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Thanks Ryland for your advice and direction! Cheers, Julian -
This past weekend I was able to glue the gun deck down. That particular sheet with the part (gun deck) was missing and waited for nearly 4 weeks for the replacement sheet to arrive from Jotika. Since also found out that I am missing the 1X5 mm walnut plank and 2 mm dowel. No reply from Jotika on that enquiry but made do with a quick trip to the hobby store for the dowel. Luckily the gun deck arrived late on Friday afternoon and I was able to complete the planking of the gun deck this weekend. I also fiddled around with the best aesthetic method of simulating the caulking lines between the planks with various colors. I ended up using black enamel paint thinly brushed on so as not to bleed into the body of the plank. Did a bit of sanding and all looks good. Ready for varnish.
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Finally have had some time to post some progress. I had some problems with blackening the mortars - cleaned them up well and then used diluted sulfamic acid to condition the brass and then used Krick brand of blackening solution. I fiddled around on a Saturday morning last week with solutions at 1:1 and 1:2 without success. I decided to just paint them with the matt metal black. I can not figure out what I was doing wrong with the blackening process but decided that I spent enough time on it!
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I am at the stage on my Caldercraft Granado build in which the patterns do not match. I knew earlier that I placed the gun port pattern low (by mistake) by about 4-5 mm at the bow and 1-2 mm midship but need help from any members who may suggest the best course of correction. The patterns match perfectly laterally in the openings. Thank-you! Julian
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At this stage I started to build the mortar housings. I was, according to the plans, supposed to build the upper gun deck but I noticed that I was missing an entire ply sheet from my kit. I emailed Jotika and they are sending me a replacement sheet. Very straight forward were the housing with respect to the build. I finished them with a satin varnish which to me looks quite good.
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I masked off and primed the hull with 2 coats of Admiralty matt white to finish.
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Marking the waterline was an easy effort with a cup and pencil.
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I rushed through the second planking layer and unfortunately my skill level has brought some defects to the fore. This was my first time working with CA glue and at the bow and stern some of the planks were not as tight as I had hoped and a mess could not be avoided. Some stealer planks and a bit of fill has found the hull at a more finihed stage. I knew that I was going to paint the hull so I was not hugely disappointed in my effort.
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The wale was a bit of work and effort for me... I laid one side and then did the other side to the specs in the instruction manual but found after comparing the two sides at the bow, they were a bit off as one swooped down greater than the other side. I had to add a fill strip to the bottom at the bow on one side and a fill strip at the top at the bow on the other side. Asthetically... looks fine. I decided to prime and paint to follow... with second layer of planking yet to come.
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I then tackled the planking, blindly in retrospect... I was pinning and using Titebond for the majority of that first layer of planks. The learning curve was slow for me but I was happy with the end result. I used some fill and with some sanding I was proud of my first "planking" effort.
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I fussed with the gunport pattern and was quite pleased with the result and progress but on my first (earlier) log, very quickly it was pointed out by other members, that at the bow, the pattern was sitting too low to the top of the extensions by 3-4 mm. I noticed on other logs on the old build forum that that was a common mistake made by most. I have not fixed this early mistake but I think I have an opportunity to fix it when I am working at a later stage on the inner bulwark (I hope).
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Came across my first dilemma with regards to the bearding line as the plans were not quite clear with regards to the position of the bulkeads and the line to be profiled (sanded) back to the stern post. I sent a query on the forum but did not get a clear reason or answer why the bearding line was inside to the bulkhead profiles but nonetheless it seems to have turned out fine now that my planking has bee done and all looks and appears well.
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I soaked the gun port pattern and created the proper shape for future attachment to the hull.
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I very quickly started the hull construction without any issues.
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I started this model in late December (2012) after much research on this very same forum. I have reconstructed my early build log, as evident with this present mass upload of photos. At the present time, I have just finished the mortar housings and I am about to begin the upper gun deck construction. I am new to this hobby and have enjoyed every aspect of the build to date. There is always wonderful tips and help on this forum and I am excited to get any and all advice that comes my way.
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