Thanks so much Adrian.

nice to hear you have good weather down there stefan

it's miseable here.

to give the partitions a bit more surface at the bottom, i glued a couple of scrap 3mmx3mm bits of wood to the rear lower edges of the partitions, so the pieces were out of sight, that gave it a bit more strength when gluing to the deck.

I like your idea for the door handles in your two posts,Stefan. She's really beginning to take shape now. You seem to be picking up a lot of speed. Looking good.

we have hit the middle teens temp wise, predicted to be below zero overnight.............but believe it or not a hosepipe ban starts next week due to the lack of rain in our area. the whole of the uk can be under a cloud but it very rarely rains here, i heard or read somewhere that we are on par with the sahara as far as rainfall in our area.

Real nice clean build stefan. Hope my hull planking turns out as good as yours Iani

Very good work Stefan Regards Mike

Thanks Mike and Jonny!

I'm a little dispirited after cutting the rear of the ship over the weekend.

My wife looked at the model on Saturday evening and asked why the rear set of ladders were "blocked" - going back over the instructions we noticed that the rope 'handrail' on the rear ladder was fitted the wrong way round. Corrected now:



The cutting of the hull and bulwark was really discouraging, I don't think the method described in the magazine (which I followed) is the best one. :(

My biggest gripe is that the cut must be exactly horizontal and with the shape of the hull being what it is I found it really difficult. I found that on the port-side, the bulwark was cut away too much and I had to glue a filler piece in place which will need to be sanded down:


while on the starboard side, the cut went down too low towards the bow - filler strips added:


I'm going to make the starboard side exactly the same as the Port side, so now it's just sanding, cutting and measuring until both sides are exactly equal in height and slope.

Hi Stefan!

I was sorry to hear you had problems cutting the bulwarks I didn’t like the idea of putting the ship on its side as per the magazine, which was why I cut the bulwarks with the ship held in the build stand. I'm glad your deck wasn't harmed. Keep your chin up mate!

Darron

if it helps others I treated the bulwarks the same as a carpenter,rough cut first,leaving 2 or 3mm undercut,then planed with a david plan,then sanded to final shape.

without a doubt that was the most daunting stage of the build, i left mine as long as possible before cutting, as i could not bring myself to saw through something that had taken so long to build, in the end i did as karl and cut slightly short and sanded the rest. hope you get everything sorted.