Charles Purvis
False gun deck
So, once you open up the waist, it means you need to have some kind of a false gun deck. I chose to use a chunk of wood from a cigar box, and just used a No. 11 blade to score planking in.
In retrospect, I could have made the planks a little skinnier, but I was truly learning on the fly here, so I'm OK with how it turned out. Also, after this photo was taken, I tweaked the paint job a bit to make it more "wash-y" and in alignment with the spar deck.
For the hatches/gratings, I used the cedar veneer inside the cigar box, and printed out an image of a grating (that I color corrected till it looked right) on a clear plastic label.
False gun deck
So, once you open up the waist, it means you need to have some kind of a false gun deck. I chose to use a chunk of wood from a cigar box, and just used a No. 11 blade to score planking in.
In retrospect, I could have made the planks a little skinnier, but I was truly learning on the fly here, so I'm OK with how it turned out. Also, after this photo was taken, I tweaked the paint job a bit to make it more "wash-y" and in alignment with the spar deck.
For the hatches/gratings, I used the cedar veneer inside the cigar box, and printed out an image of a grating (that I color corrected till it looked right) on a clear plastic label.