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Richvee

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  • Birthday 09/30/1961

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    Hamburg NJ
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    Baseball, Umpiring, Ship Models, Model Railroading

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  1. Deck planking completed. Next I’ll cut in the wide support planks for the fife rail and windlass. Then sanding and staining.
  2. Deck planking had been moving at a decent pace. I’ve been sanding a little with 220 grit as I go. Nibbing isn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. I think it’s coming out pretty good. I switched from CA to a wood glue for the deck planking. Gives me a lot more control, and easier to pull up some planks where I wasn’t happy with how they originally looked. A few more planks to finish off, then sanding, and touching up the red combings and planksheer. I also need to cut in the wider boards that sit under the fife rails and windlass. Starboard side completed Soon I’ll need to start considering stain color for the deck. Question—— Do I apply a poly coat on the deck prior to staining? Or stain first, then poly coat?
  3. Planking continues at a snail's pace, and my first attempts at nibbing are complete. You can practice, but once you start making cuts into that planksheer, there's really no turning back. So far so good...No major issues. Far from perfect, but I can live with it.
  4. Thanks for the likes, all. Some progress. I've cut, sanded, painted, and installed the coamings. I'm sure the paint will need touching up before all is said and done, but this seemed to the best way for me to get a nice clean line of red coaming against the deck. Installing the coamings first also seemed to be the best way for me to get the coamings to look flush to the deck given the deck's curvature, I guess we'll see if how it works out as the deck planking procedes. I have started by installing the nibbing planks to the bulkheads and edged glued to the planksheer. This will be my first attempt at Nibbing plaks so I'm hoping to get the hang of it quickly and not butcher this task. But first, the two wider thicker planks down the center. These are simply one on each side of the centerline, straight down the ship. Can't forget to cut out the decking for the mast holes. Looks like I need to manipulate the fore side of the large cabin coaming. I'll unglue, and add some some wood shims on the port side. That should even out the coaming height side to side.
  5. Thanks Eric. I’ve actually just finished the coamings and I have a few coats of paint on them. They’ll be on the deck soon, and the deck planking will begin. I’ll add a few pics when the coamings are installed.
  6. The hull has been sanded, I've added the counter planking and the lower half of the transom, and the stern knees. Not sure if adding the stern knees at this point was a good idea, as I've already broke a small piece off one. I'll deal with that when I plank the upper half of the transom. That's not going to be until I have the bulwarks in place because looks like that whole Counter/transom, transom trim, rail, bulwarks is going to take a lot of tinkering to line up and look at least halfway decent. I figured I should get the stern knees in so I can add the planksheer in between them, get them painted before I start planking the deck. I've started a few coats of inboard planksheer paint, and measured out the areas for the deck coamings. That will be the next step. Building, paintig, and adding the coamings and stern planksheer. Then it will be on to planking the deck. The sanded hull The counter and stern knees And the layout of the coamings for the deck fixtures with painted and masked planksheer
  7. While planking the counter, and filling and sanding, I’m contemplating the next steps . Looks like there’s several directions I can take and see several different methods to accomplish these things. Once the hull is fully sanded and I’ve added some polyurethane, I think I’m going to add the inboard transom pieces, paint the inboard planksheer and pre paint and install the combings prior to laying the deck. Looking past there, I like the idea of building and painting the bulwarks off the model and then install. Seems that’s the best way to get sharp, clean paint on inside of the bulwarks being that the planksheer, stanchions and rails are different colors. . I’ve got time to figure that out. Sanding, filling, coating, transom, combings, and finally deck planking all before the upper bulwarks. That may take me into 2024 and beyond 😂
  8. Well, I've finally managed to finish planking the hull. I think it's OK. Learned a lot along the way, including the fact that cutting, fitting, and installing planks is not my favorite part of this hobby. I have to finish up the counter, and then on to filling some low spots and sanding. Maybe in another year or so I'll have that done 😁
  9. Wow. Two years into this build already. It's been sitting quite a while. I've gotten back into the shipyard a bit, and the planking continues. Nothing worth showing, as it's coming along the same as the first side. 🙂. Recently I've been looking over the plans a bit getting ready for the deck planking, stern and bulwarks. Hopefully there's more progress soon.
  10. It sure had been a while. I still need to finish planking the other side. It’s been a busy baseball season and that combined with work and house upkeep has kept me out of the shipyard. I’ll get back at it soon.
  11. One side done. No wood filler yet. just a little glue and sawdust in a few spots. It's been sanded some with 100 grit. On to the starboard side to finish up the lower half. Then I'l need to fix a few low spots, finish sanding and look into how I will seal the hull.
  12. I agree Bob. Even more so with sails. The pictures I’m accumulating of her under full sail is absolutely tempting me to try my first set of sails on this build.
  13. No one's ever going to accuse me of moving too fast. Closing in on finishing the port side planking. One thing I can say, this isn't my favorite part of the hobby. I'm plodding along, sanding with 100grit as I go to level out the planks. I think it's looking OK.
  14. It's been a busy summer. Baseball was back in full swing, (pun intended), and work is as busy as ever, and help is real hard to come by these days, so there's been minimum shop time until the past week or so. I did manage to reach a bit of a milestone. Belt "A" is planked. I've been doing a little rough sanding as I go in hopes of easing the final finishing when the hull is completely planked. I'm pretty happy with the results so far, being my first attempt at cutting planks. Chuck's Longboat was a nice primer, however it was real nice have precut and spilled planks. So there's plenty lessons being learned on this model. Anyway, here's what the first belt looks like today.
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