Kenneth Powell
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Thanks guys for looking in. Sport - If I remember correctly, the wood transom and metal carving were close in size. The metal is very soft and I bent it a little to match the wooden transom. Once I glued them together I only had to sand a little for a real good match. The metal used in the kit also sands as easily as the wood which makes gives an almost seamless result. We should have good sunlight tomorrow so I will work on those photos. Russ - I thought about red in the beginning and now may go to it. Kenneth -
And now for some Color: Now you guys can see what I've been up to lately (besides admiring all the builds on this site). I went into this project wanting to paint her. The models finished with stain and varnish look great, but this is what I wanted. I didn't use much filler on the hull because it is a wooden model of a wooden ship and I wanted the run of planks and end seams and other 'beauty marks' to show. I measured the water line at stem and stern from the plans and marked it with a neat marking tool my wife bought me from model expo. The trick was to keep my small level steady across the rails during the whole marking process. I painted on primer then a few coats of each color with very light sanding between coats. Then of course back and forth with the touch-ups. The gray interior may look a little different from other models, but the instructions called for it. Let me know what you think. I will take a few more photos of different views and post them very soon. Sport - I hope these photos of the cabin bulkhead are OK.
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Love the paint job.
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She looks great and coming along nicely! I really like your build.
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Great job on you build. I did this same kit and really enjoyed it.
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Excellent work. She looks great and really coming along.
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Correction - I wrote earlier that 2 rows of planks were between each seam below the wale. It's actually 3. Discovered my mistake and absent mindedness while bottom painting.
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Thanks sport for looking in. Yes I did omit the oar ports because they looked so small they may get lost in all the other planking. But I have seen photos of beautiful jobs on the Rattlesnake with them included. Photos will follow soon.
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Thanks JPett for looking in. Your build has really inspired me.
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Thanks Russ for loking in and the kind words This is the photo of the cabin bulkhead sorry blurry Time for sanding and more sanding Notice the broken deck beams in the photos above. They just popped right off. I would glue them on with Titebond and move on. More photos after the weekend. Carry on good people.
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On to planking: I decided to go above the wale first. I wanted to shore-up the fragile areas of the bulkheads and the deck beams. Too many got broken! Above the wale went straight with no trimming except at the gun ports. The planking plans in the instructions lay out where to start below the wale and how many bulkheads to cover. It worked out well and gave 2 planks between seams on every run. WOW I actually followed directions and it worked! repair broken deck beam I did add a wider section of plank here. I got worried, but the number of runs did work out. Now from the garboard up Punch Planks This section took longer of course with tedious sanding and placing and correcting and replacing and checking and ....... Anyway, The length of planks the kit calls for made this run easier because they are short enough to work with yet cover a good distance. The kit doesn't have a cabin bulkhead and the instructions don't tell when to build it. I used the plans and made my own using a piece of juniper. The timing of this piece came from watching the scratch build by Pasi.
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You can see a much better build of the boat by Torrens on this site. He put in great detail.
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Awesome. That's what I'm going to do on mine. With your permission of course.
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I finished the boat a little plain. After all, they are poor pirates Once I was finished, I noticed that I hadn't taken into account the sheer line. oops.
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I started a log with a few photos of my build on this site before the great crash - then my own computer crashed and I lost some photos myself. I've been building so I decided to take the time (we can't wait until we have enough) to start the log again. Reading the logs and responses on this site and seeing the museum quality work, I know the kind words and encouragement you all give. I also know any criticisms or suggestions is entirely for the best. So I post this log to give and receive as much help as possible. These are some of the original pics. My gosh this kit has some fragile parts! Now some of the gun port framing. Ship's boat. I shifted to this to get up the nerve to start planking. Plus that, it just looked fun. This is a small 'bread and butter kit' inside the Rattlesnake kit. The instructions give a hint to glue all the layers together using the stem guides except the last one, that will make sanding the inside easier. I say stack them together, mark the lines and sand as much as you can separately, then glue them together. It's a very small space Sorry blurry. Stapler holding down the layers
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She looks great!
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A J Fisher (ajfisher.com) has the plans for the Miss Lou. They even sell the solid hull to get started.
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A little more sanding OK. But beauty marks are better.
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She looks great. Keep up the good work and the posts with photos
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I will follow your log with interest since I am from Mississippi and have read a bit on bb23.
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