Ronald-V

Those wales look beautiful! And your hull looks super smooth! 🤩 For the sand through spots...maybe some sanding dust with diluted PVA to fill it up? Or mixing some paints to match the color of your pear and cover the underlying wood with it (would test both methods first on scrap pieces). Or like you said...if it don't bothers you, then it's okay ofcourse  

Thanks for all your kind compliments and likes! 💫

Update:

Starboard side closed! Just 7 strakes left on port side  

That looks like a beautiful way of displaying her! Curious about the final photo's!

Congratulations with finishing this monumental task! Well done!

It's nice to see you improving from design to design Chris, also with the instant feedback you get from the forum. It's a small detail that you don't see any ply underneath the edges of the see-through of the deck anymore...those little improvements are really cool to see! 

Always a nice start of the week when there is an update of James building new stuff from Vanguard Models 😁🎉

Love those detail photo's! Outstanding work  

That looks lovely indeed!

We will give you a better example of the game after this match   ( I hope 😆)

You have clever solutions how to approach this...nice!  

Thanks!

It's good you have some distraction from that snooze fest on your laptop...  

Your rigging is a real example for others!  

What kind of black paint did you use on the wales? Looks a matt black/grey-ish. I like it, but maybe it's just the lighting?

Are your wife and daughter here in Amsterdam? Because Swift is giving the last few days concerts here in Amsterdam. I'm not a fan  but it's all over the news.

Nice gratings btw!

Excellent result! Love the overall color and impression of the ship, really nice. Congratulations!  

Welcome!  

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! 💫