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Good luck with it Rich. you can sort it and be back on track in no time
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My first line working to the stern I kept my tiles butted up tight on the vertical. My second line I kept my tiles butted up tight on the horizontal. Third line back to butting up on the vertical, the line should then follow the curvature of the hull as shown. And then as Shipyard Sid always advises I filled in the gaps.
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I've planked the inner Bulwarks just to get a little break from the copper plating as you can see. I've also cleaned up and re-painted the waterline on the port side and now it's back to copper plating the hull. I'll try to be a little more informative this time around instead of just showing pictures. I'm not saying this is how it should be done, I'm just showing the way I did it "remember I'm a novice and this is my first ship build". Starting from the keel I've done 21 tiles on the Horizontal and formed a pyramid formation 18 tiles high.
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I'm relativity new at this game as you all know, reading this thread has me very concerned, I've just recently purchased Caldercrafts/Jotika's Victory and i didn't do an inventory check neither, I hope and pray I don't have the issues of missing parts like some of you on here. I was strongly leaning towards putting Agamemnon on the shelf as a next build but this thread has clearly put me off of that.
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Thanks for your kind words of encouragement guys and for the PM's "you know who you are" It's looking like I've sorted the problem, I was using scissors to cut the plates which made them curl and to be quite frank, the measuring was pretty sloppy on my part. I've re-Done some of the infill plates with a small steel rule and sharp scalpel, the results are much much better, cleaner looking lines I'll post a pic later this evening. Now I'm happy to proceed.
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So the copper plating begins, I've decided to use a medium super glue gel for this task as it gives me some control on the quantity needed, I'm not really that confident on how this is going to go, so the plan is to take my time, do the best I can and pray I know quite a few of you have decided to start on the waterline but I've elected to stick with what the instructions say and start at the keel. If it does start to go tits up and get a bit scrappy i'll copper leaf the entire hull when finished, this should hide any imperfections and give a uniform look when complete. We'll see how it goes, I'll update regularly on here my progress, fingers crossed
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