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Happy New Year to you all. Back working on the Victory. Painted the hull and Cannon carriages and started the copper plating. Have to touch up some spots on the hull and paint the gunports. The instruction says that the outside edges should be yellow, but the real Victory has everything painted red. Didn't make a decision yet what to do. The cannons take a lot of time, same as the copper plating. I will find some other things to do on the Victory in between so I will have a break from it.
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First stage done of the second planking. The planking didn't go exactly as I had planned but it looks ok and I made it very smooth with a lot of sanding. I will get some primer and spray that on to y the waterline so I can see if I have some more sanding to do. I will continue planking upwards to just below the upper deck gunports and will then install the upper gun deck and do the upper gun deck planking.
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Hi Allan, thanks for your response. I indeed looked at articles about planking and I agree with you for not using the treenails. I find it doesn't look good because on most of the samples I saw the treenails are to big and makes the deck to busy. I will try on the upper gun deck to use thread to simulate the space between the planks. Marinus
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First plank laid on each side. I will use two full planks ( they will be covered by the middle wale) and then I cut the planks 85 mm long and change to the 4 butt shift system. I will follow the instructions in the book and plank down to the keel. I will take my time to do this, so no postings from me for a while.
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Wow, it took me a week to finish the quarter galleries, but it looks OK now. Many thanks to Robert29 for his building log, it was a great help for me. I will take his advice on the middle deck planking and use the four butt shift system. One question I have, what is the right pattern for the nails in the planking? Hope someone can give me some advise on this.
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