Continuing with keel installation…All bottom keel parts are in and secured with clamps..
Before that, making sure all fits nicely and no sanding needed. All parts with laser burns were either sanded or scraped, not completely but removing the most of burn from the wood.
Bow area do need a bit fitting but all is completely mounted with just small amount of sanding. Just make sure you fit #6 (which is middle part on below picture) and then #7. It will fit very tight so make sure while testing not to push it all they way to the frames; it will be hard to remove it to add glue..
Glue applied and secured with clamps.. a bit of a sanding will be needed on the front end of a keel, facing outbound from the bow.
Not sure if i missed something (does not look like since all frames are positioned correctly and there is no other way to put them on) but the #21 does not fit, cannot reach to frame #18 and #22, so I ended up adding some extra wood to accomodate.. It is hard to believe that this part was cut short but will see later, it is not something that will not be fixable easy..
The area #21, will be covered with planks to simulate a “box” so we will see how it goes..
Then i installed planks on the area where cabin door will be mounted, sorry not sure what would be correct term. For that, i used maple planks from some other build. Very nice natural colour of this wood and its capacity to be scraped easily makes me think to use it on second hull planking, but will see. Planing to paint this area in red so wood grains might not be that visible. Now i have to find out the length of planks and simulate them on area.
First plank installed; for this i used white glue and a bit of CA to keep planks quickly attached to the frame… trusty clamps are there to assist..
OK, done and now lets do some scraping..
Also, sanded the screw head that was sticking out from installed deck..
Then i removed extra planks length and sand it flush with a frame.. Top plank is also sanded flush with a frame but it is not visible on this picture..
Happy modelling..
Before that, making sure all fits nicely and no sanding needed. All parts with laser burns were either sanded or scraped, not completely but removing the most of burn from the wood.
Bow area do need a bit fitting but all is completely mounted with just small amount of sanding. Just make sure you fit #6 (which is middle part on below picture) and then #7. It will fit very tight so make sure while testing not to push it all they way to the frames; it will be hard to remove it to add glue..
Glue applied and secured with clamps.. a bit of a sanding will be needed on the front end of a keel, facing outbound from the bow.
Not sure if i missed something (does not look like since all frames are positioned correctly and there is no other way to put them on) but the #21 does not fit, cannot reach to frame #18 and #22, so I ended up adding some extra wood to accomodate.. It is hard to believe that this part was cut short but will see later, it is not something that will not be fixable easy..
The area #21, will be covered with planks to simulate a “box” so we will see how it goes..
Then i installed planks on the area where cabin door will be mounted, sorry not sure what would be correct term. For that, i used maple planks from some other build. Very nice natural colour of this wood and its capacity to be scraped easily makes me think to use it on second hull planking, but will see. Planing to paint this area in red so wood grains might not be that visible. Now i have to find out the length of planks and simulate them on area.
First plank installed; for this i used white glue and a bit of CA to keep planks quickly attached to the frame… trusty clamps are there to assist..
OK, done and now lets do some scraping..
Also, sanded the screw head that was sticking out from installed deck..
Then i removed extra planks length and sand it flush with a frame.. Top plank is also sanded flush with a frame but it is not visible on this picture..
Happy modelling..
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