cobra1951

Looks great

I would advise taking those screws out ! Throw them AWAY they have no role in the build!

For temporary fittings use the pins supplied  into drilled holes and dont push them home

I agree, those screws will tear the wood up, there is no pressure on the deck so only a small amount of downward force is needed to keep it in place until the glue sets

Nice and neat  

I hate it when you get some epoxy squeezing out when you apply the clamps, the cleanup is so sticky

Certainly looks like a strange set up whichever way you go. Bit of a dilemma. But as usual, your kit do it your way :)

Nice work :)

She looks great sitting there on that table, something you can be proud of :)

Hi Don thanks   Not far to go now. Still have some wooden bowls to make and hammocks that are suspended between the overhead beams and some Cannon tools and the cannon ball racks to fit to the decks then i can do the upper deck, but not too much to do on that as show in the box picture in post #1

Have you noticed how much easier it is to glue yourself the the parts than it is to unglue yourself

Give them a ring to check because if they have been busy with orders they are a bit slow updating their site as it's not a live stock site which update themselves

Euromodels do the Amati 52mm ones too but it doesn't say if they are in stock or not

http://www.euromodels.co.uk/index.php?CATEGORY=20&SUB=2&THISPAGE=1&RADIOSORT=4&PICFILE=6766&STKNR=6766&STRH=2618&ORDN=4794&RNZ=357101

Personally i would wait rather than go down the plastic route   also they are only 40mm wide

Thanks Carl   had a choice prick my fingers with needles or glue myself to the sacks with CA lol CA won

CMB have 52mm x 52mm gratings with 1.5mm holes made by Amati 2nd one down on the page link

http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/amati_gratings.html

Beautiful work

Sacks made and ready to hang

Sacks hanging on the inner hull

Must remember to get my airbrush out and blow the dust away

Looks like a nice kit, good luck with it

Just found this log, looks like a great little kit and it's being put together in an extremely neat way

Love them both and they are not too small either, going by the dimensions

That looks like a great little kit, even better if you had both that one and the completed boat one

All those little things left to do can sometimes take up as much time as the main part of the build

Cheers Don   A few cloth sacks next

Made the buckets for both builds

In place on the deck

Thanks Nick   Very helpful, shows me some of the parts supplied in my kit are not too far away from the real thing.

Thanks EJ   Also getting harder to get my hands in there too   which is why i left all the upper planking off till after i finish the gun deck

Placed them on the decks between the guns but not directly central between them as i do not want it to look too uniform

Thanks again for the input guys

Thanks Don

Well they are either slow fuses as we think, or maybe cans of worms

That's exactly what i was thinking they were.

And as there is only one per build then they should be placed where both gun crews can access them

Thanks for your help, Appreciated