King of the Mississippi by dragzz - Artesania Latina - scale1/80

[Rick]

Your ship is looking real good. I'll bet you will be getting a lot of first class passengers. 

 

Rick

[dragzz]

thanks rick and i will be the frist to take that trip

[dragzz]

thanks cannoe i really enjoy what iam doing i save money building boats hen going to the bar lol my friend came over last night he going to build a case for my ship for me when its done cant till its all done . ps thanks for all your kinds words

[dragzz]

iam still here iam takeing a break for a while wont be back till jan some time be good all

[dragzz]

hello all iam back after a nice break so as u see here i have installed the doors and framed the windows so all is going well here are some pics

[Adrieke]

hello dragzz looks good

 

I assume you haven't glued to the deck yet since its not planked but in the pictures you have put it on backwards

[popeye the sailor]

minor adjustment Dragzz........minor adjustment

[dragzz]

tys all canoe21  tys u so much after i got the corel victory i got no money left lol for te white glue i will get some 

 

adrieke   no nothing is glued yet i wont glue nothing till i check 2 or 3 times frist just to be sure its right

 

 

hello popeye   how u been its will fixed real soon

[dragzz]

ok now what i have done is glued bottom of the stateroom and the top of it but not glued to the 3 deck yet as i got to do the vent befor i do that there are some caps that will have a strip of wood that will cover them here some pic

[dragzz]

ok in this pic u will a nail but what i was going to do with it was cut off the head of it and use it as a door nob let me know what u guy think 

[popeye the sailor]

I have 10mm  brads that I use.....sometimes I don't even bother cutting them if they won't be seen.  they work just fine.   for a long styled handle,  I just bend brass rod.......sometimes with a curvature,  and cut off to scale.

[dragzz]

thanks popeye for the info

[Adrieke]

sounds good Dragzz, I myself used the supplied nails and drilled a hole In the doors and cut off a bit of excess at the back. the heads stick out a bit to give a bot more depth

[dragzz]

adrieke iam useing billing 10mm nails

[dragzz]

hello all  u all know that the king of the mississippi was gong very well . i have some sad news my dog houch  got it to the work room where its was and houch thot it was a chew toy . i the hole front is now gone all thos hrs cry cry cry cry so for now its is on hold till i can get some parts in for it to redo the front i will give an update soon as get to it but for now i going to start the victory build   have a great   p.s houch watch out lol

[Adrieke]

sorry to hear of this mishap Dragzz

 

hopefully you get the replacement parts soon

[dragzz]

i hope so to adrieke  i liked working on that paddle wheer i got to wait i guess

[robert1965]

sorry to hear Dragzz,

 

you also have pictures of the damage, and it's still good repair.

 

My building is currently also quiet because I'm building the HMS Victory 1:200 Mantua, 

[Rick]

Dragzz,

 

Sad to hear about building project. Glad to know that you want to continue building.

 

Rick

[popeye the sailor]

sorry to hear of the mishap........look forward to seeing the continuance 

[dragzz]

ok a bit of an update i got the parts in to do the repair i show a pic of what iv been doing on the top of the king got the part done under the state room so here it is 

[dragzz]

tys canoe  now looks like i got the flu what next i dont feel good at all  update not to sure when tho

[Adrieke]

hi dragzz good to see you have recoverd from the mishap

 

hope to see you better soon so you can continue

[popeye the sailor]

hope your feeling better.....Happy new years!

[dragzz]

starting to feel better now now that i can get back to work on king

[dragzz]

well folks the rebuild is done now iam where i left off  wow dane dog now there a lock to my work shop lol o and a dog gate  here the pic of it now 

 

 

the dog thot it was a chew toy  so i had to fix the stairs and the deck  the hull was fine thank god for that so i put some planks in on the deck so far o came good for the rebuild

 

[CaptCraig]

That looks like a pretty good recovery from the dog's destruction. I just bought this kit, so I am dropping in to watch the fun. Happy New Year to you!

[popeye the sailor]

sorry to hear about you problem..........you made a great recovery

[Rick]

Dragzz,

 

Good to see that your boat has recovered from being a chew toy. Your last pictures show it being in good "ship shape".

 

Rick

[dragzz]

tys all for your kind words so far had a bad mouth lost a faimly member this jan  so hard time to get back to where iam just give me some time i will be back tys all