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ZHL San Felipe 1690

Etwas_63 said:
I've finished sheathing the sides below the quarterdeck. I still haven't decided what to finish the forecastle and quarterdeck with. The blue hornbeam issue is still unsolved. I'm leaning toward mahogany, which I used for the lower hull. But I still have work to do on the forecastle and head, and I've also thought about using padauk (a solid red material) to frame the gunports. I'll also use it later to make the inside of the gunport covers, so I don't have to paint them.
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I appears that you beveled the edges of the strakes on the upper part of the hull. The best u can tell us that the edges were not beveled in the portion if the hull below the waterline.
 
I'm still working on the handrail on the gunwale. Most of the time was spent on the observation deck in front of the viewer. The design is quite fragile. At the same time, the Chinese made a mistake with the dimensions again, the distance between the posts on the arc elements of the handrails is too large. In theory, they should be two or three millimeters closer to each other. At the same time, the extreme stoics also had to be moved closer to the passage, since they fall into the attachment point of the crane beam. The holes for the pillars are also very small, so I had to carefully re-drill them at the risk of breaking them, as well as reduce the thickness of the posts. I'll make the arches themselves a little narrower and thinner, so that the whole structure looks more delicate. The attachment points to the gunwale were not only glued, but also reinforced with nails. The cuts in the handrails were made after everything fell into place, so it is more convenient to assemble and it is possible to press down when gluing with a clip. By the way, I have reduced the handrails along the entire perimeter of the gunwale to their entire length, making them 2.5 mm thick, which is closer to the scale of the model and looks more elegant. By default, they are 3.3 mm in the set.
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Today I tried to make slats of moldings. Of course, you don't have to expect them from the Chinese in the set, because, as they say.: saving drowning people is the work of drowning people themselves (another Russian saying). Sawn 4 by 2 mm slats made of beech and walnut. Using a mini engraver and diamond cutters, he made a curly loop out of a piece of hacksaw blade. It didn't work out right away, I had to spend half a day. The beech molding covered the end of the balcony of the upper gallery. Of course, I had to bend it with a soldering iron first. I'm not entirely happy with the result, probably I should have sawed pears instead of beech.
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Etwas_63 said:
Today I tried to make slats of moldings. Of course, you don't have to expect them from the Chinese in the set, because, as they say.: saving drowning people is the work of drowning people themselves (another Russian saying). Sawn 4 by 2 mm slats made of beech and walnut. Using a mini engraver and diamond cutters, he made a curly loop out of a piece of hacksaw blade. It didn't work out right away, I had to spend half a day. The beech molding covered the end of the balcony of the upper gallery. Of course, I had to bend it with a soldering iron first. I'm not entirely happy with the result, probably I should have sawed pears instead of beech.
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Did you plank the bottom side of the stern platforms
 
The planks of the beech moldings were completely disappointing. I tore them all off and made them out of a pear. Very plastic and well-processed wood, one of the best for ship modellers. It's a completely different matter. To be honest, it was necessary to make the railing of the gunwale from a pear as well. But what's done is done, I'll leave it as it is. It is a pity that the set is essentially made of solid beech and I have to postpone almost all of it and purchase it for construction, starting with the cladding, slats of pear, walnut and mahogany, which cost, for me personally, half the cost of the set. Beech, in fact, is a worthless material for ship modeling with a not very beautiful spotted structure, which reacts critically to air humidity, which often leads to warping of the model. If possible, it is better not to work with him.
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