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Brass stern plate attached to assist on the location of the quarter galleries. The galleries are proving more complex than imagined. They are in five pieces all of which have a different curve requirement. Also the pieces seem slightly large in scale making them hard to fit longitudinally from the stern location to their forward most point on the scale drawing. Bending them to fit in makes them much wider than the drawings. I am not quite sure how to proceed. I am thinking I may have to do as Mort has suggested, assemble them off the model and remove the timber galleries and just attach but I have some concerns about how fragile they may be like this……anyone else have these issues. Stern post and keel attached inside view of stern plate Stem post attached Topsides reduced in thickness. This was slow but fairly straight forward.
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Hi Mort I have STRUGGLED with these damn quarter galleries and am slowly coming around to your way of thinking. I just need to get my head around the bold move of removing them and building separately. I now have the stem post and keel fitted and the top sides reduced to scale. Will post some photos tomorrow when over some jet lag!!! Ger
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I began with my Dremel and carved a rough shape in the solid hull for every second one of the 35 stations along the hull. When I had completed that I then removed the excess hull in between and have the hull now down to something close to the final shape. There will be quite a bit of work filling and sanding out any blemishes to get it to the final shape. I then moved on to the quarter galleries. Instructions are pretty sketchy in the manual and to say that the galleries were left oversize as it does in the manual is an understatement. There are four precast sections that make up the galleries and shaping the hull to receive these is a slow process. It will be difficult to marry the four pieces together into the final shape. Should I solder them into one piece or glue them individually onto the shaped hull. Suggestions please. The photos below even though they are slightly out of focus show just how much has to be removed to get them down to the final shape. Stern view. Completed gallery. Untouched gallery. I am planning to open the windows in the gallery and have a view into the gun deck but am wondering what is the best way to remove the unwanted material from the Britannia metal window frame. I am thinking a sharp knife would work best but possibly drilling would be better. Suggestions welcome, thanks.
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So its time to begin. I have removed the two blank ends from the hull leaving me with the rough shape to begin with. (I should have done a before photo, sorry) but here are the two ends now. Then moved on to making the hull templates and as you can see there will be a bit of work to be done on the hull shape when I begin Deep breath and off we go.
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Hi Tim I have the Dremel and will use it for the tighter corners for sure. I think I will work slowly with the chisels and rasp for most of it. From what you say it might be a good idea to invest in a good set of calipers to keep an eye on the big picture. Thanks for the reply. Ger
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Hi all. I have a lot of woodwork experience but this is my first model build. I know I am in the deep end of the pool but I am hoping I can learn to swim with some help please. My first impressions out of the box are two complaints that neither hull planks or copper plates are included in the kit. When you do add them in it brings the cost up quite a bit but ok we are here now and that is my whinge over. I have lined out the solid hull blank and cut out a couple of the station sections from the manual and my first concern is that it seems like I will have to remove a lot of wood to get the hull down to the proper shape. Not a large thickness but a lot of adjustment throughout. Has anyone completed this build before and what do you think. I don't want to start carving off wood without some pointers. Thanks in advance. Ger
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