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The mahogany parts have laser burns around the edges. I thought they may cause trouble later during the finishing phase if I use them just like that, so I sanded away the burns from the visible edges. 

Before:

After (a different side than above):

Cockpit plankings, 1mm mahogany sheet. Don't they look like tangram parts to you, too?

After dry-fit test, one of them was slightly (less thn 0,5mm) too long. I cropped it:

Going through the parts and sheets according to the plan of the day, this was a unpleasant surprise. Many parts on the 1mm thick mahogany sheets had spread away (most probably during shipment) resulting in one of the parts to break. Anyway not too big of a disaster. I quickly taped the part on the sheet and carried on.

BUILD DAY 3. CONTINUING HULL CONSTRUCTION

One thing I started to like about this kit among other things is that it has a substantial amount of hull work, as opposed to most ship models where it is mostly all about assembling the keel + bulkheads and planking.

Great progress Aydin, she's going to be a real beauty! Have you given any thought to placement of electronics/RC gear? I've no idea what the Amati instructions say about this, but it's worth giving some thought to before closing up the hull. I'm building a few support shelves/racks for mine using scrap material.

Hi Grant. Sure I am scouting ahead in the instructions for that. The steps seem to clearly define which parts and sections should not be glued but made removable for those who go for the R/C option. I have hit some of such steps at today's build which I will be posting this evening.

You doing great.

Thanks Wolf!

Nice start Aydin, think I'll follow along too. I'm building a similar boat myself - the 1949 Chris Craft 19' Racing Runabout by Dumas models. Like you, this build holds many firsts for me. I'll be interested to watch your progress.

Chris Craft was also one of my candidates but eventually I ended up buying this one. Good luck with that and I will be following your log!

END OF BUILD DAY 2.

9 hours into build.

This is the status at the end of DAY2 .Thanks for watching.

Cockpit parts dry-fitted and glued in place. Some of this section will be covered with mahogany sheet.

Prow section is getting into shape:

As I mentioned the curvy body of this boat, the frames often form a bulge at the corners at first. Like in this photo:

It also shows in the instructions if you look closely:

These will of course be smoothened later.

Bow strip from 6x2mm lime.  It follows a curve.  Actually there are almost no straight lines but lots of curves in this Italian beauty

I don't want to force the strip even a little in order to not warp the hull, therefore I will bend it a little.

Now perfectly in place:

... and glued with ZIF ( Zero Insertion Force)

A detail about installation of part 48 (and its symmetrical pair) which is not very clear from the instructions at first glance and the parts' shapes allow both ways: 

X = wrong.

This is the correct alignment:

The building slip helps a lot with alignments. It would be impossible to align the hull with this much precision without it (at least for me).

Noticed a small typo in the manual. Anyway the part numbers which have been mistaken are quite different therefore there is no risk of making a mistake (other than rubbing your eyes with glued hands to make sure you've seen correct).

And the parts in question:

By the way, I am using this aliphatic glue for assembling the large surfaces to save my UHU. It is otherwise great glue and cheaper than UHU hart. I don't remember where I bought them from, but most probably from a UK online shop.

Yes, from the package it looks quite homemade

Reinforcements of the prow (this hull is full of reinforcements):

Pieces:

In place:

Current status of the hull (most of the stuff is still dry-fitted):

Bottom pieces of the Stern board and a few details about the orientation of the pieces. The gaps and mis-alignements (which I have indicated in red brackets) are actually how they are supposed to be. I also circled them below on the instruction manual:

Finally the horizontal support piece has been glued and the Stern board is installed.

Here my build slip did not help much because of the angled orientation of the board.

Stern board: The challenge here is that you must keep everything dry-fit until you install it on the keel, mainly because the horizontal support (No 16) can be placed only after the board has been inserted on the keel. The parts kept falling all the time which was very irritating. Then I applied a "small" amount of glue on them until I have inserted it on the keel. Finally glued everything once they are in place.

The bottom pieces 17 and 18 are to be glued the last. I will have a separate post below about it. Now some photos of the Stern board:

Frame 14 has two sub pieces which makes it important to install in correct orientation. I used (x) marks to help prevent make a mistake when the moment o truth (i.e. gluing) comes.

This is just a way of locating the cut-outs which still contain unused pieces using the parts list: I tape them on their sheet so that I can find them easier when it's their turn 

Frames 10 and 11. This pair is a bit different than the others so far because they are connected with a horizontal reinforcement frame. 

In the manual the suggested order goes as follows:

1. install frame 10
2. install frame 11
3. install horizontal reinforcement frame 49
4. close top of frame 11 (with 11A)
5. install reinforcements for frame 11

I changed the order a bit, instead first I built the frame 11 totally with its reinforcements and top piece because I thought it would be hard to do them properly once the frames are in place. Maybe the reason the instructions go that way is that it would be difficult to install the horizontal piece once the frame 11 is closed from the top with 11A.

Anyway, I did it my way and faced no problems. 

At this stage, everything is dry-fit (except the frame 11 components).

Note from the photos that the gap where the horizontal piece (49) is insterted to frame 11 is thicker than thickess of piece 49. How to actually install this piece takes a careful checking of the instructions. Installing the reinforcements 11B and 11C determines the final position of this insert.

Note that the horizontal piece is NOT parallel to the surface, instead it follows and angle. 

Thank you everyone once again for the motivating words. It adds a lot to the pleasure of building.

Today I spent about 6-7 hours on the kit. Below I will add some logs.

Nice kit, Aydin,

 

Seems you've setup nicely, and have already gathered some speed in your build ... Like that building board you are using!

 

Cheers

Hi Cog, thanks. Here is the build log of the building slip which I use: http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/13422-hobbyzone-building-slip-for-wooden-ship-models/