Its Saturday and good morning to all. I've just a little progress to show from my last post. First a recap of my efforts to install these difficult frame extensions. I have filed, broken, filed in the wrong direction, sanded and cussed these little darlings. It finally dawned on me to make a couple of templates as a guide which has really helped. OK, I'm a little slow to learn.
Here I've pre sanded and paired up the ones left to do.
In-between each set of frame extensions there is a gun deck support system which requires a dove tail connection that allows for a slight slope further challenging my soft touch filing abilities, but I like this challenge to see how close and tight a fit I can get.
Now on the gun deck itself I glued in the kit furnished grates that go in between each canon location. This gun deck sheet is made up of laser-cut deck boards, and the gap is sub millimeter the same as the main deck was. On the main deck I had separated each bord before glue down but on this gun deck I am not doing that because it would have made the grate installation much more difficult as I feel sure I would have lost the smooth built in curvature.
Lastly my first attempt at applying black ink (acrylic) to the on deck cross beam. I had my doubts on how to apply it until I experimented with it on some scrap wood and it's just like applying thin paint with a brush.
Well, that's it for now, I sure thank you all for checking in.
Here I've pre sanded and paired up the ones left to do.
In-between each set of frame extensions there is a gun deck support system which requires a dove tail connection that allows for a slight slope further challenging my soft touch filing abilities, but I like this challenge to see how close and tight a fit I can get.
Now on the gun deck itself I glued in the kit furnished grates that go in between each canon location. This gun deck sheet is made up of laser-cut deck boards, and the gap is sub millimeter the same as the main deck was. On the main deck I had separated each bord before glue down but on this gun deck I am not doing that because it would have made the grate installation much more difficult as I feel sure I would have lost the smooth built in curvature.
Lastly my first attempt at applying black ink (acrylic) to the on deck cross beam. I had my doubts on how to apply it until I experimented with it on some scrap wood and it's just like applying thin paint with a brush.
Well, that's it for now, I sure thank you all for checking in.
