Frigate Chapter Four: 1st Planking
Took this fairly steadily. I decided the best
approach, knowing my own limitations, was to do only 1 plank
a night. As opposed to my sloop I had access to my hand
drill and the pins with this kit actually fit the pin
pusher! This made things a lot easier.
After the top 4 or so planks which I did not
size I would take a plank for each side place it and mark
the location where it started to overlap the plank above.
Here I would take of a triangle of wood to
the bow end and at times the stern then I would proceed
outside to bevel the upper edge of the plank before placing
it to soak for 45 minutes or so.
Then I would place the plank drilling the
holes and then using the lovely pin pusher to attach it to
the hull. Then I would leave it an hour or overnight to dry.
Once the plank had dried I then removed added the glue
before refitting and leaving to dry around 24 hours before
repeating.
Things went fairly well. A couple of bad
lines are visible at the bow end but on the positive side
the entire hull was covered without recourse to filler and
the entire hull sanded out quite nicely.
The key I feel - and this is something which
I did not feel for my first model is that you should not
expect to speed through something as uninteresting as this.
If you speed you loose accuracy and hence create problems
for yourself later. 
