HMS Speedy by ErnieL - Vanguard Models - 1/64

[DelF]

Looking fine Ernie. Slow and steady is the way to go.

 

Derek

[Edwardkenway]

Yep as the others said "slow and steady".

Everything looks good to me 👍

[ErnieL]

I’m enjoying her enough that I decided to get enough to, at my glacial build pace, to last me another 500 years of evenings and weekends

[VTHokiEE]

Nice! Be careful though or soon you’ll have build logs for all three at once 😂.

[JeffT]

37 minutes ago, VTHokiEE said:

Nice! Be careful though or soon you’ll have build logs for all three at once 😂.

I say go for it. 🙂

[ErnieL]

Taint ‘appenin’

[glbarlow]

Be sure to put some cannon on those fishing vessels.

[DelF]

Just don't get your builds mixed up or else you might end up with Lady Speedy  or Speedy Isabella. Now there's a thought...

 

Derek

[ErnieL]

Guys, I’m just 1/3 through the first planking, and it’s finally “clicked” for me.

 

Pics coming. 

[ErnieL]

Picking away at the planking as I find time. 
It’s coming along much easier now as I learn my way. 
 

This build is quite the glacial pace, but I’m working 18 hours per day and don’t always find time

[clearway]

nice to see you have learnt the art of tapering the planks- don't rush her she is looking great.

 

Keith

[James H]

Well, there's nothing wrong with that!! 

 

Nice to see you closing that gap. She'd sink otherwise. 

[ErnieL]

Well, I’m getting close to finishing the first, and my first ever, first planking. 

I so far have gotten away with one stealer per side, which seems about right. 

I should have this part done tomorrow evening. 

 

I’ll admit I’m mighty slow, but I’m sorta just feeling my way along here....

i see a possible trouble spot or two that seems a touch low, but we’ll see.

I haven’t had to redo anything of importance so far, have only lost a tablespoon or two of blood, and haven’t warped it like pretzel.

YET.

[ErnieL]

I’m expecting something horrible to go wrong, but I haven’t found it yet. 

[Edwardkenway]

Looking good,  nothing wrong at all with slow and steady! Nice first planking 

[James H]

Slow and steady is sure working. That is looking real neat.

[Voyageur]

Nice job. Looks real good for even an experienced builder. You’ve got a great start. I don’t see the stealers your mentioned. You’ve done a good job with them blending them in I guess.

[ErnieL]

Thanks. I need to check the keel and see how much I need to thin it.  Honestly it never crossed my mind at all. 
I've been tapering the planks at the stern to make them less prone to having gaps when they’re sanded. 

[James H]

21 minutes ago, ErnieL said:

Thanks. I need to check the keel and see how much I need to thin it.  Honestly it never crossed my mind at all. 
I've been tapering the planks at the stern to make them less prone to having gaps when they’re sanded. 

As long as the keel at the sternpost area is around 1mm-2mm, you can always sand down the pear so it's flush (or doesn't step) with the 3mm sternpost/rudder post. If the stern was left at 3mm before second planking, then your sand away the pear at the stern to make things level. I know most of this area is coppered, but it's good practice to thin it beforehand. 

[ErnieL]

I have some work ahead of me. 

[James H]

5 minutes ago, ErnieL said:

I have some work ahead of me. 

 

It's all just common sense. Look at the thickness of stern post and asses that against first planking while you sand...taking into account the thickness of the pear.

[glbarlow]

Just to weigh in: easier to thin the first planking for most of it and make final adjustments to stern post with 2nd planking. As James says, just common sense as easy to visualize with the stern post just held up to the stern. 

[ErnieL]

4 hours ago, glbarlow said:

Just to weigh in: easier to thin the first planking for most of it and make final adjustments to stern post with 2nd planking. As James says, just common sense as easy to visualize with the stern post just held up to the stern. 

Yep.  I’ve done that, and thanks to my lack of foresight, Inran the firstnplanking over the entire hull, right to the tip of the entire keel.

So now, I get to make sawdust out of all those boards I so carefully cut and pinned to shape by the rear keel and the sternpost. 

Now that I know, it’s obvious, but I was full sail set to oblivion until someone backed the wind and set me in irons. 

 

Ill dig out, but I’ll need a snorkel to breathe from under the sawdust pile that’s fixin’ to be made. 

[glbarlow]

There is likely a bearding line on the plans. Draw that line on your first planking as a guide, you only need to reduce it there, shouldn’t be too much. 

[ErnieL]

Note to self:  for the second planking, lay the plank next to the keel before you reach bottom and work upwards a few planks to meet the descending planks. Meet the two under the copper, not at the keel.   What a sh!tshow trying to shape the bottom one perfectly. Much easier if only keel edge needs shaping.

As it is, I had to add slivers here and there. 

Oops. 

 

Now we breaketh out large block loaded with 120 grit.

there’s a whole lotta shaping going on.

[ErnieL]

First planking complete. Now sanding to form with the big 120 grit.

 

Yaaaaaay!

[James H]

Second planking soon  

 

Don't forget, start from below those engraved bulwark marks.

[glbarlow]

If it doesn’t go well that plane can do a few strafing runs. 

[ErnieL]

I have a few strafing runs to do with another type of plane. 

Then fill the low spots, of which there are a couple. 

 

I feel I may have gotten a touch overexuberant with the sanding block at the stern here. A couple swipes of my block slightly cut into the stern edge of the gun pattern plywood, rounding the bottom edge slightly, and I sanded the curve under of the port side stern maybe a bit much.  

 

Thoughts? Should I build it up slightly with filler or sand the starboard side to match?

 

i think it looks decent, but it’s a touch deep of a run under than the plans show. 

 

Also, on both sides, I have a slight low spot on the hull just aft of the first gunport. I’ll plane it as smooth as I can, but I expect the low spots aft of the first gunport will need a skim of filler. 

[ErnieL]

If I sound anal, it’s the plastic modeler in me. I’m quite aware of surface imperfections on a completed surface.