Beckmann

I dont know the exact english word. It is very  dilute varnish. You usually apply it after sanding, before you start to paint the surface.   It closes the pores of the wood if you know what I mean.

Here is one.

I think applying some primer from time to time  helps to keep the surface free of  dirt.

Is that right, what I am doing here? It looks like on the plan, but not like on Chucks Photos. The angle seems to be too much. 

Rusty,

I am very impressed, your Hull looks extremely clean and well faired. 

It is very inspiring to watch you building Winchelsea.

Matthias

Hello everybody, I made som progress with the stern sanding and adding some parts to the hull. The sanding is a bit free style anf I am not shure, if it is good like it is. I will propably recognise the problems once I start planking.

Matthias

I corrected the middle transom piece and then I started sanding the stern. 

I am not shure about, how to form it properly. Do I sand it down to 3/32" from the outside? Or just at the top from the inside? At the moment it is still about 4 mm thick at the top. That is about 5/32" I think.

Okay, thanks for the tip, if the window openings become too high, I will cut the transom pieces out and glue them in a little bit higher, that should work.

The last days I started building the stern. I found it quite challenging to get it all in the right place. It is good, that there are several laser cut pieces, so you can take a new one, if one is sanded down too much. 

I made some progress with the gunport frames. They are all done now and faired flush with the bulkheads. Next thing will be the stern.  Looking forward to that.

Matthias

You are Building a lovely model!! these elegant racing yachts are a dream. 

Regards Matthias

I have still another model (LEON / A. Underhill) wich is waiting to being rigged. But whenever I have to decide, whether to do the rigging of LEON, or to proceed with HMS Winchelsea, the latter ALWAYS wins. But luckily there is still a lot to do in chapter one, and all the planks have to be cut… So I will be fine for the next weeks. And if I really catch up to you, LEON will be lucky to get her main mast or something else.

Matthias

Thank you all for the 👍!!! And the encouragement.

In the meantime I glued some of the sills in position

That looks perfect!!!

Do you glue the planks just to the bulkheads or with each other as well?

Matthias

I hope that is allright.

Today I did some sanding

 I think it  looks a bit better now. I fixed most of the bulkhead-tips. I had to cut loose one bulkhead and center it properly. So for folk, who glue the bulkheads: Mark the center on top of the bulkheads so you can check better if it is really accurate centered. Otherwise the outer line of bulkheads dance in and out. Every Millimeter out of the center will cause problems if you now what I mean

Thanks Mike, I am relieved, that I can fix it like that. Building this model is a new level of precision.

Matthias

Hi Chuck, I am just trying that.

I will have to somehow rebuild the missing tips.

I printed the bulkheads again and tried to find out, what happened. There are two or three things that sum up. The biggest is my inaccuracy, when I cleaned up the bulkheads after cutting them out. I often sanded the tips of the bulkheads too much.

That is 90% of the problem. The rest is about having not pushed it  down into position enough.

Ok that seems to be a severe Problem. I will check out what happened and then try to correct it. Maybe I cut the bulkheads too much on the line + sanding, they became too small, in this case I will add a new bulkhead-half and glue it next to each bulkhead to correct the shape. 

I glued the bulkheads into position. That was the easy part. Then I startet sanding the bulkheads, that appears to be the challenging part. I am not totally happy with the result so far, I need to go over it again. 

One or two bulkheads jump a little bit back behind the line of the others.  I have to see, wether I glue something in the  gap or sand the others down.

Hello Jack,

I would like to purchase the boxwood Carvings,

Thanks

Matthias

Everything ready for the bulkheads now. 

I'm looking forward to it!!!