GLakie

Big shoes to fill indeed Bug, but I'm sure you're up to it, and will do him proud! 

Ah yeas Nenad, you are not disappointing us, I figured you'd come up with a solution with materials you have on hand.  It's a handicap you'll have to work around and so far you have come up with some brilliant ideas.  My hat off to you and your perseverance.  
Your solution will work just fine, have patience and go slow - you don't have to rush on our account.
 
Cheers,

Very nice looking head rails JesseLee, will done.  Glad you found some of that mystery wood, it's really looking very nice.
 
Cheers,

Nice job on those headrails Jesse! The symmetry is perfect! 

Well, I dont know what to say!!  Augie is gone and I will miss him greatly! We used to PM about our builds of the Confed and swop notes of what we had experienced. It is a sadder day without him here talking about modelling and fishing.
 
ben

Is the lower-hull going to be double-planked, along with the pre-formed sides? 

Very well done indeed Grant, and also well done on some of the solutions you came up with in constructing various pieces .
 
Welcome to the Scratch Building Club - I'd reckon you won't be doing too many Kits from now on .
 
  Danny

Let it be said that Augie's Confederacy will carry his memory for friends and loved ones a fitting tribute.
David B

Big shoes to fill indeed Bug, but I'm sure you're up to it, and will do him proud! 

Hi George, nope, the hull will be single planked.

Tom I've got a question. On post 179 you showed a picture of the first piece of the wale planking that had been tapered both in length and along its thickness. Did you just use a sanding block for the thickness or maybe a tapering jig on a mini tablesaw? Thanks again
 
Greg H.

That's a beautiful planking job you've done, Ken !!

Fabulous work Sal...she looks great on her display board..love the stain color.
 
Cheers,
 
Nigel.

Now I have to say that I really do not like preformed sides and bulwarks because they just never seem to fit right and require a lot of attention just to get a good look out of them. But I have to say that these seem to be the exception to the rule. I had went back and forth about ditching the preformed sides and just plank it and cut out the gun ports and mount the dummy supports from the back side of the planking, but I decided it was a lot more work than I wanted to do unless once I tried to put them on and find they look like crap. But I'm satisfied with them.  
 
 
mike

I got a little more work done on the Monte today.
 
 
mike

Here are me again. Couple of days I was pretty quiet, because I have got a little flue, and also there was not visible progress.  Today I can proudly pronounce that my four "black holes" losed their "black" atributes, and have turned in regular holes, with bottom I can reach. Filling is slowly coming to end.
 
 
 
 
I know it Dave, but it needs a time for filling material to dry, and I have to work in thin layers, to avoid danger of leaking glue etc etc through deck planking. Her Majesty is turned upside down, I suppose - a last time in Her life time, and holes are opened to up during filling process. So, put one relative thin layer of material, and must wait for it to dry. And on that way, every day. about hour for four holes. The end is on horizon ...
 
 
Helo Jud, I have readed your post before you deleted it. I used rolled paper sodden with glue cleated to bottom of hole, and covered with thin layer of BBQ strip pieces, with another thin coat of glue. Idea with wire is something valuable to think about. So, bunch of strips rise over time, and now it is only 1-2 cm under hole entrance, so final filling can start
 
 
I was thinking about epoxy, Michael, but I gave up, because I was afraid of leaking through the deck planking. Particularly, I can not find in near shops adequate epoxy. In Belgrade there are not shops like "Hobby-lobby" and another such a type I have read on MSW, there are only a few similar, but with poor choice of such a things, materials tools etc etc ( mainly plastic kits, acrylic, brushes, cheep Chinese scalpels etc etc). So I have to manage with things I have
 
 
 
My idea is similar Denis : to fill hole with material  to the top, when dry and harden, drill through a new hole for 4mm dowel, drill 1-1,5mm hole in dowel, glue dowel in new hole and align it to the surface of hull. And after that mount stand with screw or a new thin dowel, or wire. Just for remind, main problem is balsa 2x5mm strips used for hull planking   
 
 
 
Hello Nils. That was my first idea, and I made some testing with such a solution, but I was scarred of possibility that balsa strips can not withstand direct force. That was a reason I decided to reduce that direct force giving some "meat" to  hold dowel and to distribute direct force from hole entrance to whole "meat" in which dowel will be embedded. Problem is  in fact that I know with whom I am dealing with ... un patience, and awkward Nenad, and I just have to make something strong enough to keep me and my work from - me
 
So, another booooring period is coming to end, and I hope soon to continue with deck stuff challenges

I added extra ballast earlier, my friend, so I think whole thing now has a little less than 1 kg

Though a steep angle on the roof is good to get rid of snow when it gets to heavy, it looks disproportionate on your boat. Here in Holland, we have floating homes, and as far as I can remember those have flat roofs, or hardly any angle to it at all ... hmmm, maybe slanting backwards only ... trial an' error probably ...
 
Cheers

Thanks George, Al, and Popeye. It is not too tedious yet George, as there are lots of different things that need to get done, all be it 20 at a time. I am glad to see you back Al. I hope you get right into where you left off.
 
I finished making all the hooks and ring bolts, and added the ring bolts and eyes to the sleds. I need to finish painting the barrels and trucks before I can continue assembling the carriages.
 
This is my last week home before I start a new job on Monday. It has been fun having time to build during the day, but after this week it will be back to nights and weekends in the workshop again. At least for another 5 years or so.

Nice, nice, nice !!!!!

thanks Greg.....no need to worry about being missing in action........the log is always here     I fully understand.   thinking about the roof.......the height in large part,  doesn't look right to me.    I haven't done anything yet...snow removal and a hectic work schedule got in the way.    I hope to have an update very soon       thanks for the good word and looking in.......always good to see you  

WOOOOW !!!!!!
What a work !

ha...like one fellow there said...ingenuity at it's best....somehow i missed that or didn't relate it to the finished example:)

@popeye, well said my friend.

Henry,
 
Don't know why I was not getting email updates from your build as I am following you?
 
Anyway thanks for your notes on mine. I saw your mouse. Hmm yes looks so excellent. I will need to study this bit.
 
Went back over your postings I had missed - a real beauty.  
 
As I had noted way back when your skills with a paintbrush for such small details is so excellent.
 
Michael