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Lovely work mate and don't worry about the speed of your build. It will get done when its gets done

Thanks Tony A bit more work done this week - I have made the 2 beds. One is for the Master of the ship and the other for the Master Gunner who was on board when Le Rochefort carried its cargo of gunpowder. I made the recesses in the door and the lower part of the bed in the same way I made the door into the cabin. I just like the way this method looks when finished. Next was the cupboard walls and the base of the bed The pair of beds and the bulkhead with hinges and handles fitted. The parts now fitted into the hull - it's the fitting that takes the longest time just trying to get a tight a fit to the hull as possible. So I'm pretty sure that once I've made the hatch surround, fitted the beams and made the carlings that will be the quarter deck finished. Those tasks will be my next jobs. Cheers Mark

Wow sorry to hear this Chuck - and people wonder why model companies go under. Disgraceful behaviour and I believe it was right for you to share.

So many frames in such perfect alignment - wow

Thanks Kevin - I'm not planking the decks which is why I'm trying to get it as good as possible. When the ship is finished I'll still be able to look inside and see the detail

Thanks JacquesCousteau - The shiplap planks are really simple to make on a table saw but I find them difficult to glue together so that they lay flat. I have to be honest the whole assembly did fit better than I thought it would and yea - I did look at it and think you lucky fella that looks nice 🤣 Sorry for the late replies - I'm now starting on the 2 beds which for this ship are quite elaborate in detail and I need to work out how to make them.

Hi all Back from our lovely holiday and straight back onto Le Rochefort I'm now working on the crews quarters below the quarter deck and have started with the bulkhead which has a double entry door. This is quite a feature on this ship so I want to get it as good as possible. I started by making the shiplap planks that form the walls which I then glued together to make the actual walls. Next was to look at the doors themselves - I usually just get a solid piece of wood and then mill out the features to make them look like doors. In this instance I thought that I would try a new exercise for me and make them from individual parts and include all of the relevant joints as they possibly would have been made originally. Each frame is made of 5 pieces which then require 4 inserts in each door. Milling out the rebates to fit the 0.7mm inserts Sorry I should have taken more pictures but here are how the doors turned out. Assembling the parts actually proved to be one of the hardest parts. Next I needed to make the door frame uprights which have 2 rebates cut into them and also the base rebate that the walls slot into. It all took a little bit of fettling to get all of the parts to fit correctly but I'm just about there now. I did have one issue and that was with the door frame uprights which stopped the whole assembly from sitting flush with the beam. This maybe because I miss read the drawings but to get around this issue I cut some rebates into the beam which actually makes the whole thing stronger and more stable It's all still a work in progress but I'm getting there with this particular part of the build. Mark

Silver solder on brass really needs tight joints to get a good joint. By the time it's been filed or sanded down it's almost invisible anyway. Jewellers use silver solder on gold and you cannot see the joint so I guess the secret is to take your time and have as little silver filler in the joint as possible

They say that every day is a school day and this is one of mine. I would never have thought of that and my wife has an A3 light box for her art! I reckon that its going to spend more time in my workshop now - thanks Greg!

Greg your carpentry is amazing what a beautiful build

Simply amazing work - wow

Hi Mike - it's a trick of the camera! The gantry is separate from the height gauge in front of the of it. This is the gauge that I use - I use this to measure so much as my datum for the build is the bottom of the keel. I didn't have this tool when I began building but I wish that I had.

druxey, dvm27 and SaltyScot - thanks for the comments! It's nice to know that it's not just me that has had to resolve earlier issues. After I built the quarter deck I was surprised just how much it changes the entire look of the ship. It just looks so much more complete and solid which was just another piece of encouragement to move forward. Mark

Thanks Jacques that really means a lot to me - Since starting Le Rochefort I have bought a few monographs which has made me appreciate just how good the monograph by Gerard really is. I also have to remember that this is my first POF build too! My shipyard is obviously on the sketchy side 🤣 but we get things done! Thanks Chris - We fly out next Sunday for a much needed 2 week holiday in the sun.

Hi Keith what a really nice comment - I also told Lorraine about your birthday wishes and she said thank you very much Cheers mate!