Jonesey

4 hours ago, wefalck said:

Actually not. The under-planking is just there to allow better fairing of the real planking. So, the rabbet should be cut, after the under-planking is on.

Thank you.

That makes sense!

So if you're double planking, presumably you would need to cut away enough material from the keel to accommodate both layers yes?

I do like your hatches, racks & ladders!

Did you have to craft the ladders or are there pre-built parts I haven't cone across yet?

Are you intending to use the supplied gun ports/hatches or you going to make your own?

She's a real beauty.

I recently started again on my Corel 1:98 Victory but I'm nowhere near as far advanced as you are - haven't even started on the hull planking yet.

Your work is an inspiration! 

I see what you mean about the supplied rope, it just doesn't fall naturally like a real rope would.

Apart from that your cannons look really good

I certainly will mate

It was so hot in Portsmouth last Saturday (for England!) I couldn't stay below decks for too long it was just stifling - God knows what it would have been like in the heat of battle with cannons blazing

Have you taken a look at any of those moulded bits yet? They're tricky buggers to remove from the backing card and even trickier cleaning them up

And there are loads of them 😂

Yes, treated myself to a trip to Portsmouth last Saturday. In "the flesh" she is absolutely awesome!

might help:

That's interesting. My holes are way too small, certainly for the 2 x 10mm masts - Fore & Main

Mizzen is, I believe, 8mm

Yep, nothing like planning in advance before you cut off access 😂😂

Have you enlarged the holes for the masts yet or are you leaving that for now?

Before you close the hull up with the planking, have you given any thought about how the masts are seated?

As far as I can see, they simply sit on top of the lower deck which doesn't fill me with the greatest of confidence about heir stability and was thinking about making something up for them to sit in

As promised, some photos from yesterday's trip

Didn't really appreciate the size of her, absolutely massive when up close

Off to Portsmouth today to take a look at the real thing

I'll post some pictures when I get back

Progress report:

All frames new glued, along with the 2 strengthening beams and the lower deck

Couple of pictures below

I made up a very simple jig for cutting the deck planks. I secured my steel ruler at right angles with a fairly heavy duty clamp. This enabled me to mount another clamp at the desired length (72.6mm) and also provided some much needed stability

It won't be long before I turn my attention to the hull planking 😬, but before I start planking I'd like to know what anyone has done regarding securing the masts?

As far as I can see, the Corel kit doesn't address this and the bottoms of the masts will simply rest on a quite narrow bit of keel.

I was contemplating coppering the lower hull on my Corel Victory,but I think I've changed my mind and going for the wood finish

I'm doing my first proper inventory of the entire kit and please correct me if I'm wrong, but the deck planking is comprised of the really thin and flimsy 600mm long strips yes?

2 more frames glues in tonight. Started amidships, now working fore & aft, squaring as I go and dry fitting the upper deck for my own peace of mind 😊

What do you use to scrape your decks DA?

Well I bit the bullet and widened all my bulkhead slots so the beams now fit reasonably snugly.

Now that the dry fit looks good I'm going to start gluing the bulkheads in. Squaring each one off as I go with reference to the keel, the beams (26) and the 2 levels of decking.

Wish me luck!

Thanks guys

I've spent the evening widening every single slot and the beams now fit snugly into them

I'll follow this up on my own build log rather than hijacking Dark Angels

Quick question for you DA

When you came to fit the 2 long beams that run front to back, did you narrow the beam or widen the slots?

Mine are a good 3/32 too wide currently

I'm just getting back to work on the Vic after 4 years in a state of hiatus

Thanks

Well, doesn't life get in the way sometimes.

Four long years during which we had to have our cat of 17 years put down. We eventually replaced him with a very adorable, precocious young lady.

I lost my father who sadly could not be replaced

We became grandparents for the first time and number 2 is on the way

I've changed my job

And to cap it off we had an extension built which put the dockyard totally out of commission for a year

Other than that it's been extremely dull 😂

So I'm back and raring to go on the Victory once again.

I made my first big mistake yesterday and managed to break bulkhead 14 so had to fashion a new one

I've also built a  much better keel jig following ideas i saw on another Victory thread

As ever, I'm going to kick off with a question

Parts 26 do not fit into the bulkhead slots by quite some margin

There seems to be 2 options - widen the bh slots or narrow the width of the 2 pieces in question

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Lovely work Nick

Tthanks Brian.