Jerry

One last thing for today, Dave, here's a photo of our Bounty's hull.  I did something different.  I copper plated the hull below the waterline as I had a lot of plates left over from other builds and believe it or not they were the proper scale.  And I used colored planking to get the effect i wanted on part of the hull.  With respect to wood filling, the method used depends upon whether or not you intend to leave the hull natural or if you are going to paint it. More on that later.

Best,

Jerry

David, 

One more thing: when you complete the planking and are ready to use a wood filler, please let me know as I have learned an excellent trick (which you may already know) and would like to pass it on to you.  So enjoy the meantime and get a good night's sleep.

Best,

Jerry

David,

Many thanks for the "thread" explanation.  I can see its use.  Regarding the edgewise problem...that's when you have to consider tapering the planks.

Have a nice supper,

Jerry

Dave, I believe your last post is missing your reply.

Jerry

Hello Dave,

As I continue reading your trials and tribulations some of my building tricks have come back to mind.  I'm sorry that you are having trouble bending the planking. So, with respect to bending the planks, especially at the bow where the angles are more severe soaking them for a long time allowed me to bend them without breaking any.  What I did when I first began to build HMS Victory in 2013, I bought a 4 foot length of 4" PVC and two end caps.  One was glued to one end of the 4' piece and the other was just fitted to the other end but not glue.  I filled this with about 1 meter of water and put all my planking strips in it and removed them only as I need them.  It didn't hurt one bit that they were soaking for days and the result was never breaking a planking strip when bending it around severe curves.  I believe soaking them for ten minutes is not long enough and furthermore, the water doesn't have to be hot if you soak them long enough.  As i said, things are coming back to me little by little and hopefully I'll be able to help you better as time goes on.  Also, what is the purpose of the black threads?  When I built my ships I never did anything but started planking and kept going without threads or anything else.  Check my logs, they're all listed below and see how my planking was done; you won't see anything but planking strips...no tape or threads.  I hope I'm not sounding mean but I really want to help you so I'm just telling you how I feel.  Unless I'm  missing something, I believe you're adding unnecessary steps to the build.  I look forward to your further progress.

Best,

Jerry

Hello Dave,

To make sure that I haven't given you any wrong information, I double checked my Bounty Log .  You will see that when Charlene and I planked the hull, we did, indeed, run our planking the entire length of the hull.  Only when we were near completion we had to fill in with shorter pieces of planking.  Please click on the HMS Bounty link at the end of this post to see what I mean.  I admire your patience and thoroughness so please don't let me interfere with your routine.

Best,

Jerry

I'm glad you mentioned  tapering the planks, Dave, as that's the only way you'll manage the compound curves of the hull.  I looked over our Bounty and truthfully, looking at a finished  model doesn't help in any way.  Also, you never mentioned what you intend to do about the pins holding the planking.

I  must admit, you're getting my interest peaked...I hope I can be of help.

Best,

Jerry

Hello Dave,

Looks to me like you're well on your way.  Very nice job on the shaping of the balsa blocks.  Are you planning to remove the pins that are holding your four rows of planking in place? Also please forgive me if my question sounds strange but I don't recall applying planking strips half way.  It's been awhile so maybe I'm wrong but I believe when planking I ran the strips completely fore to aft.  I won't be insulted if you set me straight.  Keep going, looking good.

Best,

Jerry

Hello Popeye..

Hope you are well.  Just thought I'd say hello and let you know that the admiral and I are okay.  It's been a long time since I posted anything on this site but when I received an email regarding Julien's post I wanted to send you our regards.

Best,
Jerry

Hello Mark,

Very nice job on the rat lines.  Spaced well, tight and tidy.  Good job.  Couldn't do any better my self  LO

Best,

Jerry

Hello Mark,

Hope all is well.  Just wanted to say hello to you and David and let all know I'm still alive.

Best,
Jerry

Hello Tom...

Your Bounty is exceptionally beautiful.  You have done a fantastic job; congratulations.

I wonder why you have chosen to post your work on our Bounty site.  I have no objections, but wonder if you know that there is a place for posting scratch built models.  At least there used to be.  In any event, I hope you will have a good place to display your work in your home.

Best,

Jerry

Hi Patrick,

Of course I hope you know I was kidding.  Anyway, Thanks for your comments and I hope I didn't take anything away from Kevin's fantastic build.

Best,

Jerry

I guess you didn't like mine  LOL

Jerry

Good for you Kevin.  I can't wait to see the  "stand."  The best to you,

Jerry

Hello Kevin..

just a word to say that your colors look neat and well done.  You should be very proud of your Victory; you've done a terrific job.

Best,

Jerry

Hello Kevin,

I don't know if my pictures will help but I'm posting them here for you to see.  Maybe seeing the foremast and mainmast stunbooms  (taken through the display case) will answer your question.  If not, please forgive my intrusion.

Best,
jerry

Thank you, Kevin.  I'm with you 100%.  I will never build another Victory either but building it was one of the huge joys in my life.  Not only because it was so satisfactory to complete this model, but most importantly I relish the number of friends I made throughout the world while constructing it.  I'm sure you must feel the same way.  I do wish that I could get to the UK once more as most of these friends live there.

My family and I are well; thank you very much for your thought.

Best,

Jerry

Hello Kevin,

I can't believe how totally unobservant I have been with respect to  your beautiful build.  I never noticed until you mentioned it that the rudder has never been hung.  Oh well, one's eyes get older every day.  And  don't get angry  with me but I do wish that you would have set some of the lower deck cannons.  Just my feelings.

Best,

Jerry

Looks very interesting.

Go for it, Kevin.

Good luck!

Jerry

Hi Kevin,

}I have no idea what y'all are talking about.  I wonder if my Victory is missing the chesstrees too?  

Jerry

Thanks for the reply, Kevin.

Your idea may work well.  We'll be watching.

Best,

Jerry

Hello Kevin,

Your Victory really looks beautiful.  I'm so glad that you decided to keep going and bring your model to fruition.  I know that when you finally see your project in a display case you will take much pride with the knowledge that you completed a gem.  I notice that you are thinking about the location of the ship's boats.  I hope you don't mind the picture intrusion I have posted because I wanted you to see that I actually placed one of the ship's boats "in the water" alongside the mother ship.  Please keep going; a lot of us can't wait to see the final job.

Best,

Jerry

Kevin,

I'm lovin' it.

Best,

Jerry

No additional problems since I had some drastic surgery a couple of years ago.  I have very little sight in my left eye but my right eye is 20/20.  I'm able to work in my woodworking shop but the little guys (ship models) are too much for my sight.  But I'm happy.