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    Thanks Joe, It is my intention to go but I have to keep life in line. Last year she interfered big time.
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    Thanks Anthony! Here is the promised update. Success! I was able to keep the side pieces in place and then attach the corner pieces, the correct term is angled bulkhead, but I like corner better. The biggest problem after getting the length right was using enough glue to hold the sides together but not gluing the sides to the beams. Once the glue had set marked the placement of the angled carlings I carefully removed the assembly. I the placed the angled carlings sanded it down and then permanently glued the pit assembly in place. The deck was sanded smooth and I applied wipe on poly to the side (starboard) that will not be planked.
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    Thank you all for stopping by. Hi Grant, I had a good night in the shop and it’s looking good so far. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have more pictures. Jan, Welcome aboard. I understand what you are saying. With so many builds it’s hard to catch them all. I constantly find new ones too! Hi Ben, That’s similar to a saying we had while building my brother in laws house. We’d put something up and he’d ask “how’s it look? And invariably someone would shout out “Looks good from here” or “Can’t see it from my house”. Drove him nuts the entire time. If it wasn’t for the free labor he’d have booted us on day one!
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    Thank you all for stopping in and the likes. Thanks Bob, you never know what kind of oops or such that could pop up and ruin the day. I have competed the framing of the gun deck. Pretty straight forward and at this size it turned out to be a lot easier to do. Next in the mortar pit the walls need to be built. There are angles involved and I didn’t trust myself to build it off the model and keep the correct dimensions. Also there are four cross braces between the beams that need to be put in. So to help me keep it square and position the cross bracing correctly I clamped the side walls in place and then started fitting the angles. This way once completed I can mark the cross bracing, remove the walls, install the bracing and then return the wall to it's correct location. Here is just the top piece of the wall confirming the angle and length are correct. Time will tell if this will work or not.
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    Thank you Michiel. I've been making good progress on the deck framing. It sure helps having cut the parts ahead of time! It still will need a good sanding to fair it all up but so far so good!
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    Hi Augie, Yes practice does make one better doesn’t it! Sorry you had to do the “do over” but it came out so very nice. Well done.
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    Thank you all for all the likes, visits and comments. They are very much appreciated. Thanks Ben, I’ve been asked a couple of times if working at the larger scale is a good thing or bad. Well when it comes to ledges, carlings and knees it seems to be easier. Although there is a lot more wood that needs to be removed I find my errors are smaller and less frequent at this larger scale. Time will tell if this still holds true. Hi Jim, Thank you and it’s good to hear from you. Thanks Jack, from what I’ve seen so far on they are very solid and I don’t know about the Erebus and Terror but it makes sense to me. Hi Kevin, thanks and I’m sure you can handle this cross section once you are ready. All you need is a LOT of patience and a willingness to throw away parts that didn’t work and do them over. Plus it’s a good excuse for more tools! Thanks Grant. That one fit right off the scroll saw. Not all of them were that close. A little adjustment here and there and in they go. Thank you very much Christian. Your work has always inspired me. Hi Augie. Thank you. Yours and everyone else’s support and interest makes my day! Well I’m off work until next Monday. Thanksgiving day is shot but the rest of the time has a whole lot of shop time scheduled in. By Sunday night the Admiral may have forgotten who that troll is in the basement. Happy Thanksgiving to all here stateside and best wishes to the rest of you. Be safe!
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    Thank you Antony. Your continued support is very appreciated. As I work my way around installing the ledges and carlings there are also assorted knees, hanging knees and double knees. All of the deck framing pieces are being cut from Cherry. Here you see one set of double knees rough cut out. Here is a hanging knee rough cut and then set in place to test the fit prior to the finish sanding. Everything seems to be going well, so far, now hopefully I just didn't jinx myself!
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    Hi Greg, Oh that is soooooo nice. I can appreciate your not wanting to cover those timbers. That is some fine workmanship.
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    Very nice Antony. I admire your abiltity to build the deck off the model. Great workmanship.
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    Thanks Ben but I can tell you cutting them into cherry is much easier than boxwood. I don't envy you all of the ones you're going to have to do. Hi Pete I wouldn't want to deprive you of all that fun. Thanks Grant.
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    I’ve installed the gun deck clamps now and have started on the beams. Here you see the plans of what the gun deck will hopefully look like once completed. Here you see the beams set temporarily in place and marked out for the placement of various carlings, beams and half beams. Here is a beam the goes between two deck beam, # 3 & 5 as well as the half beam. And here it is set in place. I will just work my way from one end to the other filling in the carlings, ledges and knees as I go.
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    Stunning! Well done Remco.
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    Hi Glenn, Well done on the planking and painting. If you hadn't told me the paint scheme was different I wouldn't have known. Everything looks really nice and I enjoy your descriptions. Thanks.
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    Hi Andy. That's a duh moment for me. I didn't give recoil a thought. Thanks.
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    Hi jzwei, Welcome to the Triton group and Happy Birthday too!
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    Okay now I can make some pins! Thanks
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    I’ve completed the second layer of decking for the mortar pit. I assembled it off the model again gluing black construction paper between the planks to simulate the caulking. The planks are a different width and did end up over lapping the lower decking most of the time. One seam lined up on each side so there shouldn’t be a concern with strength is it was that way in full scale. After I did the initial assembly I then marked the circle for the mortar and cut close to the line with the scroll saw. I then used the dremel with a sanding drum to finish it. I then glued the second decking to the first. I also have drilled it for the treenails After looking at the plans I noticed that between the top beams for the shot room, the deck beam, and the two layers of decking it would have been 3’ 4” thick on the actual ship! That’s a lot of support for what I assume to be a very heavy gun.
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    Hi Ben, I’m glad to see that you have finished her.Very nicely done and it looks really great in the display case. Another point about switching back and forth between the “dark side” and the light is you could become deficient in Vitamin D if you stayed on the dark side too long!
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    Oh my Augie. I just got caught up from what I missed while I was away and I LMAO while reading it all. Oh and by the way the planking looks really good too!
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    Well I’m back safe and sound and hope to relax a little doing some modeling this weekend. Thanks Paddy. Ben, Not as much as I missed MSW! Hi Grant and thanks. Thank you Craig, Hi Chuck. Thanks and it’s good to hear from you. Jeff, yes she is huge but I’m getting used to it now. There has been so much going on here at MSW over the last 8 days! I need to take a week off just to read all the posts. I’ll do my best the work shop is calling right now. Thanks again you all and it’s great to be back!!!!!!!!
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    Hi Bob. I’m back in town and I just got caught up on your work. Everything looks to be going very well. You may have had doubts but the rest of us knew you would “nail it”. Oh by the way, isn't having a couple of teeth extracted, a little extreme way to get more modeling time? I hope you're feeling better.
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    Hi Pete, Glad to hear you are enjoying it. Hi Bob, I wondered the same thing about the upper and lower planking but they are different widths so the majority of the planks overlap. It looks like that all but one plank on each side will be an overlap. Once I cut the planks and add the construction paper I’ll know for sure. As far as assembly of the second planking I will do it off model. I plan on using lengths just long enough to get into the circle and then cut it close with the scroll saw and finish with a drum sander. Again that’s the “plan”. As far as mouse world goes thanks for the hint. We always try to avoid the weekends whenever possible. Especially this being a holiday weekend. Well the Admiral is waiting so it’s Hi Ho Hi Ho and out the door I must go.
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    Thanks Michael and welcome aboard. I’ve cut and fit the mortar pit boundary timbers. Between these two timbers will be a first row of decking. It is cut from boxwood and the calking is simulated using black construction paper. Doing the pencil on the edges just looked too thin at this scale. Here I’ve cut out the plans showing the second layer of planking that will go right over the top of the first. You will notice that a nice circle is formed in the middle for the mortar. Seeing I don’t have a drill bit that big it should be interesting getting the hole round. Well this will be the last post for awhile. We are off to the land of oranges, alligators and a talking mouse with the grand kids. Should be interesting to see how steady my hand is when we get back. You all be good now while I’m away! No slacking off or rum rations will be cut!
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    Hey Chris I hope you gave a great Birthday!

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