King of the Mississippi by Warnerade - Artesania Latina - 1:80

[Warnerade]

Very slow progress with the holidays coming up. I am getting to the point of assembling the upper deck and mounting it all and realized there was a natural bow to my deck and of course I planked the top making it convex where as it should have been concave to glue onto the ship better. It Is explained better in the photos. The room walls will also fit much better as well. 
 

so today I spent most of my day off doing laundry, wrapping presents, and planking the other side of the top deck. 

[Knocklouder]

Nice  work  

Bob M.

[Warnerade]

Currently working on the mezzanine staircase and railings, the directions at this part definitely leave a lot to be desired and without pictures of each step it would be quite difficult, that’s for sure 

[Warnerade]

When assembling the wheelhouse apparently I put the back wall on backwards and now the door is on the wrong side. The directions say to make the platform 48mm but to extend it across the entire back I ended up making it 70mm

[Warnerade]

Well this is discouraging, the first major hiccup I have had with any of my builds this far. I just finished getting the smoke stacks all finished, I put them in place and not only is the supporting hole beneath the top deck off alignment by about 3-4mm (causing a fairly large forward tilt) but the small piece of wood that goes around the dowel at the base of the deck also hits the deck. An easy fix will be to not use the supporting holes and file a flat spot on the bases so there is room for a deck. I have not gone back to other build logs to see if this is a known problem but I have triple checked my assembly and everything seems to be correct. 

[Knocklouder]

Mine never lined up either,  I just filed the back of the suports  so the fit the deck. Then the holes lined up. I would have to go check my log to be sure, most logs have this problem  .

Bob M.

Edited Saturday at 03:33 PM by Knocklouder