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Trussben
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Port side square framing well underway.
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What red did you use? The paintings seem to show more of a brighter orangie red? Do you plan on straight main wales or in anchor stock style? Any type of templates for keeping the port surrounds at the correct width?
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Port side framing ready for cleaning of laser char.
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Starboard side framing completed, now onto the port side. Obviously it looks awful at this stage as it needs “a **** ton” of sanding and fairing but we will get to that soon enough.
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Work on the forward apron and cant frames has begun, nothing glued in place yet, just checking the fit.
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Liking the progress, what material will you be planking with? AYC like the other prototype?
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Nice, enjoy the framing!
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Work on the aft cant frames is well underway.
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Deadwood has been shaped and more framing completed.
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Several more frame pairs added, moving at a good pace now I’m in the groove.
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Aft deadwood piece was cleaned of char and adjusted so it was a nice tight fit in its position, it’s not been glued in as its shape needs to be sanded closer to what it will finally look like.
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Here are the first few Starboard side frames installed, we will begin to get a proper feel for what the model is going to look like now. The designer has left lots of “meat on the bones” for later fairing of the hull when framing is complete.
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Starboard side gunport framing completed, now to start cleaning the char from the Frame pieces and begin installing them. I intend to frame this side and when done turn her around and frame all the port side.
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Hance pieces and fairing caps installed and I’ve started framing the starboard side gunports.
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Looks awesome Chris.
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And now beginning to glue all of the longitudinals pieces in place that will help frame all of the gunports.
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Some more of the stern parts being added to include the aft balcony floor, aft gunport framing and some filler pieces.
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Here are the final jig parts for the moment, these two mdf pieces mount on top of the aft jig assembly and give support to the tallest bulkhead extensions at the level of the Quarterdeck, they also hold the parts for the gunports.
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All six counter Timbers installed, the other horizontal ones are for the framing of the aft gunports and the other transoms. The long runners down each side of the ship are not yet glued in place, just there to keep everything in its place until this stern framing is completed.
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The beginning of the stern framing starts with the “wing” transom, this part has etched and cut into it the positions for the counter Timbers and the aft gunports. I carefully removed the laser char and then using heat I bent it into shape so that it clicked into the jig slots correctly. It only gets glued to the central former at the moment - NOT to the jig pieces!
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