The vision is rounding nicely into form, Eric. What you have done there on the interior planking is to joggle half-plank ends into hooked scarfs.
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Soleil Royal 1671 by EDub (Heller 1/100)
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My intent last night was to finish planking the inner hull of the port side... but there was a temporary lack of 0.5mm x 4.0mm finished planks. A trip to the hobby store today will fill the inventory.
I decided to add the anchor linings. I created a template that I taped to the hull. I used more 0.5mm x 4.0mm planks, glueing three planks thogether and four planks together forming two small squares of planks that I placed in between the wales. I then used the template to pencil trace the curves onto the squares (glueing the planks together in advance meant I didn't have to trace and fit individual planks).
The anchor lining is substantially thicker than on SR1671.1, and that is because the wales protrude more from the full. The lower wales protrude 1.5mm from the hull, the middle wales preotrude 1.0mm from the hull, etc.
As I look at these photos, I am not liking the very wide plank seam at the first plank below the bottom upper wale. I am not sure why that appears to be so thick, but I will lightly sand and fill the gap, then use a Tamiya scribe tool to etch a thin line in.
I decided to add the anchor linings. I created a template that I taped to the hull. I used more 0.5mm x 4.0mm planks, glueing three planks thogether and four planks together forming two small squares of planks that I placed in between the wales. I then used the template to pencil trace the curves onto the squares (glueing the planks together in advance meant I didn't have to trace and fit individual planks).
The anchor lining is substantially thicker than on SR1671.1, and that is because the wales protrude more from the full. The lower wales protrude 1.5mm from the hull, the middle wales preotrude 1.0mm from the hull, etc.
As I look at these photos, I am not liking the very wide plank seam at the first plank below the bottom upper wale. I am not sure why that appears to be so thick, but I will lightly sand and fill the gap, then use a Tamiya scribe tool to etch a thin line in.