Hi, I am still only up to the lower planking. I have fell behind due to work/family committments but still waiting eagerly each week for the latest post from Tomick with the official build to see what is coming, and looking in to see how the others are doing with their builds. I must say all of you are doing great and hope mine turns out nearly as well. (that is when I finally get back into it).Hope to have some pics to post soon.

Keep up the good work all and happy building.

agree it seems like a few months, strange as planking the hull seem to take decades

Lower Hull planking 50% done ...still enjoying it still got so much to learn ..in general Iam pleased with the way the build has gone ..I have adapted a few things and to my amazement they worked ...what I have really enjoyed is getting hold of the plans for another build sourcing materials cutting parts and building it based on what I have learnt here ...Thanks Mr T and all the other contributors ...anyhow thats my input on the first year... oh and the joy of researching originalplans and historys etc.

Like Tom I'm pretty much on schedule, I was lucky (or unlucky depending how you take it) to have a pretty bad period of arthritis problems over winter which meant I pretty much was sitting on my backside working on the planking, so I was able to keep up with the mags. I just wish I had come across the forum earlier, as I probably would not have made so many mistakes, and I also wish I had taken out my order with the newsagents earlier, as delays in receiving subsribed magazines led to too much tinkering, and so making more errors.

So here's to another year of scratched,bleeding,sticky, and completely glued together fingers. Another year of moaning at various silly things, that really don't deserve the anger aimed at them, (after all it's only a model wooden boat), but most of all a year of seeing all the help that all the experts on the forum offer to us beginners even if we don't always show the amount of gratitude that the help deserves.

Hi All,

Hasn't that year flown by!

I'm a bit behind the official build (purposely done) & am about to finish the planking.

I must take my hat off to all those (especially Son of Bulwark) who achieved smooth & even planking, I faired, tapered, chamfered, packed out, fitted stealers, fitted droppers and did many an Irish jig! Still I did not get smooth planking runs but suffered the dreaded 'Clinkering' effect! However saying that I learnt a lot as I went & my next planking job will be much improved! Keep your eye out I may post some pics of my Caldercraft Endeavour!

Lots of sanding & the use of a tadge of filler will have Vicki looking good too, so I'm pretty chuffed with the results so far.

So here's to the next 12 months!

Wilfy

Not quite sure how well doubled-up payments would go down in these times of money being tight.

Thanks but, the main thing is that your enjoying it!

It has been a great year, still only half planked, but getting there, this has got to be my slowest build yet, but loving every minute of it...Okay, so the air has been blue with my misuse of the French language at times, but hey, that's all the fun of modelling... I noticed on the History channel yesterday that Deag was advertising the Victory build, so we can be looking out for more newbies... Hope you continue enjoying your builds shipmates....I know I am...

Seems like we started building a couple of months ago. I'm still on the first lot of planking and just cut the first row of gunports. The fairing caused me problems, but with Mr T's help, (although he doesn't know it ), I got there in the end. Here's looking forward to the next year and I hope you all have as much satisfaction building the Victory as I have had. Thanks all.

hi shipmates a year, well found a nice lady got married oh and
up to date riging 10 cannons.