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  1. Bryan Woods
    I got the rails glued on this morning. I’ve been working on the little box on the poop deck, if that is what it is:-) It seemed pretty plain, just being 4 little pieces of plywood to be stained. BTW I’m haven’t been impressed with the x-veneer plywood. The heavy grain is going the wrong way on the rails. Back to the little box. It seemed fitting with the theme of the boat being about pets. I made the little box on the poop deck a dog house:-)
  2. Bryan Woods
    Thanks Jim! I brushed it on, I haven’t reach the level of air brush yet:-) I primed it with gesso, sanded and reapplied. Painted several coats of white over the entire hull. After I taped it off I brushed clear acrylic over the edges of the tape. At least I think it’s clear acrylic,I brought it at the dollar store and it didn’t say what it was. I was wanting white:-) The paint I got at Hobby Lobby, that thick art paste. I found I tend to make less mess with it. But I’ll be the first to admit I’m not the best skilled at painting. Although I’m one of the best at messes:-)
  3. Bryan Woods
    I’ve got a few things glued to the deck. It would be better if I knew what was underneath all these pieces. I might could think of some details to add.
  4. Bryan Woods
    Happy New Year all! In first few hours of the year, I removed the tape. After several weeks of wondering how my painting skills measure up. Not to my surprise, my first impression was that I have plenty of room for improvement:-) One thing is I have the opposite of a clean room environment. That may improve but will never get where the word “clean” is true to the sense. I’m ready to start back on the build. Here’s a few shots of where I stand now.
  5. Bryan Woods
    Fill that with energy drink and you will start a new trend:-) I’d buy one just for the whirlpool.
  6. Bryan Woods
    Everything looks great Bob! One day I’ll understand all the nautical terms 🙂 Don’t you wish you could have built like that when you were around 12 years old! I wouldn’t have even thought about those G I Joes 🙂 I can feel your fun.
  7. Bryan Woods
    I’ve filled and sanded the hull, and glued the wales on. They maybe lower than they should be. I removed them once, and just stayed with the second time. Now the painting. Which I have the lesser faith in myself to do a good job. My goal is to just do better than the last one:-) Here’s where she stands.
  8. Bryan Woods
    Great to have you back in action Bob! I could detect your sprits gladly grow from the first of this post to the end.
  9. Bryan Woods
    I finished the planking this morning. I feel like I’ve learned a little more, even though it may not show. I did better on the port side with sizing the width of the planks. But my tapers at the bow were irregular and didn’t make the bend around the bow smooth. On the starboard side I tapered more and longer. That seemed to lay a little flatter when bent around the bow. But I didn’t keep a watch on the width of the planks which I had to add more stealers which look like wedges. Here’s the port side starboard bow stern and the bottom Now to sander down and fill in those low spots. This part of the build is the most relaxing part, I think. I just have to make sure I don’t sand through the planks:-)
  10. Bryan Woods
    She’s looking good Palmerit! Look at the Pram log by Modeller_masa. He shows how he did it.
  11. Bryan Woods
    The planking on the port side only has a few more planks. The gap ranges from 10mm to 9mm in the center. My planks are 4mm. I think I’m going to start by trying to cut the next plank down to 3mm and see where that brings me. I’m sure I haven’t planked this the way others may have, but trying to read and understand the different tutorials of planking. I just can’t keep my mind focused long enough on it 😕
  12. Bryan Woods
    Thanks Jacques. This boat is going to be displayed in a neighboring town’s pet shop that’s owned by my friend Kirt. He only sales one brand of food so that’s what I filled the boat with. I plan on trying to carve as many pets as possible for Captain Kirt’s crew 🙂 I really enjoy a build more when I get to personalize it for a specific home. Thanks for asking about it:-) The entire time I was making the 100 feed bags I was thinking I maybe the last to see them:-) Here’s a few more shots.
  13. Bryan Woods
    I’ve spent the last 2 weeks making the cargo, which mostly will be covered up by the lifeboat. But for the few curious ones that will peek through the crack. It will cause them to ask. What’s that? 😁 I’ve started the planking and it’s been going on smoothly. Hopefully nothing unexpected will crop up. The flat bottom seems to make the planking look simpler. The stern and bow are both about 3 planks wider than the middle. I’ve got an uneducated plan in place, hopefully I’ll learn. I’m planning on painting the hull so I foresee no problems that can’t be covered:-)
  14. Bryan Woods
    The deck slipped right on with no problems. After fairing the hull I softened the bulwarks and clamped them to the hull to let them dry. on the stern I cut a groove so I had a stop for the plank. At the bow, I may cut the excess off when I glue it. While I was setting thinking about which end to start gluing. I started looking at the rigging. The drawing is all there is, and it looks like spaghetti hanging on a fork to me 🙂 If anyone has any helpful tips on that subject, please speak up 🙂 Just in case here’s the rest of it:-) After all that filled my brain, I wasn’t feeling like a gluing session, so I carved a scale figure. First was a pekingese. She’s a little bigger than scale. That was as small as I could go 🙂 Then Captain Kirt. I plan on getting started back in the morning. Here’s Captain Kurt and Macy. You can see them better in this one.
  15. Bryan Woods
    Reading through the other build log on this sight, they laid black thread between the planks. It really defines the planks. I was excited to get it going. In fact, I don’t think I did all the other non- boat related things yesterday I was supposed to:-) I think it was well worth it. That said, I find if it takes me days to get done, what could have been done in hours. I don’t spend as much time finding my mistakes.
  16. Bryan Woods
    I learned to focus beveling those tiny planks, making that turn to the bottom:-) You’are doing a great job ! Almost off that strongback!
  17. Bryan Woods
    You’re extra additions really put a wonderful personal touch on her.
  18. Bryan Woods
    Nice work, I love the deck!
  19. Bryan Woods
    Frames all glued, mast step installed. I did a bit of painting in areas that I would probably make a mess of, later in the build.
  20. Bryan Woods
    Thanks Mike, I like the quick builds:-Enjoy your build and make sure you show us your work.
  21. Bryan Woods
    Thank you John, I’m glad to hear things are improving. I donated this kayak to the humane society to put in a silent auction. I think it got $25.00:-) Which they were pleased. I don’t have any place to store the models I build, so I try to find a home for them. The one I’m working on now is going to a pet shop where we purchased our first dog:-) I’ll try my best to personalize it, which adds another level of excitement to the build for me:-) I hope you get the enjoyment I did from the build. And I know the receiver of your gift will be grateful.
  22. Bryan Woods
    It’s looking Great!
  23. Bryan Woods
    Well if my plan came in a dream, I can’t remember it:-) I sat down and carefully removed the bottom. Tried to imagine the order things should be done and decided to glue the spine to the bottom first. I skipped over the areas where the frames connect. Then I reassembled the deck supports and deck and held it down with rubber bands. I added extra bands on the frames that needed more tension. After the spine sets up, I’ll remove the deck and glue the 3 center frames next, then replace everything till it sets. Like I planned earlier, repeat for the frames at the stern and bow.
  24. Bryan Woods
    This is a flat bottom boat used to move goods on the river and coastline of France in the 1800’s. I was thinking it would be easier planking experience with only half the hull:-) I read all the instructions about 20 sentences and 6 black and white figures. This build looks like it could be a challenge for me. The spine, bottom and frames are 3mm plywood. I spent about a hour freeing them from the sheet. After cleaning some of the charr, I dry fitted all of them and placed the deck on hoping to see the plan in my head. It didn’t come to me instantly. Looks like I may try finding it in a dream tonight:-) Some of the questions I have right off the bat are. It doesn’t look like the notches in the deck line up perfectly with the frames. The middle one looks out of plum to me. I’m thinking I may glue the spine to the bottom and the 3 center frames all at one time and dry fit the deck to hold them in place. Then maybe do the 2 at a he stern and then the other 2 at the bow? The stern dips down a little, leaving a gap between the spine and frame 7 and also a small one (you can’t see) at frame 9. 8 is that little piece holding the deck up. There is one other build log here, He did one at a time. I’m not sure I will have the success he had, doing it like that. Any suggestions are welcome. I guess these things wouldn’t be as entertaining if they went together easy without a lot of thought:-)
  25. Bryan Woods
    Great job! Well done!

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