This video is about making a half-hull model. this video is about making a half-hull model. skip navigation sign in. home boat building - making spars - duration: 7:37. grumyoung 25,259 views.. I just spent the most enjoyable week building a half-hull model of my sailboat. there is no pleasure like being hands-on. touching the tactile curves of the hull as it evolves from a laminated block of wood into a sleek replica of a racing boat. you begin to appreciate the delicate lines and ergonomic contours that ease the boat through a body. The half hull model was the starting point. nowadays, we have the lines already on paper, and we can use that to build a half hull model to represent the design of the boat in 3d. actually, we can model it in 3d on computers now, but sometimes one wants to do things the old-fashioned way..
Making a half model. half model making is the precursor to lofting. in a sense one is lofting in a different medium. boat builders were obviously familiar with wood and the tools required to shape wood, and probably less familiar with working out a design starting with a blank sheet of paper and a pencil and some battens.. Half hull model. if building model boats from a plan for the first time, a half hull model can be a good start. essentially, it is half of a hull split down the middle, sometimes with wheel house and stumps for masts when relevant. it is then mounted on a board and hung on the wall for display.. Building iom from female frames with balsa strip plank methods.
