Is this right or has Occre screwed up?

[Odd Job]

I've started planking my Beagle but something is not right. The fore and aft gun ports are in inaccessible places with the aft ports having a wall directly behind them. Do I cover them with planking or leave as is?

 

[Albert Mary]

What do the plans show? Maybe bulkwarks have to come off after planking completion..

 

[Odd Job]

The plans show these ports open. You can even see the wall on the plans. Unfortunately there are no written instructions with this kit so I'm working purely from pictures.

 

[Albert Mary]

So my guess is the two bulkwark which obliterate the gunports under the forecastele and the quarterdeck have to come off as the planking is done. That's not quite strange in BOF models and not a big deal by the way.
Regards!

 

[Odd Job]

I've just had a look further on in the drawings and it shows all of the hatches closed so the wall cannot be seen, but surely the original ship wouldn't have had a cannon port where a wall is ??

 

[Odd Job]

This is the wall that has the cannon port directly behind it. As you can see it's not something that can be removed. You can even see daylight through the port.

 

[Neil_jo]

Occre has quite a few you tube videos that might shed some light on your problem.

 

[Albert Mary]

This is the wall that has the cannon port directly behind it. As you can see it's not something that can be removed. You can even see daylight through the port.

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This is the wall that has the cannon port directly behind it. As you can see it's not something that can be removed. You can even see daylight through the port.

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Oh my days... from this view it's pretty clear that the bulkwark or the gunport (or both) is in a wrong position. That's quite a deal instead... . From E2 pics it seams the first gunport from bow is well under the foredeck. E2 shows something similar to a bulkwark leaning out the port beneath the quarterdeck, so... is this the bow or the stern of the model?

 

[Albert Mary]

Oh my days... from this view it's pretty clear that the bulkwark or the gunport (or both) is in a wrong position. That's quite a deal instead... . From E2 pics it seams the first gunport from bow is well under the foredeck. E2 shows something similar to a bulkwark leaning out the port beneath the quarterdeck, so... is this the bow or the stern of the model?

I watched the videos... that's definitively a kit fault.

 

[AllanKP69]

Is this right or has Occre screwed up?​

Seems to be the case.

If it was a framed ship, the futtock would stop just short of the lower sill that makes up the lower part of the port so what you have is not unusual. Consider frames were nearly a solid wall so most ports would be blocked by a couple frames as yours is blocked by a bulkhead. The instructions should have shown this so you could cut an opening in the bulkhead if not cutting off the top portion altogether before assembling. A closed port seems like a logical solution at this point.
Allan

 

[-Waldemar-]

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I've started planking my Beagle but something is not right. The fore and aft gun ports are in inaccessible places with the aft ports having a wall directly behind them. Do I cover them with planking or leave as is?

It seems that during the conversion of the brig in preparation for the research voyage, some of the cannons were removed, and the last gun port on the side was made into a dummy, i.e. it was planked over, leaving only its visual indication by colour. More on this can be found in specialist literature, such as HMS Beagle. Survey ship extraordinary by K.H. Marquardt.

So, to answer your question, the last gun port should be planked over and just marked by painting.

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