Hello everyone, it has been a quick minute since I’ve posted here I’ve just about finished the hull of the ship besides painting. I didn’t take many pictures going through this but here’s the ones I have I continued to plank by soaking the wood in hot water which worked pretty well, it was a little tricky for some of the planks but I was able to sand down the mistakes mostly
After planking for what felt like forever I planked the deck which was a nice change of pace because the deck was mostly flat so it was pretty easy to not mess up. After the deck I did the upper siding which were to long pieces, one for each side, I placed the first one in, kept it until I placed the second one in and liked how the rims didn’t go outward so much so I took the first one off and re did it.
then I went to plank the back of the ship which wasn’t the most straight forward because I hadn’t sanded fully the end of the planks for the main part of the hull so they stuck out a little. I know I should’ve just sanded them down but I was lazy so I just placed the planks over it and making the planks thinner as I went down to fit the strip that holds the rudder.
I then basically finished the hull but was unhappy because there were some mistakes and a few holes from planking so I used gorrilla glue wood filler to fill those in without sanding the filler it looks quite awful and looks like I beached the boat but after sanding it looks quite nice.
Unfortunately I did not get many pictures of the building process but here are the photos of the progress I have so far. I am super happy with the outcome and am gonna go ahead and try to paint the boat next after some minor touch ups.