Soleil Royal by EricWiberg - Heller - 1/100 - started 45 years ago

[EricWiberg]

Interesting drawing.. and great advice on sealing the edges of the template with CA... that really helps!

Edited Friday at 07:22 PM by EricWiberg

[EricWiberg]

The starboard forward bulwark extension (cheek?) is almost done... ready for a bit of needle file work then planking on the inside. I am surpised at hoiw subtle it is, but it has to be this way to follow the edge of the top head rail. The first step, of course, was settling on a head design, and then I was able to create a head rail design (note that the middle and bottom head rails will NOT join the top head rail in a rosette at the forwqrd bulwark/cathead area... they will be feyed into the hull).

 

Then it was a relatively simple matter of wasting away with the Dremel....

 

 

 

 

Now it is just a clean up and making sure the plank lines are clean, etc. Again, I envisaged the cheeks as being much larger in appearance, but given the immutable lines of the hull and the head rail curve that they must follow, the actual cheek is small (to me eyes). However, this matches up with what I see on the St. Phillipe monograph and some drawings.

 

 

Marc LaGuardia had suggested having vertical framing pieces glued to the inside of the hull to attach the outer planks to... and then waste them away and plank over them on the inside. This was my only concern going in, but it turns out the cheek extension is actually very sturdy, even without the vertical framing pieces.

 

 

Edited Saturday at 11:55 PM by EricWiberg

[Hubac's Historian]

For fairing, in this instance, sandpaper around a dowel is your best friend, IMO.

[EricWiberg]

The starboard cheek is almost done. I tapered/planed the top wale thickness down as they wrap the cheek as I see on the St Phillipe monograph (I assume they tapered in thickness to easier bend around the round bow?).

 

 

I finished off the top of the cheek with a plank and scribed the planls inside/out.

 

 

Next step is to continue wasting away the port cheek so that I scribe the planks and apply a plank on top (cap).

 

 

 

[Hubac's Historian]

Nicely done!