You’re making good progress.
Welcome back -you may know that I built this model mid 1980Th when it came into the market and have been helping two others to build it.
Now you did well adding wood under the lower deck carriage -it cannot be seen anyway. I did it with all gun carriage, as I made it with all gunports open - for me no dummy guns. On all the other guns -fully made - I added below the carriage a 5x5 mm piece of wood, as with the wheels alone, there is very little glue space -easy to have an accident here. Even with Dummy Guns more than one has gun pipes inside the hull and no way to get them out except making a hull in the bottom of the hull
you are always welcome to ask for help- el capi
Sorry, I beg to differ, it's double plank - well mine is, & the kit is described as such. Maybe yours is an earlier kit? I stand to be corrected?
Cheers
So in my attempt to try and make sure I get everything documented I have lost all the pictures I took the past few days of work. But what can I do, it was a lot of squaring up half finished parts of the build that were waiting on the chassis of the cannons to be done and set on the second deck.
I ended up gluing down the ends of the rope so that way everything stayed in place.
I have finished the rubbing strakes and just need to putty and sand and paint them. Once that was done I painted the red for the strings and the inside of the deck.
This is where we pick up with photos.
I got them planked then inorder to do the shaping with the thin 1x3 I glued it onto paper and cut it down accordingly.
Next was getting everything done the way it was needed, making sure to do dry fits each time
I oiled it with linseed oil and got it glued up and mounted the last deck on the ship.
And this is where we stand currently. Started doing some of the black paint and worked on the top of the railings as well. So far feeling a lot better now and starting to see some real bones comes to life .
Thank you all for checking in and hope the new year was good!!!!
I ended up gluing down the ends of the rope so that way everything stayed in place.
I have finished the rubbing strakes and just need to putty and sand and paint them. Once that was done I painted the red for the strings and the inside of the deck.
This is where we pick up with photos.
I got them planked then inorder to do the shaping with the thin 1x3 I glued it onto paper and cut it down accordingly.
Next was getting everything done the way it was needed, making sure to do dry fits each time
I oiled it with linseed oil and got it glued up and mounted the last deck on the ship.
And this is where we stand currently. Started doing some of the black paint and worked on the top of the railings as well. So far feeling a lot better now and starting to see some real bones comes to life .
Thank you all for checking in and hope the new year was good!!!!
That’s progressing well.
Good afternoon Rob. Looking great. Cheers Grant
Have a good birthday Rob
Happy Birthday Rob!
Happy Birthday, Rob! 
You’re getting there dude.
Sorry i have not been around very much but life and all that jazz lol. Pretty much my posts are going to be more progress updates and less detailed towards process as I really don't have a good amount of free time to really build with full time college and work. But ill do my best to give some updates every few weeks. 
There has been some decent work done on her in the past few months. I have been able to fully install the grating and have finished most of the molding on the sides. I have done a nice dark black on the rubbing strakes as I did not have actually black wood to use for them. The kit came with wonderful African Walnut which i could not really pass up using!!
I have been able to do the decorations on the bow and it came out pretty well i think with the oil that i have been using to finish off the parts that i have completed. The black holders for the rigging is a little rough so I may pull them off a redo them which is why i have not oiled that area .
The grating was very troublesome as the lengths on paper is what i used instead of measuring the ship itself. After redoing that i was able to get that completed and then have oiled that up. At this point I am working on the deck decor and the detailing on the sides of the ship.
At this point i wont be putting any pieces on the deck that are too fragile as I want to get the doors for the cannons and the rudder in place and to my liking as this will require me to flip the ship and tilt it pretty steep which could cause them to break from the place i put them.
I hope everyone has been well and i thank you for stopping by and being patient with me as I have been offline for some time.
There has been some decent work done on her in the past few months. I have been able to fully install the grating and have finished most of the molding on the sides. I have done a nice dark black on the rubbing strakes as I did not have actually black wood to use for them. The kit came with wonderful African Walnut which i could not really pass up using!!
I have been able to do the decorations on the bow and it came out pretty well i think with the oil that i have been using to finish off the parts that i have completed. The black holders for the rigging is a little rough so I may pull them off a redo them which is why i have not oiled that area .
The grating was very troublesome as the lengths on paper is what i used instead of measuring the ship itself. After redoing that i was able to get that completed and then have oiled that up. At this point I am working on the deck decor and the detailing on the sides of the ship.
At this point i wont be putting any pieces on the deck that are too fragile as I want to get the doors for the cannons and the rudder in place and to my liking as this will require me to flip the ship and tilt it pretty steep which could cause them to break from the place i put them.
I hope everyone has been well and i thank you for stopping by and being patient with me as I have been offline for some time.
Looks good Rob! Nice to hear from you again!
So did some work the past couple weeks since I got be on a break for a week from school and work has been light. I first got the rudder situated and on 
Next I started working on the gunports and getting them together
I got them on her and it's starting to really come together I feel.
Finally my other goal was to get the next side done but ADHD kicked in and I felt adventurous, I was nervous as all get out of the gallery as I wanted to elevate the pieces that were given to me. I really learned a lot from my work on the beagle and was able to really get the results I wanted. There is much room for improvement but here we are.
Next I started working on the gunports and getting them together
I got them on her and it's starting to really come together I feel.
Finally my other goal was to get the next side done but ADHD kicked in and I felt adventurous, I was nervous as all get out of the gallery as I wanted to elevate the pieces that were given to me. I really learned a lot from my work on the beagle and was able to really get the results I wanted. There is much room for improvement but here we are.
You’re doing great on this. Getting there
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I hope mine turns out as nice, when I get around to it.