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fnick got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi All
Right here are a few pictures of a garboard plank run. The edge of the plank is the top edge (when the ship is the right way up!) of the making tape.
So as I have absolutely no idea can anyone tell me if this look even remotely right? (where's that "HELP!" emoticon when you need it! )
Cheers
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi all
Thanks a lot for the comments and likes.
Nigel:
Dont worry I am no more confused than I already was . Just kidding I think I see what you mean. Once I sit down in front of Le Mirage and go over your message I'm sure it will become crystal clear. Some tape and posting a picture sounds like an excellent idea! Thanks in advance for your help .
Sjors:
Thanks for your kind comment.
Maybe but given my progress rate..... You'll have finished both your current builds (which are looking excellent I must say!) before my second planking is done
I'm planning to use Danish oil on this build. I just love the warm dull (not shiny) sheen is gives. When I'll put it on is a completely different matter as oil and glue dont mix so I guess I want to put it on as late as possible but not before there's too much stuff in the way. Guess I'll cross that bridge once I've crossed the 223 others before it
JPett:
Thank you for your comment.
Genius??!?!?!? I'm sorry I think you have me confused with someone else...
No I just followed the instructions. I'm surprised the Victory does not use a similar method. To answer your last question I am not tinting the wood but I am planning to use danish oil as a finish.
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Evening everyone
Update time. Another planking section finished. Woohoo! Two more to go before second planking end milestone!
Here are few photos.
and finally...
I do have one question. Although I have no reason (well... ) to doubt Nigel's assertion that the garboard plank shape will reveal itself how can I split the last section into strips as the garboard is supposed to be slightly bigger? (Just to be clear I'm using the fanout template to work out plank widths and this assumes all planks are equally wide) Surely I need to put the garboard in first and then split the remaining part of the section?
Any pointers gratefully received.
Thanks for looking in.
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi Nigel
Thanks for the advice. Good to know the garboard plank will sort itself out!
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi Nigel and Sjors
Thanks for the comments. I'm really pleased with how it's going so far. Bit of trepidation about how to do the garboard plank but not there yet! Not much progress since the last set of pictures. Work and life are getting in the way...
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi WackoWolf, md1400cs and Robert
Thanks for the likes!
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Evening all
Small update. Another planking section complete. Getting there despite the fact this build sometimes makes me feel like a slow snail at the bottom of Mount Everest... Looking up...
Anyhoo enough terrible jokes. Here are a couple of progress pictures:
Nigel a belated thanks for the comment. Yes walnut can be brittle although the stuff I'm using now is far better than what I had when I planked the keel. Now that was horrible stuff.
Thanks for looking
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Evening all
Thanks to WackoWolf, maggsl_01 and Aussie048 for the likes.
Thanks Nigel and Sjors for the comments.
Nigel I am cutting the planks from sheet with a X-acto knife (haven't got space or money for power tools...yet...hopefully ) It's not too bad but I think I could benefit from getting a ship's curve for the curved sections. I'm finding it quite difficult to get nice smooth curves.
You mean to tell me this is the easy bit??!?!
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Evening All
(About!) Time for an update.
Nothing much. Another planking section completed. Only four to go. I'll let the photos speak for themselves.
As usual, comments/criticisms gratefully received!
Thanks for looking
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi Nigel
Thanks for clearing that one up. Learn something new every day.
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi Sjors
Haha yes you can imagine it. "What no more walnut. Oh well this will do..."
Thanks for your feedback Mike. Interesting comments about the scarph joints. I took my inspiration from drawings I saw on the Ancre website but have to admit I didn't really research that area (or any...) properly. Maybe just two different ways of doing them I guess?
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Thanks Sjors and Michael for the comments although I'm not so sure about the museum one though
Interestingly enough Corel used to supply walnut for the second layer of planking. Says so in the instructions (still) and you can see that on the photo on the box (start of the log). Wonder why they changed to a lighter wood.
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Thanks Nigel and Ulises for the comments and Aussie048 for the like.
I knew it was a good idea not to post any close-ups
Seriously it's nice to get feedback. Thanks Nigel for the heads up on garboard plank. I have found that turning the ship the right way up to check planking does help. What looks straight upside down isn't necessarily!!
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Thanks Sjors!
Evening all
I decided to take the plunge and line the hull off according to Chuck Passaro's excellent tutorial. I didnt' want to use the wood supplied by Corel as I found it too light so decided to carry on with using walnut. I bought some 5mm wide planks and some 100mm wide sheets for the curved sections. All fine and well until I got both and realised the two didnt seem to be the same wood... or more specifically the 5mm strips did not look like walnut
So ordered some more from a different source and got the same stuff... double . Given that my finances were (are... ) not illimited I decided to cut the 5mm planks from the 100mm sheets. Downside to that is that it takes a loooooong time to do the second planking. Hopefully it will be worth it.
First step was to break the hull down into sections:
and finally
And so the second planking of the hull started. As a picture is worth a thousand words...
and finally again
And that brings me up to date. I'm not going to be posting updates quickly from now on since I only have time to do one planking strip a week on average and I have about 35 strips left . I do like doing planking but I have to admit I'll be glad when it's over
I'll try and post some photos when I complete a section.
Thanks for looking
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
By the time I finish Le Mirage you're going to have quite a fleet. Wouldn't want to get the wrong side of you!
Little one is doing fine. 3 months old already! Doing her best (along with her older brother) to keep us very busy and always on our toes
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Thanks Brian and Sjors for the comments and Aussie048 for the like. I'm not planning to go scratch build crazy (famous last words ) on this build but the stem I had to change!
Yes Sjors you are right I really need to catch up with you on your Le Mirage build. oh wait you've already finished it... :blush:
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Evening all
The next step was to plank the bow. Not wanting to follow Corel' instructions for reasons shown below...
I tried to come up with something a bit more realistic and after getting some inspiration from the Ancre website, followed by some good tips from Danny this was the result
which you will agree (well hopefully ) is better than Corel's suggestion!
Next step was to mark up the frames in preparation for the second planking
followed by the stern planking
And then the second planking started...
and I'm sure you noticed on that last photo that I was still having issues with gun port location . Ho hum...
Only one more catch up post to follow and this log will have caught up with my progress.
TTFN
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi le debutant
Thanks for the comments. More pictures just uploaded. And more where they came from!
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
gun port omission (see previous post) now corrected...
After that it was "just" a question of applying the first layer of planking
in progress
and voila. Finished! easy.
However...something was amiss at the stern...
so drastic measures were required...
and the original booboo was fixed.
At this point can I say to anyone who hesitates in making a fix. Dont! Once you've ripped up what was wrong, well, you can't leave it like that so might as well do it properly!
Seriously I was tempted not to fix it. But I'm glad I did.
And finally a couple of pics of the first planking filled and sanded.
That's it for now. Thanks for looking in.
Hopefully I wont keep you waiting for the next installment too long.
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi everyone
Since I have restarted my build of Le Mirage I thought it was time to resurect my build log from the ashes of the Great crash of 13!
This will be more of a summary rather than a detailed log. Lots of pictures, some words. You never know some of it might be interesting!
I started this build 3 years ago. Yes progress is slow but in my defence having two children in that time has somewhat limited build time...
Comments/criticisms/etc gratefully received. Always good to get feedback of more experienced modellers.
Anyhoo enough of the intro. Hope you're sitting confortably. Popcorn ready?... Good.
A few box content pictures to get going
The box
Inside the box
This is my second build after the Billing Bluenose and I have to say I was very impressed with the quality of the materials. However the bulkhead slots needed some adjusting...
All the bulkheads in place
Unfortunately I didn't notice until way too late that the first one was higher up than it should have been. First mistake (and not the last! )
The slots in the bulkheads are used to determine where the gun ports are.
and again
although that didn't stop me forgetting some gun ports (told you there were more mistakes!)
Well that's the limit of 8 photos per post reached. Until the next post...
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from Nirvana in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
growing up, testing my wife's patience (they are on half term holiday) and stopping me from doing more ship modelling . My boy is a typical 5 year old bulldozer and my daughter is a fully fledged threenager...
So pretty normal really
Nick
PS: Love them really
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fnick got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi all
Very minor update. Managed to drill a hole in all the gunports to fit the dummy guns. I wanted to do that before installing the decks and wales. Hasn't come out too badly. I did manage to loose one of the guns between counting them (and yes I did have the correct number!) and installing them. I am not too worried as I am sure that it will turn up as soon as I order a replacement.
Couple of pictures (excuse the quality...)
The guns are not glued in at the moment. I'll do that at a later stage. Next step is installing the deck beams and the main deck.
Thanks for looking
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from tasmanian in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi all
Very minor update. Managed to drill a hole in all the gunports to fit the dummy guns. I wanted to do that before installing the decks and wales. Hasn't come out too badly. I did manage to loose one of the guns between counting them (and yes I did have the correct number!) and installing them. I am not too worried as I am sure that it will turn up as soon as I order a replacement.
Couple of pictures (excuse the quality...)
The guns are not glued in at the moment. I'll do that at a later stage. Next step is installing the deck beams and the main deck.
Thanks for looking
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from hexnut in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Hi all
Very minor update. Managed to drill a hole in all the gunports to fit the dummy guns. I wanted to do that before installing the decks and wales. Hasn't come out too badly. I did manage to loose one of the guns between counting them (and yes I did have the correct number!) and installing them. I am not too worried as I am sure that it will turn up as soon as I order a replacement.
Couple of pictures (excuse the quality...)
The guns are not glued in at the moment. I'll do that at a later stage. Next step is installing the deck beams and the main deck.
Thanks for looking
Nick
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fnick got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Mirage by fnick - Corel - 1:75 - wood
Evening all
First of all thanks for all the comments and the likes.
Finally got round to taking a couple of shots with the SLR. I've sanded down one side and sorted out all the gun ports so hopefully they are all the same size (more or less )
First of all here's the non sanded side for comparison.
And then the sanded side. Sanding and gun port sorting out probably took around 8 hours ish.
Thanks for looking.
Nick
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