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I was so proud of myself that I bent the trim for this deck in on peice, glued it on it look great, but I forgot to glue the fence on first, off it came.

It all went back together, and looks ok but some how I was a little short.  But I just added a peice and it was fine.I moved on to the funnels, there done just not glued in.

Today was play day, lol, I am trying to replicate  some famous long horns. But the metal figures I got are not that great. I was disappointed.  Like they say it hard to make a silk purse out of a sows ear

 Lol. But they have been approved  lol.

These were my first set of horns,  Gnomer says they are way to big lol. So I shortend them up and painted them.

Pile says they look good on the boat, now get back to the railings. Chop chop.

I agree back to the hand rails. Later my friend's. 

Bob M.

Awesome work my friend,  you're going to have your paddle boat done before  mine lol. 

Bob M.

Hello Clive, you can try a hair dryer, sometimes when people put hot plates on a lacquer table top it makes it turn white. I have used a hair dryer for this a few times ,it works for me. Just don't hold the dryer in one spot for to long.. Try it , might work, nothing ventured nothing gained lol. Hope it works,

Bob M.

Ps  Do not use a heat gun, it's to hot.

Awesome work,  thanks for posting all the pictures.  Your work is so inspiring, I have been studying your logs for days lately, just amazing work, stuff us newbies dream of. Congratulations    

Bob M.

You know how I said I was going to work on the bow, lol got the wheel house finished  😂 🤣.  I soaked the roof in water for a minute then clamped it to the work bench. 

I prepared all the parts  and put it together,  Pile says the is enough  room for a Rum keg, but scale it down.

Pile says use this one because everyone says  error on the small side. Plus the captIn wont get his nukkels caught  on the wheel

I also got these figures  18 metal figures  that you have to put together and paint. My freind made these crew figures for me, they are so cool. He does some fine work, look at the worker by the penny he got a shovel in his hand, how mush do you want to bet that this neanderthal breaks it before I get it installed.

I have this picture of mother and son that I will paint the cattle  like. The son being the one in front. Meet Dimpels  and "Rocky" Shiloh McGuire. They belong to the famous  Ship in the bottle  maker @Glen McGuire, he sent me this picture this morning  and told me Shiloh had daddy issues,  apparently he went next door and beat the snot out of his 2000 pound father, broke both his dads horns off. Lol. So I will try to paint them like this. 

Texas longhorns on a Mississippi River Boat  lol.

So the wheel house is on, I am going to start glueing the decks on. Then work from the inside out putting it all together,  hopefully. 

Thanks for following along.

Bob M.        .

Good luck on your journey 

Bob M,

I know how to make smoke. lol. Glen your ship is amazing , like I knew it would be, but this is amazing, gobsmaked,hats off, fantastic and ever thing else that says awesome.     

Bob M.

Those are very impressive,  I wish I could do that.  Nice work   

Bob M.

That is some very nice work. It is hard enough building a riverboat from a kit  I am gobsmacked at yours, truly nice work !!

    Bob  M.

After I clean up the deck and spun it around it did not look to bad.

So after the port side rails were on ,the production line kept going for the star board side as well.

Then the stren, with the brass hand rails and safety rails to. More work on the stern, then moved to the bow. There is a lot of work on the bow

The first thing I did was replaced the Lego with Rum  lol. And with that I am  calling it a night. Thanks for looking.

   Bob M.

Awesome work indeed.

Bob M.

So cheesestake is ok but cheese Burger is a taboo, are you fixen to tell Dimpels, she will use another B word on you, Burdizzo lol. Glad your back, your SIB is so awesome I almost want to do another one. Almost . 

Bob M.

Started to put the railings on, I cut up all the planks and clean up the railings , all those little burrs, 

I even put one set of cleats, I will call them, you have to bend the little tabs back then glue them on. All 96 of them lol.

  Had lots to do for the first Mate today so didn't have much time to build,

I was missing  a door, so I just made one out of the peice for paddle.  I will put that one under the canopy  at the front.

 Jumping around today I installed the brass hand rails,  just a slight bit of bending but not bad

So Gnomer said put the doors away and get back to the rails. So I put them in a tin so I don't  lose them.

And oh by the way,  this deck is glued on backwards.  So been a neanderthal,  I ripped it off, only two post broke off but ca glue to the rescue .

 A little  clean up and we are back on track,

So back to the railings  I go.

On a positive note,  I have one more Dr. Appointment in early August  were he will tell.me that I am now cancer free  yippee. Plus  today the other Dr..  For my heart said your fine, model on. I was so happy things worked out I bought a model.

Thanks for all your help MSW/NGR, it's been 3 years that I started making ship. Man I think back and am over come with happiness  😊,  they are starting to look like ships. I ordered a ship today that I had my eye on for over a year, I put my Pegasus away because my rigging skills need work and I didn't want to mess it up. You  would think that the ship I ordered  today would have less rigging than the Peg. but in fact it is about the same. 

But,I am learning more and more all the time. Plus now everything that I need to know to put models together is right here and I know were to look as well. And ready to start rigging again almost lol. 

 Thanks for following  along, havin the time of my life .more to come    

Bob M.

PS. Did I mention how big my grin is today.

lol..

Congratulations,  very nicely done!!          Bob M.

Bob M.

The last area of concern was these black parts for the funnels, they seem to fit better now. Amazing what paint will hide.

I was concerned about how they fit, other logs had problems with things lining up.  I sanded a bit to much but was able to add some back. Then paint.

So they fit. Next I discovered why my stairs did not line up.  When I super glued the railing going up the stairs I did not have it lined up right.

With the amount of glue that I used, I would definitely cause more problems than it's worth. Next time lol. I will do better.

Gnomer says only I will notice, move on.

So I gave the plan the once over and found out that the kit comes with these tin plates I will call them.

They mark out were the  post go, luckily they line up.  It also has a spacer for the post ,exactly 35 mm. I could not understand  what these parts were or what they were trying to show me. Now that I know the funnels line up, the rest of the build should go  OK.

@Artesania Latina have made a great kit here. Its my lack of understanding some of the pictures,  but I am on the right track.   Although the instructions  could  have been better.

Pile fainted, he is up set with me because I wont stay focused on the job at hand. Posts  he says posts  not paint, but thinking of the details lol.

After Private Gnomer Pile  recovered from exhaustion , a little  water he was barking orders. Posts, here's the next one let's go. Lol. But tomorrow is another day. .

Thanks for looking , and  the likes,  

 As I look at the model, I can see how it will look. But I cant see if its on the river or on the stand. Lots of time for that I hope lol.

 Talk soon my friend's,  oh yes going to go see  @Gabek  on Monday,  he ordered some supplies for me and they are here, figures and stuff lol. Post them Monday  lol. Way to much fun in the shipyard  

Bob M.      ...

Very nice job on the sprail staircases,  yours looks harder to put together than mine, I miss aligned one side when superglueing it on. But I let a lot slide on my builds lol.

Great job on your King of the Mississippi 

Bob M.    

Carrying on with the staircases , I can see I am going to have way to much fun installing them lol.

 I made up the drawing for the brass hand rails.   I made the stairs, and painted them. Bent up the hand rails, Gnomer says the on looks like a 92 degree angle  not a 90. So I bent it back.

 He also says look at the stairs ,  they 

will be gone in a minute.  With that I glued it all down.

So we'll it is drying  I can now work on the wheel house.  But will be back at spacing the post for the next deck. Speaking of spacers I found the kit supplied spacer just today lol. I had no idea this was a  spacer, and there is some peices that help mark were the post go. It was hard to understand what the beginning of the instructions were,  but now that I am knee deep in to the Mississippi  it is all making sense now. A bit slow but I will finish  the race lol.

 This is a fun build  really.  It is different than building sailing ship. And will be glad to get back to some tall ships. I miss ratlines, 😢.  Lol

  Talk soon my freind,  just a grinning 😀 away lol.

Bob M.

Things are running smoothly,  the spacer I made sure helped out. It did not take long and the fence was finished.  

Now 88 triangle  pieces,  tiny triangle pieces I might add.  I have three left out of 92. One went to bling heaven, leaving 3. 

Now it was time to finish the staircases  and railings  Private Gnomer Pile says we can hang a banner over the stairs to hide the 1/16 differences in height. 

But I don't think it is necessary  🤔. I cut up all the parts for the railings, have to stop for the night I just painted the railings today so will wait till tomorrow to install them. 

I put together the  barrels of Rum and who shows up lol. BONEHEAD.

This were she stands tonight,  it so much fun putting kits together,  I am thinking of buy another kit to build. I think it's time , I have not bought a model for over a year now, I can't believe it  lol.

 Thanks everyone who been following along and for those who peek thanks. 

Your grateful shipmate Bob M.

Bob M.

Tom, you might like this 3 inch swivel jewelry  vice. It clamps to the edge  of the work bench and  can be put away when not in use.  Just a thought, Keith  I have lots of space I'll  pm you my address  😉 

Congratulations,  Nicely done !!

Yesterday I was able to finish the keel, then drilled the holes for the rudders.

I know , was going to install the sprail staircases, but I made a jig to keep the posts exactly 35 mm apart, and had to try it out.

 It worked pretty good,

Breaking out the electric plank bender too bend the fence at the stren, I also ,well the iron was hot, bent all the deck edges.

They are not glued on just clamp and ready to go when I get back to that part.

Private Gnomer Pile is still waiting for the stairs. So I installed them.

They are super glued in, and one is slightly  higher  😳  but they will look great when everything is done around them. So now going to install the  little  tranangle  pieces #92, there are 52 of them.lol.

But I will most likely  put the fence on the other side first  then the peices all 52 at once lol.

  But I know myself pretty good so most likely will do something else first 🙃 😅. 

 Thanks for looking.

Bob M.                          

Thanks Mike, it's a fun build, but they all are fun. This new version of The King of the Mississippi by Artesania Latina is lots of fun. I have looked at most logs for this build, and surprisingly most of the mistakes are fixed.  Other than the funnels don't line up and they show you in one picture to cut the notches out for the upper deck, and in the next it not cut out.

 Minor details. No part list and no 1:1 scale plan ,you have to look for those..

 I have finished  planking , 

I cut all the planks that I had blacken with a pencil. Pile said we have enough  to finish.  But  we were a little  short, have the roof of the pilot house and the rudders to do. But I have to blacken some more later. I have 47 planks left so no shortage there.

I fitted the funnels, some sanding was required,  I thought of just redrilling the holes ,but thought it might prove to be a mistake later . When  I get back to them it won't take much to make them look good.

Gnomer Pile  is holding the sign up it's still wet. @Glen McGuire showed me how to paint the name on my Hannah-SIB,  I used the same technique,  it looks good at normal veiw distance,  up close in the camera there are some white spots but not noticeable.  Thank you my man. 

Gnomer  has put his foot down, told me ok funs over ,start at the bottom put the keel on, then the sprial staircases 

So with that staircases tomorrow,  then start following the steps that Artesania  has provided, maybe lol . Looks like a lot of painting and cutting up of parts are on the horizon. 

After ratlines, paintig is my second favorite thing to do . Thanks for looking in.   

Bob M.

PGP