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8.6 The risers
The risers are long 5x5 mm oak bars. The upper side has to be as much as possible horizontal to give stable support to the thwarts. The frame to which the risers are to be glued are in different inclinations according to their position in the hull, so I shed one side diagonally at the ends and gradually less towards the middle. I do this a bit on the feeling, but the result is not so bad.

Gluing the riser into position.

When placing the starboard riser. I check if the height of the risers are equal to that of the center board where the thwarts will come.

 

 
Thank you to follow.
Thank you for the likes.
And thank you for the constructive comments.
 
Till next week!

More progress, the exterior of the hull is finished and is ready for paint. I have to work out a way to turn 5mm brass rod into 3mm "D" profile to create the rubbing strips.
 

 

The lower shrouds are finally done. After retrying a few times i'm happy how it turned out 🙂
The lanyards could a bit tighter, but it's not to bad in my opinion for now.
 
 

Hope
Schooner 'Hope' passes a Sailing Trawler somewhere  near the Digger Bank 
W/C 14.5 X 10.5” 
 

Good work B.E.,
Those 29 mm barrels of RB look just right to the eye !!  
 
Nils

Good work B.E.,
Those 29 mm barrels of RB look just right to the eye !!  
 
Nils

Thank you Dirk, Rusty, and Jim. 🙂
 
Post 29
Today I received the replacement ordnance for Alert.

3352

3349

3350

3351
These are 29mm Brass guns from RB Models, Poland, and represent good value at £10.00 delivered. The carriages are the kit provided ones.
I can now move onto completing the guns.
 
B.E.
31/10/2019
 

Very nice work Denis,
 
Nils

Very nice work Denis,
 
Nils

Very nice work Denis,
 
Nils

Boomskins done, and first anchor's lashing...

I prepared a second paper form for the fore part of half head-gratings...

Adding details each side my left head gratings...

Thank you Nils and RickyGene,
 
Ricky, the strips were too narrow. I used them on both side but I stuffed some thin cardboard on both sides also to wedge it tight.
I'm curious about your weathering since I don't have any experience and I've been pondering on how to do my own later on.

it looks super Antti,
nice lapstrake planking
 
Nils

Very nice work Denis,
 
Nils

Very nice work Denis,
 
Nils

it looks super Antti,
nice lapstrake planking
 
Nils

Very nice work Denis,
 
Nils

thanks for look'in Ken    yes,  there are several knobs {valve shut offs}  that are on the face of the boiler.  wondering if there is any sort of color designation as to what function they serve.  I think it would be a neat bit of detail if they did.  I was look'in for a word for the cab....helm and pilot house are already taken     booth seemed like just as good a term as any      there is a tarp that when unrolled,  covers the doorway.  it's plastic........I was going to roll up some cloth and replace it....might make it look better perhaps  {my luck...maybe not}.  thanks also for the bits of information.......I don't know much about trains,  and any info on them is good....big help!
 
thanks OC........there's a museum quality train in this box somewhere....still look'in for it     I'll settle for a half decent one!    thanks for the good word!

not having done any more to her,  I guess this would be a good time to post an update.   the pony truck is in place,  after a serious game of tug 'o war,  as I tried to spread the frame away from the boiler to fit the bottom smoke box floor.  I ultimately had to break free the front cross member,  so I could get it on top of the frame rails.   the plate was cemented in place in two sessions.......first to the frame,  and then to the smoke box.  her it is being cemented to the frame rails.

you can see the front cross member broken free on the right side.   the reverse gear actuator rod was next to add......it was painted and set aside until now.  I wanted to wait till I could do a good amount of assembly.  the walkways that run along both sides of the boiler as painted and ready as well.

...hard to see,  I know......it runs along the boiler,  back to the engineer's booth.  the head light is finished,  waiting to be added.


by this time,  I could cement the smoke box floor to the box,  and finish the assembly there.  after it was done,  the cross member was cemented back in place.

once cleaned up,  the cylinder / valve chests can be installed.   they are in the paint booth at the moment.   the wheels for the pony truck and the tender trucks have also been given the first step of their paint job.  the reverse actuator lever was added to the rod,  and connected to the gear assembly.  it was hard to see where exactly it went,  but once I saw how it fit,  it was added fairly easily.

the iron work on the walkways need to be done still........they are on the underside of each side.  once done and dry,  they were added as well.

I wanted to add the engineer's booth floor,  but I still need to paint the floor part.   seeing that it had wood grain,  it was a safe bet to paint it a wood color.  the boiler door was also added to the boiler face.  here is a good question..........on the shut offs and valve knobs.........do they have any specific color denotation?  red for emergency.........green or blue for other purposes?  if not...should they be silver or brass.......or just plain black?
 
I started to paint the sand dome and stream dome too........more on her soon     

Rudder,pintle,gudgeon.

The planking consist of curvy laser-cut plywood boards that are kind of L-shaped, the ends rising gradually up towards the top of the keel.
The material is only 1mm thick and while this perhaps sound a bit suspicious, they're actually quite good for the purpose.
They bend easily but are strong and the surface is not easily damaged.
Oseberg is a clinker-built ship where each plank sits partially on top of the previous one, so after finally deciding on the most
likely starting point (not obvious), I begun my way up from the bottom hoping that when I reach the top the last plank would lay where it should.

finally both bulwarks installed and the gundeck planked. The red color is an ordinary water based €1 wood stain from the hardware store, but worked very well for this model. I wish I still had a jar of it, unfortunately now out of production.

further investigation revealed the first mistake (many more will follow...). The kit originally designed with dummy gun barrels on the gundeck (except for the middle four), and their height under the closed areas are relatively unimportant. Not so with my planned carriages - now all of the ports are too high. The white paper templates mark the correct height from upper edge of the wale, the thin planks are the correct lower and upper edges. Let's correct all the 28 of them.

 

At the same time, I've been trying to make the deadeyes...