I only use a pencil and no black color...so no bleeding at all. Wirhout weathering it looks fine that way. Have to try how it looks with weathering
Thanks…. I will try the judea, i used the brown. Plus using a pencil makes it easy.
I actually used the judea in the pic, but didn’t wipe it off enough. If i would have used a wet towel, i would have obtained the look of yours. I send pic of the upper deck planking and weathering.
I think it looks very good. Once you have installed the deck fittings it will appear lighter, because of the contrast.
Day 11 just started first planking. Wired for lights…..Occre kit is not set up for lights. I will have to figure out how to make the stern windows opaque. The plans are just painted ply.
I see you dug pretty deep into the wood to get the planking pins out, but perhaps too deep. Wood filler will fill in those scars so the second planking lays on the hull smoothly. You really don't need to remove all the pins. If the pins are pushed in deep such that the heads are below the surface of the wood, they can be left in the hull without any problem. If you want to re-use the pins, the ones that have heads above the surface can either be pried out a bit with the edge of a razor knife and pulled out with needle nosed pliers, or the heads can be sanded away during the hull sanding process and the shanks of the pins remaining in the wood. Digging deep to get those bureied pins isn't worth the effort of filling and sanding to restore the surface. On my first model, I pulled as many pins as I could because I was afraid to leave them in there, but it really doesn't matter.
I use cutters to remove the nails. Not primarily to be able to reuse the nails, but mainly because sanding down the nails is an annoying business. In case it doesn't work because the nails are buried to deep (which I try to avoid) I use a hobby knife with a thick, strong blade (pictured below) to pry them out, keeping the knife as flat and horizontal (parallel with the surface of the hull) as possible while twisting it round its axis. After sanding there is no need to fill what is left of the holes with woodfiller. Below is a picture of the hull of HM Bark Endeavour after sanding.
