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Planking is looking good, David 

I would echo Augie's excellent advice, some filler and careful sanding should take care of any bumps.

May I also suggest some additional fairing of the remaining portion of the 3rd bulkhead? This should allow the planks in that area to have a smoother curve.

Those sheaves look perfect, Danny, splendid job!

Thanks Ben, my first planking has quite a lot of pointy plank-ends, but hopefully, I'll be able to do a more accurate job on the second layer 

Coppering hull= 20 bucks....

Beautifully planked hull not covered by any copper= Priceless

Hi Augie,

Just catching up, I'm pleased to see your Confederacy built up and running, Sir, nice work on the blocks there

Splendid planking work Vitus, it looks perpect!   

Have you considered just leaving the hull uncoppered? I personally think your planking work looks too beautiful to cover up

Beautiful work on the bouys, Borge, they look great!

Neat looking ropecoils there, Ray, excellent work.

Beautiful work on the beams, Danny, thanks too for the tutorial on how to remove them safely

Thanks for the good word, Mobbsie, it's always a pleasure to hear from you my friend. 

Sjors, I'm pleased to know that you're well on your way to the pink of health.

Thanks for the tip on using the card templates, Danny, I'll give them a try, splendid work on the catheads, they look great!

Hi Pete,

Just catching up with your beautiful Triton build, very precise and clean work, Sir, she's looking great

Thanks for the compliments, M., Frank and Augie, they are much appreciated  

Augie, thanks for the technical info, that "special timber" was probably the compass oak that I read before, those old shipwright are indeed very cool and creative individuals

Very nice planking work, Vitus, regarding the coppering, the copper plates provided in the Amati kit are .10mm thick.

Welcome back Glenn, your beautiful work on Pegasus on MSW 1 was what inspired me to build her, I have no doubt you will do an equally excellent job on your HMS Vanguard

Congratulations on your beautiful new work area, as well as the excellent planking work you're doing, she's coming along beautifully

They all look great to me, Grant, excellent job. Have a pleasant trip

Splendid work on the catheads, Mobbsie

Wow! those lodging and hanging knees look great Danny, it's frightening just to imagine how to perfectly fit the lodging knees to the deckbeams, hanging knees and ship's frames, and you've executed all these perfectly! 

Splendid rigging work Popeye, those stays look fabulous!

Beautiful detail-work, Borge, and those turned cannons and bell look splendid

Thanks very much for the kind words, guys  

@David and Pete: thanks for dropping by my log

@Sjors:  hope all is well with you my friend, have a speedy recovery

@Grant: yup, I'm thankful indeed, you have to tell me your secret on how you cope up with all those ports

@Mark: it has been quite a learning curve indeed, working with CAD and understanding druxey's articles were the most challenging of them

Just a wee bit of update guys, the first planking of the lower hull has been finished:

So far, the hull shape seems acceptable enough to warrant proceeding to framing the gun ports

Sigh, it's times like these that I wish I was building a 4-gun schooner, instead of a 28-gun frigate

Hi Peter,

Thanks for dropping by as well as the kind words

...Looking at your post #102 I notice something like a kink where the planks bend over the aftermost bulkhead, transferring from side to stern. I noticed a similar kink in kits and have, so far, always tried to eliminate it, by adjusting bulkheads and first planking. Now I’m asking myself if ships were built with such kinks – perhaps to get as much inside space as possible-, or if they happen if you have not enough bulkheads to build a smooth curve. Anyway, I think the original planks wouldn’t like to be bent into such kinks and would react with braking, or at least threaten to do so when you stretch and distort the wood fibers that much. What do you think?

That was my exact sentiment since the first time that I built a model ship , my friend   

It seems that in most cases, no matter how much you fair the aftmost bulkhead, the planks tend to curve sharply at the aftmost area.

I don't think it's due to lack of bulkheads because even contemporary models built in "bread and butter fashion" seem to show the same sharp curve of the planks as they attach to the wing transom (see pics below):

Modern models (both kits and expertly scratchbuilt ones) also seem to show this particular feature:

If I remember correctly, I read somewhere (either Goodwin's "Construction and Fitting" or Lavery's "Arming and Fitting") that there is a particular timber called "compass oak", which has curved grain, and is carved and used for curved portions of the ship. My guess is that the planks in this portion use compass oak, which may have been carved to follow the sharp curvature of the wing transom. 

It would be impossible to force-bend real planks to conform to such a sharp curve so they were most probably carved to shape.

Of course that is just my guess so I'll have to dig deeper for an explanation one of these days

thats coming along very nicely, Aldo. 

Thanks for the good word, Brian