I have not seen anywhere written details of the building process for the hawse pieces for this kit, so l will give my interpretation of how l think it should be done over the next few days, going by the 3D drawings in the pdf manual. I hope it will work out OK, but only time will tell. I have started by making the 2 jigs supplied with the kit which support and accurately place the parts during the building process. The parts making up the jig are a really tight fit so a little cleaning of the char is necessary in all the joints. The next step is dentifying the components, and making up the last of the bow cant frames, x8A and B. The hawse pieces adjoin to x8A. The hawse pieces themselves consist of 28 seperate parts (F1 to F7) that join together making 7 port and 7 starboard frames as shown in the photos . The weather here, over the last week or so has been extremely hot, 37 deg C outside and 31 in my workshop, so am calling it a day for now. I shall continue over the next few days detailing the process as l understand it, so until the next time . . .
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