OUCH. I admit no one can get blocks small enough for gun tackles, but I bought out the entire supply of 1.5mm single blocks from Dry-Dock Models (and most of the 1.5mm double blocks) for the remaining guns, so at least I'm trying to go in the right direction!
It means making large modifications and additions of features to make the model much better than the generic kit. Kits are a good starting place for beginners and intermediate skill modelers to make a detailed kit without having to design the hull from scratch. Halfway through my build, it was decided to gut the entire hull, remove all the original supports and scratch build internal decks. The only thing that will be left is the first layer of planking. Information from research inspired drastic changes in gun port position, deck location, and hull shape. These changes started early with modifications to the shape of the frames, changing the hull shape from bloated and round to the complex hull with curved and flatter areas typical of the period. The stern was radically changed to make it historically accurate.
In your case, it's more like starting over from scratch than it is bashing!
That's what you do only as a last resort.
I haven't marked all the trenails on the deck yet. I was doing that with a mechanical pencil containing brown tinted lead. You can see that the trenails at the ends of each plank were done after a batch of tanganika wood strips were cut to make planks earlier in the build. I have a jig with two holes in it that is used to mark the trenails consistently. Making real wood trenails would be too large to be in scale for 5mm wide planks, so I opted to use the pencil. Those trenail marks that were wiped out by scraping will be re-marked.
That is what I did for my deck on the SL.
You are correct. As Kurt said, some have been scraped off and he will put them on again in the same way as you just said. I think something may have been lost in the translation, Andrey. Peace to you, brother.
It will be done soon.
It has to be one of the most boring things to do... making dots for hours.
No detail forgotten. I'm building a display - you're building a ship. Respect.
Maybe I should let you finish the outside. It would look better.
No chance. If I finish the outside you'll just think of something to change and rip it all out...
How true!
