Corel gave me this piece of Beech Wood for making the Planks for the Handrails and also for the Planks which lines the Deck.
Unfortunately, they shorted me by about 3 or 4 feet worth of planks which I had to go and buy on my own.
Anyway, this is a Jig I made for bending these Planks to be able to line the Decks.
I am trying out something. I used my Staple Gun with a piece of scrap wood over it in order to hold it down.
I realize that I’ve skipped over a lot of the Construction. It is turning out great so I figure I’ll go ahead and Post where I am right now.
I completed the Planking and I painted the Hull and added the Wales.
The wood for the Wales I left bare by using some thin Masking Tape.
It worked really well I must say.
I ended up deleting the entire Planking series of blog posts that I did. I realized that I was doing the Planking completely wrong and I just didn’t want to put it out there. I’m still considering redeeming them but I have to think about it.
I started making the Deck House as I waited for a few items to arrive that I ordered.
The Flying Fish is a kit made by Corel.
I doubt that I buy any more kids from this outfit though. The reason for that is that the instructions were pretty sparse in that they expected somebody to be already an experience model builder and they really didn’t explain much or give very many visual aids. At least with Artesania Latina oh, you got a lot of pictures to go buy. This one all you had was a bunch of drawings and they could all be subject to interpretation as well.
Another complaint that I have is about the parts. The only parts that was laser-cut was the Frames and Keel. The rest of the parts which include all the pieces for the houses on the decks they expect you to make it using these supposed drawings which are pretty sparse to begin with!
I don’t really care about that because I don’t mind doing it but you would expect that a cat would pizza is that we’re precut. At least that’s how they do it on Artesania Latina kits.
I suppose that what you’re paying for are the instructions and all the little metal pieces and wooden blocks and strings that they put together for you.
But as far as kits versus scratch-built goes, this kit is about as close as being scratch built for me as you could possibly get. At least it kind of gives me more practice for when I decide to scratch build a ship.
I inadvertently mixed some Superglue into a section that already had Titebond II on it.
I was a bit apprehensive about whether the Superglue would stick or not. Surprisingly, it did hold. I poured Superglue literally into the the section that already had Titebond II on it… Basically mixing the 2 together.
As I sit here, listening to my favorite Bach B Minor Mass performance by the Van Veldhoven Netherlands Bach Society, I was thinking to myself about how the act of Sanding the wood is very cathartic and relaxing.
I guess Leroy Jethro Gibbs has the right idea about it as he builds his boats down in his basement.
I’m going to begin Sanding down the Hull… This is the before picture.
I messed up a bit. I put the Deck Planks in before I took the guides out. I should have waited so that the Planks will cover the Stubs where the guides were. Well… I’m not going to worry about it. There will be so much going on that this descrepancy would be hardly noticiable.
Anyway, I used one of those Scalpel looking Xacto Blades to remove the guide stubs until I noticed that I was scraping the Deck with the side of the Blade. So, I switched to those Wood Chisel looking Blades.
After I got about half way through using various Xacto Razors… I realized that it is a lot easier simply to use my Sprue Cutter.
Using some Pliers, I removed the Guides which came up as the Frames.
