FrankWouts
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Hahaha Matt, first the sneeze wood, then giving your old ugly kit(s) away to someone you don’t like, then the carving and headreail porn and now the green bananas. I feel we must go to the pub sometime together and have some large pints! And your latest updates look awesome and very beautifully build Bob! It’s a piece of art already and if it were to stay the way it looks now, I would definitely display it in my living room! I like reading these Winnie build logs for ever more reasons day by day! Frank. -
As soon as this Amati HMS Victory kit comes available, I’m in for one! Frank.
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No idea yet how I’d tackle all this headrail and carving beauty, but I have eight or nine chapters to think and contemplate on it and cowardly watch you guys all donit before me I guess. I will sure take all the time it needs like I’m doing right now with the bollards . But I agree with the apparent consensus : no compromises to detail nor quality, let’s take the hard road!
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Le Soleil Royal by Nek0 - 1/72 - Marc Yeu
FrankWouts replied to Nek0's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Très, très belle, formidable et superb! Any chance you might want to share some early drawings with us Marc? Just name your price!- 208 replies
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I always make sure I hold my iPhone 11 horizontally, with the camera push button at my right thumb, both pictures and movies are upright and can be watched on a computer screen or tv upright and full screen, that is, no small vertical phone recordings. Even uploading to this site can be done without problems.
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Either way is beautiful and historically plausible, so build it as you please Matthias, your work is all beautiful, so who are we to criticise how you like to build it, with or without those panels?
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Hi Jeff, Yes, please keep the updates coming as I can learn from you as well and enjoy your beautiful cherry version (I'm doing the Alaskan Yellow Cedar). I, and I'm sure we all do, hope that you're well!? Frank.
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Ok, I'll do that and sand that smooth twist in it.
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Ok thanks Chuck. Yes, I'm glad too to be working on her again and defenitely determined to finish her! I understand, but the plank that will end exactly in the corner cannot touch the filler piece this way and will not be in line with the rabbit strip, but beyond it as the red line is more towards us that the green one: the green one lines up with the back of the filler piece, the reds one is 1,5mm 'loose' from the filler piece.
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Hi all, I was finally able to do some work on my Winnie this weekend after being very, very busy working long hours past weeks. I think I made a beginner's error or perhaps not, thus I have a question before I proceed and maybe not being able to correct. The bottom lowest corners of the stern frames don't line up in an exact straight line from the outer stern frame to the inside line between the filler piece and vertical rabbit strip. The area between the red and green line on the picture comes out almost 1,5 mm from the back end of the filler piece and is as far out as the rabbit strip itself... This is obviously not correct, I think it should be in a straight line, or not? Should I chisel the area between the red ( probably wrong line) and green line (probably right line?) away into a straight line? In that case, I also must sand the rounded holow curves of the stern frames some more...
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Looking very good Bob! What, chapter nine? I'm only about to finish chapter one soon... I should work more and harder! 🙂
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What a beautiful and different approach! It takes guts to dare doing it like that! Following with great interest Jorge! Keep your updates coming! Frank.
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That doesn’t only look great, it’s unbelievable: I thought there was going to be a little metal kit as well… I’ll put away my soldering iron for now then. Frank.
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Yes exactly the width till the dotted line on the plans.
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Hi Chuck, Mike, okay, I’ll check and do both!
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Thanks Chuck!
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A small update before I’m off for a week Holidays at Lago di Garda, Italy. I finished fairing the transom. I managed to get the rounding in it on Chuck’s advice and everything came out equally heightwise starboard and portside. Except for fairing the underside, which seems a bit more complex and which I have to look at again. Hopefully this afternoon I can still finish the q-gallery framing.
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In fact that was all that was needed exactly, I just got rid of the laser char on the tops and bottoms and then it fitted exactly on both the plans and my transom. Yes, I’m afraid to make mistakes in this early stage that cannot or are very difficult to correct later Thanks, Frank.
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I first formed every filler as an exact copy from the ‘picture’ in the paper plans, and still on the real transom the ‘drawing’ is different than on paper: mysterious! 😀
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Gluing the transom fillers now, hopefully everything allright…
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Hahaha Matt, brilliant! You make me laugh early in he morning!
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Not exactly how I want it to be outlined yet, but is this roughly what you tried to tell me Chuck? My plan is to start with the center pair, line them up and glue the filler piece inbetween (while again checking the lining up of the (two) stern frames and window sills/fillers). Ofcourse try to twist the stern framing as little as possible, so the second strip on the second photo for the third stern frame should better be clamped on the left side of the false keel, for less twist. Then the next pair and glue the next two filler pieces, then the outermost pair. I see in other builds people use the stern outline piece also to line up, check the window outlining.
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Beautiful progress Bob, keep that beautiness and ofcourse the updates going, always a real pleasure to watch and read! By the way, I took a sneak peak on google maps at Delray Beach and those are some nice surroundings! Any Dutch immigrants there?
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Thanks, yes that’s a clear explanation Chuck. I’ll try this tomorrow by first daylight as it’s already dark now here (21:37h local CET).
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No it’s not pushed back, it’s shadow working in the picture due to some residual laser char… Thanks for the tip however when in fact they would have been pushed back by a 32nd. But luckily all is flush from bow to stern…
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