Rock_From_Korea
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Hi All, I finished the planking on lower part of the forecastle and after castle, with additional layer of planking done inside. I am still not very satisfied with this part of the planking and redrew the whole planking plan of GH2. I will apply quite different planking scheme for GH2 and have been working on the first planking of GH2. Anyway, below are some pictures of the finishing work on the weather deck planking.
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Rocky definitely does not look happy with the results.
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Before starting the planking of the upper area (starting with the weather-deck), I deliberated a lot on what type of wood I should be using. Couple of tests later, I decided to use a thinner, more flexible wood strip for these areas. After installing 2 rows, I began to regret this decision as the overall look did not correspond to the tests I performed before. Anyway, I will contemplate on what to do with this section but will definitely not use this strip of wood for GH2 and beyond.
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Hi All, It's been a while since my last update as I have been quite busy at work recently. I managed to finish the door & window frames at the aft gallery area and also finished planking this section. After which I began planking the upper levels.
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Hi CiscoH, Thanks very much for your kind words~!
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Doors blackened and finally attached. There will be small additional work later on (e.g. the door stopper inside the frame). A Lego sailor (Rocky) has been hired to gauge the appropriateness of scale. A 175cm tall (same height as myself) in 1:48 scale Lego sailor stands slightly taller than the top of the door. I suppose with the average height of the English sailors in the 16th century (I believe slightly above 160 cm), the proportion seems OK. Rocky looks kind of angry, but he is just being serious~!
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I used a simple design for the hinges and I think the results are quite OK. I plan to apply this simple method for all door hinges including cannon doors.
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I am trying out different designs of the doors in my GH build. The front of the forecastle doors have been constructed from 2 laminated thin sheets of wood as base and attaching thin strips of dark hard wood on top of the base.
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Hi All, Work in the shipyard is progressing slowly but steadily. Finished the grating of the beakhead support and also finished the doors at the front of the forecastle. I had to install additional beam to fill in the void near the stempost. After that, I applied a simple grating structure.
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Hi Patrick, Thanks very much for your kind words! Your compliments mean a lot to me!! Rock
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Main deck planking begins. I applied a simple planking method this time and after finishing it I regretted a bit. A 3 butt or 4 butt shift method would have looked better. I will apply at least 3 butt shift in GH2 and GH3. For the deck material, I used 4 variations of the same wood - 1.plain, 2. dyed with tea, 3&4, dyed with slightly different colors.
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Before planking the main deck, I planked the area below the main deck in a simple format instead of painting it black - which I usually did for previous builds. Just wanted to see if this looked better than just painting the area black.
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Hi All, Using parts from a long decommissioned wooden toy, I made the anchor line portal (?) and it actually looks better than I expected. I think the remnants will be used for GH2 and GH3 for the same purpose. Later on, I will use treenails to further fix the portal.
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Thanks very much for your kind words and appreciation, Robert!
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Planking on the front of the forecastle and door frames done.
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Work on Beakhead platform done. And finishing up the bow section false keel 2nd planking.
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Laying the bow decks and fittings.
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Hi All, As I started on the beakhead platform, I realized that the Aeropicola plans are quite unreasonable. Therefore, I relied on contemporary paintings as well as fellow MSW modelers' previous works and came up with something that makes more sense (hopefully!). I also finished on bow section deck but I decided not to put treenails there as I realized that I can not put the tree nails in a clean and neat manner (too small space to work on for me). The other decks will get their tree nails. First, I had to put in a second wale in place before moving to next steps.
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Whipstaff and rudder finally attached and fixed in place. Testing on the whipstaff also done with good results.
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Work on whipstaff.
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Hinges chemically blackend and attached to rudder and stern.
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Work on the hinges of the rudder and gauging the location for final installment. I have used soldering for the first time and it was not that easy~
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Hi All, I started working on whipstaff and rudder before proceeding further with other stuff. Since the whipstaff will be mostly hidden I focused on the functional properties rather than aesthetics. Below are the pictures of the rudder construction.
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Thank you for your kind words!
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Thank you, Patrick! I am still learning from many masters in MSW, yourself included~
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