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Vaddoc, 

you have a couple options for planking (spilling or edge bending), and the yawl really isn’t that difficult to plank.  Chuck Passaro’s tutorials are invaluable and I highly recommend you read through his planking of the Longboat Medway, Cheerful and his Winchelsea. His planking is perfection. Although carvel planking, the lining out and edge bending should be the same. 
 

here is a link to some of his videos.  But his build threads are a treasure trove. 
Chucks planking videos

Excellent, long over due. Waiting with anticipation. And Mike, you are much better than a ham fisted modeler....lol

Bitao, your modeling is exquisite. I noticed the wood you are using for the decks and cabins has a lovely golden color. What wood is it. Do you use a stain or varnish?

Looking good Svein. Here’s a pic of a real one in a museum in Toulon for reference. 

Absolutely well done. A great looking ship and one to be proud of for sure.  
 It was very entertaining following the build. 

Well done Siggi, the lacquer takes some of the shocking brightness out of the yellow, with a deeper tone. Looks good. As far as the friezes, with your talents, if anyone can paint them at this scale, you can. 

Nice to know about the book Phil. I’ll have to get a copy. 

Once again, always a pleasure to see your updates. A marvelous and extraordinary attention to detail that pushes me  to model to a higher standard. Thank you Johann 😀

Wow, incredible carvings Greg. Truly masterful. 

Well done Eamonn.  Beautiful work to be proud of. 

Thanks Siggi, I appreciate the step by step pictures illustrating how you carve these wonderful scrolls. 

Not to mention, look at the people in the picture. Especially the children. They are notorious for moving. All the people seem to be in the same position which would be unlikely in a multiple photos with a long exposure time. 

Beautiful work. I have a question, “How did you get all the cannon all the same?”  Did you use a CNC feature with the lathe or did you have a replicating pattern to use?

thanks, great work as always. 

Nice job Maury. A beautiful model. I’ve followed this one from the beginning too, and it was a pleasure. . 

Alex, how did you create the molding on the rail with the tapering and curvature?  Did you use scrapers or something else?  A bit of a tutorial would be excellent. 

Johann, I agree with you. The eye splice does look better and matches the eyesplices below. But I understand the difficulty working at this scale. You have accomplished feats thought impossible before with wonderful execution, so I’m sure you can accomplish this. Just don’t rush and take your time. Michaelangelo didn’t paint the Sistine chapel in a week or two. This is a masterpiece as well. 

In the 18th century, I thought they also had Red Ochre or a red oxide paint.  I’m sure it was much cheaper than true vermillion which I doubt they would use due to the expense. The naval service could be known to be frugal when it came to paint.  Of course, there was a reddish brown paint called Spanish Brown that was red clay in linseed oil was also used on ships found in 18th century contracts. But mostly in the merchant service. 

Marvelous work as usual Johann. 

Nice explanation Phil. 

Of course I knew what you meant Alan.  Silly algorithms......... 

Wonderful spreadsheet. Of course, as you make your blocks, if you can tell the difference from a 8" from a 9" block at 1/64 scale you are a better man than I. 😅

Beautiful work as always Mike.  Lovely attention to detail. 

Flawless execution.  Beautiful work. 

No criticism, just trying to help teach like you are teaching all of us what can be accomplished in beautiful scale details. Keep it up 😃

Nicely made Johann.  The attention to detail is marvelous, especially your splice around the Fairleads or "Moques de conduits".

By the way, the disks you refer to are called “sheaves” in English. 

Johann, I agree, probably not work all the work, but still amazing that you are able to fabricate such small working details with such scale appearance. Well done.