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  1. palmerit
    Added the cleat and eyes.
  2. palmerit
    The instructions call for the outhaul cleat to be attached to the boom. I could not find an outhaul cleat, but there was a downhaul cleat. I’m going to use that. It a future steps calls for a downhaul cleat I’ll fashion one scratch.
  3. palmerit
    The replacement parts I ordered from Model Expo arrived today. They were a bit delayed in shipping (holidays and inventory). But they were free (free replacement parts, free shipping). I’m shaping the boom and gaff by hand with sandpaper. I’ll probably leave them a bit oval just to minimize the chance they break at the spot of the predrilled holes (like last time).
  4. palmerit
    Taped off for painting.
  5. palmerit
    Drawing the waterline. When I searched for “where to mark your waterline” a lot of posts said “check the plans”. Well this model has no plans (and if it did, they wouldn’t be to scale). I tried to eyeball from the photos.
  6. palmerit
    Cabin installed.
  7. palmerit
    Knowing that drawings “to scale” in the instructions are not, I printed the instructions for the traveler bar to 102% and 103%. Both were still too small. Thankfully, for this part I know how wide it needs to be because the holes are predrilled.
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    Bag 13: making the last 1/3 of the hull.
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    I think the supports for the rails at the bow were from a robot figurine (maybe a droid from a Star Wars kit). It’s been interesting to see ways its build is sometimes similar and sometimes very different from a wooden model ship. A lot less sanding.
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    Gluing down the coaming and cabin sides. I’ll need to use a bit of filler in places.
  20. palmerit
    Spraypainting the yards.
  21. palmerit
    Shaping the coaming (around the seats) and shaping the cabin sides (they’re wet, not glued in yet). Needed to soak both in nearly-boiling water quite a while to get them to bend (and not fear that they’d snap) - the bend is pretty extreme. I’ll leave them to dry overnight. Getting the cabin sides to fit required a bit of carving to make sure there was a slot for the piece to fit in and it took a little bit of trimming (as in maybe 1/2mm in places) to get the slots to fit fully. There’s a little bit of the ends of the cabin sides that extend back to the coaming that I needed to trim (maybe a mm on each side). Better that it’s a tiny bit too long than too short obviously.
  22. palmerit
    The walnut dowels I ordered from agesofsail.com arrived and I made the main boom. I had to get a new 4mm because I hadn’t arranged the cutting of my 4mm dowels properly. While the dowels were fairly cheap, the shipping was costly, so I ordered a few sizes in case I need a replacement for another model someday.
  23. palmerit
    Making the sail.
  24. palmerit
    Might check here: https://www.modelerssawmill.com
  25. palmerit
    Go Bills.

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