle - love the pots - they really look the business. Well done to you.
Regards, Tony.

missyd · « **Reply #12 on:** March 27, 2013, 08:35:30 am »

Thanks a lot Tony. I do love scratchbuilding a lot. Actually I do build models but I seldom "play" with them. As soon as they are finished I loose interest in it and start another one!

tt1 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 27, 2013, 01:46:53 pm »

I'm Exactly the same danielle! love building them but they don't see water very often - having to consider strorage problems now

missyd · « **Reply #14 on:** March 27, 2013, 02:25:08 pm »

Storage is not a problem sofar ... but my next boat (an italian trawler) will be in 1/16 scale and I will have a storage and transport problem ....

eddiesolo · « **Reply #15 on:** March 27, 2013, 02:41:07 pm »

I LIKE IT! Superb so far, really like the crab pots, good work.

Si:)

missyd · « **Reply #16 on:** March 29, 2013, 07:01:20 am »

Sorry I moved some of the pics on photobucket and so there where deleted from my previous post ... I repost them here ....

Sewn together before they get spraypainted.

Finished crab pot ... buoy and rope (both selfmade) ready to be attached to the pot.

missyd · « **Reply #17 on:** March 31, 2013, 06:12:55 am »

Happy easter from the CM crew!

irishcarguy · « **Reply #18 on:** March 31, 2013, 09:19:35 am »

Your crab pots are first rate, so is the build,keep it coming I like it ,Mick B.

missyd · « **Reply #19 on:** April 15, 2013, 08:13:24 am »

Finished the middle and back section ... 22 finished crab ports!

Next I have to draw the bow section new. Original plan is totally wrong ... will post new pics as soon as I got it finished.

eddiesolo · « **Reply #20 on:** April 15, 2013, 09:26:17 pm »

Coming along nicely, love the crab pots...top work.

Si:)

missyd · « **Reply #21 on:** May 23, 2013, 08:56:06 am »

I am slowing working on my model of the CM ... next big challange is the bow wich is completely wrong on the plans I have. So I came up with my own set of plans for the bow.

Looks nice!

And I made some cardboard templates to cut the wood ... not shure if the result will be the right shape of the bow. But I can still adapt them if neccessary.

More crab pots have been made by ma fiancée Anita .... there are some 28 waiting to be loaded on the CM.

tt1 · « **Reply #22 on:** May 23, 2013, 12:27:33 pm »

Still following with interest! are you a carpenter by any chance?

your woodwork really is clean and crisp - well done. Anita's crab pots are excellent.
Regards, Tony

missyd · « **Reply #23 on:** May 24, 2013, 06:19:09 am »

I have an office job ...

But I do my best to have a nice model at the end.

I screwed the bow to the rest of the ship ... later after some more work to the bow I will glued+screw it together.

missyd · « **Reply #24 on:** May 25, 2013, 06:42:40 pm »

More work done today ... made a cardboard version of the bow bulkheads. Looks nice and just like the picture of the CM I downloaded from the net.

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