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What is everyone's opinion on the shade of yellow? I tried half a dozen shades of yellow. Picked the one I thought closest. Test strip looked good. Once I applied to entire hull....seems too lemony. Too late to change. I'm starting to grow on it. What do you think? Honest opinion please! :-)
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So.....it's been awhile since my last post. But I have made some progress. Put some paint on. Some more work on headrails...and started the canons. Built a stand out of blood wood. I didn't like the plywood stand
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Made some progress. Put the wales on. Then the first part of the headrails. 4 pieces of wood took 2 weeks if you include the planning and thinking about how to do it and building jigs, failled,broken pieces etc..the headrails néeded to bend all in all 3 dimensions and they need to match. I am very happy with how it turned out.
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Also. I didn't like the plywood stand so I rebuilt it using a piece of blood wood that I had. It came out ok. Blood wood looks really nice but its a tough wood to work with. Kept spintering and chipping on me
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Time for a update. Planking took awhile but I finally finished the second layer. No too bad only needed 1 stealer on each side. Next I'm laying out positions of waterline, the wales and gunports before I commit and cut out the gunports
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Chris, Your Friesland is looking great. Yes Ratlines take forever on this ship , but it pays off when you see them all finished.. Same with the gun ports when you look down the side and see them all lined up. I actually built this ship as well a good 10 years back. Took me a couple of years to complete. You may already know this but there is at least one, maybe two Dutch replica ships that are very similar to Friesland. Google TS Holland. Best
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One plank, two plank, three plank, four........ slowly getting there on the second layer. I'm down to 10 planks left on each side. Last few are getting tough as they need to bend/curve more severely upwards towards the bow. No stealers. Yet...
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One plank, two plank, three plank, four........ slowly getting there on the second layer. I'm down to 10 planks left on each side. Last few are getting tough as they need to bend/curve more severely upwards towards the bow. No stealers. Yet...
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Slowly Maki g progress on the second layer of planking about 1/3 way done. You can see my jig and rubber band contraption for holding planks in place while the glue sets
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Wes beatififul work. I gotta ask though when you going to go back your Connie. That's my next one to start soon. I went though your log. Incredible work. ...
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As you can see in my pics.. I put yellow tape where the water line and the wales go. It took me hours and hours to line them up to where I think they are right. I think they are accurate. After second planking is done... I'll get to figure them out again. And they need to be correct relative to the gun ports. Any tricks you guys use for getting the run of the wales right. And for positioning the gun ports correctly. The way I did it.... Taking measurements from the plans, and using the equivalent of a waterline marker...I measured straight up vertically from the bottom of the keel. (Not following curvature of the hull. just straight up vertically) and marked the position of top and bottom of the wales. By eye,,, they seemed to come out right. Any better suggestions on how to do this?
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So my first build log. This model was actually a present to my father. He started the model and got as far as completing the frames and orlop deck. But he passes away a few year ago. I recently found his started model. So I will complete it for him. I've been following JeffE build of the same model and will "borrow" some of his ideas. As his build is turning out beautiful. As I model on and off as time and life permits. I'm counting on the knowledge and encouragement of this group to keep me progressing 🙂 So away we go.
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L'Hermoine was in Newport RI this summer . She is a beautiful ship. I tried posting some pics here but they are all much bigger than the allowed 2 mb size
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Jeff, Not sure if you already said earlier in your log. What color paint / manufacturer did you use for the Nelson yellow stripes on hull ... and inside bulwarks.... Cannon carriages? Is it same shade of yellow for all?. I have several shades of yellow.. some from model expo. Yellow Ocher etc... But none really look even close to the right pale shade of yellow. Thanks K Ken
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Jeff, Your Victory Bow is inspiring. I'm in the midst of building the same model. I'm just finishing up the first layer of planking. Looking through you build log, I've already picked up ideas from you're build, that I'll apply to mine. Thanks Best Ken
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