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Plain, uncluttered background and crisp focus are requirements for the competition. Do photographic justice to your work! If you are a lousy photographer, get a friend to take the pictures for you.

Thr problem with paper plans is a considerable degree of expansion or contraction depending on humidity. You can be absolutely 'on' with that keel today,and be off several mm by the next day. It's like chasing a chimera. Madness will ensue!

Two solutions:

1) Take a known scale measurement  such as keel length and apply a scale rule against your work. 

2) Produce a scale drawing on Mylar sheet. It is dimensionally stable regardless of humidity. Use that rather than a paper plan. 

The second solution is one I've used now for decades, since I discovered paper plans were a snare and delusion for accurate work. Sure, it's more work, but saves my sanity in the long run! The photo is the prelude to my current project, the South Carolina, ex L'Egyptian.

Thanks for any update, Marc, however small!

Funny, that. The first piece - or the first acceptable one - always takes far longer than subsequent ones! Those look really nice.

Increase the gaff angle? Slack off the vangs a little before adjusting the peak halliard. The overall 'look' of the model is nice, even if the sails aren't quite the way you'd like them to be.

Nice clean result. Can't see any sign of the struggle!

Not only great craftsmanship, but also great drafting, Ilhan!

That is rapid progress!

Bonnets were used instead of reef points, Claire. Neat work on those sails.

I'm so sorry about the loss of your friend Ken.

Very nicely done. It 'turned' out well!

Another time, you might want to consider using SilkSpan....

It's nice when earlier attention pays off later in the build, as has happened here. Looking good!

Enjoy Crete with your bride!

Nice extra tweaks!

Ah, the joys and frustrations of reproducing plans!

Thanks for your opinion on the hornbeam, Chris! Sorry about the milling 'oopsie'.

I've not come across black hornbeam for model-making. How fine is the grain and how well does it cut? And will it bend easily with heat? Certainly the photo makes it look really good. I bet it glues better than ebony!

Merciless, perhaps; but it is developing into a lovely miniature!

Just truckin' along there. Quite the assembly line.

Looking very promising, Greg.

To begin with, read one (or more) of the pinned planking tutorials on this site. We've all been there!

http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Framing_and_Planking/Planking primer.pdf

http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Framing_and_Planking/Lining Off your hull for planking.pdf

http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Framing_and_Planking/NailPatternJig.pdf

http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Framing_and_Planking/plankingfan.pdf

Thank you for making me smile this morning, Ab! Love the figures animating your model as well.

Thanks for keeping us up to date, Keith. Glad the end of reconstruction is in sight.

Ditto, ditto! Well done indeed!

While the jig solves one problem, it creates another - that of making the throat and end seizings 'in the air'.

I use a jig simply to mark the underside of the line where it wraps around the deadeye. After removing the shroud or shroud pair, I can hold things using third hands while applying the seizings. Then I pop a deadeye into the bight (the line has sufficient stretch to do this) and reinstall the shroud over the masthead.

As a footnote to Trevor's contributions, Humphries took off the lines of South Carolina, ex L'Indien in 1782. She had been a French design built in Amsterdam. She was heavily armed with 28 39-pounders (continental guns) on a single gun deck. She was extermely fine below water, fore and aft - more clipper-like than a heavily armed warship. As a result, by the time she reached Philadelphia, she had hogged 'amaisingly' (Humphrey's own note). However, she was the prototype for Humphrey's heavy frigates and, noting this deficiency, as well as the extreme sheer of her decks, he built in preventative measures including early diagonal riders.