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Saturday, November 26, 2016A couple of images without all the pins, the rubberbands and the clamps shown yesterday . . 01 - 20161126_134148.jpg  02 - 20161126_134037.jpg
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Now that looks very impressive   keep up the great work. Regards Shaun Building-RC spitfire
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Now that looks very impressive keep up the great work. Regards Shaun Building-RC spitfire
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Jack Your skills never cease to amaze. That planking looks like some thick wood and your are getting it on to the hull perfectly - i am just so impressed. Hope the rest of the huild goes well. Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
COMPLETED: Porsche 911, E-Type Jaguar, Lam Countach
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Monday, December 19, 2016It's been a while since my last post. It seemed me that little work was missing to complete the planking but other commitments prevented me from proceeding faster. Also what I am going to show today dates back almost a week ago but, due to various commitments, I find only today the time to post it.
The cause of these delay in the work are many, from a one week break due to my return to Milan to vote yes/no at a referendum to some problems associated with setting up and how go further with the next tasks once planking will be over. We will discuss in detail later.
Below two images of the completed planking (not yet finished). The whole is still firmly attached to the assembly building slip that I prepared, demonstrating really helpful so far. The fifth strake on the foreground side in the two photos seems broken and jointed but it is not right: by a strange nasty surprise of the wood grain, and also due to an oversight from me in the choice of the wood strip, it seems to be interrupted. 01 - 20161219_113801.jpg  02 - 20161219_113805.jpg I then proceeded to detach the hull and its internal structure from the building base. The next two images show better than words. In both pictures, but especially in the latter you can see a minor problem I had in the assembly of a strip aft: while bending the strip it splintered and then I had to stop it before reaching the end. Now the junction shows a moderate difference in height that I need to fill. This will take place later, during the refining of the shell. So finishing is the next field activity. 03 - 20161219_121654.jpg  04 - 20161219_121707.jpg Finally now I could capsize the boat and give a look to the inside!
Also in the inner size of the hull there will be quite a cleanup job to run, even though I expected to face a worse situation.
The sequence here below shows how the various pieces that make up the internal skeleton are just stuck and not glued. 01 - 20161219_121717.jpg  02 - 20161219_121741.jpg  03 - 20161219_121824.jpg Even the bulkheads are glued to the shell in a weak way. In fact, between the wooden planks and the bulkheads there is a plastic tape film, which should allow me to remove the bulkheads without special efforts. 04 - 20161219_121835.jpg  05 - 20161219_121829.jpg But now I must achieve the complete refinement of the outside hull.
Until next time, Jack.
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Excellent work Jack. Completed projects: 1/43 scale Bedford HA van / 1/43 scale MG TD sports car
Current projects: 1/48 scale U-boat [U230]
Future projects: 1/148 scale railway diorama / 1/50 scale R/C Volvo F89 logging truck / 1/148 scale Thunderbirds Fireflash
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Sticky Wickett wrote:Excellent work Jack. Many thanks for your positive comment . . Tuesday, December 20, 2016Today I do not feel to make wood dust for finishing the hull, so I did other.
I recovered the material of the first building slip, which is no longer usable, and I prepared the second building slip, which I hope will be really useful in a few days, when I'll start working inside the hull.
Making these components is always pretty fun, and this is still true for this one . . .
With this slip the model stays in its normal position.
The images that follow show the slip with an overall view and two detailed views. 01 - 20161220_174625.jpg  02 - 20161220_174647.jpg  03 - 20161220_174634.jpg More images with the model lying at the basement, although the not yet removed skeleton severely limits the internal view of the hull. 04 - 20161220_174604.jpg  05 - 20161220_174540.jpg  06 - 20161220_174547.jpg Best wishes to all of you and Merry Christmas, Happy 2017 and happy holidays, Jack.
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Monday, December 26, 2016In recent days, I proceeded to finish the hull on the external side, taking a special care to the bow and stern areas. The walnut wood is quite hard to work with, ergo was sometimes necessary to use "hard methods". Now it's approaching the moment to remove the bulkheads in order to be able to work inside the hull, first with a cleaning and finishing job, later installing the +/-30 planned ribs.
A first top view of the inside of the boat: 01 - 20161222_085530.jpg The external planking finished with sanding blocks and sandpaper.  02 - 20161224_173914.jpg  03 - 20161224_173923.jpg Then I applied a couple of coats of very diluted stain, which has changed the color tone of the original wood, making it slightly more reddish. Operation that I know will be useless because the outside will be painted black, but in my heart I could not bear the many different colors of the strips for many weeks or months . . .
To finish, a final sanding and a coat of very diluted PVA glue to fix the dye. 04 - 20161225_114716.jpg  05 - 20161225_114755.jpg See you next time, Jack.
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Sunday, January 1st, 2017The new year had a good start . . and, to be honest, I also finished the old one quite well.
Yesterday I was on the seaside, but when I was back I could spend a couple of hours working around the Gajeta. More precisely, I proceeded to remove the bulkheads that served to build around them the planking. Planking that I want to remember, was glued quite weakly to the bulkheads, placing between the bulkhead and the plank a film of masking tape.
I had still some doubts about the term "weak" because, having no previous experience, I could not know what I was going to meet. Would it be a simple task or not ? In the Maristella's project the kit manufacturer foresaw some diagonal cuts on the bulkheads, cuts designed to be completed with a cutter knife or similar tool to remove the central bulkhead area and allow operating easily, but it was to be proved in practice. I therefore prepared various tools and different approaches. Anyway I almost immediately realized that it was enough to appropriately manage the bulkheads to remove them very easily without the need of any tools. Perfect.
For safety I left two central bulkheads still stuck just to make sure that the hull doesn't collapse or distorce. Then the work left was to remove the excess glue where there originally was the bulkhead. Here too the operation was quite simple: I used the mini drill with a spherical grinding tool and a bit of patience. Finally, a smoothing task, albeit provisional, with sandpaper.
Before removing the remaining two bulkheads I thought to add some strips of strong wood in three hull points to assure me that the "shell" will not change shape. These strips, simply glued with PVA will be kept until I'll finish the installation of the internal frames. I don't know until when . .
 01 - 20170101_104331.jpg  02 - 20170101_104323.jpg  03 - 20170101_104316.jpg I intentionally left the glue excess left after I removed the last two bulkheads to show what it looks like the inside of the "nutshell" and giving so an idea of the cleaning work that I had to do. Today I'll try to further clean up the inner hull and then . . . I will begin a new phase, that must be carefully planned and set up. 04 - 20170101_104339.jpg A cordial greeting and a sincere Happy 2017 to all of you, Jack.
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I'm really enjoying watching your build Jack, beautiful work with lots of love and care going into it 
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First, many thanks to Davetwin, for your comment. Monday January 2nd, 2017I better refined internally the hull and I proceeded to hold "strongly" the nutshell to its building slip, in view of the the upcoming activities. 01 - 20170102_104556.jpg  02 - 20170102_104709.jpg  03 - 20170102_104638.jpg  04 - 20170102_104702.jpg I am now tracing the various positions for the ribs. Once I finished I think it will be mandatory a deep check of all measures to verify my work, because the data in the running are many, too many. The risk of making a mistake somewhere seems high to me. We'll see. 05 - 20170102_164903.jpg PS: Just as example, to place the masking tape that you see in the last picture I took an hour and a half . . .
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Monday, January 9, 2016
Apart from the last days of these holidays time, I could not progress on anything due to the pretty frozen weather of these days.
Because here in Tuscany my lab is located in a garage where there is no heating, I find rather difficult to work in the cold of this year beginning. I hope in a weather and temperature improvement for the next few days, otherwise I'll be idle. And this is a pity: I should now start an interesting task, having to work inside the hull to install the frames.
Cheers, Jack.
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Hi Jack Looks like you're producing another great build with your usual attention to detail, looking forward to seeing more. Regards Paul Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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Gibbo wrote:Hi Jack
Looks like you're producing another great build with your usual attention to detail, looking forward to seeing more.
Regards
Paul
Many thanks, Paul; I appreciate very much your message. Jack. Thursday, January 12, 2017Cold or not cold I decided to resume the model and in these two/three days I developed the technique to install the boat ribs. It will be a rather long task and I do not know when I'll finish. Right now I'm just at the very beginning . . 01 - 20170112_181521.jpg  02 - 20170112_181515.jpg See you soon, although I cannot foresee when. Jack.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017The activities to install the floor timbers are still in progress, but proceeding quite slowly: each timber must be bent in the right shape in relation to its position inside the hull, and this makes me to loose some time to prepare the appropriate template.
And every two floor timbers a new template must be prepared.
The remaining is then a quite normal/simple task: soak the timber for a while in water, then bend and shape using the template, let dry the wood, possibly naturally, and finally leave everything to stabilize for at least half a day, better for a whole day.
Then install.
The templates that I prepared will be reusable when I'll finish with the floor timbers and I'll start with the futtocks. 01 - 20170117_150823.jpg  02 - 20170117_150815.jpg  03 - 20170117_150804.jpg In the dead time I try to better refine certain details, in the two pictures below are the bow and stern blocks, even if the finished model will be covered by small decks and thus they will not be visible.
And again, the tips of the floor timbers need to be properly aligned by removing the excess and rounding a side of the tip, for now cut to 90°. 04 - 20170117_151007.jpg  05 - 20170117_150956.jpg See you next time, Jack.
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A couple of the templates I had to prepare to bend the floor timbers and, in the future, the futtocks. Both show a pair of 3x3 strips secured with rubber bands and in the stabilization phase. 01 - 20170117_200728.jpg  02 - 20170117_200720.jpg Cheers, Jack.
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Coming along nicely Jack. Completed projects: 1/43 scale Bedford HA van / 1/43 scale MG TD sports car
Current projects: 1/48 scale U-boat [U230]
Future projects: 1/148 scale railway diorama / 1/50 scale R/C Volvo F89 logging truck / 1/148 scale Thunderbirds Fireflash
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That looks very tricky, well done and good luck.
Mo
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017Some further step forward: now only five/six floor timbers are missing at bow and stern, but since I can wait, I decided to start installing the futtocks, starting from midship. The bending templates used for the floor timbers are now useful for the futtocks. The task proceeds pretty well, quietly though not very fast. However, I am quite satisfied. 01 - 20170123_195807.jpg  02 - 20170123_195814.jpg  03 - 20170123_195839.jpg Cheers, Jack.
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Hi Jack, I just wanted to add my comment to all the others: I'm really impressed by the work you've done on this model!
As a side question, could you perhaps explain to me in a bit more detail how you managed to cut the hull planks to shape that required notches? I think that looks fantastic, but I can't quite see how you did such a precise job with it.
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