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Pfälzer
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It's going like hotcakes at your shipyard. It must be great fun to work with such perfect material. Greetings from the Palatinate- 207 replies
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The written version of the photos. As you can see, I've finished the transom so far. No big deal, everything is straight. I just wanted to take the boredom out of it a little with the thinner strips. I could have done without the upright center plank, the keel goes over it. Then to the matter of the oak and its willingness to cooperate. It really leaves a lot to be desired. In the raw state, the strips can be bent and turned so that it is a pleasure to work with them. Only the sanding is a little exciting. Remember, each strip is sanded by hand before assembly, don't use a Dremel. A little too much tension when you let it slide through the sandpaper and it splinters like something else. If it is then stained or even glued to the model, the whole thing becomes a stress test. It hardens incredibly so that cutting with a scalpel is almost impossible. Sanding against the grain becomes a game of poker. Here, too, the good oak splinters faster than you can say Babb. I've been working on the gun ports since yesterday evening. Only possible with a very fine key file, patience and a lot of love. That's why, unlike the interior planking, I won't be staining the hull until all the moldings are in place. Everything is only glued with Ponal under pressure, I don't use superglue under the wood. Have a nice Sunday Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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Yesterday the smaler Oak is delieverd. I know Oak is not in Scale, but it looks fine.
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Hello lovelies, At this point, I have to take a quick look. You need to change your perspective a little. I thought the same thing when I opened my first box from one of these manufacturers. I cursed, cursed, cursed. Fortunately, I had a kit of better manufacture beforehand, and had plenty of material left over to be able to rebuild pretty much anything. As a result, I bought it again from a cheap supplier because of the price. I just had to buy high-quality material for about 50 euros to get the same end result. The next approach, it encourages your creativity and also means that everyone has a unique piece at home. It would be boring if everyone bought the same update package. It's just a train of thought, maybe the next one will be from a better manufacturer, who knows. Make something of it, I can't take care of everything. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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Hello Mikki, I had also considered the Dusek. But after I realized that I wanted to replace half of the material anyway, I went for the cheaper option. The Dusek set is also a different scale and therefore more detailed. I have already sanded the hull roughly. The planking went excellently, none of the strips had to be pre-bent in any way. The oak strips that I have planned for the second layer can also be attached without any problems as far as I have been able to test them dry. Since some difficult layers had to be attached with the help of clamps and had to dry first, I took a look at the gun mounts for the guns. You can imagine that I don't really like this plywood variant either. So I thought about making the parts myself from all the oak material from the carpenter, but then decided to build them from small strips. Due to small changes in the construction plan, my hull will be thicker than planned, which is why I need wider strips for the end. So I also ordered some very fine oak strips, because you can't treat yourself to anything else. I will probably have to wait for these now as I had the idea of planking the transom with strips of different widths to create a nice pattern. Today I'm off to Luxenburg to smuggle tobacco and coffee. Take care and have a nice Sunday Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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Hello everyone, As you can see, I have made very good progress with the planking of the hull. This was partly due to the bad weather we had yesterday, but mainly to the excellent material. Firstly, the basswood strips are very well cut and secondly, despite their thickness of 2mm, they are extremely supple. I didn't have to vaporize or use any bending tools. Top quality It was a bit fiddly on the port side, which is why I decided to taper the battens by 1.5mm on the starboard side in the bow area. Have a nice time Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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As you can see, the lower bulwarks fit perfectly. For the upper ones, it is better to sand the guide cuts at an angle from deck to frames, then they will fit better. As I've already planked part of the lower dress on the inside - I found staining boring - it doesn't curve quite as nicely as the upper one. Let's see if I level it with filler from below or sand it from above. Since I'm planking the inside with 1mm anyway, that would be according to the construction plan again. So I think I'd rather plank from the inside first and then sand. If you have a different opinion, please let me know, good advice/criticism is always helpful, I always see things from a positive point of view. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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Thats what i have done, yesterday. But i think the Anchor Winche is to big.
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Hello on this sunny Sunday, a little insight into the wondrous world of Occre building instructions. A careless beginner to our hobby would already make the first serious mistakes here. After installing the bow deck, it protrudes about 3-4mm forward over the false keel. In the instructions, however, the deck is clearly flush in photo no. 10. On photo no. 18 there is again the overhang which, oh wonder, is gone again on photo no. 24. Of course, one would say that 2 mm of first planking was applied in between. But then, unfortunately, after another 0.6 mm of second planking on photo 31, there is suddenly a 3-4 mm overhang again. A look at the technical drawing on a scale of 1/1 makes the chaos perfect. There the whole thing is shown flush again. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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