I've done some terrible mistakes on the hull planking, and caused me take more time to fix them. Thank God that the curve can still go correctly. :) Since the hull planking is not done correctly, I'll skip the progress. Anyway, it's how she looks like now.
Still looking good from a distance, but if you watch it closer you can see a lot of flaws between planks. I then continued to cutting off the gun ports.
Can you see the marking? :D lol... The gun port size is 10mm * 11mm, and I made a 'mold' out of plywood so that I can marked all of them in equal size on the hull.
I done them in some hours, but the edges of the gun ports don't look even, even after sanding.. so, I decided to make gun port frames to cover them.
I made a rectangular block which is 1mm smaller in both dimension than the gun port to help me produce the frames quicker. For the frames, I used 0.5mm * 3mm walnut strips.
Since they are thin enough, I did not cut them into four pieces and glue them on, instead I just bend them.
Gun ports in place and glued. And then I painted them to red with tape below to prevent unwanted paint to the hull.
And then, finished them with 2nd planking.
Those marks on the bow are caused by CA glue... I used it because it dries faster than wood glue, but the marks really screw up the ship's exterior. :(
Another shot of its starboard.
Still looking good from a distance, but if you watch it closer you can see a lot of flaws between planks. I then continued to cutting off the gun ports.
Can you see the marking? :D lol... The gun port size is 10mm * 11mm, and I made a 'mold' out of plywood so that I can marked all of them in equal size on the hull.
I done them in some hours, but the edges of the gun ports don't look even, even after sanding.. so, I decided to make gun port frames to cover them.
I made a rectangular block which is 1mm smaller in both dimension than the gun port to help me produce the frames quicker. For the frames, I used 0.5mm * 3mm walnut strips.
Since they are thin enough, I did not cut them into four pieces and glue them on, instead I just bend them.
Gun ports in place and glued. And then I painted them to red with tape below to prevent unwanted paint to the hull.
And then, finished them with 2nd planking.
Those marks on the bow are caused by CA glue... I used it because it dries faster than wood glue, but the marks really screw up the ship's exterior. :(
Another shot of its starboard.
Thanks for viewing! ^^
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