Paul_S

I'm not really worried about historical accuracy(not sure if that will get me banned or shot or something!), but might take a look at it. I just want to make something that looks nice. So mostly interested in making it look less plasticy

Hi all Having completed my last build, the Lady Nelson and being pretty chuffed with the outcome, I'm moving on to the next which arrived today. My nephew has been fascinated with my last build and has been begging me to make a boat for him so i let him have a look through a list of models and pick one he likes. He saw HMS terror and said 'I'm a terror, I want that one' so thats the one he gets. It also seems like a decent natural progression to move from a single masted ship to a double masted with the extra complexity that brings. The box arrived today and looks quite pretty with a little display window for the fancy bits and a close up of the fancy bits A lot of these seem to look a bit plasticy so I'm considering ditching them and replacing with some wooden ones as they seem to look quite a bit nicer. I'm also not keen on the little metal boats so I reckon I'm going to try scratch building some (Dunno how easy that will be to do such small ones so that might change) That will be a first for me so will be interesting for sure. The main parts Seem to all be in decent shape and none of the warping that i've heard from some accounts on here. A little worried about the gap in the dark brown one hoping its intentional and not a missing piece. The threads and the sails. This will be my first time using sails, and still not 100% sure I want to use them as I like the sail-less look, but I guess that will be up to my nephew. Finally the wood, looks really nice, no bits chipped off or flaking, the thin veneer for the 2nd planking looks really nice and bendy so should go on really easily. The instructions at first glance look to be very pretty but also seem to have lots of random pictures of someone gently caressing the model with a dry brush and not so much info on how to actually go about building it I'm also going to try something a bit different and live stream some of my building efforts. If anyone wants to have a look, offer advice, or mock what i'm doing i can found at http://www.twitch.tv/sirrod (I know a lot of places have rules against self promoting streams and apologies if that is the case here). I do stream other stuff there too so if i'm not building you might catch something weird. Overall I'm looking forward to building this one, the step up in difficulty should be fun especially if I have to wrestle with the instructions to make progress -Paul

No other pics atm but will try get some, that ones a bit blurry. My nephew has been fascinated by me building it and has asked me to make one for him. Hes pretty lively so i think HMS Terror will fit him perfectly so will be making that for him. If he can stay patient long enough for me to finish it

Well. Didn't get many chances to post updates but i've finally finished it Well pleased with how it turned out. Onto the next!!!

Finally got all the deck furniture done. Took so much longer than I expected. On to the masts now and figuring out how to taper them Not entirely happy with the big thing near the front, looks very plastic-y and not sure how i can fix it, otherwise pretty chuffed with how its going

Spent a few days messing around with treenails and couildn't come up with a method i was happy with so decided to forego them for now. Maybe next model.. Got a few other parts done now Wales are done although the measurements on my model didnt quite match up to the plans I think they are ok. Capping rails ar e on but were too short, definetly messed up the back end somehow can see where it looks a little uneven but i think i've managed to hide it. Seems to be a consistent theme for me, hiding where I ballsed it up. Red bits are painted as well as the wales. I think im going to leave the rest natural wood rather than paint it white, bit scared the paint will show up errors a bit too much, and i think the wood looks nicer. Started working on the deck furniture now with the hatches Quite pleased with this!

I need an opinion, should i do Tree nails or not? WIll it look better, will it justify the crazy amount of work?

So I planked the inside of the bulkheads which was pretty easy and have also planked the deck. I randomly chose a planking pattern and decided i was goign to try 'joggling' ( i think thats the name). I think its turned out pretty well I caulked each plank with a pencil to get some lines in between Halfway point Not too happy about how the ends of boards lined up at the top left leaving me with the small pieces, but not sure how to avoid that. Finished, can you spot the 2 deliberate errors? and post sanding

I'm a few steps ahead of you in this build. I put the keel and bow on after the first planking and put a rabbet in them which worked really well. What i should have done is put the stern post in as well and sanded the back of the first planking down to give me a sort of rabbet there

I sanded a bearding line in but with 1mm of first plank and 0.5 mm of second plank x 2 meant i needed to sand it down by 3mm total which is the thickness of the false keel so that didnt seem possible, i got it down pretty thin already and it still stood proud

So i tried what i suggested. Fixed a vertical piece over the horrible parts I then cut it back so it was level with the rest of the hull and sanded it down a little, then marked the lines of the planks with my blade in the new piece and sanded a little more To give this Which looks way better than it did when i started, probably not perfectly accurate as the top planks especially are standign quite proud of the keel post but it looks prettier Im struggling to see a way to not have this repeat itself in future though. The false keel is the same thickness as the keel post so when i put 2 thicknesses of planks on it will always stand proud and I couldnt see an easy way to rabbet it. How do i go about this in future?

Thats what it looks like with the post in

So the planking is done and i'm pretty happy with how its turned out. It's not perfect by any means but didn't need any filler or anything and looks pretty solid. I had the stem and the keel to butt up to and that seemed to help, I didn't mask it off but I think it's ok. I am planning to put some oil on it which should make it look a little nicer The bit im not too happy with is the back Not entirely sure how to tidy this up, the post to put into here doesnt fully cover the mess so don't really know what to do. Im thinking I will put a plank vertically and shape it to cover and hopefully that won't look too garbage. Thoughts?

Started by putting the top couple of planks on full then the garboad plank full on the bottom. THen measured the gaps at each bulkhead and divide into 16. Spent ages marking out all the ticks on the bulkheads then cutting each plank to these marks and seems to be going better. I've not put any battens across as it can make sure my progress is correct with the tick marks, is this a bad idea for some other reason. Ive soaked each plank before ironing an edge bend on, havent needed much of a bend front to back yet ] Really no idea what the dark patch on the front is, doesnt appear in reality, maybe a shadow?

I was subdividing and marking all of the bulkheads My main issue was where iw as measuring to and from. I was putting a batten across essentially in a random place where it sat nicely then measuring to that, i guess i misunderstood that part. I had widely different gaps between each one