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- Birthday 03/21/1972
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Building models of ships, airplanes, and rockets; photography; bicycling; scouting; skiing; boating; trying to fly RC helicopters
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Here is the breast rail and ship’s wheel. The ship’s wheel is just sitting in place and has not been glued down, yet. I started by cleaning the uprights with 320 grit sandpaper, jeweler’s files, and a number 11 blade. Then I carefully adjusted the fit in the lower rail and the bottom piece of the upper rail. I made sure the fit was good before gluing the top and bottom pieces of the upper rail together. I painted the rails before assembling and then used a brush to apply wipe on polyurethane to the whole assembly after it was all together. I used a clear gel glue for assembling everything. I used an Emory board to adjust the fit of the uprights to the deck. I pinned the breast rail at the outboard uprights, hoping that gives them a little bit better bite using medium CA to attach the railing to the deck.
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Hi Binchicken. Thank you so much for commenting on my build log. This was my first wooden ship model. I picked it after seeing several great build logs on MSW.
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Welcome back to my Winchelsea build log. Once again, I’ve neglected it for several months. I’m working on chapter 10 and have finished planking down the center of the quarter-deck. The outboard planks were very challenging, and I’m pretty happy with my results. I did manage to screw up the binnacle to the point that I’ll be reaching out to Chuck for a new one. And I think I will leave it bright to match my capstan. I’m now starting to clean up the breast rail uprights. This will take me a while because I plan to leave them bright like Chuck’s.
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