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  1. Warnerade
    And the deck is essentially done! I remade a few more of the laser cut pieces supplied with the cut. They were shaped fine, just didn’t hold varnish and I prefer the wood look to paint (I painted a lot of things early on while waiting for glue to dry with planking...before I got too far in planning) so other than that not much customization has gone into it. The directions are pretty much spot on with plenty of detailed pictures. Time to start working on the masts and putting the dead eyes on the channels.
  2. Warnerade
    This is a fantastic piece, and definitely is now on my “todo” list, sorry to hear about the wife.
  3. Warnerade
    Got to work on the gun ports. The directions say to leave the pre-cut brass pieces as is and paint small black dots to mimic a nail or bolt holding the brackets on but I decided to go the other route. I think they turned out really good. The plank cutting job i made made made this process so simple. For anyone reading, I highly recommend some sort of device like this.
  4. Warnerade
    This is fabulous, thank you for posting this
  5. Warnerade
    I decided to apply the same reinforcing technique to the channels for the dead eyes, I have 3 brass pins inserted in each one. I forgot which log I got that idea from (one of the many San Francisco’s I’ve browsed) but if you’re reading this, thank you. The holder for the belaying pins came with a laser cut piece, but as with the railings it was rather flimsy and didn’t hold varnish at all so I made my own using a small dremel bit. It is really coming along, I cannot wait to start rigging.
  6. Warnerade
    My goal is to finish this by the end of May before I start up a new residency. I am moving right along now so I think that should be doable. Just starting to poece the deck together, like the railings, anything that is glued to the deck and will have rigging tied to it/under tension will be getting reinforced with a small brass nail and extra glue.
  7. Warnerade
    Welcome newbee, After painting one of the floors black under the grating, I definitely wish I had taken the time to plan and cut out the floor first. I still considered it, but voted against it given that I am already so far along and figured I would probably mess things up with my dremel and I would regret it. Next build though I am planning on that. Leaving the floors painted black and gluing the grates over leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion.
  8. Warnerade
    The kit itself came with laser cut pieces for the deck railing along the balconies of the ship, but they were very flimsy and weren’t even size appropriately for the deck. On top of that the supplied plywood did not look the same at the outer railings once it was varnished so I decided to make my own. They turned out very nice I think
  9. Warnerade
    I appreciate the input, since you guys seem to know your stuff...I was considering putting blocked rigging on the cannons for a little added detail. Studying this picture, I am assuming that the blocked rigging on cannons was also not around for the galeon ships?
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    So if I have this understood correctly, the helmsman would stand inside the little cabin, and thus the whip staff would be in there as well? It would not be visible on the actual deck? Man, should have did my research before I ordered a few things...there goes 5 bucks wasted on a ship wheel haha Thanks for the feedback gentlemen
  11. Warnerade
    Thank you when you say the actual San Francisco, was this an actual ship? I have tried searching and didn’t come across anything. I got the impression it was just a ship made for a model and has no historic significance
  12. Warnerade
    I am getting to the point in my build where I am starting to plan the deck. Looking at the plans, there is no capstan and no captain’s wheel, but there are four grates along the deck. This seems a little excessive to me, and I’m considering leaving 2 of them off and putting other things on deck (like a capstan and wheel)...below are a few pics of which grates I am thinking of leaving off. I was considering putting the captain wheel on the stern most upper deck and leaving that grate off. Putting the capstan on the middle deck in front of the cabin, and then leaving off the grating on the bow deck just because it seems like once the railing is installed all of the rigging, it would “crowd” and be a tripping hazard. Lol are the chosen locations for the 2 accessories correct? I assumed the captain wheel directly over the rudder for “less moving parts” in real life and the capstan just seemed to fit the best there. Or would it look best in the bow deck closer to the anchors?
  13. Warnerade
    Well I was able to file down the two sides of the grating, the angled side and the side facing the middle. I didn’t think I’d be able to shave enough off to get them to fit and line up adequately but it ended up working out. And once it goes in the display case no one will be able to get close enough to see the different width borders of the grates.
  14. Warnerade
    Well it looks like I discovered my first mistake. Putting the bow extensions of the bulwarks on, I noticed that the grating was not going to fit. I doublenplanked them to match the rest of the bulwark but I didn’t even look at the directions, it looks like it is only planked with .5mm...so now their is too much material internally and the laser cut grating borders will not fit. Any suggestions? Not exactly sure how to correct this one. Considering just filing the border of the grating so it will move will move forward a little more. This is probably the route I’ll take, short of undercutting the bottom of the bulwark extension (is there a correct terminology?) I don’t see any other solution.
  15. Warnerade
    Working on the gun ports now...silly me forgot to account for the angle of the bulwark and the inside of the gun ports don’t line up. So for the rest of them I made the side pieces more of a rhombus instead of the square and they lined up perfectly. Probably going to pop that first one off and redo it.
  16. Warnerade
    Progress has slowed down immensely this month but I’m still trucking away slowly. I had to take my medical board licensing exam, small vacation to dallas, and I just found out I’ll be starting residency in Detroit next year. I’ve also started some small side projects including a live edge table for the new home. Not much thought has gone into any customization of these steps lately, other than not painting everything black I’ve been following the directions pretty close.
  17. Warnerade
    Nice choice to use the natural wood for the gun ports rather than paint. I have looked at many logs so far and it seems the older AL models were natural wood and they recently moved to painting...I am a fan of the wood myself. I was wondering where you've been, glad to see things are still moving forward
  18. Warnerade
    I really like the idea of adding the planks where the cannon rigging attaches to the bulwarks, I may be stealing that idea for my own build. Very nice indeed.
  19. Warnerade
    Starting to put the finishing touches on the outer railing. The running rigging gets tied around a few places, so I decided to reinforce the stanchions with small brass pins. Made the alignment easier to measure and plan a well. Increased the time significantly but I think it’ll pay off in the long run.
  20. Warnerade
    amazon has them, they really do add a nice touch. Although slightly tedious at times. Here is the link for one of the kits, the other one is "model kit A" and a link should be somewhere on the page https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003T37B66?ref_=pe_1196280_123950170
  21. Warnerade
    Just a small update. Bending the side bumpers with the taper was a challenge to figure out, I cut a piece of 2x4 with the vertical curve of the hull and then placed the pieces in there. I filed a small leftover plank at an angle to fill the space while bending. Some complicated/creative clamping. im really liking my decision to not paint the wood.
  22. Warnerade
    This is coming along very nicely. It's making me even more excited to start rigging
  23. Warnerade
    Slow progress these days, but in order to speed things up I purchased a small 2” table saw to start cutting pieces to length. Best 30 bucks I have spent in a long time. The directions in the new and updated kit has the Wales and trim painted black. After reviewing many logs of the previous model where they were not painted I decided to keep to this style. The Wales are stained with a cherry varnish, and the rest of the trim around the boat will be as well.
  24. Warnerade
    Osmosis, How long did it take for you to receive a reply/the parts requested from AL when you emailed about the missing parts from the kit? I e-mailed them about two months ago and have yet to receive a reply. I am missing about 30 of the columns that go around the railings. They are extremely cheap to purchase and I am considering just going that route but shipping from AL is 60+ dollars so I will not be going that route.
  25. Warnerade
    For some of the details of the ship Artesania Latina sells microshapers to actually scrape away some of the wood for the desired shape. I was pretty skeptical at first as I saw it as just another way for them to make money but I caved and bought them. After working on some of the trim work I’m happy with the decision to buy them. I think it adds a little extra that will never be noticed by anyone but me. Lol this step definitely required some fitness as putting too much pressure would just cause the wood to splinter instead of shave.

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