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Thanks Bob, I think everyone is building to an amazing standard. I have made a few mistakes but overall I'm happy with the result so far. -
I have had a good day in the shipyard. I started off by adding the missing decorations to the port side. I also added the horseshoe and fish plates to the hull. I then decided to build and dry fit the mid ship bulkhead assembly. This was a nice task and fits really well. A really nice bit of design work by Chris. I then added the window and gun port decorations to the starboard side. I just need to add the decorations patterns to complete this task. I did add a black backing sheet behind the quarter gallery window.
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Hello Derek As always I have found your post(s) very informative and full of plenty of great advice and detailed methods. I have always used a jig to set the distance between the deadeyes but never seem to have a level set of deadeyes once rigged. The problem I have is setting the same amount of tension to each lanyard line. Do you have any tips? I have an idea on my current build to use a small weighted item (e.g. my normally closed tweezers) to the lanyards so each line so I know each line will have the same tension applied. I can then to use your method of using a white thread to mark the position at the bottom of the deadeye.
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Never heard of that before. Thanks for the info
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Great work. I'm eagerly waiting for the follow up note
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I painted the lower stern panel blue. I painted the transom red which looks really nice with the blue, gold and white. I painted the quarter galleries as shown in the manual, black background with red infills and gold decorations and white window frames.
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Thanks Chris. The holes suffered paint clog and I did not notice them. I will remove, clean and pin as per the instructions. The mis-alignment actually looks far worse in the picture.
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I decided to start adding the decorations to the hull. I have worked on the port side from stern to midships. The patterns have really added another dimension to the hull. Over the next couple of days I should be able to complete this task for both the port and starboard sides. Picture of port side decorations Picture of Quarter Gallery Window. I added a black sheet behind the window frame. With a steady hand I will touch up the paint work around the window frame. Picture of the two side windows. The left hand frame should have been positioned better I have only noted the error when looking at the photo. I might apply some acetone to remove it and to then reposition. There was no need to add a black sheet as the deck is visible through both windows.
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I have made some more progress today and have completed adding the stern rails and decoration patterns. Everything went together very smoothly and looks much better than shown in the two photos below. Looks nice with a black background and I did add a black backing sheet behind the windows I included the following photo to show the gold painted top edge and I made sure the picture was nicely out of focus
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Happy new year. Posted this on Jim's log in error (now deleted that post). Progress on my build did slow down over the last few days due to forming a child care bubble with our new granddaughter. I have fitted the wales and cappings to the hull. The wales proved to be more problematic than I was expecting. I had to remove and refit the port side to get them looking right. I'm not sure what I did but the top wale started and finished at the right points (according to the plan drawings) but drooped somewhat around the midships. Once the lower wale was fitted the bottom edge was far too close to the water line. I did ponder leaving it as fitted but decided it would be better to remove both wales and start again. I used a strip on my 2mm tape to set the correct line for the upper wale. Once that was fitted I used another length of my 2mm tape to set the correct line for the lower wale, maintaining the 3mm gap between the wales. I then proceed to paint the stern area blue (sorry no photo) and then moved on to painting stern decorations. The resin upper part has been painted blue and gold. The fascia panel has been painted red and I have added a black backing sheet behind the windows. The PE parts have been cleaned in acetone and given a couple of light coats of white primer and are now ready to be painted gold and white as necessary. It was not easy to get a decent photo of the white primed PE sheets.
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Looking good
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Great job Rusty. Did you soak and bend the stern decoration before painting blue and gold?
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Maybe they just be shown on the plan drawings for guidance purposes. I did not really enjoy the model space Yamato build but they did provide some sanding templates for the hull which were really useful.
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Chris Are you planning to include a fairing guide line on the bulkheads?
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For me the price of your kits is not an issue and the more idiot proof the better based on my skill set.
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looks an interesting and fun build
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Thanks Chris I was pondering using pins or maybe elastic bands
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I have now added the two rails to the hull which as added an extra dimension to the hull. I think it will look amazing once I have added all the PE decorations. I have also added the capping to the bow area. The wales have been painted and bent and are ready to be installed. I'm just debating the best method. I am not a fan of using ca and I would prefer to use pva but I will need to find a method to clamp the wales if I use pva.
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Thanks, it will look very good once the rails and decorations have been added
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I have now moved on to painting the outer bulwarks (blue and red), main rail patterns, wales and cappings. I started with the outer bulwarks patterns and applied the blue paint (Humbrol Matt Blue No.25) as shown in the picture below. Bulwark taped and painted blue After that I applied the red paint to the outer bulwarks patterns (Vallejo Model Color 17 ml Acrylic Paint - Scarlet). There was a little bit of bleeding, but as can be seen on the third photo when the main rail was dry fitted the bleed is hidden. Stern area Bow area, where a bit of bleed can be seen. Main rails dry fitted, bleeding is hidden. I then moved on to the main rail and applied the black paint to the rear window frame patterns and to the front curve. I also applied black paint to the bulwark capping and to the wales. Rear Main Rails Bow end of main rails Cappings Wales are drying in a vertical position, using clamps.
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Hello Jim I plan to start later today/tomorrow. I've been tweaking the hull paint job around the stern this morning. When I checked the finished paint job with my waterline marker I noticed a slightly error which I have now corrected (hopefully).
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