FrankWouts

That looks like a very educational workshop and indeed a lot of fun!

Who is you on the pictures Chuck?
I have never met you in person yet, so I won't recognize our own master teacher and instructor I'm afraid... LOL...

Frank.

Thanks Jim and Glenn and the likes. That’s certainly a very wise advise Glenn, thanks!

Frank.

Good morning,

A small update on my quarter galleries.

I build the roof and made some of the fancy moldings.

Scraping the boxwood strips into fancy moldings has now improved enough to be acceptable in my opinion, after hours of practicing on small scrap redundant strips of yellow cedar this weekend. Making the scraping tool was done with a 0.15mm diamond motor tool cutting/grinding disc. Scraping the boxwood strips appeared to much easier, more straight and precise however! Boxwood was chosen for a reason to make the fancy moldings I assume…(!)

I changed the cerulean blue on vertical pilars adding more white and a tiny drop of yellow to match the printed artwork better. Here and there an tiny drop of glue still has to be removed, tiny strip of artwork cut away on edges and some careful fine sanding where the fancy moldings meet at the corners I see on my pictures now. Pictures are very unforgiving and a good help being critical on one’s own work.

The roof and windows are not yet glued on, as per instructions.

Frank.

On 10/8/2023 at 4:06 PM, James G said:

Thanks Frank! I did sand down the outer stern frames as you mentioned. However, I’ve not yet sanded down along the dotted lines all the way down to the stern frames yet. Should I follow these dotted lines completely all the way down? I don’t want to over sand by mistake! Thanks for any thoughts you can offer.

Hi Jim,

Yes, they should be as thin as the other stern frames. Orherwise you’ll have trouble making an ‘edge’ to hold the outer two stern windows.

Frank

Hi Jim,

Very nice progress! Don’t forget to sand down the outer sides of the two outer stern frames until the dotted lines in the drawings…

Otherwise the two outer blinded toilet windows in the stern won’t fit.

Frank.

Very nice progress Archie!

Did you taper the upper and front stem parts gradually from front to end?
It's not easy to see on your pictures for me, but it looks a bit as a rounded taper to my eye, specially on the third and last picture where they're glued on, tapered and in whipe-on-poly WOP.

I think it should be taperd just a little more and in a straight line from front to back.

I love your working space: very light and with fresh air! Much better than my dusty attic!

Frank.

Long time…fit and measure the QG galleries…

Meanwhile practicing scraping…which is at less than a beginner level still…any tutorials on that? I’m also waiting on an order of 0.2mm grinder disks, hopefully they will help making beter profiles on my scrapers…

Frank

Thanks Fred, JJ and the likes!

Frank.

1 hour ago, jfhealey said:

A loo with a view!

 

Great work Frank.

 

Best wishes

Fred

You’re welcome sitting down anytime Fred! 

Thanks Glenn and Archie,

This is the status today, toilet visits for officers possible from now on.

Frank.

Thanks Don, Glenn and ofcourse the likes. Always very much appreciated!

I hope I got that QG angle right.

I read and saw there are

multiple QG side windows with slightly diffferent angles so just a little variance should not be a problem…

Frank.

Good morning,

Just a small update to check with you all if my QG template placement and angle is correct. I also sanded down the planking topping a little and added another top layer of 1/64 on top of the transom as suggested by Chuck.

Frank.

Welcome to the group Archie!
That's a very, very great start, the nicest building board for 'HMS Winchelsea' and the most intimidating wooden hammer I've seen thusfar!
Bon chance!

Frank.

Thanks Chuck, I’ll do both.

Frank.

Hi all, just a small update of my start of chapter three. Please ring the alarm if you see any anomalies that should be corrected. My planking ends rather high at the top of the transom, compared to e.g. Rustyj’s. Even little higher than Chuck’s. I hope this will not become a problem…

Frank.

Very consistent progress and beautiful work Gary!
Success with your move: keep calm and model on!

Frank.

Sehr schön Matthias! Very beautiful!
Congratulations with such a beautiful result of your long hard and precise and skillfull work!

Frank.

Congratulations Steve!

What a beautiful result you have achieved: bravo!
Very wise decision to leave the lantern and bumpkins off till after her trip to Florida!

Frank.

Absolutely beautiful, hard and precise work Dusan! And such nice warm colors...simply heartwarming and a lovely treat for the eye.
Makes me think of starting a second Winnie in Cherry when I'm finished mine in AYC...

Frank.

Thanks Mike, Fred and Steve for all the kind and inspiring words. Those sure oblige me

to do my very best finishing chapter 2 and move on to chapter 3!

Frank.

She’s beginning to look as a beautiful complete admiralty Winnie already Matt… only 3 more chapters to go!! Me 10…😅…

Frank.

Thanks, Rusty, Glenn, Peter, Matt, Jean-Paul, Dusan, Christian and the likes!

20 hours ago, Stuntflyer said:

Very nice, frank! you reached a milestone. You were willing to take things slow, and your efforts show that really nice work can be done if you take your time. I’m just curious, did you have a lot of throwaways?

 

Mike

Thanks Mike, yes I had several throwaways at the bow and the stern…I estimate 25-30% roughly... Mostly because after (also side) bending I saw I had cut and sanded off little more than my tickmarks said it should… Still difficult to estimate on forehand I also find how much tilt I should sand with my sanding stick on the sides of planks in these areas.

I would like to do this better next time, as this only shows after sanding, when a tight seem becomes little less tight after sanding…

Frank.

1 hour ago, Beckmann said:

Congratulation. That looks superbe! 

Matthias

Thanks Matthias!

Thanks Don, Edward, ScrubbyJ and the likes!

Frank.