Andy Thurston
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Planking of Bow Deck and Main Deck (30th Jan 2025) Limited progress this week due to having three gigs (in three different bands... that's lots of songs to remember!). Deck planking well underway now. The instructions from Corel suggest doing this after constructing the hull, but that would necessitate fitting the front and rear decks which would overhang the main deck areas and would make it more challenging to lay the deck planks. So, like several other builders on Model Ship World, I've done the decking earlier. For the caulking I'm just running a marker pen along both sides of the wood before glueing in place. I've seen various discussions about the most authentic colour for that period being a dark brown, but I've used black and I'm very happy with the results.
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Stern Assembly (24th Jan 2025) I've been working on the stern assembly. I've left it detachable for now so that I can sand it to the desired shape without the keel getting in the way. The second photo shows the deck planking on the stern balcony. The third photo shows a few of the peripheral parts dry-fitted (i.e. without glue) to show how the balcony will look. The balcony doors and windows are made of photo-etched brass and need to be painted.
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Bow Section Shaped and In Place (15th Jan 2025) Much sanding was needed to get the required shape.
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Constructing the Stern and Bow Sections (14th Jan 2025) Much filing and sanding will be required to shape these parts (which are cut with regular right angled edges) so that they follow the desired profile of the hull. I've made the bow section detachable until I've finished the sanding, as the keel and the stem (that part of the keel that extends in front of the ship) would get in the way of the sanding block. Note the two gun ports in the stern section, which is where the two stern chaser cannons (or cannon being its own plural if you prefer) will be located.
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Inspirational! I hope mine ends up nearly as good as yours is looking 🙂
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Hi Nearshore That's very kind of you: I'm certain I'll have loads of questions! I had already found your build log for the Bellona and I have a shortcut to it saved on my computer for reference. Luckily my kit didn't have the warped keel that yours had, which was a great relief. I am still a novice builder (just one previous kit) so I'll be referring to your build log quite a bit I think 🙂 Best wishes, Andy
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Glueing the Main Deck After a distinct lack of progress over Xmas I've finally started the assembly by glueing the main deck to the bulkheads. The whole assembly can then be lifted by an inch or so to allow the front bulkhead to be inserted: this seemed easier to me than trying to glue the front bulkhead at the same time as those shown in the photo, since it complicates the assembly somewhat (due to lugs on the deck having to align with slots in the bulkhead) and there was a chance that the glue would start to dry before I got it all put together. My childhood Meccano set makes a very useful tool for building jigs
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The wooden strips arrived in a box, about 30 different types in all, but they were largely muddled up together without labels or descriptions. Having sorted the wood into the 30 or so different types, I've created a filing system in the original box to keep them in. The compartments were made by folding birthday wrapping paper into a corrugated pattern to create long, thin sections and adding cardboard labels for each compartment. Helps me to get organised before proceeding with the build and to get familiar with the parts provided.
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The kit has 976 different identified parts, most of which appear at least twice (port and starboard) and some very many times (e.g. decking timbers). The plans amount to 14 sheets, one of which is A1 and the remainder of which are A2. Each of the 976 parts is labelled multiple times in the different plans. So, how to easily find all the references to a part in all those plans? My approach… create a spreadsheet. I inserted an image of each of the 14 plans onto separate worksheets, and made them slightly transparent so I can see the cells behind them. Then where each part number appears on the plan I write that part number (in red) in a unique cell near to the reference on the plan. Then, going forward, if I want to find a particular part in the plans I just use the Excel Search feature to locate them. Much quicker than manually searching each and every time 🙂
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I'm going to post a build log of this, my second kit, Corel's 1/100th scale HMS Bellona. I've only built one kit before, which was Constructo's HMAV Bounty (photo attached), so The Bellona will be a real challenge for me. I'll post my progress: if anyone has suggestions for me based on what you see me post here I'd be very pleased to hear from you if you add comments to the log. The kit was a gift from my wife Ali, as was The Bounty. We live in the UK. I love ships, but our joint hobby is music: Ali is a singer and I play bass guitar, guitar and drums... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVcIj4R5pPI Best regards to all, Andy Thurston
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My first build was Constructo's HMAV Bounty. I made a rope walk from my childhood Meccano set to make the anchor hausers. It worked well enough, but I then spliced the anchor to the hauser which I don't think was correct: more research required next time 🙂
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