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You are getting closer ... lovely work

Patrick,
 
Had to do some catching up. I like the pict where you hold her in front of the light. Nice progress on the interior too.
 
Cheers

Thanks Denis.
 
Pat,
If he does, I'll have one for you too Could go simultaneously
 
Greg,
Finding WiFi is not the point, getting entrance to the network is a lot harder. Luckily I'm back home now. unfortunately, I've been working my hiney off to get a major software release finished ... not much building or spraying

You are getting closer ... lovely work

Not much space for the high brass guys Mr Bunny. I like how you are progressing though

Wow, that turned out very good so far!
 
Jesse

As a first step in my cunning plan I have made a mold from plaster of Paris, cunningly using a Frascati bottle as a shaper.

The rough mold is shaped with files and sandpaper

 

Cheers
Dick

I am very happy about your interest in my building report.
To all thank you for it.
Today only a picture of the finished top of the main mast.

Thank you John and Patrick, indeed it felt nice to be working again, model building brings out the child in me!
Dear Mark, your post was very encouraging, despite months of thinking, googling, going through the forum and reading tutorials, my planking still is 90% guessing and experimenting and 10 % evidence based.
 
Having finished both GB planks, I compared them and there was a significant difference in width! I could not really understand how this happened, still I ended up redoing both planks again. They are now almost equal width and they seem to be fitting better. 
 
The GB planks need to bent, not to a huge degree but as the planks are maple 2 mm I think heat will be needed. I would like to steam bend these but it is difficult to set up a steaming device so probably it will be dry heat with a hair dryer
 
Having finished the GB planks, I continued with the rest of the planking. This is how I am doing this:
 
I decided to use 14 planks plus the garboard, so 15 planks altogether. I marked the edges of the GB planks on the frames, and used the template fan to divide 3 of the frames, one in the middle and in either ends of the hull. I then used a 1 mm dowel to divide the hull into 2 zones, eyeballing the curve so that it looked fair from all angles. I made sure it made contact with the sternpost and stem in a way that enough space is left for the rest of the planks in either direction, without getting cramped. I then replaced the dowel with black fishing line and continued dividing the zones in halves, eyeballing the curve to be reasonably fair.
 

I finished the upper four strakes but this is a difficult job, I have a feeling that this eyeballing thing is a skill the develops over time into a sixth sense. Quite a few times the curve looked wrong but when I re-did it the batten went on the same place.  Other times just a couple of mm had a huge impact on how the curve felt.
 


 
Apologies for the quality of the photos, it is not easy to fit the boat in the picture!
 

Dear all
Things seem to progress well
Druxey thanks for the advice, I laminated the card I have and indeed it works much better as it stiffened up a lot.
 
I finally defined the garboard plank and it fits like a glove on the other side. I decided to redo all the markings on the other side and to go for 17 planks instead of 22, and reshape the garboard plank to allow the planks to curve more and spread better at the bow. I grossly kept the shape of the gb blank and divided two of the widest frames to 16 planks and marked all the other frames by eyeballing the shape of the planks. It did not come out perfect but came out ok.
I also reshaped slightly the sheer, after I placed the boat the right way up it was clearly not fair.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
There is still a problem with the stem, the bottom half seems to be too wide. I ll look into this and then cut all the planks out of greyboard.

Hi everyone
 
Thanks for your Likes and following along.  Greatly appreciated.
 
Over the past few days, I've continued to add a bit more to Shadow's Sun Deck, principally, the large white sun baking settee situated on the aft of the deck.  To add further interest, I've added some different coloured scatter cushions.  I've also started to flesh out a bit more of the detailed work surrounding her spa, situated at the forward end of the Sun Deck.
 

 
Lastly, I thought I'd take some photos of Shadow alongside photos of the real ship that Shadow is based upon (i.e. Mary Jean II). As you can see, I've got a long way to go before I can truly say that Shadow's finished.
 



 
I hope you have a great week, folks!
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Oh, you impetuous youth! Thanks for the explanation, Steven.

when carving a figure always do the head first, this will always be the focal point of the veiwers, its hard to recover from small mistakes with faces.

So how much is she listing? Glad to hear you're doing better, Alan. 

Great to see you back Alan.  That tilting and lifting workstation/baseboard solution looks like it will be very useful; it was a joy watching your build log for that.
 
cheers
 
Pat

Well, good to see you back, up and running, Alan!

neat idea about the tilting top of your worktable - might commendeer that one for myself

Hi Alan,
 
thats a very nice lift and tilting workbench (modeling table)  you have...
 
Nils

I've been away for a few months busy with work around the house, spring yard work, dethatching the lawn (what a delightful time that was).
 
My needles are done and my eyesight seems normal, no need for a magnifying glass to read print anymore.
 
I had been down to the playroom during my absence from the forum but that was for unrelated items except for my reclaiming the rolling base of a broken office chair to make a mobile side table for modelling that you'll see in a photo below.
 
I am back to fitting chocks between frames and those located on the underbelly are easier inserted from above and inside.  To do this comfortably I lowered my modelling lift table and tilted the table top.  This work wonderfully.  I am so delighted I built my modelling table with these options.
 
I have two frames on the go in assembly and they both get thicker in their sided dimension at the gunport.  I've decided to build these as normal and add the thickness to the area needed after... but before glued to the deadwood.  Hope to post this in the next week or two.

Craig I appologise if I came across like I was critisizing the lovely work you have done - I wasn't as she is looking superb an a credit to you and your craftmanship,      I just thought I would offer what I had read when studying British RN Battleships of the period when building my Warspite.
 
 
OC.

Now that is looking impressive.
 
OC.

My next build ... might just be a Dutch submarine ... I like this kit Piet

Hughe in details, despite it's size!!! Marvelous work Igor. I am enjoying your build tremendously

That is some wonderfull detailed work you display. Very impressive Siggi