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Hi Pete,

 

You are making fantastic progress with this model, at this rate you should have it finished in a couple of weeks time.  Mine by comparison is taking much longer as my time is very limited unfortunately.  I like to think I'm building it in real-time :) 

I found the work on the small boats quite a challenge in their own way too.  The quality of your workmanship is excellent and when finished you should have a mighty fine model of the Beagle, which you can be rightly proud of.

I continue to watch with much interest as it's providing me with knowledge, ideas and inspiration for my own work.  Keep up the excellent work!

 

Chimp

Current Build: ....

 

Previous Builds: HMS Beagle - OcCre,   HM Schooner Ballahoo - Caldercraft

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Looks great Pete!

I'm just at the stage of fairing the bulkheads ready to plank the small Boats, definitely fiddly with my trotters for hands!

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I had previously started to work on the bowsprit and made a bit of a hash .  Have to keep reminding myself to check, double check , and check again before going anywhere near anything with glue in hand

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Started the bowsprit again after I had managed to salvage some of the more important parts . When attaching the blocks , it's recommended in the plans that one uses 0.15mm thread , but I found the thread to be really fragile and continued to break when I attempted to tighten any of the knots. So I decided to use a slightly thicker 0.25mm thread that I had previously used on another build . Its a slightly different colour , but did the task perfectly

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When I attempted to sand the seating down , I found that one has to be really careful , as it is easy to remove the stain that I had applied eralier. So I came up with applying the painters tape to protect. This enabled a little more freedom in the sanding

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You will notice that the saddles on the yards look a little "grubby" . I had thought that perhaps the paintbrush that I had used had maybe not been cleaned properly , but after multiple attempts at cleaning , and resorting to a new paint brush the varnish with, I realised that some of the stain tends to come off the wood during the course of varnishing. I did contemplate starting again , but decided to keep these. I will be more careful when I work on the main mast yards.

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