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Jaggy

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  1. Hello all, I've not posted for a little while since all I've been doing is planking the hull and frankly I found it to be a bore. Quite a tedious step, I'd rather do a hull any day. So, rather then bore you with a plank by plank photo essay I'll just show you what it looks like today:
  2. I've given up on finding sanding sealer (not paying $60 a quart on Amazon) and moved on to my deck. I made this jig so my trenail holes would be uniform at the butts. First two in place!
  3. My local Home Depot store not only does not sell sanding sealer, they deny its existamce. Same at Rona, so I gave up. Seems it's just not a popular product in Canada..
  4. I sanding it to smooth things out and airbrushed another coat on. It looks pretty good, but now I'm upset that the planks are not smoother underneath. They show some compression from the clothespins I used to clamp them, so I'm not entirely happy. Ripping it all up is an unattractive option though.
  5. I used US Navy Norfolk Red 65A from White Ensign. I wish I had used a primer first, and responded before applying the color. As it is, I will res and tonight and apply another coat instead.
  6. I have a question about what I'm doing next. Chucks practicum instructs me to finish the stern rail and cap rail before doing the deck. I think I'd like to do the deck first, so I do not mar the rails which are going to be pretty soft (really not in love with basswood). Can any of you give me a solid reason not to do the deck next?
  7. I've caved to peer pressure and tried out a new shade of red. It's still a bit wet in these images and I need to sand and apply another coat, but I think you will like the color now.
  8. Ah, then perhaps this is the right shade: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/HMS_Bounty_Crew_2.jpg/800px-HMS_Bounty_Crew_2.jpg
  9. I thought it was supposed to be a bright red, to hide blood in battle. Surely the dark rust primers of 20th C warships are a new invention, why assume they belong here?
  10. More progress: I found the carving tricky and had to make a few to get it right. Having done so, and being very worries about the pressure of my clamps crushing it, I chose not to give it the camber of the deck. I think it looks okay, but now I'm second guessing that choice, I may rip it off and start over. It's very red.
  11. Question for you all: what advice can you offer re: thinning down the interior bulwarks? I've spent quite a while at it tonight and have very little progress to show. Since the bulwarks rake in somewhat I cannot slide a sanding block along the lower edge, the deck surface gets in the way. I'm leery of trying to mow it all down with a Dremel lest I pick mark up the whole thing with irregularities. I've looked at a few of your build logs but it seems to be a topic that passes unremarked. How did all of you do yours? What did you sand with? Thanks James
  12. Yep, 2 more coats of Minwax golden oak (3 total). I have some replacement wood arriving tomorrow!
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