Manual

Soooooo I finally got to lay down the first planks ever and since I had to wait that long I didnt waste anytime with preparations or planing. And it went thus as well as one could expect: The planks started to splinter and break. (At least they had the decenncy to splinter symmetrically in the aft) there were suddenly gaps and recesses in the aft section and at the stem I saw that I didnt pay attention while sanding the bow, leading to quite a step when going from the ply bulwark to the masterplank ( again I had at least the decency to fail symmetrically ) But all in all Im still quite happy how it turned out, since its the first time I did any planking. I assume the process will feel less uncontrolled with more practice and more experience. I had still fun though since I didnt put myself under unecessary pressure to achieve some decent results since as long as it somehow holds and enables me to lay a good 2nd plank layer Im satisified Most of my troubles lay where the plank connects to the prow and right at the end of the plank. At the prow I found it difficult to get the right curvature and glue the end of the plank securly to the prow. Also I think I didnt let the plank on starboard dry long enough after Ive soaked and bent it, since it started splintering very easily when I used the nails. It was better with the second plank which I didnt soak that much. in the aft Ive had also trouble with the twist of the plank, one snatched and with both Ive got a friendly gap between the ply bulwark and the plank itself. I will probably use some filler before I start sanding, but first I need to lay down the rest of the planks Note for beginners: Dont expect perfection with your first plankings. And now onto the rest!

Thanks! Unfortunatly I had to move the entire operation to a new location, and now I dont have my tools at hand to work on the model and it will be so until the end of the week. If Im really unlucky they will not arrive until the end of this month . But on the bright side, I have probably watched every single video on planking there is

Thank you all for the warm welcome! Im looking forward to upload more stuff, and hopefully tomorrow the first few planks are done. Ive set the first planking as my first milestone, really looking forward to see how that goes

Hi! My name is Manuel, and Im in my early twenties and Im from Switzerland. This is my first wooden model kit ever, so the fun is guaranteed Now comes a bit of blabla, feel free to skip to the pictures Disclaimer: I already started the build 5 days ago, at the time when I created this post Im laying down my first ever plank (Masterplank on the starboard side) but Im catching myself doing everything else instead since Im a bit nervous… Also English is neither my mother tongue nor is English grammar my strong side so please forgive me my sins (My English teacher did not). To whom is this guide? : Me? Dont really have an asnwer for this one yet. But surely also for other beginners, and for everyone else because sharing is caring. Why HM Sherbourne? : I wanted to buy a frigate but then reason struck me and I started to look for something small, but still in scale 1:64. So I came across HM Sherbourne and saw there are a lot of videos on YouTube about it (Im following modelkit stuffs build, really awesome for beginners can only recommend it) and its supposed to be a beginner friendly model. Do I know what I am doing? : Absolutly not!!! So now enough blabla, lets get to the real stuff! The first few steps were really easy, although I messed up the false deck since I didnt pushed it down fast enough nor did I dryfit it and therfore got some splintering (see photo). Im quite happy how the stern turned out though. Next was the sanding, it took me a lot of time since I felt unsure how much material I needed to remove but then decided to just go through with it on and hate myself later. So I arrived at the ply bulwarks and o my o my was I scared at first, but then after some careful bending and dryfitting (I really can only recommend dryfitting and reading the manual, which is really great by the way! Although a picture with where to put glue on the bulwarks would have been nice, but modelkitstuff saved me there ) Yesterday I felt confident enough to glue them on and it more or less worked! I gueeesss? We will see. I will move on now to cut off the overlength at the stern and then put on my first plank ever! Wish me luck! Kind Regards Manuel