Beautiful, I could look at your work all day long. Amazing!
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“La Jacinthe” Schooner France -1:42 scale [COMPLETED BUILD]
WOW - after some days when I looked last time into your log and today - Very good progress and very good results
Many thanks for sharing with us these interesting photos - BTW: I like the appearance of your hull very much - very accurate work and the oiled surface is super
Many thanks for sharing with us these interesting photos - BTW: I like the appearance of your hull very much - very accurate work and the oiled surface is super
Greetings, dear Nigel.
In order to highlight the joints, I used, just like Dimitriy, a dull needle, and afterwards, on advise of my friend with much experience in this field, i worked on the joints using a small triangular broach file. But there's one nuance. Before putting the covering I took away a small bevel from the edges of the upper part of each plank. And most importantly, like I was saying earlier, is not to let any glue get on flat end of a plank.
My best regards.
Thank you Alexsandr.
This process is not easy to get consistent results but I can see the chamfer helps.I did find on the Russian forum a homemade tool using the blade from an Olfa knife where you can run this down the plank to get a consistent chamfer,The blade was adjustable so you could change the size and angle of the bevel.The tool was basically a pear block with a slit cut in it to suit the thickness of the plank.You may be familiar with this device.
Kind Regards
Nigel
This process is not easy to get consistent results but I can see the chamfer helps.I did find on the Russian forum a homemade tool using the blade from an Olfa knife where you can run this down the plank to get a consistent chamfer,The blade was adjustable so you could change the size and angle of the bevel.The tool was basically a pear block with a slit cut in it to suit the thickness of the plank.You may be familiar with this device.
Kind Regards
Nigel
Yes, I saw this instrument, but in my work I have been using a mini carpenter's plane, which I made at a time, and which helped me a lot when I was working on the covering. 
Wow, very impressive work, not only on the ship but also your mini tools.
Jan
Jan
Thank you very much.
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Wow, Aleksander! You are a tools maker as well!! Great set of mini planes! What steel did you use to make a knife for the planes? Can you explain how you remove fossa from a long plank?
Greetings dear colleague,
I make instruments only in case of necessity, if i dont have a possibility to buy it. So, I dont have anything to show. The story with the carpenter's plane is different, my friend showed me the japanese mini- carpenter's planes he bought, and i wanted to have the same. I couldnt find them for sale anywhere in my country, so I had to make them myself. the cutting element was made out of the old metal cutters. I just had the inspiration at that time.
I make instruments only in case of necessity, if i dont have a possibility to buy it. So, I dont have anything to show. The story with the carpenter's plane is different, my friend showed me the japanese mini- carpenter's planes he bought, and i wanted to have the same. I couldnt find them for sale anywhere in my country, so I had to make them myself. the cutting element was made out of the old metal cutters. I just had the inspiration at that time.
While the hull is drying out, I got around to the carving. For quite some time, I have had a feeling I would have troubles in this field. Scale… I started by making the instrument, using broach files, drills, jigsaw saw and big needles. 
I decided to begin with what I considered the easiest element - the snake . I couldn’t find boxwood. I didn’t use lime tree due to its softness. So I have opted for a peartree, at least I’ll get some practice.I studied this part of work on the forum, of all my colleagues, found lots of useful information, for what I’m very grateful.
After critical remarks of my friends, experts in snakes - I have redone the head. 
I hope the carving work is done, being a dilettant - it was hard for me to carve at such a scale. Now I´ll have to oil-coat it, afterwards, probably cover it with bituminous varnish and install in place when the hull will have dried out. 
Aft end carving.
It seems it looks ok in a life-size, but when substantially enlarged one can see faults that were made by the “carver”.
It seems it looks ok in a life-size, but when substantially enlarged one can see faults that were made by the “carver”.
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Excellent carving work!
Look at that detailes!!Very nice!!
Amazing Work, just brilliant. I have a long long road ahead haha
Thank you, my dear colleagues, for the evaluating my work.