Tjalle58

Hi again!

Time for the second planking. As you can see I started this planking with the first palnk following the hull from bow to stern. I could do that because the planks was only 0,5 mm so I could bend the first plank and use stealers between the first and second. I.m pretty happy with the result.

First planking is finished and I am quite happy with it so I guess I am on the right way. 

When I did my first models I was very careful with sanding, afraid to sand too much. That was a mistake. Included in the kit is a "filler block" in the transom and I had to sand most of it off in order to get the curvature under the transom. After I started the planking I had to sand it even more. Lessons learned

Planking has started. I was so corious about how the ship would look like so I prepared the deck fittings and dryfitted them after doing three planks. I think it's going to be a nice ship. The planking in the transom will be vertical and go 3 mm. above the aft deck in order to build the transom railing.

Thanks jasseji. The title is changed.

Hi Jasseji. I´m new here so I might do some mistakes  . What should I call the log and why . I will check other logs, I might find out  

Hi!

I am a newbee from sweden. I started to build wood model ships in the beginning of this year (2018) because I wanted a hobby. I used to build plastic models in my youth but I was never good at it, I didn't have the patience required. But this time...  So I started to build 2 (3) ships. The first was not good the second was better and the third was a disaster so that I had to put aside for a while. But the fourth, Thermopylae, started pretty good. Then I discovered that it was way out of my league but giving up is not an option. So all beginners can follow this log and hopefully not make my mistakes. There are quite a few  .

I found a absoultely fantastic build log at the internet and contacted he who had it and he "adopted" me and gives me advice and help via e-mail and it´s worth eveything to mee.

I'm sorry I don't have thar many pictures  from the start but I can describe trhe mistakes I made and had to correct. I guess I started to build this 2018-05-01  and today is 2018-08-03. I started with dryfit of the decks and frames. I had to sand the decks a bit and when I was happy I started to glue the frames puting the the deck on between every frame so it would hold them in place.

P.S. I hope my english isn't to bad but I think I can make myself understood even if I spell something wrong and use the wrong word sometimes.

To be continued........