Paul0367

Oh you said you were a chicken regards tackling the gun ports, have you passed the job on to some one else, Victory, its basically all gun ports and not mush else its like a sieve with all the holes

To be honest I will do the same as you did , it should be OK as the kit manufactures put a lot of effort into trying to make it all line up for us builders. Just maybe not the best at putting into words what is expected of us and sometimes in the right order

Ha ha, I'm looking ahead and thinking its a lot of measuring. Caldercraft pre cut them but not this one. I'm planning on finding all the centres first but cutting out, not sure what to use yet, no room for errors at all.

One picture was taken on my board upside down but the other on its side I'm not sure, Oh pins come out easy with a twist. Taken on my phone Sony Z1

latest pictures, planking the hull, planking a slow process as I'm sure many have done many times but this is my first so I have no idea what pitfalls lie ahead.

Wow some beautiful brass fittings for a beautiful iconic ship

pilidk, where did you get the copper plates from to match the scale as I intend on having her look she does in dry dock. Tinyelle if you using the pliers that snip the plank to enable the bend, be careful, too deep on the light wood and you can sand into the compressed wood and it will show a line, I have sanded and have 4 visible near the bow. Oh if you were to use the Vaneer sheets how on earth are they to follow the contours of the hull. I did a dry fit to get the look but they want to buckle to conform to the curves. PLANKING is slow, very slow, two an evening if I'm lucky, due to clamping the first. Oh just a helper, I started using a tiny drill bit and drilling the plank then using the kit brass tacks and putting then 3/4 through, this works fine if a pin head doesn't come off but I later snapped my ideal drill bit and started using the plastic headed drawing pins and they are far easier to use.

Looking good, I'm, time wise quite far ahead of you as the planking of the hull eats time for fun. I have at this point decided to colour my model as she sits in Portsmouth and have the cannons as per real ones and not pretty brass. This decision was made and helped along by the wood grain / colour, the wood is, well wood, and the grain and colour differ from strip to strip as one would expect. I struggled to get enough planks what I would call suitable to sit side by side to be varnished to match box art but that said when I went for this Beautiful ship the colour was also part of the look. I don't take well to painting wood as wood is lovely natural look. What is your intension regards finishing, varnish or paint

After making the first 3 steps I still have 4 full length sides that's 2 L/H & 2 R/H plus half a length of each also, I'm not sure why your so short on stock. That said you can always make your own sides from stock timber if you do fall short.

First ever model ship so here goes

Im not sure what you mean re steps but there is another 2 sets to be made which go up to the poop deck above the captains quarters, as for caulking I used pencil around the edge of every plank and the finished look is great. I put images on but being new I put them in finished models section. Whoops sorry admin, we need to email to prevent cluttering your log

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I'm not sure regards the posting of images on this forum so here goes. Please note the error made on the constructo kit, the grates or grilles as some call them should be the same as those on the top deck, the main parts, meaning the solid as viewed from above should run fore to aft but for some reason the lower deck runs from port to starboard, why, not sure but I found this info after I installed them. Hope the image posts ok

I have the same kit and looking at where you are we are almost at identical points. ( obviously when you posted this back in February ) I decked the lower decks as per manual but end up putting another layer on with the addition of caulking to the planks.  As this is my first post I am struggling to post images. or even find out how

Builds looking good

Paul