HMS Portland 1770 by westwood - Portland Scale Ship Co. - 1:48 - 50 gun 4th rate

[scrubbyj427]

Looking good Dusan. Laying out the gunport templates in advance is a great idea.

[westwood]

Hi guys, just a little update again because there was less time to build than I would have liked...
I continued framing the gunports. All 4 longitudinal pieces have been installed.
Only on the aft three bulkheads isn't glued in yet.
I'll finish that after framing the stern.
And here are some pictures of the stern.
First I shaped and glued The upper wing transom.
Then the four shorter inner frames and the two outer frames.
Finally the horizontals, I heat formed those to the curve just like upper wing transom to make them fit nicely into the slots of the frames and jig.
Now the QG framing and balcony will be next

[scrubbyj427]

Nice work Dusan. Framing looks good. Almost to the fun parts

[westwood]

Here are some progress pics, guys!
The stern and QG framing, as well as the gun port framing, are complete...

 

 

[Trussben]

Nice, enjoy the framing!

[scrubbyj427]

Excellent precision work Dusan! Looking forward to your framing work!

 

JJ

[westwood]

so the framing fun began 

[scrubbyj427]

Great start to the framing Dusan! The perpendicular frames move very quickly, especially when you take all the char off beforehand. Looking forward to seeing the cant frames!

Edited July 20 by scrubbyj427

[westwood]

Hi, guys
Thanks for the comments and likes!
After a short break, I finished installing all the perpendicular frames on the port side today.
It went quite easily and quickly since I had already cleaned them of char beforehand. I was just fine-tuning little things,
such as the area that sits on the keel is flat
and free of char, because even glue on char doesn't hold.
And here is the result.

Now I'm off to the heavier part to prepare the deadwood and the aft cant frames.

[Theodosius]

Very clever how you get the look of an pof-build without doing one. I like this!

[Trussben]

Nice progress.

[westwood]

Just a test for now.
The deadwood has almost been sanded, and I've started fitting the frames.

[scrubbyj427]

That looks really good Dusan! Off to a great start. Even those cant frames move pretty quickly. The b frames actually take longer due to all the sanding.

[westwood]

Hey guys
My weekend was all about building
deadwood and the aft cant frames.
There was lots of sanding, testing, sanding, testing...
I just hope everything will be okay after the final fairing.
And I hope the wing transoms finally fall into place properly, too.
But that will happen after I've framed the starboard side.

 

[scrubbyj427]

That looks really good Dusan! You shouldn’t have much problems with the wing transoms, there’s a lot of material there for a margin of error. You can sand off everything later that you don’t need.