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  1. LMDAVE29
    Yeah, I went back and looked at yours just now, yours came out great! I probably should have done a transfer like that to work with.
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    Working on the grating on the deck, the one at the bow it the most intricate. In most kits they provided premade cast grating that you had to paint to look like real wood....not this one, you had to make them from somewhat scratch...at least they provided the crossbeams with slits in them already. But, that's the fun of these build is making the pieces. The bow didn't come out as perfect as things are not perfectly centered, so I had to make adjustments for that.
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    More Shields, and some attention to the bow section.
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    Spent a little time this holiday painting the shields for the ship. Very intricate painting involved. Also, added the lantern
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    Thanks guys, yeah I've notice many different kits over the years from others' builds with different color pieces and assemblies. So more updates....finished the rudder, except I forgot a few nails in the bracket I'll need to get back to.
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    Here's a little off cycle task of the anchor, I wanted to see how well I could make the cast anchor stock look like real wood. Here's the before and after
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    ahh...I see now about the canons that you replaced with wood, I was also referring to the anchor stock. I guess you replaced that with wood also. Very good work! I'm working on painting the iron anchor stock now to see how it will come out.
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    Wow, this is some very good work you did on this. YOu did a great job on making the cast iron pieces look like wood. I've tried several different methods of this in the past. Which one works best for you? (basecoat? and how do you apply to final coats?) Thanks
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    Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when doing the lantern. I've been making a stern effort in finishing this section
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    Thanks. I'm working on the stern section. They gave pre-casted windows and door for captain's quarters stern. I wanted to make the windows look real as possible, so I wanted to use Tamiya clear paints for the panes, but all I had at the time was red and amber (perfect for model car signal lights), I decided to use the red to give it a stained glass look to be something "different" than the average white-ish windows I see on most of the other versions of this.
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    Decided to hold off on finishing the handrails this weekend and to jump back and finish the rubbing strake and trim around the hull and stern, and go ahead and finish painting the hinges on the the gun pot cover. It was time to add them on. Even though there's a long way to go, this step really push the model forward.
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    Thanks, finished up the interior and jumped to the cap rails, these kinda tedious, if you want to get a good fit, especially the center cap because it requires bending flat-wise. I'm putting a gloss varnish on these caps, if it's too glossy in the end, and sanding slightly down.
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    Moving onto the interior again, lining the deck walls with the left over deckboards strips. The baseboard edges will be finished with some stained applewood strips.
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    More shots of the rubbing strakes and gun port holes:
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    Added the rubbing strakes to one side, and this was a pain. Decided to use CA glue for all of the wood strips, and had a lot of griping problems and messes to clean up, then when cutting the canon holes I almost destroyed the hull. The walnut is very brittle, be careful if drilling, and whatever sawing/cutting method you use, let me know, because it was hell cutting these holes.
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    Thanks Phil! Stangone50, yeah, the planking wraps around the front and should be a few mm about the deck, but the deck wasn't meeting the plank flush. Just like the step to put trim on the side of the deck where the walls meet, they didn't show doing that in the front, so this trim will match what is being done on the rest of the other decks. I may even conside sanding down that trim to the level of the plank because of the future instalation there. That being the grating in the bow, I don't know the term for it.
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    Here some finished shots of the planking, the starboard side hull still needs some more shaping and sanding. I added the extra trim pieces (not in the plans) to the bow deck because the preinstalled deck boards and the hull planks didn't meet perfect. So, some trim dressed that up some.
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    Thanks guys. Yes Brett, I've been putting in some time on her this weekend, and maybe catch up with you someday.
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    That's looks great! It's amazing once you sand and put poly on it how it brings it to life. I only put a sanding sealer on mine and note sure if I'm going with a semi-gloss poly or not. What sheen is this poly? Semi Gloss?
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    OK, so I decided just to keep moving forward. I know my bow plank is not traditional, I need more research before doing this one. It doesn't bother me, I think it looks fine, but not the traditional method on a real ship which I'll learn eventually. Anyway, I sanded the heck out of this side just to see how it all came out, and even put sanding sealer on the help me find the imperfections still needing sanding, so that's not varnish. I'll stop here and continue on with the rest now. I'll have to do the other side the exact way to be matching.
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    Thanks guys. I was looking at the site that had a lot of build logs of this ship but when it comes to planking most show the first two strips then the final picture, and I didn't get to really see how they approached that and all were somewhat different. I laid about 5 planks from the middle down, and you can see that as the curvature transitioned to the keel I had to add a steeler plank in the filed the gap and allowed the planks to become straight. So to get the curvature going up the 'apple' front I skipped down to the bottom band and the garboard plank (not sure if this is the correct approach, but now I have all planks in that will touch against the keel and now can just start filling in and meet in the middle.
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    The name's Dave actually But thanks, actually I was considering pulling the nails because sanding seemed like it would be a nightmare with nail stems shreadding the paper to where I could only use a file. I do like the looks of the nails in it in the presented picture on the box . So, it's a trade off I suppose. I'm leaning towards pulling the nails though.
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    My method of prebending the planks for the bow. Just turn on the water kettle and let it boil, stick the end in there for about 20-30 seconds, then slip them under the rubber bands, I do about 3 at a time. This is my first time planking a ship of this shape, I don't even know the correct term for the curved bow. But it appears that after I lay about 3-4 planks going towards the keel, I need to skip a few then start curving up, then fill in the skipped space with tapered planks. I wish there was a planking layout for this model.
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    Thanks guys. I've finished planking the stern. I was adding the nails in just for cosmetic reasons, but could file the heads so easy, So I decided not to continue with this for the rest. However, when I got to the first planking of the hull I had to use nails. I've been able to plank my first to building with just glue, however this thick walnut strip is the only way to hold it. I realized I shouldn't put the nails all the way in so I can come back and cut them. I need a good cutter just for this, because it will ruin my current cutter. Anyway, here are some pics.
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    Thanks Sephirem, riksgewijs About the Keel, it appear to be alright as if, once planked, there's a keel cap that will meet perfectly with the rudder. Metal parts in the mast? I plan to paint them to look like real wood if I can. Moving right along. I finished planking the stern and decided to jump right into gluing the false sides on, the the dreaded planking it next.

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