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I'm late to the scene: very nice neat work and bending job!

Enjoy your holiday! Both models look very nice indeed.

Interesting. However the frame looks far too 'fat'. Do you have scantlings for a 44-gun ship?

As you've figured out, cutting tools have to be really sharp and don't try to cut off too much or deeply at a pass. Slow and steady does it. It helps to have a template of the rabbet profile aft at each station so you can see the changing turn of the rabbet. Hope Take Two goes better!

Nice, meticulous work!

Earlier question I missed on  scupper support blocks: they are flush with the frames inside and out. The scupper hole is drilled through the planking and support blocks at the same time after planking.

As for lofting frames, we all learn this on the job as we go!

A fire boom was used to push off an attacking fire ship or burning debris.

Congratulations on launching your new project, Eberhard. Lovely subject!

I've used Titebond II successfully many times for veneering. The advantage is that the glue can be reactivated more than once by heat. Regular white glues can only be reactivated successfully once.

That said, a properly spiled and pre-bent plank will stay in place with only about 30 seconds of finger pressure.

Nonpareil, Chuck! Beautifully rendered.

So the observations were written, not typeset, as I had assumed. Stag it is, then!

Shaping up really nicely, Chris!

I said it was a stretch, Rob! How about if the typesetter accidentally omitted the 'hound' in 'staghound'? More plausible?

Not so much Wat the Tyler as Wat the Heck.

OK, this many be a stretch, but "other devices" might include a staghound chasing the stag/deer on the counter? Would that work for you?

Some lovely color accents now, Mark! A helluva masking job, though. Do treat yourself to a new hose.

The tapered wedge shape forward of the quarter gallery allowed the occupant a view forward along the ship's side while ensconced....

Looks lovely, Claire.

There are some differences between the photographed prototype and the production model. As noted, the end result is the same.

Sussex ain't so bad, surely, Keith? I recall as a child visiting an uncle and seeing the glow of the steel furnaces in the night sky. 

It is more than likely that Wolf was steered by tiller alone. No reflection on your work at all, but on the kit design! Some of these smaller sixth rates were retrofitted with wheels in the position mentioned.

What country, era, type of ship?

I had no idea that planking a transom could be skirting danger! Looking very fine, Keith.

Very neatly done, Clare!

The tiller/wheel set-up is unlike any I've seen - usually if a wheel is present, it is on the quarterdeck where the funnel-like structure is sitting.

Did you not recieve my two pm's, Kevin?

Looking really nice so far.

Two suggestions: One, skin tones are always darker than you think. Two, blend the upper edge of the beard into the skin are a bit for a softer natural edge.