elainedouglas

Thank you guys for the kind words. Good to know that I am not doing it the wrong way.

Lintels on.

It is said in the instruction that "each lintel should be perfectly level and flat". So I used an engineer's square to do so. Not sure if I interpreted it right. (at first I thought the lintels should be perpendicular to the stern frames)

Will be some hard work to fair the area before adding the sills.

Thank you Joe and Steve !

Moving on, the stern frames.

Fairing the bow.

Then I tried to make bow fillers by scrap.

The sub gun-deck platform

Then fixing the bulkheads and fillers.

It looked there was a little mismatch with the curves of the bulkhead former and the stem assembly, this made the keel line not perfectly horizontal.

I cut a section of the false keel and made it good.

Adding the keel, and attaching the stem assembly.

Tapering the stem assembly.

Stem assembly.

Strange that there is a notch in the laser cut parts. I filled it later.

Making the taper.

Copying the bearding line.

Then, rabbet strip.

First thing, bulkhead former.

Hi guys ! This is Douglas from Hong Kong !

After building plastic models for years, I packed enough courage to start a brand new thing in my modelling life. This is really a new thing to me. I learnt a lot so far, and thank you Kerry at Vancouver for recommending the kit and teaching me.

I will post progress photos here. I guess it would take me years to finish this model.  

Please do give me comments, so I could learn and improve.