| Cutting Planks With the strips of veneer laid onto a jig, each plank was cut using a clean hobby blade. Each plank had to be exactly the same, 2mm X 50mm to represent the actual planks which were 20cm X 5 meters. I cut planks every day for over a month, until I had 1100 cut. |
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| Marking the Bulkheads The planks were secured to the deck supports similar to bulkheads, which were nicely marked on the shipyard drawings of the SMS Deutschland made in May 1910 by R.M.A. Plankammer B III. The deck supports where the planks would go, were marked directly onto the plywood deck with pencil. Note that I have drawn some random lines that run left to right, just so I will be sure that the planks are going on straight. Based upon previous mistakes I have made, I can use all the help I can get. |
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| The Outside Header Planks Photographs of the deck show that the outside planks that formed the water gutter along the edge of the deck called 'header planks' were clearly wider and longer than the deck planks, so header planks 74mm long and 3mm wide were cut using a new jig. These were then glued onto the deck with THIN cyanoacrylate (super glue). I was very pleased with how well they adhered to my lacquered deck. |
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| Deck Intro / Cutting the Planks / Planking / Lower Decks / Sanding / Water Gutters / Chain Runs/ Final Product |