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

[Knocklouder]

Today I painted the shutters, and the doors and windows. I went with brown paint. So after that, I got to do some planking..

Pretty straight forward,  line down the center and giv'er. I lost the single window I used for fitting,  found it after an hour searching. 

It was in bad shape, but I hammered it out and repainted it good to go. Checked the paint still tacky  so build some more  decks .

Made it to the pilot house, everything lines up and she starting to look like the plan.

This is what I am going to do for the doors and windows, Pile is behind the door holding up the clear plastic then blue paper..the camera doesn't show it but it looks like glass in the window,  I like it.

I put the deck on to see how dark it gets. Gnomer says hurry up running low on oil for my KB lantern.  So I took him out of the boat , showed him the pictures  I took, tried out several colors,  green , a teak color  and the blue. I like the blue. When you hold it on it looks great. So I am going with this. 

  @Glen McGuire it is all part of the plan, my team never wins, lol cheering for the panthers  lol.

    They are pulling me out of the shipyard  lol talk soon my friend's,  is this not the greatest hobby to have. And to have MSW here to back me up how can I go wrong 🙃  

Bob M.

 

P S waiting to watch  the last NHL game of the season  

 

 

Edited June 23 by Knocklouder

[Knocklouder]

I decided on red curtains  for the windows and doors for the main cabin.

I painted the plastic sheets that come with the kit. They have a protective flim covering both sides, I took one side off ,painted it red. After it was dry I cut them into strips  glued them on. But  before I glued them on I removed the other side of the film, looks good. After the coverings were on I clamped the deck down for the night.

we check the plan, everything is going great.

Pile said he never pilot a riverboar before cant wait to open it up on the water .

  Private Gnomer Pile  was ready to send additional fire crew to Texas,   we hear the someone might start a fire to get rid of fire ant.  There is a fire ban on, but I told Pile it was a self contained fire confined to a  bottle.  @Glen McGuire Pile and I agree with @Keith Black use raid or  Mortein, lol.

Starting to look like a river boat, there is lots to do but so much fun. 

 Thanks so much for looking in.  

Bob M.

[Mike Collier]

It’s looking great, very interesting build! I would like to build this myself.

[Knocklouder]

Thanks Mike, it's a fun build, but they all are fun. This new version of The King of the Mississippi by Artesania Latina is lots of fun. I have looked at most logs for this build, and surprisingly most of the mistakes are fixed.  Other than the funnels don't line up and they show you in one picture to cut the notches out for the upper deck, and in the next it not cut out.

 Minor details. No part list and no 1:1 scale plan ,you have to look for those..

 I have finished  planking , 

I cut all the planks that I had blacken with a pencil. Pile said we have enough  to finish.  But  we were a little  short, have the roof of the pilot house and the rudders to do. But I have to blacken some more later. I have 47 planks left so no shortage there.

I fitted the funnels, some sanding was required,  I thought of just redrilling the holes ,but thought it might prove to be a mistake later . When  I get back to them it won't take much to make them look good.

Gnomer Pile  is holding the sign up it's still wet. @Glen McGuire showed me how to paint the name on my Hannah-SIB,  I used the same technique,  it looks good at normal veiw distance,  up close in the camera there are some white spots but not noticeable.  Thank you my man. 

 

Gnomer  has put his foot down, told me ok funs over ,start at the bottom put the keel on, then the sprial staircases 

So with that staircases tomorrow,  then start following the steps that Artesania  has provided, maybe lol . Looks like a lot of painting and cutting up of parts are on the horizon. 

After ratlines, paintig is my second favorite thing to do . Thanks for looking in.   

Bob M.

PGP

 

 

[Knocklouder]

Yesterday I was able to finish the keel, then drilled the holes for the rudders.

I know , was going to install the sprail staircases, but I made a jig to keep the posts exactly 35 mm apart, and had to try it out.

 It worked pretty good,

Breaking out the electric plank bender too bend the fence at the stren, I also ,well the iron was hot, bent all the deck edges.

They are not glued on just clamp and ready to go when I get back to that part.

Private Gnomer Pile is still waiting for the stairs. So I installed them.

They are super glued in, and one is slightly  higher  😳  but they will look great when everything is done around them. So now going to install the  little  tranangle  pieces #92, there are 52 of them.lol.

But I will most likely  put the fence on the other side first  then the peices all 52 at once lol.

  But I know myself pretty good so most likely will do something else first 🙃 😅. 

 Thanks for looking.

Bob M.                          

Edited 11 hours ago by Knocklouder
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