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I understand I’m about one millionth done with planking

Building this model as we know requires patience and perseverance. Rigging all the cannon doubles that requirement, well done. Not to set you back, but it’s not 22 more it’s 30 including the eight on the QD 😊

That’s a nice job on some tricky planks. Doing them will make a big difference on the final deck. When I made these for Cheerful I made sure the joints were between ports so a cannon didn’t cover them up.

I covered this in my LN log

any progress?

Thank you, I’m glad you found it. Cheerful was a joy to build.

So much nice detail work. Very well done!

The second layer and paint makes it look so much more like a ship. Fun stuff😊 Your planking looks great.

Cool, I like the entry way sign to the “factory.”

Thank you Frank! Thank you Dusan. You, Frank, and I are all about the same place. We’ll continue on together.

Thank you, but it’s far from that. I feel every mistake

Speaking of literal. This is a feel thing and it isn’t hard, just practice it some. I use a travel iron for bending (right on the wood of course) and just recently added a small crafters hot air device, not a hot air gun, for twisting. I use NO water, sometimes I may wet my finger and rub it over the wood. Just heat the wood, slowly bend it, hold it with clamps. I don’t bother letting it cool completely, it may spring back some or not. I can bend a blank in about a minute start to finish, a plank with two bends and a twist may take 3-4 minutes. If I don’t bend enough or bend it too much I just do it again. How long depends on the wood and the amount of bend. Again it’s a feel thing, it comes with practice. Read too many options here and there’s a danger of becoming paralyzed. I show my (actually Chuck’s) method in my current and previous two build logs.

Wales and upper planking complete The wales are now painted and finished. Before I move on to planking the rest of the hull I thought I’d pause and capture a few current state photos. Just on a simple blue background and with my iPhone, I’ll bring out the camera gear and white backdrop when I finish the hull. I chose to stay with my favorite Admiralty Ironworks Black. While purposed for simulating metal, I like the deep black matte finish it provides on wood. I started and finished with a coat of WOP. I like the smooth semi-polished finish the AYC wood allowed me to achieve. I sanded between coats with 400, then 800, and finally with 1200 grit sandpaper. Admiralty Paints come ready to use, but I thinned that a little more with distilled water. I feathered the wales and the black strake into the stem. It's nice to remember the top two rows will be covered by paper friezes later in the build, it made the surgery I did earlier easier to complete not worrying about color match. The black strake started at 1/32, I ran it through the thickness sander to about .63mm. Which I learned is about as thin as the sander can go. It stands proud of the planking and the wales stand proud of the strake, not by much but enough to look good, or so I think. Just to show my ship does have two sides. From the bow dead on. What is that dude looking at. The quarter shots - which does such a nice job showing the graceful lines. One from slightly above. A couple from full profile. And finally, the position my Winchelsea will be in for about the next 6 months. I’m taking a brief pause to take care of some neglected home chores, like tax prep. My photos won’t be very exciting for a while but I’ll post some progress photos from time to time just so you know I’m still here. Thank you for your support, comments, and likes. They are always appreciated.

I hope those hooks work out. I’m all for making our own hooks but the ones needed for cannon rigging would just look out of scale for anything we could practically make. I will vicariously enjoy the rigging watching yours develop 😊.

Really amazing work, such patience, diligence, and technical skill! Actual working door latches, wow.

Well done!

Thank you. The so far part is my ongoing challenge, I have a lot of planking in front of me😊

Thank you. Those are two words I’m always striving to achieve, planking is a great opportunity to practice both.

There are a lot of great Winnie builds, I’m doing my small part to encourage more. 😊

Thanks Rusty. Planking is still the thing that scares me most, I really don’t want to hold it up to the light and find I see through it 😳 so far so good.

I enjoy seeing what I hope mine will look like some far distant day, we’ll done Bob.

Hey Bob, how’s your Flirt coming along?

Thank you Bob, much appreciated Thank you, your planking is more than fine and impressive as well. Thank you Bob, I follow your build and think ‘some day I hope mine looks this good.’

Thanks Chuck. I’m ready for it, each plank a project. I’ll just keep telling myself that.

Check with me in a about a year 😄