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Hello Bob,

You missed a good Model Shipwrights of Niagara meeting yesterday.

Would you be building yours in metal (brass or copper plate)?

What size paper can you print on?

I can make a full size 2D drawing of a front view and side view of my model quite easily and will send it to you after I discover more of what you intend and can print.

Got most of the sanding done today.  Decided to mark off the top timbers and cut those back and mark off and install the gallery side doors to the officers toilets (seats of ease) and get those done (install the cills) before I complete the sanding.

While marking the timbers for the doorways I discovered I had one short adjacent timber located improperly... it needed to be the next one over.  I suppose I should have triple checked.  So I need to remove that pair (port and starboard or larboard if we're being correct for the period) and reinstall longer timbers before I cut any doorways.

I will post a photo when I'm done.

got my last frame installed yesterday and the chocks (spacers) today.

Will start sanding Monday or Tuesday and cut in the doorways.

Excellant photos!

Sprial type wire binding I think.

Up here when can have it done at Staples.

Usually it is more difficult to decide to take something apart then it is to actually do it.

It doesn't get easier over time but the time to decide gets shorter.

Thank you Gary.

This is fantastic!

That is why I cannot find it.   I do no have issue 41!

Could you possibly PM me that complete article so I can add it to my collection.

I originally was given a stack of different magazines and I scanned the articles that related to my build and filed them on the computer for future reference.  Then I gave the magazines away to our local club members.  Issue 41 was not in the stack.

Your comment about David's drawing Techniques article was not lost on me.  I only have part 1.  Are there others and do they discuss the stern?

Yes I can see the page number.

What is the article, magazine, edition, author.

Sorry but I am cuffuffulde and cannot figure it out.

Gary

what article was the page you scanned from?

Gary

Re the scan you posted

I didn't see that in my pdf.  I might have missed it.

I will double check.

Gary

I've found the nine part series of Traditional Wooden Shipbuilding by David White to be very informative but even he doesn't seem to spend much time on the stern and quarter galleries.

Another step closer on Thursday.

Nothing done yesterday or today as I'm getting yard work done.

Those doorways were awfully narrow!

I have issue 42 (part 2) but not issue 41 (part 1).

Other than a couple photos it doesn't seem to offer much guidance for the side quarter frames.

Am I wrong?

Yup.

I has deleted my last paragraph to Gary about closing up the stern because I was afraid I was getting ahead of myself.

I will be so happy when this part is completed acceptably.

Thank you Gary.  I thought I understood it when I drew in 2016.  Six years later it seems I had to almost figure it all out again, even with my drawing, and those few by others.  Now that I am half way through the side quarter framing it seems easy enough.

three more quarter filler frames installed.

I can't imagine how they did it either.

It seems like it changes direction at every step!

Cut, fitted and glued.

Also installed one filler each side.

I left lots of room for sanding.

Started work on the side counter timbers on Saturday.  Tried again yesterday.  My third try today.

I made the blanks deeper today so I had something to hold and pin.

I also took a piece of pine 2x8 and made a support shelf to rest the timbers on.  Took me until today to imagine that.

I drilled and pinned these to the wing transom so I could transpose the hull outboard shape.

Then I pencilled in the molded depth

I will cut these shapes tomorrow to near the correct molded depth leaving something to sand.... because I enjoy sanding so much.

I always back off the blade when I'm done so setting them flat on the table isn't an issue but while the blade is extended I lay it on its side.

Hold on a minute!

You live on a paradise island in the Caribbean and you need a get away cottage?  🤔

When are you going to post a schedule for your modeling pals to visit?  Obviously we just want to see you model in person 😎

Those joints look pretty good from the cheap seats.

Doh!