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Сестрорецк [Sestroretsk] Scratchbuild scale 1/64 Russ. torpedo boat 1894

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Hello friends, I didn't expect such monster waves in this discussion - thanks for your intensety. As I am at the very beginning of learning modern Russian language I will take the advice telling me, it is grammatically correct - just because due to this it is a letter too much if wrong, but not a missing letter if it is right. That's my simple logic behind this, because I can not tell who of you both is right - both arguments sound logical to me so I do choose "the path with less possible error".

I also do have to redo the one letter the uppest "flag" is going into the wrong direction:

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The top dash hast to show towards the left not the right - making it even broder in size.
So I will work in this to get it right and then I do have to undo the Cyrillic side of my stand to press two dot five additional letters into the very same space :oops:

We will see.
 
This isn't modern language. These are old spelling rules that existed before the 1918 reform. 99.9% of modern Russians don't know them, as our discussion demonstrates. Regarding the spelling of the word "Sestroretsk"—without going into grammatical subtleties—I showed a scan from an encyclopedic dictionary of that era, where it is written according to the rules of the time. This eliminates any doubt. In the examples my opponent showed, the letter "Ѣ" is missing precisely because it's not needed there according to grammatical rules, and in no other way. Assumptions that the word was spelled one way in the dictionary and differently on board the ship are complete nonsense.

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Due to the helpfull hand of a German colleauge I now do know the letters for the name onto both sides the ship's stern:

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Today I recognized the centerboard sagged while drying in the middel - so I will deal with this later by adding 0,5mms sheets of palsticcards ontop.
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After this I worked on the slots and was able to place the first stern bulkheads N°2...
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Hello friends,

today I was able to take pictures of my way to cut out the bookbinder's cardboard into a bulkhead.
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One bulkheads needed arround 90 minutes.
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And so it does start to come togeather- step by step...

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My next step besides the bulkheads are the waterlines N°3 and CWL .
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The CWL(in the picture below it is the lower horizontal Line)will be cut into between bulkheads length rectangular filling pices along the drawing hull's outline - the same with WL N°3 (here the upperline in the picture).
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By this I do form the very first part of the outline of the hull. Other pices will be added between them and the more slides are added the more exact the outline will be.
Here you can see the deck's bent line with this very sharp edge downwards the hullside:
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I am still figuring out how to establish this characteristic feature into the hull. Thinking about bend sheeds of cardboard going from edge to Edge - beaveled on top?
Or to individually lay an inner parallel to the outlines for 1mm thick cardboard, and use Ab Hoving's light soft cardboard for this perpuse but BETWEEN the bulkheads!

This due to the bulkheads not were dinimished to add a layer of cardboard on it - i am in need of cladding 0,5mms plastic sheets ontop to laminate the layer of Steel/Aluminium plating. These we're hold in place by 25-30mm rivets - so some 0,5mm in scale. Showing these or avoiding these?
 
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I leafed through my pictures and didn't find any rivet visable:
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...but the rows of plates are quite visable:
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...and some insides of hatches, lamps, WCs and some round Version of the screw protection:
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But I found the quare modeled screws protection of the French Tb DART in quite useable detail:

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...but the
 
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Hello friends, as to be expected today not really much progress was made.

The first letters for the stand
I just took auf the wrong letters and I pressed in the two tonge signs.
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It isn't perfect - I have to catch the letters and bring them into row
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now Lee Ermey would be very handy for this...

As both signs are back to back to each other the different es will less be visiable. Tomorrow I will cut out the Cyrillic letters and push them a bit towards the left - so the distance towards the dots is absoloutly equal - same must be done with the Latin writing, too.

The second kind of letters at the hull
As the letters at the hull are of a different type I do have to deal with them also.
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I do know that I have to do the very same for the hull's writing, too. But they are of a raised structure!
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But was the writing only on the bow or additiv onto the stern once/twice? As on all the French boats it is obvious atop a board;
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and at the later Russian Tbs in also raised golden letters.
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