Another very nice update Budgie, she's certainly taking shape now..... excellent work....

Regards

Alan

Hi John
had a wee play about with the stern

I see what you mean

The angle of the bow will not allow the planks to lie flush unless I use very thin strips

Think I will be laying the 2nd planking as near to the bow as possible without trying to bend the planks around it

As she will be getting painted I will use a filler or putty or sawdust mixed with glue to fill the gap between each side of the planks around the bow and sand to shape

Looking forward to your next update

Evening Folks
Thanks for posting Mick appreciated

I re enlarged the fwd deck template and was a bit disappointed that there is a good sized gap
Hey HO

Decided to start the laying of planks ...I will call this the 1st layer of planking as it is being layed on the outer frames
(previous ones were flush with frames)

I will double plank where the armour belt is to be replicated

Just using elastic bands and drawing pins to hold in place at the moment

No doubt where the planks are more springy they will need to have pins pushed through the actual planks to hold them in place

Plan is once 1st planking completed sanding and filler used to produce a smooth hull
Thanks for lookin'

Hi Budgie

You're doing a really nice job on the hull... I not the curve on your stern is much tighter tan the one on mine which is a bit broader and longer...but you are overcoming the problem very well...

I will use Pollyfiller too but I had to go and buy mine as the missus didn't have it in her kit...

Best regards
JohnP

Hi Budgie

She's coming along really well now. Shall be watching to see how you do the "hard bits" around the bow and stern...

I've a little more progress with my build too...

Regards
JohnP

Hi Folks
been furloughed for a few weeks so decided to replace my shed

The old one leaked quite badly....yeah built it myself tried repairing but came back to haunt me

I unscrewed all the tongue and groove planks and used them to "double plank" the inside of the new shed

I would have preferred to have painted inside a lighter colour but covering a very dark wood stain would require a few tins of paint

No way should the roof leak now as i used rubber instead of felt

Anyhoos thought I would post pics of my new den as it will never be this tidy again

The table tops and drawers were saved from going in the works skip

Looks like if I want to do any sanding I will need to wait till SWMBO goes to the shops so I can do it in the kitchen

Morning' Folks

Moving all my bits back into the shed and checking how far I have gotten on the Gneisensau

Placing a hull template shows I am way out

I don't understand as I have not adjusted any off the slots on the false decks or frames to make them fit

Ah well I will start again (at least this time I will be building the same model)

Take care Folks and thanks for lookin'

Its such a shame to see you having to start again and sincerely hope you can identify the reasons for ending up with a gap on the stern deck section. Will be following as usual....

Regards

Alan

Thanks for comments Guy's

As I did not have to alter the position of any slots for the horizontal decks to slot into the frames i cannot fathom out why there is such a big misalignment.

Maybe I am being too pernickety

I have gone and confused myself even further by:

As the Gniesenau is the sister ship of the Scharnhorst

and they were both 144.6M long

i have found that the 1/100 scale plan I purchased for Scharnhorst is a couple of centimetres longer than what I have built so far on the Gniesenau

Which is more accurate? the plan or the card model? need to get my measuring stick out

The plan is 150cm long so the Scharnhorst has grown 5.4M

But the card model is pretty much bang on length wise

Maybe the UPPER frame templates were not as square as I thought or perhaps the thickness of the mdf has made the difference

Ah well I like seeing the skeleton come together