Elijah

You might try soaking them and the pressing them flat.   I'd try sheet glass with weight, or a clothing iron might do the trick.  It depends on the warpage and the thickness of the strips.

I dont own a drum sander.  Many folks dont.   I dont have a bandsaw either.   Many folks dont.   I also find my most precious item these days is time.   Like with other items and kit products available,  the last thing I want to do is buy something only to have to fix it so it meets my standards.   As a guy who would rather spend his limited time on the fun stuff,  I am just happy there is one wood supplier I can count on that supplies me with a product I dont have spend hours making usable.  OR spend extra money buying the tools to do so.  
 
I see nothing wrong with being extra happy about one thing that is actually supplied as advertised. So few things are these days.  There arent many places like this and I am very fortunate to have the resource.  Literally....Syren Ship Model Company would be out of business if I had to spend the time needed to re-thickness the amount of wood I use.   
 
I am sure everyone can mill their own if they wanted to and if they had the tools.   I just dont want to.   Thank you Jason for making my life a whole lot easier.   And the same goes for countless other model builders.     I ve got nothing but love for ya baby!!!  It made the difference between me being in business and out of business. 

Hello! I really really like the look of the canon!
 
Edit: One canon not multiple.

Hi Byron:
 
She's shaping up nicely. A word on Corel kits - yes the instructions are poor, to say the least, but I've built several Corel kits and I hardly ever used the "instructions" anyway - the plans are all the instructions you need and usually Corel's plans are well done - clear and easy to follow. In many Corel kits I've built there is a parts list at the end of the instruction booklet, and sometimes rigging tables. I found these extremely useful as well. My first step in a Corel build is to go through the parts list and then locate each part on each of the plans its shown on - takes some time, but it's a good way of studying the plans and familiarizing yourself with the model. As I go, I write down the plan sheet number(s) that the items appear on beside the items on the parts list. 
 
Have fun with the Endeavour! I've really enjoyed the Corel kits I've built (even the Greyhound, which required a huge amount of bashing), and I imagine the Endeavour is no different.
hamilton

Well it has been a while since my last update, but there has been some solid progress since then, and some very early progress on my other build. 
 
Something I am still having issues with though on this build are the volutes as I have now done them 3 times and I just keep making them too big.  I am getting close to the point of just putting a ball of greenstuff on the model and then carving it or shaping it there.  I know I can do that, since I can sculpt faces at 28mm scale, it’s just the doing it separate from the model that is messing with me here.
 
Anyway, I have been working on the rest of the deck items, the rail items, and the front end of the ship.  I used a small bead as suggested at the end of the tiller, and it has since been painted black.
 

 
Man are some of these pieces TINY.  Cutting the slots into the catheads and carving the cheeks were especially difficult at this scale.  They are done though and I think the only real parts at the front left to do are the timberheads which I have started to carve but only have half of them done.
 

 

 
I now have the back railing on and will now be painting it and then adding on the posts for the swivel guns.  I think it is then onto the masts.
 

Hello! I really really like the look of the canon!
 
Edit: One canon not multiple.

Hello,
 
My name is Rik and I am new on this forum, I introduced me allready in the lounge.
 
I try to post a picture tomorrow. I have to find out the way on this forum.
 
 
Greats,
Rik
 

As promised, a little part of the proces. I don't place lots and lots pictures, but a few. If you have any questions, don't be shy.
 
  The box and sorry, i don't have a picture opening the box. What I can say, the inside is well organised. And looks nice. And I think its a shame there are so many iron parts. Such as the canon horses, portholes and so on. The metal part quality is very poor with lots of flash and miscastings. I should be ashamed when I had to sell this.     After building the frame and planked the hull for the first time, i desided to set on a false keel. I think it looks better this way. The canon holes had wooden frames and i didn't use the metal parts. Painted the inside red. I will plank a second layer fineer. The fineer will cut of straight over de red paint. This makes everything nice and tight.    
Second layer fineer. It's coming just fine now.
 
 
All fineer is done. Now waiting for the paint.
 
  Painting is in traditional English colours. Oker yellow, and black. Inner railing and gunports ox red. Think it's a bit better looking than the looks of clear wood. These ships where always painted. It's not the craftmans ship what I can show with this kit build ship.   Painting the iron stern decorations. This was shiny gold painted by fabric. I didn't like the way i looks. And painted Hunter with the date on the banner. I did paint lots of army figures from warhammer. I think it shows.
 
  Mounting the rudder, I didn't use the wooden rudder made by fabric because it's a plywood peace. When its laquered, the plywood wil show.     Remaking the deck parts. The factory made a few blocks. They hasn't any details en glued on windows. It's ugly and I choose to make new ones. The pump was made out of metal, I worked by and cleaned it. And painted it.   And the canons. I made new canon stands, (horses) made out of wood instead of mis casted metal parts. Drilled the canons out and cleaned them from flash and bronze plating. Painted them black. Think its better this way.    
 
   
 
 

The point I am now.
 
Mounting the canons. I made full rigging, but get a problem. you can see on the picture it doesn't fit. The block and rope to take the slide backwards. This wont fit in the way it suppose to be.
 
Problem here is scale and plans that doesn't correspondent. Therefore I will let this peace of the rigging go. And look for training ropes, and rope to the railing. Its something and better than nothing. Amati has nothing at all. Just clued the guns on deck.
 
 
Hope you enjoy my topic here. And if you have any tips. Please tell me.
 

Great detail on the painting. And some fine craftsmanship as well.
I have been looking at getting this model as well, but from what you have said, I think it may be easier to find some plans and just scratch build her, or at least all the deck furniture. 
Looks like an interesting project. I will certainly pull up a chair and follow along.

Nice work Rik, I have this model In my collection and I'm very fond of it.
 
I did tweak it a little and replaced the rather crude carronades with carriage guns and dispensed with the very poor cast decorations.
 
I also rigged it by reference to external sources.
 
Look forward to seeing progress on your build
 
Regards,
 
B.E.

Hello Rik, unfortunately my build of this kit long pre-dated either MSW or the internet, so there is no build log for her.
 
I do have photographs and this one should give you some idea of her.
 

 
I planked her with boxwood strip, and the rigging was done by reference to The Naval Cutter Alert 1777 by Peter Goodwin (in the Anatomy of the ship series of books.)
 
Regards,
 
B.E.

Interesting model B.E.  I don't think I've ever seen a small ship like this that had a spreader at the cross-trees while carrying a square topsail.  Maybe I just haven't been paying attention!

Thanks for al the likes and follows.
 
BE,
Thanks for your picture. She is a real beauty. Love it.
New update, just added the cannons. Still a lot of word for only 12 canons. But hey.... It looks as it should.
 
Hoping to get a bigger update soon, but making al those nuts, is very time consuming. For now, busy with the training tackels.

Well, first canon is ready now. Need to copy this to the rest. It's time consuming that's why it cost a lot time, and I need to work also. Hope to have more time in this weekend.
 
For now, just to show the way I set up the canons.
 
 

Yesterday (Wednesday), another Swedish ship from 17th century was found. This time at a depth of 6m (about 18t).
She is slightly bigger than Wasa with 66 cannons.
Her name is Solen (the Sun), built in Lubeck 1669, sunk 1694.
Armament:
16x24 pounder
8x18 pounder
24x12 pounder
2x8 pounder
14x6 pounder
2x4 pounder
4x3 pounder
 
Length: 45meter
Width:12 meter

I'm glad you know what topics are of interest to me on an internet forum.  
 
You might also notice that I did not add anything to this thread until it left the topic as you list it above, and went into the "why doesn't everyone else do it this way" area, with more than a little bit of derision implied for those who are foolish enough to simply buy their wood to build a model, and the implication that their work will never "stand out", or they aren't an "artist".
 
I was simply providing some input from the (apparently) non-artistic side.  I'll go back to building my ugly boats out of lego bricks now.

So I'll go one step further for those that still seem to think that I should 'collect my own wood' rather than purchasing what I need. 
 
I have exactly zero interest in doing that.  I like building models.  I have no interest in acquiring the large tools needed to break down the parts of a tree into piles of wood that have to sit in storage for years before I can use it for modeling ships.  
This is a hobby that I enjoy, and wood harvesting, cutting, and aging is not a hobby that I have an interest in.
 
For some people those are two facets of the same hobby.  For me, that's like telling someone who makes plastic models that they need to make their own plastic and pour their own molds.  It's two completely separate hobbies that just happen to flow one into the other, and in my case (and I'm sure the vast majority of ship modelers) that first hobby just isn't an interest for me.
 
If you think that my models are 'flat' or not 'artistic' or whatever because of that, well, that's perfectly fine, because I'm not building my models for you, I'm building my models for me, and I'm perfectly fine with buying my 'fake' boxwood or whatever else I deem to look nice for the model that I'm building.

Now it works with the camera.