Granado by rafine - FINISHED - Caldercraft - 1:64

[rafine]

Thanks so much Mobbsie and the "likes".

 

Bob

[Mirabell61]

Excellent work on the upper planking Bob,

 

so clean and accurate, well done  

 

Nils

[Elijah]

That is some very nice planking! Great job!

[rafine]

Thanks so much Nils, Elijah and the "likes".

 

Bob

[albert]

Very nice work.

[flyer]

Hi Bob

 

That's a very fine Granado in the making. The kit itself is excellent and your work improves it further.

Do you plan to make openings for the quarter lights? (I did but am not sure if it's noticeable at all.)

 

peter

[rafine]

Thanks so much Albert and Peter and the "likes". It's not my intention to make openings for the windows Peter. I'm going to use Micro Kristal Klear for the glazing, which is translucent and against a black background will give apparent depth.

 

Bob

[rafine]

The port side upper planking is now completed and treenailed. It was done exactly as previously described for the starboard side.

 

Next up will be the second layer of the wales and the counter planking.

 

Bob

[Sjors]

Fabulous.... !!!!!

 

Sjors

[Mirabell61]

Neat work Bob,

 

lovely planking look

 

Nils

[captgino]

Beautiful work as always!!

I will be watching your build with attention.

JP

Edited June 4, 2016 by captgino

[rafine]

Thanks so much Sjors, Nils, John and JP for the nice comments. Thanks also to the "likes".As always, your interest and attention is appreciated.

 

Bob

[mobbsie]

Good stuff Bob, I like.

 

Be Good

 

mobbsie

[rafine]

Thanks so much Mobbsie. Glad you like it.

 

Bob

[Elijah]

Even more nice planking! It looks great!

[Rustyj]

Hi Bob. I had a moment from the move and was able too catch up on your build.

You sure have been making a lot of progress and doing a great job too.

Well done.

[rafine]

Thanks so much Elijah , Rusty and the "likes". Hope all is going well wth the move Rusty.

 

Bob

[Rustyj]

Thanks Bob. Well the good news is we're moved.

The bad news is now we have to unpack it all!

[Pheasant]

Bob, well behind you, as I still have hours left on CHEERFUL.  But I wanted to thank you for the great series you ran on her build.  As always, it helped me tremendously, and steered me away from many mistakes.  About to start the rigging, 

 

I don't know about GRANADO, but will do some research, and perhaps she'll be my next up North build.

 

Thanks again,

 

Terry

[Landlubber Mike]

Beautiful, crisp work as always Bob

[rafine]

Thanks so much Terry and Mike.

 

Bob

[rafine]

After some time up north with family, it was back to work on Granado. I've done a few things: I added the stern post, cut from holly sheet; I planked the counter; and lastly, I planked the second layer of the wales. The counter and wales were done with boxwood strip. In doing the counter, I omitted using the kit base piece, as it seemed more trouble than useful, and used thicker planking material.

 

After the planking was done, I painted both the wales and counter black. While I carefully taped the top of the wales prior to painting (using Tamiya tape) I left the bottom untaped, since any paint will be covered by the lower holly planking to come. This accounts for the sloppy appearance and excess width of the wales in the attached photos.

 

I'm still deciding today whether to next do the lower planking or do some interior work.

 

Bob

[albert]

Hi Bob beautiful work.

[mobbsie]

Super stuff Bob, your doing her proud

 

Be Good

 

mobbsie

[jwvolz]

Coming along very nicely Bob. 

[Beef Wellington]

Late to the game here, looking wonderful Bob.

[rafine]

Thanks so much Albert, Mobbsie, Joe and Jason for the nice comments and thanks also to the "likes".

 

Bob

[Gahm]

Very clean and precise planking job, Bob! Well done!

 

Thomas

[rafine]

Thanks so much Thomas. When are we going to see more of your beautiful Syren?

 

Bob

[rafine]

I have chosen to defer the second planking of the lower hull in favor of doing work on the interior. so far, this has involved adding view blocks behind the rear ports (as per the suggestion of Joe V), adding the quarterdeck bulkhead and adding waterway-margin planks on the main deck. 

 

The view blocks are simply black painted pieces glued in place to prevent viewing through the hull at the rear ports.

 

The quarterdeck bulkhead presented some uncomfortable decisions for me. The kit provides walnut pieces to support curved panels in slots precut in them. These kit pieces were virtually unusable in the manner intended. The kit also provides black decals to be applied to the curved panels. I didn't like the look. Joe V and Timmo had painted the decoration on the panels, in lieu of the black decals, and did it beautifully. My attempts at this didn't look so good. AOTS shows an alternative bulkhead consisting of plain planking .With this "official" sanction, my lack of artistic talent and the state of the kit pieces, I opted to do the alternative bulkhead. I planked it with beveled boxwood planks to make the curved surface and painted it red to match the bulwarks. A cowardly solution, perhaps, but better in my mind than something that I would have been totally unhappy with.

 

After completing that work, I penciled in lines on the sub-deck to mark out the deck beam lines for the deck planking joints, as shown on the AOTS deck plan.

 

The last item of work was to make the waterway-margin planks from holly sheet and strip.The kit plans do not show them, but they clearly appear in the AOTS drawings, which I chose to follow. The bow sections were cut from holly sheet, using card stock templates. The remainder were made using holly strip bent to shape.The waterway-margin planks were made from thicker stock than that to be used for the deck planking, and were sanded to provide a slanted profile from the bulwarks down to meet the planking height, as shown in AOTS.

 

Next will be the deck planking, which will also require that work be done on the mortar pits before the deck planking can be installed.

 

Bob