JeffT

A Dremel or similar would probably do the trick.

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Another quick update. As before, pretty much stuck to the instructions. The exception is that I painted all the bulwarks parts off the model. Next up is fairing the hull.

Probably true. She is a pretty skilled modeler though.

Current state of the sphinx. The only variation from the instructions is the extra support added along the false deck.

Very impressive work Paul.

Makes sense to me Brian. Happy New Year!

I remember doing this on the Conny. Its a painstaking process. I ended up filling some of the gaps with copper tape. Just overlapped the plates to pick up the rivets.

Welcome to MSW Michael. Very nice work.

I think the Medway Longboat will be the first that I rig.

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Merry Christmas! The Speedwell looks great.

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I had the same issue last night.

I've got most of the stem, stern and keel done now. This was pretty challenging since there were a lot of parts involved. One thing I need to get better at is sanding the edges of the parts cleanly. I seem to end up with a crowned edge or an edge with more off one side than the other. I'm going to have to come up with a way to make sure I get a nice clean edge, especially on surfacers that are glued together. I ended up having to fill a few gaps. I'm sanding manually so that's part of the problem. The laser cut parts have quite a bit of laser burn which is also ridged so its tough. Anyway here are some pics of my current progress. This is the upper part of the stem not glued yet. Its hard to tell from the picture but these are all built up from 3 layers. This is to accommodate the option to split the hull. I'm not building that option so will have these seams visible. Some parts of the stem assembled And done. The part you see sitting there is positioned approximately where its to be glued but I'm not 100% sure exactly of the position, so its not glued yet. There are steps that go here also for the forward frames but again not sure of the exact position so I haven't glued them on. Something I'm going to have to figure out. Something tells me the position of these parts is critical. You can also see there is a lot of color variation in the parts. The parts of the stem after removal from the sheet. These are CNC cut (all but one part) and there's some cleanup to do. After cleanup The overall

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They both look very nice!

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