HMS AGAMEMNON by PMG - Caldercraft

[Beef Wellington]

Happy birthday Pierre, hope you get to spend some time in the shipyard.

[Mirabell61]

Hi Pierre,

 

I wish you all the best for enjoying your Special day, and for your new living year..

 

BTW your nicely built Agamemnon is well improving from sequence to sequence...

 

Nils

[PMG]

Thank you Christian, Jason and Nils for your kind words for my bithday.

I hope to stay another longtime on the shipyard and continue to share experiments, difficulties and satisfaction with friends all over the World.

About my Aggie, I just finished the second planking that will be covered by the main wale on the port side.

I begin the other side tomorrow and hope to be able to send some pictures.

Pierre

[PMG]

Here is a picture of the beginning of my second planking.

I fixed the planks 125 mm long using cyano. Not always easy, even if you forget the fingerd.

At the extremities I decided to soak and form the planks before gluing them. But, even so, some sanding will be necessary.

To morrow, I shall make a picture of the stern.

Pierre

[PMG]

Here is a picture of the stern.

The two lowest planks are turning and finish under the stern. The small 3mm wide planks for the wales will not turn.

Best regards,

Pierre

[Klaas]

Looking GREAT Pierre,

You know i follow this with grat interest.

Could you please give me a translation on the glue ""cyano"

I expect it to be "2 componenten lijm"

Sorry guys for my use of a Dutch word

[PMG]

Hello Klaas,

Thank tou for your appraisal. Very valuable coming from you.

Your Aggie is full of good ideas, and if I can, I shall follow someof them.

Cyano is in short "cyanoacrylate", you know, these horrible small tubes of instant glue. You have more on your fingers than on the piece to be glued.

In general I am using PVA (the white carpenter glue) I pefer from far.

But the instructions manual of Caldercraft recommends "cyano" at certain points (like the upper part of the second planking).

If you can, never use liquid cyano. They exists as "gel" or even thicker.

Jotika provides a very good one in 20 ml bottles. I bought one, but I did'nt use it for a while and it dried completely...

Pierre

[Klaas]

Oké, thank for the compliments for my build, and please feel free to use whatever you like, after all we are here to learn from each other!

About the glue, i now know what you mean.

I never use the liquid instant glue, and i also use the white carpenter glue, and as you say, i prefere that  the most aswell.

[WBlakeny]

Hi Pierre, just found out about your build log. It's a very pleasant read and she's coming along very nicely.

I'm still afraid of starting on those big ships, i've still much to learn.

 

I'll follow along.

[PMG]

Hello WBlakeny,

Thanks for your comments. Welcome on board.

There is a lot of fun in building a big ship. But it takes more time...

My shipyard is presently idle for another couple of weeks.

Pierre

[Sjors]

Hi Pierre,

 

I thought I already leave a comment at your log but I don't.....

So, the first one then    

You have make some good progress !

One question....

I see that you started the second planking but I see something.

You are not putting frames in the gun ports ?

When you are doing it later and then paint them red, I think you paint more then only the frame of the gun port.

But maybe you have another system ?

 

[PMG]

Hello Sjors,

Nice to have your comments (and valuable advises).

About the frames in the gunports, in fact, I simply followed the instructions of the manual provided with the kit...

Page 4 under the title "gun ports" they say that the gun ports without lids can be framed after first planking.

And, on page 5 at the end of title "second planking" they do the remaining gun port sills.

I don't know if it's a good idea or not. Surely not if you consider to not paint the hull between the wales.

In themeantime, I secured small balsa pieces on each side of the gunports to have enough surface to glue the sills when I need to do it.

I was first intended to make them as the second planking progress, but finally I shall wait to do it after the sanding of the second planking to be sure to have at any place the 1mm insert.

Pierre

[Sjors]

I have read that also.

But then I was thinking.....painting the frames while the second planking is on it ????

Strange, better to do it when there is single planking.

Now I can paint them around it and not to be so careful when the second planking was on it.

 

[PMG]

Second planking is going ahead, slowly but safely.

The upper side of the starboaed side is now roughly made.

It still needs a lot of work...

First, filling some hollow zones,

Second filling the small gaps,

Third, cutting acurately the gun ports ( and here I realised that painting the sills was a waste of time, as you damage anyway the painting)

Fourth, sanding, sanding and sanding.

Here are some pictures.

 

May be that it can give some inspiration to Sjors about the quarter galleries.

Pierre

[Sjors]

Nice job on the planking Pierre !

 

There goes a lot of wood against it......

Thanks for the picture with the quarter gallery.

Now I can go on   

 

Edited May 26, 2014 by Sjors

[PMG]

Hello Sjors,

I don't know if it can help you, but I am joigning another picture of the quarter galleries.

Notice that all is temporarly pinned.

Pierre

[PMG]

Hello All friends,

After a (very) long absence, I am back on this log (thanks to Martin who waked me up).

I realise I didn't post the last pictures of the second planking of my Aggie as it was at the end of June 2014.

Actually, I didn't any work on since June 2014, but I am well decided to restart next week.

See you soon,

Pierre

 

[Karinmutter]

Hello Pierre,

Nice job on the planking, I know everyone does the bending differently. For me it worked best to put the planks for a few minutes in water and then use a plank bender from aeropiccola (I think they do not exist anymore) what is basically a  soldering iron with a modified tip.

Good luck for the future and happy modelling!

Martin

[PMG]

Hello Martin,

Thank you for the comment. That's exactly what I do too (water and the "soldering iron". But, I do it only for the front planks. For the others I try to maintain the natural curvature of the wood if possible.

Best regards,

Pierre