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I'm puzzled by the instructions for the gun deck planking and I don't think they've been thought out very well. I'd hinged the two halves with some tape and then stuck crosspieces as indicated but I can't see (i) that they are historically correct, (ii) what the point is of not planking the centre part of the deck at this stage, and (iii) why the deck should be in two halves if you're going to defeat that by fixing them together.. Spyglass says that most modellers plank in straight runs bow to stern - see here: http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/420-hms-pegasus-by-spyglass-victory-models/?p=4616 and I think I will scrap the crosspieces and do just that. Then I will be able to cut through from the back for the hatchways etc, following Landlubber Mike's Badger build method (see above). I will not plank right to the edges on the centre section - this will have to be done after the deck is in place and the tops of the centre bulkheads have been removed. Make sense?
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Restarted today after a long gap, as it's finally warm enough in the garage to work without heat. Glued the bulkheads to the keel, glued the fake planking to the lower deck, glued the lower deck to the bulkheads. All seems very square and solid. Was about to ask silly question about plank termination patterns, but have sussed it out. Onwards (very slowly)!
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Thank you again, Mike, that's very clear.
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Thank you both very much. Mike, I'm not sure what the wood is - it was leftover deck planking from my first build, HM Brig Supply, aka (once I'd had my hands on her) The Carpenter's Mistake. Are you both saying that I should first build hatches and plank after, or at least stop short at hatchways? I'd thought it was mostly done the other way round, planking straight across hatchways and cutting them open later.
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I decided, following the advice in Lloyd Matthews' blog 'Preparing the Hull Assembly': http://hmsfly.com/startingTheHull.html to plank part of what he calls the "lower deck" (the 5mm MDF deck) on the grounds that the planking might just be seen if you look very carefully through the grating on the gun deck and (and much more important for me) it would provide good practice before planking much more visible bits. I decided also to sort of follow Spyglass's method ( http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/420-hms-pegasus-by-spyglass-victory-models/ ) and score but not cut planks, but not attempt to simulate treenails. Decided (unilaterally!) that deck planks were 16' long, reducing nicely to 3" at 1/64 scale, and that there would be a three plank repeat (do you detect a theme here?), moving each plank up 1" from the previous one. Built a sort of jig to make marking the planks easier, and have so far planked on the template that Lloyd Matthews says will be all that will be visible through the gratings. Moderately pleased with myself, but I think it was a mistake to plank symmetrically about the centreline, first left then right, rather than start at one side and just plank straight across, because as you can see there isn't a three plank repeat across the centre. Hope this all makes sense!
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Thanks for that, Mike...good to meet you, Glennard!
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I needed to fiddle about with the bulkheads a bit, Blue Ensign, to get the 5mm deck to fit. What I meant by "sanding down" the bulkheads was faring them to get the planks to lie neatly... Thanks for the advice about MDF.
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Well, started today and, by dint of a little whittling, have managed to fit the bits together. I will take them apart again tomorrow and sand down the bulkheads whose thickness needs reducing, and perhaps glue it all together. Tell me, is inhaling MDF dust a bad idea? Worse than ordinary sawdust? Should I wear a mask?
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Thank you! She's listing already, even before I've unpacked her - not a good omen! Probably no more now till the New Year.
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I discovered yesterday that Hobbies Ltd are selling this for £299.99, about a £45 reduction, so I placed my order. Expected any minute now if Darren is on time! The excitement mounts... I almost certainly won't be able to start it until the New Year so this post is a bit of a hostage to fortune.
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This looks interesting - "Carvey: The 3D carving machine for the maker in all of us": https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/carvey/carvey-the-3d-carving-machine-for-the-maker-in-all
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