cobra1951

HI EJ

I could stain it but i have found in the past that the wood does not glue as good as non stained wood. I have replaced wood in the past and almost doubled the price of the kit i was building, and not having a good supplier near me you end up replacing the replacement wood because you cannot tell what you are getting 

 I liked the use of the different colour woods to represent the striping on Victory they work well together and allow the use of stain to let the natural beauty of the grain to show

G'day Bob, your off to a good start, never built an Occre kit before, so I will follow yours with interest,

 

  best regards John.

Thanks John . Seem to be good kits, materials are good and so are the instructions. The only little gripe i have is that they use Lime wood instead of Walnut and tell you to paint it to look like Walnut, but as the Occre kits are fairly cheap compared to some others then it's to be expected that they are saving money to keep the cost down

Hi Paul

             How are you finding the quality of the instructions and materials with Constructo kits

Happy you got it sorted mate, i usually find most trophy shops are reasonable priced for that sort of thing

Hi Bob,

Are you planning to add some blocking between the frames to the hull(wales line) ?

 

 

Dave R

I am not planning on adding any there. I will leave the final decision until after all the decks are fitted and i can see how rigid it is then

Solid decision, Bob. Some really nice progress!!

Thanks Carl

Progressing nicely Robin

Thanks Frank

Had to use extra support because the bulkheads were still moving even with the deck in place and I wasn't going to take the chance of the joints moving once I start planking the hull

The keel and bulkheads on this kit are only 4mm thick and after fitting the deck, the joints were a little bit flimsy, so i fitted some strengthening pieces to the joints

Lower deck planked and cross beams for the next deck fitted

There was no reason to plank this deck at all as none of it will be seen later, so i used some thinner planking and saved the kit supplied planking in case i need it later in the build

Just popped in to check out your Endeavour and you're doing a great job on it

Very nice work as usual EJ

Thanks Frank

Nice Frank

Get a brass nameplate made and engraved from a trophy shop

I also need to make two sails........I haven't used the admiral's sewing machine for a while,  so that should be fun  

 

 

Looks like a bit of bribery is on the cards

adjustments were made and allowed to dry.........the two pieces of the cabin needed to be bent,  in the meantime.   I normally do this simply by getting the parts wet {water},  and bending them by hand.   in the instructions,  they say to use alcohol.......so that's what I did.   it worked,  but I still like my way better.

 

I agree alcohol is for drinking not bending everyone knows that

Just popped in for a quick look and a fine job you are doing

Thanks for all the comments and likes, greatly appreciated

All Bulkheads glued into place

All seems to line up length ways too

Used the straight edge on half the lower deck and marked it out for planking

Lined up the other half of the deck against it by sticking them down together with double sided tape and then transfered the markings across

Carefully removed the two halves from the double sided tape then laid a strip of planks along one edge then fitted and glued both halves to the keel and bulkheads

When it's all dried, deck planking will begin

Planks have been cut to 100mm in length and will be laid in a 5 butt system in a 13524 pattern

Plumb line. Basically a length of string or rope with a weight on the end, you hang it up and it has no option but to hang in a perfect vertical line

Good to see Bob,

Hope the kit comes with plenty of goodies for your build.

Will be watching out for the updates, I like seeing what others do with the Endeavour builds.

 

Dave R

Thanks Dave

Not too many goodies, in fact one little niggle about the kit is most of it is Lime wood and they tell you to paint it the colour of different woods

I will take a nose through your log later to see how the kits differ

Glad to see you back in business!  Show us how it's done.....

 Thanks Mike

Have to find someone to show me first

Nice bit of delicate work completed well done

Started gluing the bulkheads in place using engineers squares to keep them square to the keel

Looking good   time to extra care when handling her now

Thanks Frank . Yep a good base is a must to start any project

I will keep a look out and if you do i may borrow your idea