cobra1951

Hi Dave, I finally got a stroke of luck with the wale and it turned out good now with a few coats of paint and the proper photography it should hardly be noticed  .
 By the way sweet work on your AVS

Mike:  You need to be pretty close to the final diameter of the hole to use the "reverse the drill" technique.  It won't hog out a lot of wood.  When a drill cuts the right way, it's like using a continuous spiral chisel:  the wood is "shaved" from the wall of the hole.  If you reverse the drill direction, there is no chisel effect, but friction between the metal and the wood can enlarge the hole slightly.

Hey Ian, how was the holiday? Your Brazzera will be real similar in many ways, she will be a fun build. These last few planks took a lot of bending, edge bending and surface bending but she finally came together with no major problems other than self inflicted ones

Hi Bob, Thanks for dropping and for your compliment. It took a little bit of experimenting with the blue but I'm happy with the colours.

Great job, Don!  She is coming together nicely.  Nice recovery on the wale, by the way!

Don, it looks really, really good. I am sure I am going to have to borrow several of your approaches for my Brazzera build. Thanks for showing me the way.
 
Ian

Nice as usual Don . The Colours really compliment each other   

Thanks Mike, . I guess we are even......because I blame you for getting me started on the Pegasus!!

Really nice work Don.  The wood in the MarisStella kits is really beautiful with a natural finish.  
 
By the way, I blame you for me now working on three builds at the same time  

Good morning all, it's been some time now and I don't really have much to show for it. I'm really not sure how my time has been used as of late but production is very slow in the shipyard, hopefully this will change as the weather cools off.
 Since last time I have finished the planking, added the scupper plank upper wale and the rubbing strake
 

 
Here I have marked and measured the scupper openings then cut them out using a 2 mm bit on my mill. As  you can see I just made up a little table for the mill added a fence then just cut the openings free hand. This is so much easier cutting in the scuppers off the ship, good design by MarisStella
 

 
Clamping and the end result
 

 
Shaping the top . 
 
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Building up the bow
 

 
 Here the bow is being shaped and the final planks for the upper wale installed. It was at this point I ran into a little snag.....the upper wale plank was supposed to be .5 mm thick and I installed 1.5 mm thick pieces   . I was thankful that I used not only ca but also weldbond to glue these pieces on so no one method would get the pieces off without major damage . Next option was to sand off 1mm of the strake so, when I finally found my happy face, the sanding begun using a dremel. I suppose I was smiling so much I could not see that I sanded right through it in one spot thus requiring me to glue another piece on in this spot and do some more sanding......by hand.
 The good part of all of this is I live in the country with no neighbours close by to hear my "sounds of joy" and my dog has finally returned home. The pictures show the plank before sanding
 Next step is painting the rubbing strake and upper wale and the space in between them(not sure of the name for this area) I have begun this I will have some updates hopefully soon.
 
 Take Care and Thanks for stopping by

I just noticed there are no pictures of the rubbing strake installed so here are some pictures, the painting has just begun with four coats of grey so far and three coats of the blueish black.
 

 
 The paint is just cheap acrylic paint from Michaels, the grey is steel grey and the blue/black is a mixture of midnight blue and black. These are the brushes I used, also from Michaels. I didn't bother to mask as I am not very good at that so there are a couple of little touch ups to be done. The grey still needs a couple of coats and the blue will probably need another 4 or 5 coats

I would just twist my pin vise in the other direction .

Yep the only downside of model building is the never ending sanding, my builds always slow down when a lot of sanding is called for
I have some light teak stain which is almost identical to the cherry

Yep the only downside of model building is the never ending sanding, my builds always slow down when a lot of sanding is called for
I have some light teak stain which is almost identical to the cherry

That's about the cherrywood colour I use for my build. I expect to stain the hull early next week, so you can check it soon. 
 
Now doing the last deck planks. Painstaking work to let them meet the rounded bow and stern.
Cut...fit...sand...fit...sand...fit...sand...fit...sand fit.
 
More soon,
 
Robin

Nice work Robin
I could do with some stain the same colour as the Hennessy for my Endeavour

I think there's some patinas by Jax (who do the pewter black and brass black many of us use for cannons, etc.) that might work.  

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

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

Progressing nicely Robin

Depends largly on the type of drill you use. With some drills it just isn't possible

Elijah,
 
JesseLee just posted on his Syren log about a jig he made for drilling the mast holes at the correct angle. Have a look here:
 
http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10420-syren-by-jesselee-model-shipways-scale-164/page-33#entry442086

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 

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

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