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mrcc

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  • Birthday 06/11/1964

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  1. Had to cut back some of the side gallery planking profiles in order to accommodate the side gallery ornamentation and then I focused on some of the stern decorations... she is surely starting to look pretty! Lots of reading ahead, looking at other peoples build logs on MSW and some dutch forums. A person always has to pay attention to the fittings, the corners of the fittings, as future fittings of these ornaments are sometimes laid on top of each other. Luckily these pot metal ornaments are easy to bend and mold with reason into the spaces they are required to go into. The color scheme I used is of course personal but I am always looking at historical accuracy.
  2. More details to add with regards to deck railing details...
  3. Very poor service indeed... I had some problems with Cornwall Model Boats as well with regards to unanswered emails on a special order of a part. They are both hit and miss.
  4. My advice is to keep pestering John at Jotika… He will eventually get back to you but it often takes a while.
  5. Just getting the little details done at the current stage of the build, roughly to the Mamoli build order as outline in their instruction sheets. Tonight I will tackle the deck railings.
  6. Hey zappto… so glad you are following my build log. Yes, going to paint the hull. PS I am always referencing your build log and always have my iPad tab open to your build for quick references. Thanks,
  7. More progress this weekend... Finished nailing the copper nails into the strakes. Created a little template and ran it along the strake with a quick touch with my archimedes pin drill and then came back to fully open the hole for the pin. Quick dab of yellow PVA glue and pushed it in in large sections at a time.
  8. Thanks Ronald… The stain I used is about 23-24 years old, used it for a furniture project for my children’s bedroom when they were just babies. Luckily I didn’t throw it out. I opened the can up and stirred it for about 20 seconds and it mixed up perfectly. Perfect stain color for my Friesland!
  9. The cap railings are 2x4mm but at the curved profiles, found it absolutely impossible to soak and heat bend the planks. I ended up bending a couple of 1x5mm planks and then once I got the correct curved profile, was able to laminate the two 1x5s to get closer to the rest of the spec'd 2x4mm railing. Sanded them back a bit, sanded a bit of the heat scorch marks and very happy with the results. Thanks to everyone for checking out my build log!
  10. Lots of work getting the upper deck gun ports at the correct heights from the deck, relative to each other and from side to side, also making sure to get a flat run for when the deck railing caps go on. Also getting the correct profiles for the deck railings, with the specific challenge at the points of curved profiles, especially matching to the opposite side. Took lots of measurements from the plan, transferring, changing, and remeasuring, having to add and sand back in some cases from the initial hull planking that I did. Luckily the gun ports were initially located correctly from side to side to each other from my measurements from an earlier stage of the build when first rough cutting them out. Once satisfied, I started the upper side wall planking with the stained planks.
  11. Lots of work since my last posting... Planked the inner bulwarks and began painting them red ocre. Also worked on the rubbing strakes as well as the main deck railing with the bends achieved with a heated plank bending tool. Happy with the result but need to do a bit of black touchups.
  12. Reached a milestone in that the hull planking is complete. I bought some walnut filler and will at a later time fill some of the wider spaces between some of the planks at the bow but overall happy with how the planking turned out. Also started to transfer the measurements from the plans to the hull, preparing the upper profiles, for gunports on the upper decks.
  13. Cleaned up the sternpost to allow for the vertical planking. Used heat to release the wood glue from the ends
  14. Much easier that I thought... marked the forward edge of the sternpost line, scored a line with a blade, heated up the plank portion in order to release from the glue, and the plank end lifted up effortlessly.
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