Hi All,
I'm staring a log to show my progress and to get feed back.
The model was bought approx. 25 years ago (getting to old for remembering details that far back) at a local bobby shop. I had some model experience before but only plastic, but it look cool and I had high expectations for doing the build in a ferally short time. But the reality came pretty fast. It turn out to be a hell of a lot bigger project that I thought. The instruction was very limited to say the least, only 11 pages with drawings and instruction (in 4 languages). It also turned out that several of the structure was bent. What I've should was return the model and get a beginner model.
Well that did not happen. I started building the hull and planking and got frustrated and set it aside for 25 years.
Know I'm 25 years older, gotten some more experience and more patience. And want to finish my ship and learn more about ship building.
So this is status so far.
And here you see one of my challenges, the frame is twisted. So I need to do some visual cheating but compansating on one side to make it look even.
Right now I'm waiting for some more planking to finish the hull.
I see from other logs that my drawing is quit different in many ways. So will do some more comparing to see if I can pick up some useful tips.
I order the Masting and Rigging the Clipper Ship and Ocean Carrier and The Armed Transport Bounty (used, they are to expensive new) to help me out with getting through this build. That was before I came across this forum, where there is a ton of information and experienced people.