Thats the internal bits over with for the moment. I took the original deck and ground off all the raised parts on it, man did that make a smell and a mess. On to this I stuck some 1.5mm ply using Evo-Stick, I then cut out the centre holes and drilled the holes for the deck fixing screws. When all fitted well I ran a bead of super glue along the edge of the hull, then using the original screws fixed the deck down permanently. You can see the screw holes in one of the pictures
I then gave the hull a nose job, Seaport comes with a smooth hull, Bareki has a beam at the bow end that rises above the deck and the bulwark (I do not know the name of this beam, i am sure someone can tell me) The beam is made out of plasticard rod 6.5mm x 5mm slots cut down its length to get it to bend and then stuck on to the hull with plasticweld. Then faired into the hull with filler, I put a notch in the deck at the bow to get this strip to sit correctly.
I then started on the bulwarks, onto the plastic lip of the original deck I stuck some 1mm plasticard and then shaped it to what you see in the photo's. The bulwarks on Bareki are all wooden, this is something I wanted to replicate, so when I was happy with the shape I started to stick strips of beech 3mm x 0.6mm brought from The Model Dockyard. I roughed up the plasticard first with some glasspaper and used super glue to fix the strips. Looking at the photo's the wood does not look smooth, but then take a look at the photo of Bareki stern that is not smooth either