Patrick Haw
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Hi Glenn, Thanks for the compliment. It looks like you should have no problems with planking up from the hull to the waterline. And don't forget, if it all goes sideways on you it's all covered with copper and paint! Just work on getting the second planking as smooth as you can (lots of filler between planks) and you will have a great surface to copper and paint. Patrick
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Hi Jerry, Just catching up on your build and you continue at your usual break-neck pace! You're turning into quite the master rigger and filing away your tips and techniques for future reference. Lovely work and I will keep watching your progress. Patrick
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Hello David. Just catching up with your build and, wow you've made fantastic progress! Beautiful work on the very intricate rigging. It's fascinating to watch the progress of the various Victory builds at different stages and watching my own build develop as all the others have done. I'm many, many months (years?) behind you but logs like yours give me the inspiration to keep pressing on. Good luck with the hospital treatment, nothing too serious I hope. Patrick
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Simply stunning work Gil, an inspiration to all of us Victory builders. I just completed installation of my belfry yesterday...glad I remembered to install the cleats on the forward legs! Patrick
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Belfry and forecastle breast beam assembly completed today. Needs paint touch up but overall I'm pleased with it. You might notice that the bitts by the mainmast have fallen over...I knocked them over so many times while planking the quarterdeck I figured I'd just leave them loose until I'm not doing things that are likely to make me knock them over again! Patrick
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Thanks Glenn, Grant, and Sjors. Glenn, I hope you placed a big order from MicroMark just to make the shipping costs worthwhile. I know that even here in the US the cost of shipping the Micro Glaze was about the same price as the bottle itself! In this age of Amazon and free shipping MicroMark's shipping prices are ridiculously high! Hope to get the belfry and the forecastle breast beam assembly done today. More pics when I do. Patrick
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The quarter deck screen, dry-fitted, with the MicroMark Micro Glaze for the windows. I'm liking that stuff! Patrick
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I haven't posted anything for a month but I haven't been completely idle. A nasty bout with pneumonia slowed me down a little, still not fully over it but back in the shipyard. Quarter deck planking is completed as are the inner bulwarks and the continuation of the second planking up to the cap rails. Still some pait tidying up to do but I'm pleased with the results. Patrick
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Wow Sjors! Very nice little tool bench you got there. I'm quite jealous! Looking forward to more of the Aggy. Patrick
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Hello Glenn, To follow up on what David suggested about glazing the windows. I initially used the plastic sheet supplied in the kit to glaze the quarter gallery windows but later on I found MIcro Glaze by MicroMark here in the USA. I used it to glaze the quarter deck screen windows and like the effect, so I cut out the plastic glazing from the quarter galleries and will glaze each indicidual window frame for the galleries and stern windows with Micro Glaze when I get to that stage. Patrick
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Glenn, You're doing great and your planking looks great. Caulking is a matter of taste and I went without marking any caulking on my Victory and I'm happy with it. My personal preference. It's your ship, you get to decide what works for you. Just to clear up any misunderstanding, what you have with your deck planking is actually a perfect four butt shift system, done according to Page 10 of the instruction manual. A four butt shift means that the end of every fifth plank is aligned athwartships, separated by a four plank shift. So you have: plank end - plank - plank - plank - plank - plank end. The picture that Jerry sent you shows that he actually used a three butt shift system for his decks, but as everyone here says, every builder gets to decide what works for them and I don't think Jerry's choice of a three butt system takes anything away from his build. Keep up the good work! Patrick
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Hello Keith and welcome to the Victory builders community here at MSW. Looks like you're off to a great start. I will follow along with interest. Enjoy your build! Patrick
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Hi Glenn, Looks like you're doing just fine and you're absolutely correct, this first planking is to give you the correct hull shape and form a foundation for the second planking which needs to be perfectly smooth. Wood filler and sanding, sanding, sanding are your friends once you've finished the first planking. Take your time, get it right, and your second planking will go on beautifully. Patrick
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Hi Glenn, I don't think there's any advantage to starting to plank up from the keel at some point in your first planking. You may want to consider doing it with your second planking depending on the effect you want to create, keeping in mind that it's all going to be covered with copper plates and paint anyway! If you'll pardon me posting a picture on your log, here's the effect I created with my second planking by planking down from the gunports to about the waterline and then up from the keel. Not that it makes any difference, it's all copper and paint now! Patrick
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Great work on the deck and treenails Sjors. I don't know how you juggle so many ships at once! Looking forward to more Aggy updates when you get back to her. By the way, did you know that the crew's nickname for her wasn't "Aggy", it was "Ham and Eggs"! Patrick
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Grant, Come to think of it, it was probably your build log that gave me the idea for the Micro Glaze. I glazed my quarter galleries with the plastic sheet that came with the kit, but think I will cut that out and glaze each window frame with Mico Glaze prior to installation. Patrick
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Rob, you're right, there's plenty of room for making mistakes and learning on parts of the upper gun deck that will be covered by the quarter deck, and trust me, I've made plenty of mistakes! I've been looking in on your build and you're doing great with your ladders and gratings on the upper gun deck. Patrick
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Still plugging away at planking the quarterdeck. Not as easy or straightforward as I thought, but coming along ok. For a change of pace I decided to start glazing the quarterdeck screen windows. I'd read about this "liquid glass" called Micro Glaze from MicroMark, so ordered some and it arrived today. It's a white liquid. You put some on a toothpick and run it around the edges of the window frame then use the toothpick to draw it across the frame opening, surface tension holds it in place and it dries clear. I think it's pretty good and the effect is of old glass which seems appropriate and it's actually quite transparent. Patrick
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Hi Kevin, Purely for selfish reasons I need you working on Victory! I keep accumulating so much information from other Victory builders here who are much further along on their builds than I, and you're one of them. So get on with her! Patrick
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Hi Rob, Just catching up on your build. Very nice job on the coppering. Mine took forever to do, but I'm pleased with the result. Once I completed the coppering I polished the tiles with copper polish and then sprayed two or three coats of clear satin polyurethane on the copper to prevent oxydation. So far it's holding up just fine and my workspace is subject to big changes in temperature, humidity, etc. Hope this helps. Patrick
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Well Jerry, she's looking very nice indeed. I can't believe the speed with which you've been able to reach this point. It must be a good feeling to be putting the masts in her. I'll get there one day! Patrick
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Beautiful work David. She's alive, ready to drive into the French and Spanish fleet and do what she was built to do. Just wonderful! Patrick
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A quick update and a couple of photos. Skid beam support pillars are now in place and I've made up the quarterdeck screen and dry fitted it for marking on the bulwarks. Put a couple of coats of walnut stain on the screen, followed by clear satin polyurethane. I decided to make the window frames black rather than the yellow ochre suggested. Pictures of the real ship indicate these window frames were black or dark brown. I haven't glazed these windows yet as the screen will be set aside for a while and I'll glaze them before final installation. Just need to take off the stubs of bulkhead 14 and sand down to deck level and I'm ready to start planking the deck. Patrick
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Hi Glenn, Coming along nicely. Slow and painstaking, but worth the effort. Don't worry about the slight bump in the gunport strips as they curve around the bow. I think everybody has experienced them. You're right, filling and sanding and everything will be just fine. Keep up the good work. Patrick
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Fantastic work David. As you close in on finishing this amazing model are you going to miss building her, or glad it's over with? Patrick
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