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As Patrick just posted

Peter your stun sail booms are excellent. I need to learn how to solder hmmm Cheers,

Robert, Could be a combination of mast caps and or small blocks. These images may be helpful. Looked through my copy of The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships, but found no references to your question. last image from a kit

JIm, Saved an image of your sump pump - may try and scratch build one as well - Like your made mast also on my list - nicely done indeed. Regards,

Cpt H. Nice start to your project - will follow along - glad that my Corel example gave you some inspiration to build this ship. Your kit is by far more accurate than Corel's very dated example. PS: Have you seen Tintin anywhere around? lol

OC. As always big thanks Frank: No, I don’t have a thickness sander nor the room for one 🙁 --- Thanks for your offer – nice of you. The pear wood happens to be .5mm, and I am one of those stubborn builders –who never put any sealers on his projects – I prefer the look of unsealed wood. This current build is only my fourth in 40 years haha. First one still looks just right. (Santa Maria) I do understand why most builders add sealers – it does make a lot of sense. Peter: Welcome aboard, thanks for your overly kind words, much appreciated. I have followed your work and learned much from your logs, again thanks and welcome aboard – Yes the dummy carriages do help. Thanks mates for your likes, comments or just taking a look.

GB, Your work is beyond perfect as is your expertise with complicated photography

Jonathan, Just catching very nice work - looking quite excellent.

Hi All, Minor update but wanted to share a first big visual mistake – images are self explanatory – so will leave it at that. Should have taken the time to do the extra work. As always thanks for your kind likes, comments or just dropping by. Also big welcome aboard to new members who have chosen to start following this log. Thanks mates.

Frank, After our nice conversation - I got curious about your idea of using a Dremel wheel to smooth out the edges. - I used the wrong kind of scissors in the above image . Mica will cut nice and clean.

Frank, It is paper thin. But since it is a silicate mineral - cutting it leaves edge marks. I was intending to cut larger size sheets to place behind windows edge to edge, since in my case windows are only seen from the outside. Your project would make this difficult. But for other projects, great idea. As as far as glue - don't know will need to experiment

Kudin, Nice method - I will try this as well - thanks for sharing the "how to".....

Frank, I have been thinking about your current log, and the window "issues" - this might be too late but I have discovered what should be a great alternative to clear plastic sheets. Mika - found on eBay - the great positive of these sheets is that they are slightly "wavy" looking and show up "defects" as glass would of the earlier centuries. I will use these sheets on my current project for the dozens of needed glass panes. Here are a few images FYI. Hard to capture the actual look of these, but this should give you an idea - does add a lot to realistic looking glass IMO. PS: very thin and easy to cut with scissor --- Love your log awesome build !! Regards my friend

Patrick: thanks as always Frank: The current upgraded Sergal SoS includes all pre-scored decks which they consider to be "finished"planking; saving the builder time from having to plank the decks. So they don't include planking strips. The vintage kit supplied blank decks, but included some strips for planking. All well with us thanks for asking!! Cheers,

Hi, Minor update - planked the main deck using Pear Wood 3X.5mm - First time using this wood. Very easy to work with. The current kit's pre-scored deck made a perfect alignment guide. As always thanks for dropping by...

Hi All, Finishing up hull first planking and sanding. PS: I've been so impressed with other builders whose first planking will probably look better than my second hull planking 😁 I still need to use wood fillers - also hard to see if there are any slight indentations - second Pear Wood covering will hopefully all run nice and even 🙏 Will now start planking the main deck with Pear Wood using the current kit's template as a guide. This will be more fun haha. Got great planks from Cornwall in the UK. Regards,

Awesome build - super interesting log as well. Congrats!!

Jim, Your cross section project is really "very very special" Cheers,

Thanks, Finally your update -- now I can finally get a good night's rest PS: Nice planking !!

OC: Thanks appreciated --- Funny - actually after I add the side railings I will also add a small “hold onto handle” on each side of these first class (up front) loos, 😂 Small update; finished up the bowsprit beakhead deck as well as detailing the area where the mast comes up and through the planks. The last image is obviously the kit provided bit. Thanks for you visits sand kind words.

Robert, Very excellent work masts and caps

Patrick, comme toujours un très bon travail. !! Je ne sais pas si votre deuxième langue, après le néerlandais est le français - je suis né en France donc c'était ma première .... Je pratique juste haha - J'ai aussi vécu au Mexique quand j'étais adolescent, j'ai épousé un Brésilien donc juste par «chance» pas par intelligence, je peux parler quatre langue hmmmm Many Europeans speak three - two are very common indeed.

Jim, Just catching up - as always with your log I need to refill my coffee and stay a while - brilliantly worked out details. Regards,

Hi, Richard: As always big thanks – glad that you like this log – your work is so over the top Boxbuilds: Thanks for your kind words. Regarding this Sovereign, as I had noted in my first post I did not intend to follow Sergal’s instructions for exactly the reason you state for your Soleil, along with other reasons as well. The template for cannon doors that Sergal included (for this kit) made this part of the build obviously much easier. I don’t know of a generic guide for locating the gun openings. For my previous Vasa, Corel intuitively added segmented grooves in their framings indicating location spaces for doors. That made it much easier indeed. My current Sergal SoS does not have these clever grooves. Hence I did not follow their instructions of covering the entire hull with basswood, then having to sorta blindly hunt for properly cutting holes for openings. ================ A build update I had intended to raise the stem above the bowsprit beakhead area – but having already done all the framing for the deck area, would again need to remove and re-do more pre done framing. As it is, given the offset mast re-work as well I thought against it -- instead --- went to plan B. I looked through some brilliant museum examples and decided to emulate their work by just framing a cover above and around my missing “stem” and just affix the needed cupid and lion on top visually it works as a good “go around” The Sergal kit does indicate for a frame to be constructed above the non-offset mast with the cupid/lion then affixed above. see last image. As is known, a mast offset was required, given how close the foremast is sunk through the forecastle. This came out pretty well. Now really need to get back to finishing and prepping first planking. Thanks for your kind posts as well as likes or just dropping by....