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Kevin

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  1. doing things my way, i want to get a majority of the outer painting done before working inside the hull, might avoid all the dust that i seam to create
  2. good morning every one build log day 70-2 (arrived 10 weeks ago and had two days off) well with the minimum of work being required i went to plan B and and primed the hull, with a hairy stick and Vallejo grey primer using the 2nd planking i was able to line the top wale plank in place, with the 3 following underneath it, this has also been sanded and primed, progress continues on the stbd side
  3. good evening everyone im back thank you so much for the comments and suggestions, very much appreciated first of all this was to be my masterpiece build, having looked forward to it for so long, it was an accident, but could have been avoided, if I had been 100% anyway having thrown all my toys , and the bois out of my pram i have now picked them back up and continuing from where i left off, HOWEVER - my lovely Box wood will now be painted
  4. another good option ty, but the disaster area is between the bottom of the wale and top of the coppering obviously i dont want her to look like a zebra as i had considered coppering then hull black, use a different wood for the wales and leave everything above as is, but the more i think of that the sillier it appears, had the area been 25mm higher or lower i could have salvaged it
  5. as this was my first "lets plank it better and not paint kit" i made a few mistakes, in that the tapering started far to early, and there was to much of it, and the boards are all not wide enough at the rabbet , although it is area about 30mm long it affects over 20 planks, so the replacing will not look right, there is also such a wide range of plank colours to think about aswell of course there was no way i could have hidden this, i will just have to put it down to stupidity
  6. i had thought about it but dismissed the idea, had it been the kit standard pear i would have painted anyway, its not all bad news though, i know my planking skills have gone up,
  7. good evening everyone all my plans to display her naked have gone out of the window i over sanded the bow on the Port side to much and went through to the 1st planking, after i stopped sobbing as it is Boxwood and not pear, my options are quite skimpily - limited 1 never show the port side again - silly idea 2 paint and copper port side and leave the Starboard side in wood - i dont think i could pull that off 3 complete the hull as shown in the instructions- preferred way i am absolutely gutted, but it was a nice sunny day, ive felt like pants for the last couple of weeks and was just nice to sit in the garden with some sandpaper oh hum damage done trying to hide the damage
  8. good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes my mum is home again having had a mild hear attack, but going down with Covid hindered her stay in hospickle, she has been fitted with a stent and now getting stronger by the day at home, with the boi being ill, my mum, wife and myself, it has been a long 1/4 of the the new year day 57 of 59 the lower hull planking is complete, its a large hull to play with, esp when you want to make it presentable and not add any paint ot tiles, there is no symmetry between the sides, but yes, im happy with her lots of sanding ahead, any suggestions for a nice varnish to bring out the best in the boxwood
  9. good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes at last i have started to recover from this flu bug, totally wiped me out for the last week, but thats enough of me progress has continued on my build, slowly, but i am happy with what ive achieved, hopefully the problem area, like the tuck will look better when sanded, oh and the boi wanted a mention
  10. i went against having all the same length, i put the joints in where the bulkheads were, which would be different again if every frame was there, also i made some planks longer, if the joint was near the bow where it comes in quite fast, as this would have been very short boards, and yes i read that the 3 butt system was 1,2,,4,3 where as mine are 1,2,3,4
  11. i used frames 4 to 14 so on attached photo working forward F- Frame number in MM tuck to F13 about 200 F13 to F9 220 F9 to F5 220 F5 to bow 195
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