Moving along from the Jolly Boat… Phew… I’m glad that’s over!!!
I probably should have put the handrails along the hatch before I put the boat in but I just wanted to get the boat out of the way..
I ended up breaking one and I tried drilling it out and ended up drilling into the deck… Ugh… It’s barely noticeable so I’m just going to leave it…
I just put the 1x1mm strip on the edge.
Been making the Rail Posts for the forward part of the Hatch.
I discovered something quite by accident but which I like.
What happened was that I made the Rails using some Basswood 1.5×3 mm Stock instead of the Walnut. This was because the former didn’t split all the time like the latter does.
But, because I used the light colored Basswood, I had to stain it. Well, I used some Dark Walnut Stain first… I didn’t really like that dark of a tone so I went over it with some Colonial Maple… Viola! I got this weathered look which I really like.
I found that a great way to do this is to clip the Baseboards in with these Clips, then to just dab a touch of SuperGlue on either end and the middle to hold it. That way, you can adjust to your heart’s content before you commit to to glue.
I ordered some Birch wood from Modelers Central in Australia. Anyway, it turned out that this was the wrong sort of Beech wood!!!… I needed Flexible Beech.
Anyway, now I found some use for it!
I made these Posts out of the Beech wood and I really love it because they DON’T Split!!!
Started installing these support Beams which are 3mm x 3mm x 20mm Walnut Stock.
There needs to be 4 on each side and 2 on each forward and abaft ends.
These are a bit tricky. I found the best way is to wedge it in there satisfactory and then simply dribble a bit of SuperGlue on both ends.
