Trussben

First couple of planks below the channel wales installed, taking time to carefully leave the 1/32” reveal around the gunports.
 

Looks great JJ,

Will there be some sort of carving or relief in the coving? The painting of Portland and picture of Bristol appear to show something in there?

Enjoy all the sanding.

NICE!

Great news! glad to hear it.

Looks Fantastic JJ.

Sweet

She looks a lot different without all the jigs there!

Planking on the port side from the frieze panels down including the channel wales completed.

Looks Awesome JJ,

Look forward to seeing how she is with all the planking totally finished.

Very Very nice clean work.

22 hours ago, scrubbyj427 said:

Beautiful work on the planking Ben. That boxwood looks lovely. Really looking forward to seeing the ebony go on.

Thanks JJ

I had toyed with the idea of doing the channel wales in Ebony but finally decided to keep things closer to the paintings.

Oh! Gotcha!

That is the space where the main and mizzen channels will be inserted.

32 minutes ago, woodartist said:

What is the historical purpose of the "slight off set/change in width" in planking on the stern? It appears that the planks are the same thickness.

Not quite sure what your asking? The widths of the planking do narrow up a bit as they get further forward and aft on the hull, widest around midships.

2 hours ago, Rustyj said:

Looking really good and I get more excited with each update!

You think that you may build Portland after you finish Speedwell Rusty? I'm sure JJ would be delighted!

Planking on the Stbd side from the frieze panels down to and including the channel wales has been completed except for the foremost upper piece of the channel wale which the instructions say to leave out at the moment.

All of the gunports will need going back to, to be refined and repainted, the upper deck aft two and QD aft port will need the edges fixing for the port lids.

I will now move to the port side and do the same.

I can wait to see the bulldog!

Hey Dusan

Make sure that the final frames are located as far aft as they will go in the upper locator slots to make sure that the wing transoms reach them.

Ben 

Planking strips of different sizes all cut.

At full size and (1:48) they are as follows going downwards along the hull:-

3" ( 0.0625") thick basswood frieze panels as supplied with the kit.

3" ( 0.0625") thick boxwood from Channel wales up to the frieze panels ( 2 strakes ).

5" ( 0.1042") thick boxwood Channel wales ( 3 strakes )

4" ( 0.0833") thick boxwood thickstuff above wales ( 4 strakes )

5.5" ( 0.1145") thick ebony black strake ( 1 strake )

6" ( 0.125") thick ebony Main wales ( 4 strakes )

4" ( 0.0833") thick Holly thickstuff below wales ( 1-2 strakes as required )

The sizes above came from the "scantlings" book for a 50gun 4th rate ( steel's table ).

Dusan - yes it’s Caldercraft red ochre.

Boxwood and Ebony sheets milled down from big stock, now to cut lots of planking strips.

Lower hull fairing has been completed, gunports have had a coat of paint and the frieze panels are installed, currently machining down planking material while I wait for the Chapter 2 instructions.

Upper hull sanding and fairing has been completed so I masked off and starting prepping the gunports for paint.

First any little gaps in and around the ports were filled with filler and then sanded gently back and then two coats of Tamiya surface primer was applied, next up will be painting the ports in red ochre, then fitting the frieze panels and finally to complete the lower hull sanding.

Those are some of the hardest things on a fully framed model to make, I think my Pegasus ones had two or three attempts before I was happy to move on.

Try building some of the other stuff and come back to it with a fresher mind - I know that always helps me when I get frustrated.

Looking fantastic either way.

Nice to see her progress!