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travis
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Placing some of the doors and more deck details. Good time for a light check!
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Feeling better about the doors. They just take a while to kick out with the thin wood bended frames. Also set the first aft breezeway in place.
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Bow bulwark with gilded adornments. Also working on the doors. Really don't like the metal doors. Painting them just looks like an afterthought. But fabricating at this scale is a challenge! Worked through lots of samples. Here are my latest alongside a painted door. Far right one is window screen on thin plexiglass, adhered with clear parts/window maker cement. Probably going to ditch the double door jamb style from metal. Just too small/thin and hard to bend. The upper aft breezways on the model also have the extra adornments that the imagery gets glued to. Don't really like the images so I'm going to play with option to fabricate them a little differently and maybe add some windows instead.
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Deck gratting in. Rudder almost ready.
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Railing is finally shapped and glued. Broke a lot of wood in the process. Used a wood burner with heat turned down. Made multiple curve templates. Thanks you occre providing a lot of extra wood for this size!! Worked on later parts when I would get frustrated.
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I got close to switching wood. Broke a lot of wood but I think occre knows that's a tough step. Turns out they provided a lot of extra! Took a lot of fighting with it but I'm finally done with the rails (just about to post on my own log). I used a kettle to get hot water. Soaked for maybe 15 minutes (found if it was longer it worked against me!!). Used a wood burning tool with the heat turned down a bit. Cut shapes to work with. Still took a lot of effort and breakage!
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Im curious how you are thinking to manage the curves in the railings? I've been trying to bend them with heat (soldering iron turned down to not burn the wood) and water but wood keeps breaking. Im using the kit supplied sapele which does seem to not handle the bends well. Curious what you are trying as I struggle with my own!
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Continuing railings and wales.
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Thanks Ian. Slow and steady!!
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Couple updates. First wales bent, stained, and glued. Running parallel with doing other wales (extra time for bending), limber boards, waterways, and stations. Cut an scrap plywood for a bending template. Using a soldering iron (reduced accordingly!) And then clamp and time to get the bends.
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Took a long time but the hull is finally planted! Got a little left to do at the upper stern but I'm holding that until I get further along and ready to wire in the aft lantern. My first layer was treated like a single layer and came out pretty good for first time trying to have that layer at finish quality. Second layer came out even better. So glad I cut all the planks to actual scale plank size rather than. Trying to bend full length straps. Allowed for a lot of adjustment as I went, especially with the more intense curves at the bow. Time to figure out bending the strokes. Haven't decided if I will cur them into smaller sections or not. Going to make a bending jig similar to the one amati sells and see how that works.
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First attempt at a drop plank. This bow has a lot to curve so hoping this takes some of the stress off!
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Decided to set the keel before the final planking so I can get a clean finish (even kinda did a kerf in the bow to help hold the planks flush ). Planked part of the stern, set the garboard and first full plank at the Wales. A big change using contact cement but I see how it is beneficial for the final plank if you take your time. Nice to have the planks stay exactly where I put them. Now to plan, measure and cut all the tapers!
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Looks like you are just a little ahead of my on the apostol. I just finished first layer and am now working on second. I like bseing that you are running your second plank as individual planks rather than single planks the whole length. Are you doing the same below the wales too? I'm on my third build and for the first to, I used wood glue for second planks. Got real lucky and no glue bleed but what you are facing has been my fear with such thin planks. I'm trying contact cement this time but that comes with it's own challenges! I like the quality and detail you are putting in so I'll follow along.
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Hull is planked. Sanding and filling now. I tried planking like this was single layer. Came out pretty good for me but still need another round or two before I'm actually ready to do a single plank. But should be a nice underlayer for the second plank.
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