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KennyH78
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Hello Harshil, I just read through your superb log and will follow along to completion. I have gotten plenty of ideas that I may borrow as I progress farther along in my build of the Confederacy. Your craftsmanship and attention to detail is up there with the best.
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Had about an hour's worth of shipyard time today, so I decided to do a rough sanding on the planks that I already installed on her. I am very happy with how it turned out. I also cut some replacement 5/32 x 1/16 strips from some sheets that I picked up from Hobby Lobby (got tired of waiting on Model Expo to mail out the replacements I requested over a week ago). As always, thank you for all the likes and all comments and critiques are always welcome.
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Still waiting on the replacement timbers from Model Expo; boy are they slow. I did get them to email me the templates needed for the sweep ports. I got those printed out and cut out and marked the hull with the locations of the sweep ports. Then I commenced to planking once again starting with the first layer of the top strake of the wales and black strake. Then it was 5 strakes of planking above that followed by 3 strakes of the first layer of the channel wales. Next step is to give all of these strakes a rough sanding before continuing on with the planking above the wales. So far I am much happier with the planking the second time around. Only time will tell if I will be painting or staining the hull. Got the idea of using a piece of 4 in PVC tube to bend the planking material from another member's build log. I must say that it worked out great.
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I have no words to describe your craftmanship, Chuck. Awesome work on the stove. Plus 1 vote for a mini kit.
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A quick update to the build; all of the bulkheads and bulkhead former pieces along with the stern and stem filler pieces have been rough cut out of lite ply 1/4" thick. Next up is the tedious task of final shaping all the pieces per the templates. I will also take care to ensure that all of the bulkheads fit snugly into their respective slots on the bulkhead former and that all 3 pieces of the bulkhead fit snugly together. No power tools for this task, just needle files and 80 grit sanding sticks. Doing it by hand gives me greater control to finesse the pieces to their final shapes. I hope to be able to get this done in about a week or so, but am in no rush. It is clear that these initial steps in building the skeleton are a crucial step to having a great model at the end.
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Just awesomely fantastic! Right on par with Chuck's prototype in my opinion. I will definitely use your log as one of my resources for my build.
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Well, I'm back at cutting out bulkheads. I was able to get 7-8 of the rough cut out today. I will get them all sanded up the lines after they are all cut out. Bulkheads K-W and the forward most false keel piece had to be scraped. The forward false keel piece didn't look quite right against the other 2 pieces and when I put the dry fitted assembly up against the plans, I could clearly see why. Seems that the printer I used to print the templates did not print them to 100 scale. I reprinted them all, checked the scale bar on the last page and everything is good now. Just had wait another week for more plywood sheets. So bulkheads K-W will have to be recut as well. Not sure what went wrong, I used the same setting for the printer (same printer); only difference is the computer that was used to send the files to the printer (I printed them at work; don't tell my boss). Anyways, all is good now and I am back on track.
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Glenn, I just finished reading through your entire log (took a while) and I must say that your Winnie is a work of art! I will definitely use your log along with Chuck's and a few others as I start my journey down the path of the HMS Winchelsea Group Build.
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Reading through Glenn's log as I begin my journey on my own build of the Winnie; I have been saying the same thing as I sit on Amazon adding things to cart and checking out.
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Started cutting out the bulkheads and false keel. So far I only have bulkheads K-W cut out and mostly shaped. My process is to cut them out on the scroll saw staying outside of the line at around 1/16-1/8 of an inch. As you can see, I am not that great at it. Then I take the bulkheads to my spindle sander and sand up to the pencil line on all of the areas the spindle will reach. The rest will be hand sanded to the line. The slots where the bulkhead slides onto the false keel will be sanded to fit to ensure a good tight fit on the false keel. I have also cut out all three pieces of the false keel and carefully sanded the puzzle piece connections to get a good tight fit. I still need to file/sand the slots for the bulkheads, but plan to do that in conjunction with each bulkhead to ensure a good fit.
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So the more I look at the planking so far, the more unhappy I am with it. Plus the sweep ports do not have a nice flow to them on the port side. So I have decided that I am going to rip off all of the planking and start again. I have already requested extra planking strips and sheet 5 of the plans for the templates from Model Expo. My plan is the rip off all of the planks currently on the model, lightly sand to get the bulkheads smooth again and then redo the port sweep locations and restart the planking process. In the meantime, I will practice planking a hull with the NRG's half hull planking kit that I purchased. I am trying to figure out the best way to get the nice smooth curve for the planks at the bow. I may even decide to use a different type of wood other than the supplied basswood. I have a couple of billets of roasted maple, a nice big billet of maple and some cherry that I can mill down into planks for the hull. Any and all comments and suggestions are welcomed and encouraged.
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Matt, just read through your whole log in 1 day; and I must say that your model of Winnie looks really good. I can only hope to build one just as good as yours. I will be following along now, even though I'm a little late to the party.
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Hull planking above the wales is in full swing. I have the port side completed through the channel wales. I did have to redo the bow on the port side about 3 times before I was happy with it. The starboard side is about halfway done to the point of the port side. Once I get it there, I will continue to plank up to the sheer line on both sides. Progress is slow, but I'm learning a lot and having fun.
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Thanks for the tip Matt @Matt D. I have already read through a few build logs and made sure that my bulkhead templates were printed to scale using the scale that Chuck added to the PDFs. Once I get the false keel cut and fitted, I will check it against the plans. Progress is slow on this one, life tends to get in the way a lot.
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Jim, I must say that your Winnie looks absolutely amazing thus far. I only hope that my build will come out looking that good. I am about to start cutting out the bulkheads. I also purchased the NRG half hull planking kit. Guess I should get cracking on it to get some good planking practice in.
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My order of 6 sheets of 1/4 x 12 x 24 midwest plywood came yesterday. After letting the wood acclimate to my environment in the packaging for 24 hrs, I am almost ready to make a little saw dust. Impatience has gotten the best of me, so I have decided to cut the bulkheads and the former pieces with my trusting old scroll saw. I kinda feel like that will be less stressful as well. The CNC does exactly what you tell it to do; and if my calculations are off by just little bit, then all of that plywood becomes firewood. So, I have all of the bulkhead and former templates cut out and glued onto the plywood; got them all to fit on the 6 sheets. I will start cutting them out later today or tomorrow.
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Hull planking above the wales has begun! I have completed the lower counter and have completed 4 strakes on the port side. I started with the top strake of the wales, then added the black strake above it and have also gotten 2 more strakes completed above the black strake. All of this work was completed in about 8-10 hours total over 2-3 days. I am taking my time and checking the plans frequently for each strake.
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Huge milestone achieved today. I finished up the simulated hull sheaves and that means that it is now on to Chapter 5; planking the hull. I started by running a batten on both the port and starboard sides at the reference marks to establish a smooth run for the top of the wales. Tomorrow I plan to get the gun ports painted red and start planking the lower counter. I do have to admit that I love the lines on here. She is a very majestic looking ship in my opinion.
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That's a good distance. I only ask because I have family there. My mother's side of the family. Haven't been back in a very long time. Too expensive to fly from the States.
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Servus! Welcome to MSW. How far is Augsburg from Eschenbach opf from you? Lovely looking model as well.
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I got the dip in the fwd part of the false deck and the sheer line straightened out. Took a couple of shims to get it right, but it looks a lot better now. I then proceeded with finishing the fairing on the sweep ports and installing the extra framing pieces needed to install the hull sheaves. Getting very close to having her ready for planking. That will be a huge milestone for me.
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Happy New Year to everyone! I hope that 2024 brings all of you good fortune. I have finished the longboat. The rigging was a little nerve racking to get done at this size, especially since this is the first model that I have rigged. I kept knocking the boat around while trying to get all of the lines rigged with some resemblance of tension on them. Luckily I didn't break anything. Anyways, here are the pictures of the completed model. Now to build the display case shelf for her and to shift my attention mostly to my USF Confederacy build.
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Glenn, I’m sure it will. The plywood seen above is not what I will be using for the skeleton. These are just test pieces to ensure that all of my settings are correct in the CNC program
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Thanks, this has been a fun build. I can't wait to get it finished and on display. That way I can concentrate more on the Confederacy which can be seen in some of the photos. Also, the Stones are cool. I like most early rock-n-roll and Lego (got a huge Lego Star Wars collection). And we have two GSDs (German Shepherd Dogs). Axel (the photo is kinda grainy; pulled it off of my iPhone) Bella (she is very submissive/loyal when it come to me)
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