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I added the mast mortise and sanded all bulkheads flush with the false keel, so the false deck will fit on properly later. Next: Adding filler blocks and stern wing transom... Due to the curvature of the deck I made myself a tool, consisting of three layers of spruce, watered, bend to curved shape and glued. Then some sanding paper is attached with double adhesive tape, so the tool can be used again after the sanding paper is no longer of use.
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I started to make some replacement keel parts out of boxwood. The kit supplied walnut parts are not bad, but I find boxwood much better to work with. It is much easier to paint, holds edges very well and doesn't have the tendency to split especially when it comes to planking. And in my opinion dark walnut makes shipmodels often look like old furnitures. And it is good practice for future scratchbuilding too. I decide to add the keel parts later as I did with the sherbourne before and to glue the bulkheads in place first. The AVS kit is designed with a lot of bulkheads to install, that should make planking much easier in comparison to the sherboune. The Caldercraft sherboune and also the ballahoo which I did before are labelled as beginner kits but both have only a few bulkheads so I ended up spending as much time for the first planking, filler and sanding as for the second planking. Maybe a lot of people starting this hobby will soon get frustrated with planking because of this and never build another model. So good kit-design is surely a nessesary thing to avoid frustration and to provide motivation for the long time usually spend to build even a kit.
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Hello everyone, this is my third kit build and my first build-log. I wanted to build the excellent cheerful semi-scratch cutter designed by Chuck Passaro next but decided to build this one first cause it was a gift from my wife last christmas and she keeps asking me when I will begin building it. So construction has begun with little one-year delay. The kit itself seems to be of good quality but I may replace some wood with boxwood and some cast-parts. First thing I did was to build a rack to put the model on during the construction. Then I carefully released the bulkheads to dry-fit on the keel.
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That is a very neat looking bowsprit. Can't wait to see more progress.
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Nice workplace. But it seems like bulkhead 2 and 3 have to change numbers and places.
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Beautiful work!
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Wow, that is really beautiful work. I can't stop looking at the pictures..
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Looks very good. The Sherbourne is a beautiful little ship and it is so nice to see builders upgrading the kit so often. BTW this is my Sherbourne, about 6 weeks away from completition (Hope to finish it before chrismas). Second build, first was the schooner ballahoo (CC).
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I'm following your build-log with great interest and appreciate your beautiful work so far. I'm in the progress to start a cutter POB project (HMC Sherbourne) soon (and maybe will build a Cheerful in the future) and was lucky to be one of the last customer to buy boxwoood from Mr. Hayes before he closed his store for new customers. However I wonder why the boxwood you've used for your project has mainly a warm yellow/cream color while the stripes I received are of a more rich brownish color. Is that an effect of watering and using wipe on poly, do you use a special type of boxwood (other than castillo) or differs the wood color according to age, quality etc.? I have no chance to get minwax wipe on poly here in germany due to airmail regulations and missing distibutors, It's not my intention to hijack the topic but a question I ask myself. Thanks for any answer.
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Looking good so far.
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