JeffT

Well, I decided yo go ahead and get a jump on the Sphinx since I'm waiting for the instructions and plans for the Granado. A picture is worth a thousand words so not much to say here that's not already been said so here you go: I have an extra set of hands to help out, thanks little dude A courtesy dry fit shot I wasn't sure how critical this was but wanted everything as squared as possible. Pre-sanding all done. I was a little nervous about doing this off model but I just went for it. On to the bow. Used the angle plate for this too to keep it all square. All sanded. I left a little at the top until after attaching to the hull. I was a little worried about squaring this area off too much. And here they are attached. All the bulkheads are glued on at this point. I glued the bulkheads on the old fashioned way...one at a time squaring each one along the way. The lower deck was glued on using the watered down glue method. I watered the glue down about 90/10. You may be able to see the pencil mark on the lower rear part of the stern section in the last picture. A little more will need to come off there when I do the final fairing. This is the sander I used for the off hull work on the bow and stern. It seemed to work the best for me. This is an ADC mini sander with 150 grit.

That was fast...lol

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I think someone else had a similar issue which Chris looked into. Check the other build logs.

I know what your saying Brian. I don't think I have the skills to pull of the split hull so I think its best for me to not do so..

Glad to hear that Bob.

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I couldn't help myself. The box is open so I took some pictures. This is part 1 for the kit so it has all the parts necessary to finish the framing. At least I think so. I don't really know what I'm looking at yet since I don't have the plans. Tom did respond and everything will be in the mail shortly. There are two boxes. One contains the parts for the ship and the other is the parts for the build jig. Most parts are laser cut and they look very good. There are a few parts that are CNC cut I think. The keel parts are somewhere in there too I think, 6B maybe.

Thanks for following! I just popped open the box, no pictures yet though. I did however notice that there are no plans, frame diagrams or instructions in the box so I sent Tom a message to sort that out.

Oh...and I'll also mention that I won't be building the split hull option.

This will be my build log for the CAF Model HMS Granado, 1/48 scale. I've always wanted to build a true plank on frame and thought this would be a good place to start. This is to be more of a side project so there won't be rapid progress. I'll open the box this weekend and post some pictures of what's inside as a start.

It looks huge

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Nice computer monitor!

and we all appreciate it

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Can you make a template from the plans? I think that would be helpful in getting the shape correct.

Welcome to MSW. Yes, do start a build log.

Welcome to MSW. Your model looks very nice!

Looks like metal to me. Can't tell from the pictures that its actually wood.

Welcome to MSW. One way you can do that is to follow your topic, look to the upper right corner of the topic. There is also an index that I update periodically that you can download. It will have a link to your build log:

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