First wooden ship model kit since abandoning a Beagle kit many, many years ago due to my ignorance of planking methods. Made stick and tissue free flight aircraft, and plastic aircraft models usually. One simple kit of a Chesapeake Flattie boat turned out well a few years ago.
Anyway, I made the initial mistake of gluing the bulkheads flush with the top of the keel as indicated in the plan drawings. Then I measured everything and realized all most of the critical bulkhead bevels were off compared to the plans. After about 4 tries requiring ungluing (see all my marks) I finally think I got them right per plan drawings. I've had success using 1/16 balsa sheet to jig things to be square and plan height as the bevels on the frames for the rubbing strake and coaming pieces is pretty critical but not cut well in the kit, in my opinion. I'm pretty happy with using a magnet board as a building surface.
Second photo shows the minimal amount of decking supplied. I calculated the area needed and in the kit I was provided about 1 cm of extra strip. I need to cover the false deck pieces shown. Need to order more before I continue since I have no extra material to cut planks to scale lengths.
Anyway, I made the initial mistake of gluing the bulkheads flush with the top of the keel as indicated in the plan drawings. Then I measured everything and realized all most of the critical bulkhead bevels were off compared to the plans. After about 4 tries requiring ungluing (see all my marks) I finally think I got them right per plan drawings. I've had success using 1/16 balsa sheet to jig things to be square and plan height as the bevels on the frames for the rubbing strake and coaming pieces is pretty critical but not cut well in the kit, in my opinion. I'm pretty happy with using a magnet board as a building surface.
Second photo shows the minimal amount of decking supplied. I calculated the area needed and in the kit I was provided about 1 cm of extra strip. I need to cover the false deck pieces shown. Need to order more before I continue since I have no extra material to cut planks to scale lengths.