Fantastic work.
After coming back from my vacation, I'm happy to continue to work on my ship. For the last days, I have been sanding all the strips for the grid floor located at the back. Again, I have tainted it before gluing it together and installing it.
This week, I have been working on the ornaments on the sides. They need to be thinned down from 4 to 2 mm. Since the pieces are so small and fragile, I do it manually on a piece of sandpaper and only a few at a time, to let my finger tips recover/heal. The ornaments are placed first to align with the holes, and afterwards a (golden) strip is placed aligned with the ornaments and grid in the back. Afterwards, I'll place the top railing together with the back plate. Easy!! 
Looking very good CryptonThis week, I have been working on the ornaments on the sides. They need to be thinned down from 4 to 2 mm. Since the pieces are so small and fragile, I do it manually on a piece of sandpaper and only a few at a time, to let my finger tips recover/heal. The ornaments are placed first to align with the holes, and afterwards a (golden) strip is placed aligned with the ornaments and grid in the back. Afterwards, I'll place the top railing together with the back plate. Easy!!
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Good evening. This is beautiful. The ZHL Le Requin has to be the best kit on the market at present. Just stunning.! You have done justice to this kit and then some. Awesome work. Cheers GrantThis week, I have been working on the ornaments on the sides. They need to be thinned down from 4 to 2 mm. Since the pieces are so small and fragile, I do it manually on a piece of sandpaper and only a few at a time, to let my finger tips recover/heal. The ornaments are placed first to align with the holes, and afterwards a (golden) strip is placed aligned with the ornaments and grid in the back. Afterwards, I'll place the top railing together with the back plate. Easy!!
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Thank you all again for your nice comments. I agree that this might be the best kit currently on the market. This week, I finished the rail on the back. There was not too much info in the manual, so I improvised a bit. Surprisingly, it all fitted very well
Afterwards, I finally took the ship out of its frame to inspect the bottom side. There is quite some sanding to do there at least to keep me busy for another week.
Afterwards, I finally took the ship out of its frame to inspect the bottom side. There is quite some sanding to do there at least to keep me busy for another week.
Good afternoon. I love this ship and how you are building it. Marvellous. Cheers GrantThank you all again for your nice comments. I agree that this might be the best kit currently on the market. This week, I finished the rail on the back. There was not too much info in the manual, so I improvised a bit. Surprisingly, it all fitted very well
Afterwards, I finally took the ship out of its frame to inspect the bottom side. There is quite some sanding to do there at least to keep me busy for another week.
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Not just splendid, humbling!
You guys from the Netherlands are a breed apart!
You guys from the Netherlands are a breed apart!
This week, I have been sanding very carefully to prepare for the planking of the hull. The top hull planks are only 1 mm thick, so there is not much room for flattening it by sanding after planking. Also, I have placed the first line of the hull reinforcements. I'm happy with the straight lines. Let's see how the planking will go...
Very impressive.
Hallo @CryptonJust before finishing the Brazzera from Maris Stella, I ordered a new kit. It took almost 2 months to arrive (Aliexpress
ZHL put online a nice unpacting movie of the kit () so I'll just leave it with some pictures. My first impression is really everything I hoped for. I like that everything is high quality wood (I believe I got the pear version) and the 3D carved parts are very detailed.
Like the previous building log, I will most likely post an update every week. Any help and suggestions are always welcome.
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Wonderful and amazing work.Thank you all again for your nice comments. I agree that this might be the best kit currently on the market. This week, I finished the rail on the back. There was not too much info in the manual, so I improvised a bit. Surprisingly, it all fitted very well
Afterwards, I finally took the ship out of its frame to inspect the bottom side. There is quite some sanding to do there at least to keep me busy for another week.
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Good morning. She is turning into a beauty. Cheers Grant
I continued with planking the hull. The instructions indicates to start with a 3.0 mm thick strip, followed by an every decreasing thickness (2.8, 2.6, 2.4 ...). For each thickness 4 strips are provided and at least 2 are needed to cover the length of the ship. Since it is high quality pear wook, I do not need to soak them or use any clamps or nails. I just super-glue them, while bending them with force force and hold them in place with patience. The planks are tapered to 4 mm in the front. For the rest there are not too many sharp bends in the hull, so planking is pretty straight forward.
This week, I closed the hull and started with the gun-ports. The tricky part is to drill the holes straight through the bulkwards. Also, the small hatches next to the gun-ports are too small for me to cut out of the hull. Therefore, I decided to mimic them by carving a pencil line in the wood. Most likely I'll weather the brass hinges in a later stage of the build.
What a beautiful ship!!! Wow!