I am at a standstill. It's taken me about a week to lay 5 planks on my beginner's model. It's The Albatros by Occre. Can somebody offer some advice to kick my butt into gear? I have read and reread and watched and rewatched all of the planking tutorials that I can find both written and on YouTube and I still don't seem to be completely understanding the Iining of the hull. I really want to get this right and treat this hull as if it were going to be single planked. I'm too new at this to achieve a aesthetically pleasing hull but I do want to treat it that way. What am I missing?
Here are Occre's instructions which I'm not too keen about. I don't want to put in elliptical shaped planks with pointy ends in the middle of the hull. And why do they suggest starting the planking in the middle of the hull?
![20240522_104440.jpg 20240522_104440.jpg](https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/data/attachments/432/432784-bc638772253551258b16ef9e2dcf3e27.jpg)
Here's my current attempt at lining off the hull after laying the garboard plank and first two strakes (are they called wale strakes?). I made tick strips to measure each bulkhead from the wales down to the garboard plank. I then used a planking fan to add the tick marks to the bulkheads. So far no planks will require that I taper more than half the width of a plank:
But what about the stern and the bow? How do I measure the width of the planks required in those areas? You can see that I tried ticking off the bow but abandoned that idea when it just seemed wrong.
![20240522_095131.jpg 20240522_095131.jpg](https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/data/attachments/432/432786-59fa5f9730f7ac6bfe9e4786f81426cf.jpg)
![20240522_095123.jpg 20240522_095123.jpg](https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/data/attachments/432/432787-26b1fe9e4c947744c3a01de166902d27.jpg)
It looks like I've overcomplicated the planking of the entire hull by using the tick strip method. I can't imagine that the stern needs planks that come to such a fine taper. But I don't know. I'm so lost.
Please HELP!
from Ms Embarrassed
Here are Occre's instructions which I'm not too keen about. I don't want to put in elliptical shaped planks with pointy ends in the middle of the hull. And why do they suggest starting the planking in the middle of the hull?
![20240522_104440.jpg 20240522_104440.jpg](https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/data/attachments/432/432784-bc638772253551258b16ef9e2dcf3e27.jpg)
Here's my current attempt at lining off the hull after laying the garboard plank and first two strakes (are they called wale strakes?). I made tick strips to measure each bulkhead from the wales down to the garboard plank. I then used a planking fan to add the tick marks to the bulkheads. So far no planks will require that I taper more than half the width of a plank:
![20240522_095112.jpg 20240522_095112.jpg](https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/data/attachments/432/432785-f059aade4a69876ecee9d3834330ac28.jpg)
But what about the stern and the bow? How do I measure the width of the planks required in those areas? You can see that I tried ticking off the bow but abandoned that idea when it just seemed wrong.
![20240522_095131.jpg 20240522_095131.jpg](https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/data/attachments/432/432786-59fa5f9730f7ac6bfe9e4786f81426cf.jpg)
![20240522_095123.jpg 20240522_095123.jpg](https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/data/attachments/432/432787-26b1fe9e4c947744c3a01de166902d27.jpg)
It looks like I've overcomplicated the planking of the entire hull by using the tick strip method. I can't imagine that the stern needs planks that come to such a fine taper. But I don't know. I'm so lost.
Please HELP!
from Ms Embarrassed