Hull is coming along. I haven't treated the hull other than to apply a pre-stain conditioner. I've made a lot of mistakes, but hopefully learning to be better.
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Pinta Amati [COMPLETED BUILD]
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Good morning. Fine planking job. Your poop deck with the tree nail pattern is great .An awesome “come back” to POB ship modeling after so many years.Cheers Grant.
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- Prevents blotching and streaking to ensure beautiful, even stain color
- Helps control the effect of grain raising on both soft and hard woods
Haven't gotten too much further. Since I've made mistakes on this build, I decided to try a few things that I can improve on in the future.
Still working on it. More mistakes I have to fix. But this will be a learning model. Hopefully the next will have less errors. A few more details on the deck then install the masts. I. have the masts tapered using a drill. They look pretty good.
I blackened the small brass eyes and rings to put in the deck. There weren't enough. Luckily I had bought a set of 4 wire bending tools from micromark. The eyes and rings that aren't colored are the ones I just made.
The eyes/rings by my thumb are the one's I just made. I think they look better than the one' that came in the kit.
Got 2 sails on. Only one to go. I need to learn what size rigging to use. And for seizing too. I kinda just picked some rigging that look about right. There are a few colors and sizes!! Making notes as I go along of the correct way to do things so I'll do better on the next one. 
wind blown sails...
I'm calling it finished!! Will start another ship.
Congratulations for finishing this nice model - well done !!!
And which ship will be your next one?
And which ship will be your next one?
Going to build the Mantua Golden Star.