Oro Jackson of Roger Pirates, Capt: Gol. D. Roger, Show: One Piece

Log 9:

After feeling frustrated by the quantity of time it was taking to put a grid down (I tried many methods) my fiance gave me the final tips I needed to get tape to work to make a grid. We are now back in business. This weekend is the last weekend before the deadline of April 30 so excited to get cranking and VERY nervous about the deadline. The ship is now even bigger than the coffee table lol I have my doubts on transporting it to work. My mom has offered to pick it up with her truck. Don't know what Ill do with it once the competition is over as I fear it is too large to keep in my apartment. Here's to hoping I have enough paint lol

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Based on the math I tested out in Excel id need 3 bike boxes. I have 1 and a TV box and. Fruit box in the house already. So trying to make it work.

For more info on the measuring, tape, the width I needed, stuck together on the wall and tracking with a wide felttipped marker is doing the trick for the grid.
 
I am really enjoying watching your project. Also seeing how you overcome challenges.
There is another material you might consider using if it's not too late.
It's called Foam-core board. it's like 1/4 " thick made of 2 sheets of posterboard material with foam in between. The other problem you would possibly have would be if you made it from would, it might be too heavy to move. :)
 
Corsair said:
I am really enjoying watching your project. Also seeing how you overcome challenges.
There is another material you might consider using if it's not too late.
It's called Foam-core board. it's like 1/4 " thick made of 2 sheets of posterboard material with foam in between. The other problem you would possibly have would be if you made it from would, it might be too heavy to move. :)
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That’s a great suggestion. I think budget might be a limitation, though.
 
Log 10:

All the decks are now cut! Just the keel and the 5 main frames left. Running low on cardboard. Will have to raid my fiance stash again.
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I think being smart enough to not use grid might of saved me some time and waste but sometimes we work with what the wind gives us.
 
Corsair said:
I am really enjoying watching your project. Also seeing how you overcome challenges.
There is another material you might consider using if it's not too late.
It's called Foam-core board. it's like 1/4 " thick made of 2 sheets of posterboard material with foam in between. The other problem you would possibly have would be if you made it from would, it might be too heavy to move. :)
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That's a good point on the wood! I hadn't considered that! I am worried about the frames holding up as I had only planned on doing the ones visible from the outside.

I have one piece of poster board
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Not sure if I'll use it for anything.

I also have a collection of foam from previous purchases over the years. Not sure why we have been holding the stuff.

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As Namabiiru said, budget is a constraint. As well as knowledge. I have played with card board in the past. Even if it was just riping down boxes, I'm more familiar with it than other materials. So that might also be playing a part in using that over the pallet wood I got from some roofing work the apartment had done.
 
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With that all the big parts are cut out. From here on out, math be darned, we go by feel and just making it fit lol lots of test fits and tweaks in my future. And tape where I cut off too much. No ca glue so hoping hot glue will do the trick or I have a store run in my future.... Let's gooo!
 
Log 12:

Added a deck! IMG_20250427_213843123.jpg
And starting to find out how to place the other one. Luckily cardboard is forgiving if I don't have my measurements exact. This deck will go where the supports are. Getting the below deck in worked well by tracing the keel on the board for where each frame would go, then tracing each frame at the deck line on its respective keel line of the deck. Unfortunately that brings us to the end of today.

As I needed the fiance help with test fitting the lower deck in, I think it's going to stay like that for a bit so I'll probably use an off cut to make similar measurements to transfer for the mid deck. After that the top decks are only in select places. While I'm certain I worked all weekend on it, I am a little disheartened by how much time to took to measure cut and put together. I'm excited to get to the detail work. But it is cool that the structure is almost done. Maybe if I did more and sat around thinking about it less I would be further lol the balancing act of the perfectionist lol someone once said fail fast and often is the best way to course correct.

I did swap one frame that was single cardboard with double cardboard for added strength to @Corsair point. I have been using masking tape/paper tape in other areas.
 
I am feeling giddy as a school girl each time I get a piece done and can put it into the ship :3 it's funny how these things can be so challenging and rewarding

'Analysis paralysis' is definitely me lol I spent the half hour of my alarm snoozing thinking about how I'm going to do the horizontal planks on the side considering I still want the main frames to be visible lol

Oh another lesson I learned/implemented from someone here was to layer your frames on each other to verify sizes. I trued everything up to the deck 1 line (as Namabiiru suggested having a deck would hold the frames together) then compared the frame height to where I wanted it to show on the keel. I then started from the largest frame and worked smaller tracing the previous frame each time. It let me find that I had counted wrong on three frames which were a half inch to a whole three inches long in some spots lol such is the fun of ship building I think lol
 
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