1733- 36 gun- Dutch armed merchant ship--Hof van St Janskerke

planking os starboard side finished.    

It is a van Nino-----planking on port side finished.    

Still watching from the back seat.  Nice work.  Plank away!

 The Lighting for picture taking is pretty good thru the windshield and you get to stay out of the weather. That space is going to be tough once you get the masts on. Maybe move to a van?

   Thanks Santa.

        Nino.

two more planks on port side.  

oops--my mistake, one plank glued, and a second plank pined and drying.

two more planks pined and drying on both sides.       

lower cannon cairages dun.           

lower cannon carriages on starboard side, epoxied in.   

lower cannon cariages, ready to install.   

working on cannon carriages.  

port side fraimed in, and started epoxieing deck in preporation for cannon carriage instalation.   

Hi Nino--I mesure and mark the spaceing from port to port, then I use a thin plywood templet with the two lower gun ports an oar port, and one upper gun port cut out, to lay out all the cannon ports and oar ports.  Then I cut them open with an exato knife.

Beautiful job cuting in the gun ports.

 What's your method?

    Nino

port side cut open.   

starboard side cannon ports finished.   

another three dun.   

first three ports finished.   

starboard side cannon ports cut open.  

Both sides filed smooth, and ready to begin cutting open gun ports.     

starboard side planked up to top of lower gun deck, and started filing hull smoth.   

Hello ;

 That oar port and gunport work is great . A lot of folks don't know that early on , Many ships were fitted with the oarports to maneuver the ship in Becalmed or Low Wind situations and in a port if needed .Nice work .

The Hull is coming along very nicely indeed.....Cheers mark

Good to here from you Nino.  I have several ribs whair gun ports will be. That's why I stoped planking when I reached the deck above--at this small scale, it's very hard to get in thair and cut away thows ribs.  The glue on the outside of the hull only seels it until I epoxie the inside.  Then I use it to help me file the outside smoth, as the collor change from glued wood to bair wood is easier for my week eyes to see.  And here is one plank glued and one plank pined and drying on the starboard side.  

You Know ;

 You gotta be doing this in a van . Kinda like me when I go to a LEGO event .Build it in the car . I could do that in my Kia Sedona van but , not in my Kia Soul. I still miss that "Breadbox". Finding another has been impossible .Folks just ain't parting with them .

 I got " T " boned in mine and it was a total writeoff .I wish that BMW driver had been watching what he was doing  ,instead of talking on the phone !There were LEGOS everywhere !

That was quick work.  Let us know how you start the gun port cutting.  With my poor measuing  I'd end up with one of those "ribs" in the middle of a gunport.

Nice job with the glue on the outter hull. Seems to have filled the seams.

"WhoDa Thought".  

I have an old can of Brush-on filler that's gotten thicker over the years. Fills grain and small cracks but sure won't give any strength to the hull.  I like your method.

   Nino

cannon and oar, port locations on port side.  

2nd picture  

two planks pined and drying on port side.  

stern below gun deck finished, and gun deck glued.     

inside epoxied.