Fairing complete (I think). D@mm but that was dusty work!

The bow


Stern


Galley


First plank on!

Looking good mate,
Good luck with planking, don't rush it, measure twice cut once ;)

All the best

Thanks Gents,

The sanding of the stern started to bore me so I used a mouse-sander to get it nice and flush with the false keel.

I also made part 31 out of the duplicate part 30 I received. It was a little tricky to get the curve and the spacing of the gallery supports right, but with a litte basic maths and using the 2x part 34s as templates it worked out nicely.

Once the first planks are down the rest went very quicly. The little "cutter" plankbender works very well.

Bow


Port Side


Starbord with cutaway


Stern (Starbord side)


Stern (Port side)


For some reason the planks on the Port side started rising faster than the Port side resulting in me having to trim plank nr 4 quite severly to make plank nr 5 level with the galley supports. I'll be painting the hull so I decided not to remove all the Portside planks and trim each one a little.

Thanks again for everyone's feedback, I'm really learning a tremendous amount by going through all your build dairies.

Stern gunports




And the starboard side




The last row of planks that meet at the bow rise slightly above the formers, I guess that will be sanded back at a later stage




The self-made 'dummy-gun-backing-planks' in place. You can see the little grooves on the planks where they have been cut using the supplied plank-bender




The 3rd and 4th last ribs started to bend away from one another quite severely so I have to keep them in place until all the top-planking has been completed

Your build is looking very good Stefan.

Jim

Thanks gentlemen. Much appreciated!

As this is my first wooden model build and it is not cheap, I really want to get it right.

The top-part planking is now done.

Stern




Full Starboard side



Starboard to Stern



Bow



Now I'm just waiting in nervous anticipation for the arrival of issues 32-36 to start planking the bottom.

Hi Stefan
Good looking build. Following you with interest

So far so good. Great job. I bet you can't wait to get started with lower hull
Be careful while doing it because each wrongly shaped plank there wil be real pain later on. Keep it easy and as everyone will tell you measure twice and cut once.

Great job

Thanks so much gentlemen!

The next order was dispatched today so hopefully it will be in my grubby paws within the next 2 weeks

I learnt my lesson on the galley support planks where 'good-enough' did not turn out that way and had to be redone.

From following all your build dairies, I'm going to be extra careful to start of right and not allow any clinkering.