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  18. KLarsen
    I usually scrape the joints with a sharp knife, that makes it perfectly flat. If you leave a little more wood around the piece and create the joint first, it doesn't matter too much if you have to make any corrections. When the joint is done, sand the rest of the piece down to shape.
  19. KLarsen
    Continuing a bit on the stern gallery.
  20. KLarsen started following Santa Caterina
  21. KLarsen
    Thanks! 😊 I went ahead and cut out the gunports and framed them. Not much to comment on that really, it was straightforward.
  22. KLarsen
    Some more progress. I've installed the wales, the lower one was difficult to bend at the stern but I got it done. I've also gone ahead and trimmed the frames to their (almost) correct height and made the cutouts for the upper gun emplacements (not shown on the first photo which is from a week ago). I'm now turning my attention to the interior, I installed the keelson and will start on the strakes on which the deck beams are resting.
  23. KLarsen
    Continuing work on the stern gallery.
  24. KLarsen
    Continuing with the rear frames that will make up the stern gallery. Those stern pieces were a bit tricky to make, I ended up cutting them a few millimeters thicker and sanding them down to shape with the rest of the frames. I think it turned out pretty well! Most of the rough sanding is done, but there's still a lot to be sanded. Sadly I just gouged the yoke a bit this afternoon when sanding the stern, not much I can do about that now though. Also I need to fill out that triangular area below the wing transoms and then sand it all flush.
  25. KLarsen
    It looks amazing!
  26. KLarsen
    Thank you!!! 😊 I wouldn't say it was easy though!
  27. KLarsen
    Well that turned out much better than I'd hoped! The hardest part of the frames were sawing all the pieces out by hand, but I eventually got it done (with a sore arm!) and the installation went very well. It definetely helped having a disc sander with a tilting table which allowed me to sand the angle at the foot of the frames with great precision.
  28. KLarsen
    Thanks, that actually encourages me!
  29. KLarsen
    Not much progress lately, only that I built the cradle / building board to attach the frames. Unfortunately I didn't install the last cant frame perfectly well, it's about 1-2 mm off compared to the other side. Probably not much I can do about that now though. I'm using rubber bands to try and force it back a little, maybe when I install the rest of the frames and keep them together with the wales it'll stay in the correct position without warping the whole model. Or maybe not... Honestly I don't feel like starting all over so I'll have to accept it as it is. After all I chose this model to learn how to build plank-on-frame, and this is one of those lessons. Now I'm kind of scared to glue the 5 full frames in, in case I mess it up. 🙃
  30. KLarsen
    Looks great, I'll copy your building board, I just need to buy some plywood. 👍
  31. KLarsen
    Starting on the full frames. For now they're just dryfitted, it'll be a long time until I can glue them in place. I'll make a building board when I get to that point. Sawing out the pieces by hand takes some effort but it can be done. I've no room for an electric saw where I currently live anyway. Someday hopefully I can have a full workshop for my hobby...
  32. KLarsen
    It looks amazing! Please keep posting lots of photos, they help me a lot since I'm building a stern cross section of the same ship 😄
  33. KLarsen
    Thanks! My idea is to make a base plate with a copy of the frame plan on top, and another plate lifted to the height of the wales more or less, where I also trace the position of the frames. Basically as I did with my Santa Caterina build. Would that work? For now though, I'll prepare all the normal frames (just 5 for this cross section) and dry fit them.

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