James H

Nope. Not one single issue out of more than a dozen I’ve built.

The compound curves in that fuselage look absolutely perfect. I'd love to be able to do stuff like this.

Pavel has sent me a new set of images, showing flags and sails. He says the kit release is imminent.

This is your answer, from Amazon. I use it all the time when working.

Here's a new set of photos of the prototype. Enjoy!

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Shhhh, I told you not to tell anyone 😉

Lovely work, Glenn. Real nice to see how this is progressing.

I used to use it for second planking when I first started building, and built many ships, both large and small, with it. The glue I used was Dunlop Thixofix. It absolutely stunk and you had to have a good method to apply so it didn't leave any excess or blobs.

Outstanding!

Here's the latest set of photos, giving you more of an overall idea of the finished model.

It's Pavel's own set.

There's just too many of them to contemplate anything other than a black material. That'd need to be resin, and I'd need several thousand of them. I think it's a pass on this now. I'll just build and stain as out of box as I've HMS Surprise starting in the not too distant future.

That's simply a technique that the designer used to ensure the stresses in the parts were catered to. If the planks had been single parts, they may well have split as you pulled them into alignment. It's the next best thing to having to steam those things into shape.

Work has been progressing painfully slowly, but I'm in no rush. Since my last update, the work has involved fitting the last three plank runs (10, 11, 12), adding patina and stain, and doing a lot of test fitting. The first job is the patina on the bulkhead deck beams/ears. 1/900 is first sprayed over these and then sanded back about 80%+. Next, stain 7121 is applied and then sanded. You can't really tell much contrast here, but it will be evident when the deck sections are down. One note, don't be stupid like me....do all this BEFORE adding plank run #10. I didn't, and needed to mask all spaces between ears, and then again when I masked the ears so I could paint those spaces. Two days of mind-numbing masking 😆 The temporary bow and prow curved parts are now removed and the laser carved sections fitted. This also included the other carved parts. All a bit of a jigsaw, but it fitted superbly. The inboard curved section on the inner bow and prow, needed to be soaked and bent slightly so match the concave area it had to be fitted to. Plank runs #11 and #12 are now treated with 1/900 patina, sanded, and then stained with #7013. The multipart plank runs are now carefully glued into position. You'll see here that I still need to shape the prow and stern into the scrolls that sit atop each. Here you will also see the rudder position that is a part of plank run #12, with a few extra parts fitted. Lastly, those deck sections are NOT glued down. They need patina and stain to be applied first. They are also slightly bowed as they're individual parts. They will sit nice and flat when glued though.