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Mike - stop by a woodcarving shop or maybe even a cutlery shop and pick up a cut resistant glove - I wear one on my opposing hand when I am doing woodcarving. It has saved me from many a slash cut like the one you got - won't protect from a stabbing type cut - just slash cuts.  They come in a variety of styles.
 
Hope it heals soon. Looks nasty

Mike - stop by a woodcarving shop or maybe even a cutlery shop and pick up a cut resistant glove - I wear one on my opposing hand when I am doing woodcarving. It has saved me from many a slash cut like the one you got - won't protect from a stabbing type cut - just slash cuts.  They come in a variety of styles.
 
Hope it heals soon. Looks nasty

Mike - stop by a woodcarving shop or maybe even a cutlery shop and pick up a cut resistant glove - I wear one on my opposing hand when I am doing woodcarving. It has saved me from many a slash cut like the one you got - won't protect from a stabbing type cut - just slash cuts.  They come in a variety of styles.
 
Hope it heals soon. Looks nasty

Mike - stop by a woodcarving shop or maybe even a cutlery shop and pick up a cut resistant glove - I wear one on my opposing hand when I am doing woodcarving. It has saved me from many a slash cut like the one you got - won't protect from a stabbing type cut - just slash cuts.  They come in a variety of styles.
 
Hope it heals soon. Looks nasty

During this week, I have been sanding and varnishing the Hull, rub rails and toe rails. for the sanding. I started with 400 grit sandpaper and worked my way up to 800 grit sandpaper. I then would apply varnish wait 24 hours and re do the process. ( sanding and varnishing )  there are 6 coats of Epifanes varnish now on the Hull. I am pleased with how the varnish turned out, Next will be to complete varnishing the Spars ( mast and boom ) they currently both have 2 coats. Here are the results

Piet,
 
I'm a little late for the carving party but when I can quote all the posts above and I will put on every post a like I think that it will be what I want to say !!!!
 
Goed gedaan jochie         
 
Sjors

Update.... Building the beak.....
 
Painted black and notched for the seven frame members shaped out of hard maple, the construction of the beak is a little tricky. 
Seen here, being very careful in the spacing between the frame members in terms of maintaining perfectly square and level alignments.
 

 
The square block is clamped in place for each frame and carefully tweeked and miked until perfect.
 
 

Cleaning up the carvings after baking.....
Here's another important quality about working with Sculpy, I should point out to those who might be considering giving it a go....
The ability to carve really fine details into your figure AFTER BAKING.
Here are two of the figures I baked yesterday after clean-up with a scalpel blade....
Note the three dimensional effect of shaping the sides and back side of the pieces.
Surprisingly, I was even able to put an edge and a point on the sward with no problem.
 

 
The bottom piece, I created this morning.  This will be used to decorate the four chaser cannon ports located between the  columns on each side of the passage door. 
I'll have to create a mold of that piece in order to duplicate it precisely with plastic castings.

Nicely done Dave!
 
Cheers,

Wow Dave!!  You're becoming quite a hand at this carving work!  Very nice!! 

UPDATE....New carvings
The bulkhead layout and deck planking went without great complication.

 
There will be six new carvings mounted on the wooden columns seen above the deck.
Here are the first four roughly shaped Sculpy figures I created over the last two days....
 

 
 
 

More reconstruction....
Taking a break from cannon ports and lids, I began taking a serious look at the beak, again, using the beautiful build log provided by Doris as my primary resource.  No surprise, the architecture had to be modified.
The good news is that this may be the easiest modification issue I've run into with this build.
 
Before and after shots.... the beak deck needed to be raised about 3/4" and the bulkhead layout was a simple matter of shaping a thin sheet of balsa.  All will be planked over of course. 
 

 
I'm thinking I will probably build the bulkhead, with all the ornamentation, offship.

Thanks for pointing that out Mark. Here's still another example of the type of issues I keep running in to at every turn with this build.The gun port openings were all created according to the plan sheets. Although it may seem like a small issue, the dimensions of the openings were not correct.... and it became more noticeable once I began mounting the closed lids for the bottom row. Even though only slightly "underscale", the eye picked up on the flaw immediately after installing the second, third, and fourth lids.
After ripping off the first four lids, and researching the common dimensions for the gun port openings, I set about with my trusty scalpel to re-size the openings.
 

 
Next, I began looking at the new lids, mounted FLUSH with the hull planking and ran into another issue....the lack of definition.
 
After mounting four lids flush with the hull planks, I went back to the internet and pulled a number of images of "ships of the fleet" kits, and found a number of models with the gun port frames standing proud from the hull planks.... and I tend to like the more defined look, especially for the closed lids.

 
I ripped the second four lids off and set about building frames around the lids in order to get more definition....

 
So, after almost a full week of construction and reconstruction, I've managed to install all of the open lids for the middle deck and just over half of the gun port lids for the bottom deck.

Dave,
I'm in total agreement with you.  Seems an awful lot of things in this hobby are "reconstructions".   I think you're doing great.

Beautiful work Chuck   - I enjoy following along.

Just as there are no two faces that are exactly the same across the 7.4 billion of people on this earth, (even in identical twins), no two people have the same amount of patience for a given task.   Even as one person, I have varying amounts of patience, attention to detail, and different attitudes as to what is good enough.  I did not realize this until the Admiral asked how I have the patience to spend years on a model yet have less than 10 seconds of patience with the guy driving too slowly in the passing lane on the highway.  
 
Allan

I think that's a very astute observation, Greg.

Hello everyone.  I've been busy with that other project I can't talk about right now.  Right now it looks promising because I finally found a solution for a big dilemma I was facing.  It started to look like I had to abandon this project but I found what I needed.
 
In the meantime I painted the faces of the two knechten and will leave them detached for the time being.  As I mentioned to Jan I may have to make a new set but a little smaller yet.  The ropes for the tackle will be touching the heads.  I'll wait till after i have done the two carvings for the head-railings.  By that time I'll have gained a little more prowess in this carving business.
 
Actually I should be starting with working on the masts, making the cheeks, trestletrees and tops, so I can start with the shrouds.  Yeah, that means deadeyes and chainplates too.  Actually looking forward to it.
 
Well, here are two final pictures of version 3.0 of the knight heads.  Version 4.0 will be coming later.  I hate to admit it but Jan had a gut feeling that these may be a tad too large.
 

 

 
Cheers,

Popeye, Carl, Per, Sal, Pete, George,  thanks for the compliment and all the LIKES.
 
Popeye, yes the brass rings came with the kit. Unfortunately, tho, they were a tad small in diameter for the mast so I can't get them to close tightly - almost couldn't get the bolt ropes between them and the mast, even tho the mast is the exact diameter specified on the plans.

Popeye, Carl, Per, Sal, Pete, George,  thanks for the compliment and all the LIKES.
 
Popeye, yes the brass rings came with the kit. Unfortunately, tho, they were a tad small in diameter for the mast so I can't get them to close tightly - almost couldn't get the bolt ropes between them and the mast, even tho the mast is the exact diameter specified on the plans.

Charlie, you hit the nail on the head. So I just set the stem, stern post and keel today, and to make it work, I had to trim a quarter inch off the aft end of the keel. I did a lot of additional hull sanding with 200 grain paper (sand, fit, sand etc.). One thing that helped me is I glued the stem to the keel and then worked the fit. I held my keel to the hull with rubber bands, but this caused me to come slightly off centerline, so I will have to adjust that. As you can see, I also will need a bit of filler at the bow where the keel and stem meet.

We have added some meat to the hull master, and I will be glad to send a n/c replacement hull to anyone who has purchased a Revenue Cutter from us.

Nic, good idea moving forward, but I am far enough along, that I think I can make it work. It is great to see the support that Bluejacket is willing to give though.

As a modeler myself, I know how I would like to be treated, and make my decisions accordingly.

Hi Gents,
 
Thanks very much guys comments and likes are all appreciated.
 
Carl, By all means mate, pull up a pew. your always welcome here, I shall be using mikeaidanh's log as a reference quite a lot. His build is superb and definitely one to follow. One thing I do like about this kit is that there is a lot of scratch building to be done although the plan drawing leave a lot to be desired.
 
Frank, Cheers buddy, one more planking to go, she's triple planked. Final planking will be Pear when it arrives.
 
Wayne, Thanks mate for your confidence in my planking efforts, I am learning and the final planking will be better.
 
Ken, Thanks mate, If I were you I'd wait for me to finish the planking before hoping your turns out like mine, good luck with yours mate.
 
Mark, Thank you very much mate for sharing your wisdom. It does sound complicated but I'm beginning to get my head around the process and the mist is beginning to clear. we'll see.
 
Thanks Grant, stay tuned mate.
 
Thanks again guys.
 
Be Good
 
mobbsie