Superb work! Patience makes perfect and yours looks darn near close. Glad I'm following and thanks for sharing!!
First cant frames have been erected. It took couple of attempts. Frames themselves are easy to build, but in order to fit them properly against wing transom, mortises need to be cut into top timbers, which turned out to be problematic. Vast amount of wood will need to be removed when fairing - Grober rifflers are on the way. Many, many thanks for your interest.
Looks very nice, clean and pecisely made.
I definitely intend to tape the keel and hope that it will be enough. No power tools for me when it comes to fairing, slow and steady with rifflers, files, teeth, nails ...
Slow progress. Four aft cant frames have been erected, Grobet rifflers have arrived. Now it's time to install temporary spacers between frames and start preliminary fairing. Sooo much wood to remove. Ouch! I suppose David Antscherl intentionally did not provide bevel lines in order to resist temptation to fair frames before installing. We'll see how it unfolds. Many thanks for all your likes and comments. Happy modelling.
Really nice bit of work here Gennaro. Fairing the interior is going to be very challenging!
Perfekt work it’s beautiful
Thanks Paul. Bow and stern are particularly problematic. It's much easier to do it now when the inside is easily accessible. Curved rifflers are particularly good for this kind of job.
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Wow Gennaro - I do not think your progress is slow at all. With a scratch build it is not as if you simply pull the semi-assembled frames from a box, slap them together and mount them to the keel. And talking about frames - your carpentry skills on those frames are top notch - the joints are seamless! 
Excellent! Great work, Gennaro. You should be proud!
Very, very nice and cleanly done. Premier Cru of the shipbuilding. Really at the top.
Very fine and accurate workmanship - looking very good.
Maybe you mentioned it already, but which wood are you using? Is it pear?
Maybe you mentioned it already, but which wood are you using? Is it pear?
Love it
Uwe, It's Castello Boxwood from Sergey.
Many Thanks for the information and also that you directly mentioned the source
-> Sergey alias @bibigon is really a very good source for high quality timber
and I love this Castello Boxwood very much - it is maybe really an alternative to pear wood - many thanks for the hint
Managed to do some preliminary fairing on the starboard. It took 5-6 hours. Particularly problematic is the aftmost cant frame. I was pleasantly surprised how rigid the whole structure is. Hopefully this will work on port side as well. Many thanks for all the likes and comments.
Let's see: 5-6 hours for half of 4 frames. Impressive and sobering all at the same time.