Ronald-V

Exciting!

6 hours ago, Bill97 said:

Thank you so much Ronald-V. Appreciated you looking in and your compliments. 
Whenever I see a comment from someone new to my post I find it fun to check the profile to see how far MSW reaches around the world 😊!  How are things in the Netherlands?  Been to several of the cities west if you (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, etc) but never Joure. No doubt it is as beautiful as the rest of the country. 

Yes it's quite special we are in contact with so many around the world. I can imagine you've never been in Joure....it's a small village of 13.000 people in the North, not really a tourist attraction, but nice to live in. It's good here in the Netherlands, thanks for asking!  

Agreed with Brunnels! Lovely planking! Almost sad you going to cover it with paint  

Update:

Garboard strake is in place. Used a 6mm wide plank for this. This gave me mid-ship 4mm wide planks for the final belt (well 4.1 to be precise ) but close enough.

It was not an easy plank and here and there I have a small seam, but I will use the cheat code of glue with some sanding dust to cover this  

The plank is out of one piece so I used diluted PVA to glue this piece on...this gave me plenty of time to get it in place.

One important thing was that the tip of the strake at the bow didn't curved up...and that didn't happen so I'm quite pleased with the result.

Now starts the whole song over with dividing the last belt etc...  

That is indeed beautiful, wonderful solution and love the gold leaf onto it!

That is a smooth looking hull!

The colors look great! Going fast now, and great to hear you have power back online  

Looking great! Another milestone reached! 💫

37 minutes ago, Katsumoto said:

Good bye Mugje, hello Ronald!

 

excellent planking job so far. Looks very clean and accurate 

Thanks Peter! And everyone else for the likes!

You have nice toys!   and stern piece looks great!  

Wonderful model and great way of presenting her...love the "floating" stand  

Excellent result! Congratulations and enjoy your next project  

Cool and ambitious project! Will be interesting to see how this develops  

Have fun!

Such a cute little cutter, progress is nice!  

Changed my screen name by the way...now it's just my birth name, feels a bit more personal  

1 hour ago, glbarlow said:

Well done, it will look even better sanded, no worries about gaps. 

Thanks Glenn  

I soaked the garboard planks for a half hour in some warm water, and installed them with sufficient clamps onto the ship against the keel.

I've read in the planking PDF that it's easier to keep the garboard strake in one piece, and that sounds like a good plan. So probably will do that  

It's beautiful weather today here in Holland so this was a nice little job to do and I can now let it dry for 24h...good excuse to go outside!  

Looking good! Kinda funny when your girlfriend needs your shipbuilding tool to iron her clothes  

I bought myself a little travel iron...they are a bit smaller than the usual ones which is a bit more handy.

7 hours ago, cdrusn89 said:

I had not thought about painting the inside of the great cabin. It looks much better (IMHO) than the "natural" that was what I did on Wincheslea and Confederacy.

 

Something to consider for Indy as I am probably too far along on Sphinx.

It really does, it makes it fresh and light. I think it draws also more light in the cabin when the ship is finished with the deck on top.

9 hours ago, cdrusn89 said:

Very, very nice work. I wish mine looked this good unsanded.

Thanks! I hope it will look good after sanding...there is a bit of fear that when sanding, seams will appear because I have not bevelled the edges enough or something like that.

But that's a bit of insecurity from my part...we will see. I have made some mistakes with the planks fitting into the rabbet, especially at the bow. I will make later some pictures of that, so others can learn from it. (basicly I sanded the first layer too much so there is a gap between the final planking and rabbet, will fill that up with some sanding dust)

Thanks everyone for the likes! appreciate it!  

Small update:

Finish line is in sight, just closed the 3rd band. One more band on both sides, and I'm done.
I thought the 3rd band would be easy, but the first 3 strakes at the stern were the hardest I've encountered. The sharp curve up was difficult. A combination of measuring, using a template and just eyeballing worked reasonably well.

Now first the garboard strake and continue working from there. Photo's are a bit crappy, when it's finished I will shoot some better pics. 

Not sanded yet

Those curved gratings look so nice...you wouldn't say a slight curve would make such a difference in appearance...but it does!  

Looking forward for Jim tackling the Harpy!

Sorry for your loss, that's always hard to experience...and glad you made it through with your health, and you can look forward and build some models!  

Lovely work! That table has a lot of details, nice  

Looking good! You are making big steps! Applying the gunwales scare me a little bit lol, but yours look great