Artesania Latina Cutty Sark

[Guest]

Hi all corrected the bulkheads next problem, now the side panels are correctly installed you can see the stern is too shallow so I will probably build this up with wood filler.

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[Guest]

Well 1 step backwards leads to another step backwards, deck had to come off again. I was about to start planking it again and I thought surely that hump shouldn't be there.

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Also I dont know if you can see it from the photo but there is a gap between the bulkhead and the deck (I thought the small oblong hole in the decking was a hatch or something at first but now I see it is a locating peg for the decking) another wrongly glued bulkhead.

I managed to get the bulkhead off (it wasn't fully home due to wood dust and glue formed at the bottom of the joint) (all nicely held in place with dried glue) took ages to cut it all away, anyway as you can see it's all nicely flush and fitted now.

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Hopefully I can now proceed as if it were a new kit (apart from the splits in all the bulkheads due to where it was planked before cant think of anything to do about that, if I glue them back together I think it will make it too hard to put new pins in) I'm hoping when its replanked I can drill holes for the pins (they will only be for show anyway)

[boatman]

HI Ken very nicely done you are getting on great guns
chris

[Guest]

Ok so I've decided to start decking it, the instructions are not at all clear it shows you decking over the false deck by 2 mm for the first 120 mm and no longer mentions that afterwards (I can understand that as the planking for the sides is 2mm thick) but why stop that overlap at 120 mm, I looked at pics of the waterways on the actual ship and it looks like there is a wooden strip all the way along the ship from the front to the stern step so I decided to continue the strip all the way along, first problem was keeping a 4 mm wide strip at 2 mm on the deck and 2mm in the air so I decided to add the first plank on the sides and put the waterways over that, I figure the more accurate I can get the first plank the rest must be better so I took great efforts with the first plank.

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[Guest]

Hi all whilst waiting for my planking to come I decided to start on some of the many other things in this kit, here is a start on one of the cabins.

It's like a kit in its self, I have a feeling I'm going to love this kit, for the calking between the planks I used a lead pencil and just ran it along the edges of the planks.

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[Guest]

Hi all I have done some of the planking I've cut the planks at 70mm which I think in this equates to 10 yards at this scale (although the planking supplied is I think is over scale at about 12"wide ) I'm not going to add the nail heads as I've seen on the printed decks available in this scale as I dont believe a nail with a head diameter of 6 mm would be visible at this scale at.

The planking is very slow going but quite satisfying.

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[stillp]

I'm sure you're right about the nails Ken, I can't see any at all in my photos taken on board her.

I hope you're feeling brave when it comes to the rigging:

Have fun!
Pete

[Guest]

I'm trying not to think about the rigging (tbh there are 6 full size plans on the rigging so hopefully that will make it easier) (when I say full sized I mean to the model, would be a bit awkward unfolding full sized plans, not to mention the extensions to the house I would have to make:smiling2

[Jim R]

Hi Ken
Glad you have got all the corrections done. From now on it is, as you say, like a new kit - all down to you :thumb2: Decking looks good and I'm sure the nails would not show at this scale.
Jim

[Guest]

Hi all well this is as far as the decking can go at the moment as I've used all the wood left in the kit for this (they were very generous with wood as it was already fully planked so they nearly give you double what you need) I just hope when the new stuff comes it's similar coloured unlike the last bit (for the waterways which were completely different colours) I realise wood is a natural product so can differ I just hope it's not too much different.

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[stillp]

If you meed any photos Ken, I tool quite a few when I visited her.
Pete

[Guest]

Thanks mate, you didn't happen to take any of the cages by the steps leading upto the stern deck did you.

[stillp]

Not sure what you mean Ken. Is this what you need?

Pete

[Guest]

Spot on mate, thanks that's exactly what I wanted.

[stillp]

Pleased to be of service Ken! I've a couple of other partial pics, but they don't show anything that one doesn't.
Here's another one to scare you:

How would you fancy climbing that in a storm!
Pete