louis nicholas

Thank you for head ups. I continued sanding, and it look s much better now, peGasus does have some sleek lines! Though, can anyone tell me what glue I should use for coppering, ova doesn't work, neither does super glue, can anyone please tell me what glue I should use?

I hope that the quality this time can be regarded as good(descent, at least, though I do need to fill those pin holes) 

I had another look at other logs, and also of course, the web page introduced by Blue Ensign, very helpful indeed. I did another plank, just to see whether the 1st plank must be removed, I accept all feedbacks regarding this.

After further shaping the bulkheads, started planking the ship, difficult indeed, and made a mess in planking the head, the gunport at the other side is not fixed yet . Although it took 5 hours, it was very enjoyable to see the ship slowly shaping. (when I looked at my ship from a distance, it looked like a hedgehog.)

Thank you all for your advises. It took me 3 hours to sand the bulkheads this morning after seeing your pics, and finally, I planked the gun port decks. I used mainly tape to help the the curve stay, though it was intense, specially the head of the ship, where the wood never obeys the curve, but I am very happy with how pretty little pegasus is shaping herself  I am currently meeting a huge problem with cannon rigging, can anyone show me details of this?( I need a bit of explanation to the rigging in logs...)thank you very much

I shaped the frames with sandpaper stuck on a piece of wood, the making of the capstan was one unique experience!  Next stage, Gunport planking

Progress so far(lots of sanding)(sorry to keep you waiting)

I would love to be 2 cm tall, then I could create the most detailed ship model ever! (laugh) Spy glass, last question before new work, would you advise me to darker the edges of the plank before planking?

Cheers,

NIcholas

thank you spy glass, for your advise. Do you know a way which I can rig the cannon, so that i can pull the cannon in and out from the gun port?(so that my ship can sometimes be in sailing position rather than fighting)

Cheers, 

Nicholas

It got slightly frustrated when I slide two of the ribs in the wrong slot, but now its fixed, jolly good! Now, when I looked on the plans, they told me to plank the deck but leave the middle part un-planked, which kind of doesn't make sense to me, as the middle is the bit that is showed under sunlight. Why should I leave the middle not planked? Any brilliant ideas?

There you go, finally, work begins!

Hi! Thank you all, for your supportive feedbacks.  I have read nearly each, and everyone of your pegasus's blogs. Specially  Blue Ensign. I must say that I expect the build to be very challenging, (backed up after seeing builders talking about the slightly inappropriate fittings) and I had heard about the bible, TFFM. I just wonder, is there anything that I should beware about the rib construction with Victory models? Thank you very much,

Nicholas

Hi, my name is Louis Nicholas. I recently bought this amati kit to make it my first kit build, and this is my first log. Nice to meet everyone in this website. Work starts on saturday this week, and on that day, I would go out to buy the tools. This seems like a wonderful project for the summer holiday