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Okay that’s what I thought! It’s easy enough to assemble another one and attach it before I get to any rigging (which is where I know I’m going to start making many mistakes!)

I really should have airbrushed these brass frames but they look okay I think. I might see if I can buy a replacement set from OcCre later and work on them more — they’re only held on with PVA glue I laid out the parts for the Massey Patent Pump and installed them on the deck. The pump cylinders need to be painted and attached underneath. The flywheels are hand brake wheels from Ozark Miniatures as suggested in Keith S’s build. Now I need to paint the deck houses. Lots of people leave them a wood finish or stain them but I always intended on painting them.

I will be looking into a custom rub down transfer I think. I haven’t found any brass lettering yet but that’s another idea. I want to replicate the Victoria cipher as well so I’ll need to do some research.

I photocopied the brass parts to lay out where I wanted the windows to be. I’m kind of estimating rather than doing exact measurements. The kit doesn’t match all the measurements from the plans, and I took a little inspiration from the fictional television show, too. More mock-up work with the so far unpainted brass window frames. I didn’t want to go with the kit plans for the window frames since they’re sort of chunky compared to the Betts book, and I like the way the ship looks on the show as well. Still frame from the first episode of "The Terror" showing the stern. My trim pieces aren't as thin but they're kind of a compromise between the provided kit parts, the Betts plans, and the TV show. Window frames in place and stern davits installed. The brass parts still need to be primed and painted. I was going to use some 0.5 mm clear Plastruct sheet for glazing the windows. I soon realized that 0.5 mm plastic is a pain to cut and shape. I needed something thinner and the hobby shop was closed… I grabbed the plastic packaging from my new set of Flex-I-Files and sanded the plastic to get a frosted finish. This works a lot better and it’s a lot easier to shape. My next task is to prime the brass parts and paint them so they can be installed. I'm working on the Massey Patent Pump as well so I'm hoping to make some progress on that tomorrow. I'm still at a loss as to the name of the ship on the stern. I'd like to add it but I honestly am not sure how. I have the typeface I want to use that seems to match but a vinyl stencil would be nearly impossible to use at this scale and I can't print a waterslide decal in white ink at home. I'm hoping to eventually find a place online to order something custom.

Built the little box that goes around the tiller (this was while I was still in progress). I started work on the belaying pin rails (and promptly ran out of pins). I like the brass ones better than the kit provided ones but some of them were slightly misshapen and had to be discarded. Also, I need work on drilling straight lines of holes in tiny work pieces. Aft pin rails in place. I’m sure there needs to be a matching pair where you only see the one on the starboard side toward the middle, but the Betts plans don’t include it. I can always add one later. Forward pin rails. I still need to rework the officer’s mess skylight and the second skylight needs to be built but things are progressing. I’m dreading drilling holes for the Preston Patent Illuminators. I have an idea about glazing them with Micro Kristal Klear but I need a new bottle since mine is the consistency of marshmallow and is unusable.

Thanks! Your build is definitely one of the pieces of research I refer to constantly.

Paper mockup of the starboard water closet. I'm modifying the dimensions to fit better -- again, good is better than perfect. I built an inner structure that I lined with sapelli from the kit. Both deck houses in place but not attached. There's more to do. I felt the need to put louvers on the front like the one on the television show, since I had a still frame I was using for reference. This was a fiddly job for sure. The finished starboard water closet before paint. I like the wood finish but I'm going for accuracy when I can.

I replaced the somewhat chunky looking kit grates with ones from Syren Ship Model Company. I also have two of their 10 spoke wheel kits for later but I'm not far along with those yet. These both got moved later according to the Betts book but this is the point where I took an eight month or so break. The companionways were build according to the book plan and not the kit measurements. At this point I've mostly abandoned the kit instructions. This is my placeholder officer's mess skylight. I attempted to use the kit parts modified slightly but I think I'll just scratchbuild a new one later. I'm mostly adhering to the book but I've made some adjustments when needed. It's not all exact. I'm trying not to let "perfect" be the enemy of "good".

Paint will cover our sins. It needed a little cleaning up but it worked well. The inner bulwarks were painted with Cast Your Anchor's English Ochre like I saw on Keith S's model. The cap rail may be painted later. I stained it and am not totally happy with it.

This sapelli wood is about the most brittle thing I've ever used to build anything. It all smoothed out pretty well at least. When I saw someone mention that sanding the ice channels was like prison labor: They ain't kidding. I considered using something other than the provided aluminum plates for the iron at the bow. I ended up using it anyway and it wasn't half as bad as I expected. Paint will really help here. I expected the rudder would be easy. It took me longer than the iron plating!

There's a lot of these on here already but I'm adding mine in as well. I started last year and have been keeping a record of the build but I haven't shared it with a forum until now. This is my very first wooden ship model -- usually I work in plastic and paper, so this is all new territory for me. Keith S and Clearway have been inspiring my build and I've been using The Book by Matthew Betts as reference, too. The basic structure wasn't so bad but I wasn't anticipating how different planking is from anything else I've assembled before. My efforts were definitely amateurish but I was happy that the thing looked like Terror by the time I was done. I only burned myself once! Captain Crozier looks over my work with skepticism. I gave up on nails early. I didn't like grinding the heads down and I'd found glue to be much better so I reserved nails for when they were really required. Once I had the actual hull shape I had much more confidence. (When I do Erebus in the future I will be doing a lot more research on planking though...)