Thank you for your input OllieS, but that solution might be beyond my capacities. Besides I also fear it might lead to other complications. Anyway, I think I have found a simpler solution. I will cut a 7 mm strip from the middle of the transom and reconstruct the middle (blind) window. Of course this means I will also have to adapt the brass decoration.
Well done, now we all get to learn from you!
Hello Luigisoft. I had noticed your build log and even responded to it once. It is very useful to me. I might start one myself.
Thank you for the nice compliment. I must correct you at one point. I am certainly less skillful than most forum members - at least for the time being.Welcome to the wonderful world of ship modeling! Whether working from a kit, or original plans from scratch, you will end up scratch building or kit bashing. These kits all represent somebody's last best solution or effort at designing a kit as a commercial venture. Something always seems to get lost in translation.
Just because you are a beginner doesn't make you any less creative, imaginative, or skillful than the rest of us!
What an elegant solution!
You have piqued my interest. I am "pulling up a chair' and am looking forward to following your progress.
Pete
Kit bashing: To use a model kit as a point of departure: to radically alter the model kit from the way it was originally planned; To use the parts supplied in a model kit in order to create something entirely different from what was originally intended by the model kit designer and manufacturers.
The image below from the instructions clearly show the transom sticking out over the sides of the hull. So obviously this is how it's supposed to be according to Occre. Adapting the hull at the stern - by adding planking e.g. - will unavoidably result in increasing the width of the bullwarks, which in itself will trigger a whole array of other problems. Besides, the shape (streamline) of the hull will be affected considerably. The nicest solution would be to jigsaw a new transom, redesigned in such a way that the top brass decoration can be left unaltered.Excellent editing
I don't know this kit from Occre, but it gives me no peace: either the kit is faulty or the instructions are faulty. When I rule out a kit error, I can think of the following: First glue the rear stern part with the windows, and then adapt the hull cladding to it... but that is already a topic, if it is feasible, for other modelers...Please let me know if such a solution would be realistic.
Translation from the Slovak language google translator.
I have only spotted this after reading your report, I'm already well past this part of the build, I can't believe it, such a big error on Occre part! Your solution is a great idea but maybe leave out the middle window as I believe this is not on the original Endeavour!
