Bryan Woods
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Your sails look great Bob! I have two builds started that will get them. One day hopefully:-) -
Bob, I’ve been scanning your photos, since I have little knowledge of nautical part names, it’s like finding Waldo:-) Everything looks great! You’re counting how many rat lines to got to do? Are you forgetting you have a lifetime of them to do:-)
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Bob, you seem to be in a great frame of mind. We’ll be praying for your speedy return, so we can see what the Mayflower really looked like, when it brought our people over here:-)
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You did an excellent job Gary! I can easily see me building another smack:-)
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Welcome, my nephew and his family lives and works in Chimala, Tanzania. Safe travels!
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Wow, Jeremy. Fantastic job on this build. Your well done build log will sure be viewed many more times by ones like me striving to learn more. I appreciate the time you spent explaining and working through obstacles.
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I believe sanding the hull down, feeling the curves, in my opinion is a relaxing task that finishes way before I’m ready:-)
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The temperature finally rose, and made it possible for me to finish the first planking. It has made me realize I’m not quite ready to take on the second layer at this time. I may try the half hull project, and see if I feel more confident afterwards. Here are some shots of the first planking.
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All three look Great! Well done Eric.
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Upper half completed. Here’s another tool that helps accuracy. lower half fits together nicely. Lots of detail around the rear jet. And the two half’s come together, just as the temperature outside creeps above freezing and starts melting the snow. As I cleaned up the breakfast table, after the build was completed. I casually set the jet ski on one of the shelves in one of my wife’s vignettes. We’ll see how long it can stay:-)
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Nothing like a good challenge to start the day:-) Hand grips first things. This Into this. Those together here. along with the jets, it seemed to be a good stopping point for the day:-)
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Today I just stopped in about four different times and spent about 10-15 minutes at each setting. I’m on step 7 of 15.
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On some assembly steps I think faith can be most helpful:-) After moving it around between my fingers for probably 10 minutes, just trying to see if it was even possible, both tabs fell into place:-) The other side went on, but not quite as easy:-) Here’s where I was at when my eyes needed a break.
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Few more steps before stopping for the night.
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Ready to start! I think good lighting is very important when attempting one of these models. The shipyard has the lighting, I thought the breakfast room would do. With my eyes blinded by the snow covered ground through the window made it a struggle. The first three parts fell together nicely. Then when looking at the rear of the ski where all three parts come together, I had trouble seeing the tab and the slot at the same time. For me to insert the tabs and twist or bend them, I need to turn the model so I can line up the tool with the tab. I find this easiest when the back drop is solid white. I thought the snow outside would work great for this:-) but the screen on the window made it almost impossible for me to focus on the tab. It made me think the screen squares were slots:-) with a light hand and patience they will marry:-)
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After two weeks away from the shipyard. Then one week, sitting in the shipyard thinking of starting back on the Gretel. Then came frigid temperatures and more snow than we’ve seen in years. So working conditions forced me out of the shipyard. Luckily Ludwig reminded me I still had the metal earth I purchased in Montana ( it was the only one I could find). I saw only one on the shelf and quickly grabbed it paid for it and caught up with my wife doing her own hunting:-) I thought it surly was a snowmobile being this far north. I’m glad I got it so I can build without a huge mess in the house.
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Beautiful house Robert! I love the backdrop of trees. That’s wonderful you got your climate controlled shipyard:-) I’m hoping one day I’ll have the climate control:-) but until then, I’ll just control it with clothing layers:-) you should do a thread when you set up your shipyard:-)
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Captjoe, the plan was for it to mushroom but if I remember right, it just bent. It didn’t fall off:-) I did probably drop a dot of CA to keep it there. I didn’t try to build the hinges so it could move.
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Here’s a link for the tools. https://a.co/d/6piRuDv
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I think it’s great to have a little excitement added to the build:-) I know you got that finial vision in your head. I can’t wait to see that water flowing!
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Just as I thought, only 2 tabs out of the last 8 were successful. The others were held as tight as possible and touched with a dot of CA. If one could remove most of the body parts and shape them close, before the tiny details are installed, it may not look like it’s really been in war:-) Here’s the final closure on the underneath side. Here’s the finished build:-) Dee Plane was pretty fun:-)
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