Lindberg Shrimp Boat

Wow! I've fallen in love with these 'ugly ducklings' by Lindberg. Are they merging with another company or just leaving the business? I have the 1:163 scale Robert E. Lee steamboat in my posession. Maybe I should pick up one of their pirate ships. Thanks for this notice.

Hey GAF!

      Grab them while you can. I don't know the status of the Lindberg line of Boats. Some may go the way of the DO-DO.

Don - Did you use the blocks (#43) that came with the kit on your build? The two pictures that you have of your completed Suzanne look like the blocks and/or pulleys are different than what comes in the kit. The kit's version are extremely tiny! I'm at the stage where I'm trying to figure out the rigging. I'll say one thing, Lindberg's instructions can be pretty vague at times! Your shrimp boat looks great and I have followed several of your builds since I started modeling. Many thanks for any help you can offer. 

Tanker - Builder

Okay Don :

   What are you doin?A Clean Shrimper?She must be just a few trips out of the yard.Oh ! Nice Job too !

 

I will work on the photo.  I overexposed a little so the rust barely shows up.  If I cannot bring up the weathering I will reshoot.

sharkbait

and the fellow had used panty hose material to do a net on a fishing boat. ( Probably did not make him popular with his wife). May be a good idea as they come in various colours and weaves. Just a thought.

An excellent thought (other than nabbing the wife's tights--which is never a good idea).

Shrimp netting to pretty fine (60/# shrimp are about 1/2" - 3/4" [12-18mm] long).

At 1/65, 1" is 0.0153" [0.39mm], which is going to be closer to hose than an other netting out there. 

Catch nets are "stacked" having differing meshes to allow better waterflow/less  clogging, so a person probably needs some tuile netting as well.  (Turtle hatches and the like, probably not worth the effort, and would not be applicable to nets used before 1975.)

Gulf shrimpers mak good practice intercepts if a person is in that business.  You just have to know how to not interfere with the commerce.  (Being polite was also a way to come back from an FTX with acooler full of shrimp and/or crab )

Okay Don :

   What are you doin?A Clean Shrimper?She must be just a few trips out of the yard.Oh ! Nice Job too !

Hi,

That turned out great.  You really have a knack for doing some good builds with these older Lindberg and Life-Like kits.  

Pat

PS. I've never built this kit before but I do have the Lindberg Fishing Trawler and Minesweeper kits that I hope to try and build some time so I like watching your builds and seeing how you've worked to update and modify your kits (I'm hoping to try and turn the Minesweeper into a Research Ship )

Okay, I have declared it finished!  The net is a bit stiff and I want it a bit more compressed than it sits naturally.  I have wrapped a length of that nylon invisible thread around it. It may not show in the pictures that much, but is visible to the eye.  I will leave it on for a few weeks and see if the net will then hold a more compressed shape.

CapnMac82

In says of old, like the era depicted by the kit, the trawl went out over one side or the other (typically starboard), and the trawl held open by that boom; the other boom offset the drag on the other with an otter pulling down.  

BigJim

that I haven't really seen any of the ventilation funnels sticking up. There are three on the model, none in photos. Any thoughts?

Might be Linberg was just using up some of their stock details to have "stuff" on the boat.

The modern boats have a single house--the pilothouse, and there's not a lot of need for crew ventilation as the trips are not that long any more.  Modern deisels are water cooled, and have less ventilation requirements, too.

The way the boats "fish" is a lot different, too.  Whic his reflected i nthe big stern A frames you see on the boats.  The boats pretty much use a center trawl, which is brought in over the sterm (which helps with sorting out the by-catch).  The outriggers are largely ther just to stablized the boat in roll.

In says of old, like the era depicted by the kit, the trawl went out over one side or the other (typically starboard), and the trawl held open by that boom; the other boom offset the drag on the other with an otter pulling down.  The net was brought in over rollers on the starboard side and catch processed into the hold from there.

Big Jim ;

 Those are actually Behind the boat .Probably on the vessel ahead of the shrimper at the wharf .

domer94

is there a way on this forum to post a pic without one of the third party imaging accounts? seems most forums are allowing posting from regular jpg attachments without url.....

Sadly, no.

Sometimes (only sometimes) you can use Google Photos.

But, really, you have to use 3rd party.

Don - I came across your build of Lindberg's Shrimp Boat. I'll be following along. I purchased this kit about 6months ago and I just started priming the hull, deck and parts on sprue tree. I'm hoping I can build a close copy to Forest Gump's 'Jenny".  Your build so far looks very nice and I'm glad I came across this one. I'll spring for the cocktail sauce when you finish! 

i found a good pic of the exact boat... unfortunatly its a forward view.  is there a way on this forum to post a pic without one of the third party imaging accounts? seems most forums are allowing posting from regular jpg attachments without url.....

One thing that I have noticed while searching for photos of shrimp boats is that I haven't really seen any of the ventilation funnels sticking up. There are three on the model, none in photos. Any thoughts?

Don,

I'm delighted that you're building one of the older ship kits. I've always liked fishing trawlers. 

As others have mentioned you'll have to work out problems with the old Lindberg kits but you have the modeling knowledge and ability to see it through just fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1dz1YRXdOA

Hi;

 Kind of .It's an older model .Built about 1945-1957.

BigJim

Don,
Was there a reason that you installed the winch frame ends (#45 & #46) upside down?

 

 

 

I didn't realize they were!  So that was my problem.  The drawing on the instructions was not clear to me, and I thought the bottom was supposed to be flush.  It looks like if I had done it right, I would have had clearance without that base!

Don,
Was there a reason that you installed the winch frame ends (#45 & #46) upside down?

That just allows water from the workings to drain toward the port side scuppers

Couple of new pictures.

First, here is my bronzed propeller.  Sorry the flash was too high to illuminate whole propeller.  My method for painting bronze is to apply a coat of Testors copper paint, drybrush a layer of gloss brown, then a wash of green zinc chromate.

Here is the winch on its base. I didn't realize the base was crooked until I saw it in closeup picture.  Hope no one notices in normal viewing.

Don ;

 You can do this .Remove the timbers completely and then take the area an put new timbers and move them forward a teensy bit .That will work too .

Hmmm;

 Or cargo that breathes .I/E Illegals.

CapnMac82

what is on the hatch closest to the mast & winch.  It may be two boxes of the same size just sitting there.

There are four sets of boards along the sides.

So, one pair is clearly the trawl boards (aka "otters"). 

I have to onwder if the others go over the hatch lips to better guide the catch in.

Or not.

Mostly that photo caught my eye for being an example of the hatch being three parts all laid into one opening.

Zooming in, I cannot tell what that is on the hatch closest to the mast & winch.  It may be two boxes of the same size just sitting there.

It's definitely an older photo, just from the rigging details, and back before they much had to worry about sortign the catch into legal and bycatch.  Or before the fashion of the big stern A frame took over.

Don;

 Before you do that .Look at the first pictures Carefully .Those are the Trawl-Boards or Net Spreaders . The hatch is sitting on the deck with a box on top of it . Remember , I am working from Memory here . The Trawl Boards helped spread the net open and keep it that way for catching those fast squirmy little critters !

 When the trawl was lifted inboard the Bottom of the suspended net was opened , Allowing the Shrimp to fall into th hold below .Then re-cinched and dropped over again .