Mayflower 1620 by jnarro - Model Shipways - 5/32" scale

[Ulises Victoria]

Looking good Pepe!

[jnarro]

First af all, a Merry Christmas and a very very Happy 20015 for everyone!!!!

 

For a couple of weeks I´ve been working on the decks of the ship, and following the nice instruction booklet.

 

The first step is the building, staining and gluing the hatches, before planking.

 

This is the main hatch:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once the glue dried, I started with the planking, slightly staining with ink several of the planks in order to weather the decks.

 

 

 

 

 

The tree nails is something new to me, so I aked my Friend Ulises Victoria and following his advice proceeded to make the holes and insert the thootpicks with a tiny drop of CA, that was a simple step, but my problem was how to cut the toothpicks, so I decided to use my Xuron pliers and a hand made tool with a piece of wood and a chiseling blade for trimming the nails.

 

 

 

Then I started to glue the toothpicks and cut and trimming until I finished with the three decks for this first step.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After this I proceeded to lightly sand the decks with a fine sandpaper in preparation for the stain, which will be my next post.

 

Thank you so much.

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

[Ulises Victoria]

Thank you for your good wishes, Pepe, but I don't think we will ever reach the year 20015.       

 

Also, it is best if you cut the toothpicks in half. They are easier to handle. And I would use wood glue instead of CA. I think you get much better adhesion with it. Nothing beats wood glue to glue wood to wood, in my opinion, of course.

Edited January 2, 2015 by Ulises Victoria

[jnarro]

JAJAJJAAJJAJAJAJJAA  right 20015 is a little far away!

 

for the tree nails of the first deck I worked I indeed used wood glue but I found that the toothpick turned out in a darker color when I cut and flushed the surface, maybe because of the water of the wood glue or maybe the toothpicks brand, so that{s why i used gel CA  and worked preety well., I stained the decks by tomorrow I will post a couple of images.

 

Cheers!!!!!!

[Ulises Victoria]

Pepe. I think that the  Fact that they get darker is indeed a welcome feature, but i guess every case is different. What I'm doing in  my RL is just drill the holes with a small drill, then sand with fine sandpaper. The fine wood dust gets in the holes and when the finish is applied they get a different tone which I like very much, because it just looks a different shade not a different color.

[jnarro]

Good point Ulises, I will do some testing, tommorrow I will post more pics with the finish applied to the decks

 

Cheers