Sjors

You are welcome Sjors. I will be at my shipyard again at the end of this month.

Further to Mustafa’s accurate conversions Sjors, I find that a handy approximation to remember is 1/16” = 1.6mm (approx)
 
From there it is easy to work out any other fractional inch (bearing in mind that it is an approximation).
So 1/8” is 2 x 1/16” or 2 x 1.6mm = 3.2mm
and 1/32” is half of 1/16” or half of 1.6mm = 0.8mm
and 1/64” is half of 1/32” or half of 0.8mm = 0.4mm
and so on…
 
Hope that is helpful.

I have to take the dust of on the build log.
It's a while ago but i'm back......
I have removed all the copper plates because a lot of them are falling off and I was not happy with the result
So I have started again with those plates.
 
Sjors
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

good morning everyone
day 176-6 lower masting
will be interesting to see how @Blue Ensign and @ECK tackle the masting, th standard of the builds far surpasses mine, butim thoroughly enjoying mine
the two lower mast come together vey quickly, and although they are only primed they look good in the sunshine
 @yvesvidal - Agreed -  NO dustbin
 

good evening everyone,
thank you for comments and likes
day 174-6
ive been busy recently, with lots of gardening, and other projects, and  in the last 10 days we have been in the process of finding and new puppy to go with our boi, that has been successful, and will be with us in about 6 weeks time
as for the build i still continue to do a bit daily, however done more today, as i wanted to see if any of my toys are worth keeping, if so, to use them, which is what has happened, and IMHO quite well
 
 
 

Congratulations Robert.
It’s a real beauty and you can be proud of what you have done.
A great example for me. 
Difficult for me to get close of what you have done!
 
Sjors

Congratulations Robert.
It’s a real beauty and you can be proud of what you have done.
A great example for me. 
Difficult for me to get close of what you have done!
 
Sjors

Congratulations Robert.
It’s a real beauty and you can be proud of what you have done.
A great example for me. 
Difficult for me to get close of what you have done!
 
Sjors

Hi Tom,
 
I have take a look at all the build logs.
But a lot of builders are away after the beginning.
Maybe to difficult?
I also had all ready problems en re do a lot.
But that’s building.
The drawings are more difficult then OcCre or Caldecraft.
And the measurements are in inches and not cm.
But with the help of other builders i can manage it all.
But for this month the Victory and September back to Conny.
 
Sjors
 

That goes quicker then the Conny 🙂
It’s a nice little one.
I will be follow you 😀
 
Sjors

It was just a joke Peter.
And I only have one each month.
This month the Victory and next month the Conny.
The Duyfken stays on hold.
 
Sjors

Thank you Allan. The trick for me was being able to edge bend that second plank up enough to fit tight to the first one at the bow end. It was a fairly sharp bend.
 
I have completed the second planking on the port side down from the wales. I am really pleased with how this came out. I have some sanding to do but much less than I usually do.
 

 
Now to complete the second planking on the starboard side.

I finished adding the first 10 planks on the port side. These are not scraped/sanded yet.
 

 
I am now doing the same to the starboard side.

Here are the first four planks on the port side. I have started tapering them at the bow and stern. I measured down 10 planks in the middle section, then used a batten to extend the line to the bow and stern. I only had to taper about the first inch and a half at the bow and inch at the stern. These pear planks take to @Chuck's edge bending technique really well, using only a small iron.
 

I started planking the port side of the hull. I am using a full length plank for the wale so I bent one to fit and used the laser cut marks on the bulwark to align it. I used medium CA to glue it on, a small section at a time.
 

 
Happy Father's Day to all you Dads out there.

I planked the whole counter and transom with the pear strips. I used vertical planks for the lowest section, but deviated from the instructions and used horizontal planks for the upper transom as well as the counter. Mostly this was an aesthetic issue for me but also it made this task a little easier. I used small files to clean up the excess plank lengths in the gun ports and rudder opening, and a Dremel with a sanding disk, files, and sanding block to sand the excess plank ends to be flush with the first planking. I also filed the back edge of the keel piece down to 1.5mm so the second planks with fit somewhat flush with the stern post.
 

 
At this point I am ready to start the second planking of the hull. I started marking off the hull for these planks which are 1 mm thinner than the first planking. I'll figure out the tapers at the bow and maybe the stern before I start. I also marked three bulkheads to use for a 3 butt shift as I will not be using full length planks for the second planking.

I have completed the first planking. I filled the low spots with diluted wood putty then sanded everything smooth, then did that two more times to fill any remaining low spots. I used a Dremel to cut and sand down the ends of the planks at the transom. I also filed down the nail heads but left them in place. I think it came out OK for a first planking but the second planking has to be a lot better.
 

 
I then used the second planking strips, which are pear, to start planking the transom. These strips need to be cut and sanded flush with the first planks before I can start adding the second planks over the first.
 

 

Thanks Thukydides.
 
I planked part of the way up from the garboard strakes until I had a gap of about three planks left.
 

 
At this point I was again having to bend the planks a lot, so I decide I would add a drop plank in this gap. I added one more full length plank then the drop plank. You can see one on the bench in the next image. It still has a good bend through most of the length but fit pretty well.
 

 
And here it is being installed.
 

 
I have since cut the planks to fill the remaining gap on each side and am in the process of gluing them in place. I have also started filling in the low spots on all the planks with wood putty and will start sanding the hull when that is completed. Not the prettiest planking job but OK for the first layer. This will all be covered with the second layer, which will be pear. The pear strips are not as wide as these planks so I am not sure if they will be easier to bend and fit. I hope they will be but we shall find out soon enough.

The gun port pieces came out pretty well but there were two issues. At the transom the gun port pieces were pinched in between the last bulkhead and the transom. I determined that I had not sanded the transom piece enough so it was causing the ends of the gun port pieces to be out too far. I carefully released the glue joints between them and the transom pieces, then used a Dremel sanding disk to reduce the width of the upper transom piece. When I re-glued the gun port pieces to the transom piece, I also put a spacer between them to push them outward a bit. When the glue dried the gunk port pieces came out much straighter. I am also not worried about that joint, as medium CA seems to hold it very well.
 
The other problem I had was that at the bow the bottoms of the gun port pieces were a little too far away from the first 5 or so bulkheads. The planking strips provided for the first planking are pretty thin so I was worried that I would sand through them getting them flush with the bottom of the gun port pieces. My solution was to use a thicker planking strip for the bow area of the first plank below the gun port pieces. This should give me enough meat to sand without getting too thin. I can also use wood filler in this area if I need to to fill in any gaps that might show up.
 
So the first planking has started. I measured each bulkhead using a tick strip to determine the number and width of the planks at each bulkhead. The planks need some tapering at the first 5 bulkheads at the bow and at the last bulkhead and transom at the stern. I tapered two thicker strips for the first plank at the bow and two regular width strips for the rest of the first plank, soaked them for just a few minutes, used a plank bender to bend in curve at the bow, then clamped them to the bulkheads to dry. Once they are dry I will glue and clamp them in place.
 

 
One plank down, many more to go.
 
 

After adding the transom pieces, it was time to fair the bulkheads, add the stem piece, then add the gun port pieces. The gun port pieces had to be soaked then bent to the bulkheads. As per the instructions, I pinned the bottoms and clamped the tops to the bulkheads, let them dry overnight, then glued and pinned them back into place. I did the port side pieces first, and I now have the starboard pieces soaked and drying.
 

 
I am worried about where the aft gun port pieces are glued to the transom pieces, as this is a very thin gluing area and I don't see anything coming up that will help hold these joints. I did use medium CA to hold these joints which should help.

Thanks Eric and the likes.
 
I continue putting the frame together and this was the trickiest part - adding the base for the upper deck. It has to be bent just enough to get between the frames and those very fragile transom supports. I managed to get it in place and glued to the bulwarks and used some clamps to hold the middle of the deck sown while it dries.
 

 
The next step is to add those transom pieces, to protect those transom supports.
 

I glued two of the lower deck sections to the bulkhead. Because there is a curvature to the deck, I used these modified clamps to hold them while gluing which worked great.
 

 

Thanks EvanKeel. I will follow along with your Bounty Launch build. I really liked that kit too.
 
Just your typical shot of gluing the bulkheads to the keel. Of course everything fit together like they were made for each other.
 

This will be my second Vanguard kit. I have wanted to build this ship model ever since it was released. I will be building it for our new first grandson, Thomas Joseph. His nursery is a nautical theme so the completed model will go in there when he is older. I have to include a picture of the little guy. The sailer suit was actually his father's, our son, from when he was a baby.
 

 
Ok enough of that. I have unboxed the kit and started cutting out the bulkheads and keel. Pictures of the actual model coming soon.