Armed Virginia Sloop (AVS) by SkiBee - Model Shipways - 1:48

[SkiBee]

18 hours ago, CiscoH said:

the deck, bulwark, and waterway planking will hide all the sins of the thinned bulkheads.

 

I have a version of that drafting kit you show; my mom got it for me at an auction years ago and I had no idea what it was originally for.  I use the small compass (the one with a pencil) all the time marking out plank widths. 

CiscoH

The nib ends were for ink, like an old fashion ink pen you had dip into a bottle of ink or fill from an ink bottle.  By the time I came around we had what was called a LeRoy pen, a cartridge ink pen, but my father used the nib pens when he was a draftsman.

[SkiBee]

Started gluing the planks on the counter, when I went to glue the bottom plank on it looked like that there was not a straight horizontal line across the bottom.  So I trimmed off a bit from the midline to the starboard side.  When I glued it on, it did not look right so I glued on the piece I trimmed.  You can see it from the pictures below.

I whittled and sanded the edges of the transom planks to the to the counter of the transom filler pieces. Two things I noticed as I was looking at the next step, the fashion piece.  I should not have sanded the plank edges to the contour of the side of the hull but I should have created a straight cut so that it would match the fashion pieces.  The second thing I noticed was that the top transom plank did not extend above the aft deck as the design called for.  So, I removed the top plank and will glue in a wider piece that extends beyond the sides of the hull.

As noted earlier, the aft ends of the hull planks were not even in reference to the counter filler pieces.  At that time, I figured that I could cover that up when I glued the walnut planks on. But it does create a bit of a problem glueing on the finishing pieces.  You can see that the Port side comes down to the junction of the two counter filler blooks.  Where the starboard side does not, I curved the planks up more than they should have been.  I thought about using acetone to soften the CA glue I glued the rear portion of the starboard planks on with acetone, remove and then reglue in the right place, but the more I looked at the drawings and instructions, I still think I can correct it when I glue the walnut planks on.  The only thing that I can see that I need to be careful with is to make sure that the bottom of the gun port is even with the top of the walnut Black Strate.

[CiscoH]

i personally would leave it be and make sure i remembered to properly position the second layer of planking, as i think you said your plan was.   good progress