HMS Winchelsea 1764 by shauer - 1:48

[shauer]

Thanks everyone for the positive comments!

 

I approached the inboard fairing with an expectation to do it to the same standards as the external fairing for the hull surface.  I used a depth gauge to mark the bulwarks framing at the appropriate thickness and then carefully removed a large portion of the material using my rotary tool and sanding drums.  Then went to work with 120 grit sanding sticks shaped into different curves and angles.  (my knuckles are healing nicely).  For the last bit of material removal at the point between the bulwark and the deck, I used my rotary tool again this time with a ball-shaped routing bit.  You can see a small radius carved into the bulkheads in this area.

 

I'm looking forward to redoing some of my previous work around the lower counter this weekend and then onto lining off and prepping for planking the hull.

 

Steve 

[shauer]

Finally got back to work after about 3 weeks.  Spent about 4 evenings getting my lower counter to bottom planking sorted out.

 

As a reminder, here was the issue.  I had made a mistake in the placement of the lower counter planking, aligning the bottom edge flush with the edge of the stern frames, instead of having the planking extend below this edge to accommodate the bottom plank thickness.  I compounded this mistake by not stopping when the first bottom planks didn't align correctly and instead trying to force it to work.

 

You can see where the lower counter planking is even with the framing, leaving no space for the bottom planks.  The blocking behind the counter is also way too high and not close enough to the counter to support the ends of the bottom planks.

 

 

I received a lot of thoughtful recommendations on correcting this.  The first step was to remove the narrow lower planks on the counter and replace them with with full width planks and see if that would close the gap.

 

Lower planks on the counter removed.

 

The blocking behind the counter was also a mess, I removed it and also cut some notches into the lower stern frames to give me some more room to work with replacing the blocking.  Not strictly necessary but made things a little easier to fit.

 

 

The wide plank alone was not quite enough to fully take up all the gap that I had.  I needed to pop the bottom planks off the aft bulkheads to fair things a little more to get the planks a little lower.  I also lucked out on the port side that the plank lengths were correct for the new mounting position.  Just needed to glue everything back in place.

 

 

Not so lucky on the starboard side.  I cracked the inboard lower plank when I tried to remove it from the aft bulkhead so I needed to replace it.  The lower plank adjacent to the wales was a little to short to reach the counter in its new position and I misplaced my plank stretcher so I needed to remove and replace the aft portion of this outer plank as well.

 

 

Starboard counter plank, blocking, and outboard lower plank all back where they belong.

 

 

Finished result, I'm much happier with this now.  Only 4-5 evenings to perform this rework once I settled on a plan.

 

 

 

Hope this helps someone in seeing the steps I needed to take to rework an area like this.

 

As I mentioned, I think the entire run of lower counter planking was about a plank width too high on my model.  I extended it downward with the wider plank.  I expect I may need to remove some width on the upper plank but will wait and see what happens when I add the upper counter.  

 

Now finally onto lining out and starting the remainder of the planking.

 

Steve