Here I’m making the Gun Port Hatches. There are 6 of them around the level of the Upper Rubbing Strakes.
1x2mm Bokapi
Bokapi Wood looks very similar to Mahogany to me… 🤔🙄
I am gluing the Bokapi to a strip of flat basswood I had to glue together to come out to 12mm. I’m just using White Glue and finger pressing them tight until all the glue squeezes out and I wipe it off with a damp paper towel.
The Instructions tell you to use Contact Cement but White Glue is just as effective and way less messy! Also you get a few seconds to make adjustments before it grabs too hard to move.
I just Plank over the Gaps and take them out laterI line the insides of the Notches with SuperGlue to harden it
I was half considering doing a different alignment for the Gunports on the Port side, but then I decided to keep the same alignment as the Starboard side.
I was just thinking to myself about this alignment on my Gunports. Apparently they’re supposed to be equal distance apart across the entire side of the Gun Deck.
Well I didn’t make them exactly equal distance apart but I’m not going to worry about it because it still looks pretty good. And I was looking at other Frigates of the time and not all of them have gun ports that are equal distance apart.
I’m not going to stress too much about these gun ports now that I have them put in because they will get a lot more reinforced as I put the Planks around them and glue them in.
After they’re nice and reinforce and I’m going to sand them down to where they’re flush and the gunport doors will theoretically shut down on them.
Of course it’s not really going to be that crucial that these shut exactly on the Gunport holes. Because they’ll all be in the Up position.