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 Sunday at 02:25 PM by Knocklouder
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[Knocklouder]

Things are running smoothly,  the spacer I made sure helped out. It did not take long and the fence was finished.  

Now 88 triangle  pieces,  tiny triangle pieces I might add.  I have three left out of 92. One went to bling heaven, leaving 3. 

Now it was time to finish the staircases  and railings  Private Gnomer Pile says we can hang a banner over the stairs to hide the 1/16 differences in height. 

But I don't think it is necessary  🤔. I cut up all the parts for the railings, have to stop for the night I just painted the railings today so will wait till tomorrow to install them. 

I put together the  barrels of Rum and who shows up lol. BONEHEAD.

 

This were she stands tonight,  it so much fun putting kits together,  I am thinking of buy another kit to build. I think it's time , I have not bought a model for over a year now, I can't believe it  lol.

 Thanks everyone who been following along and for those who peek thanks. 

Your grateful shipmate Bob M.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 12:43 PM by Knocklouder

[John Ruy]

Excellent work Bob. The King is looking good. 👍 

 

John

[Knocklouder]

Carrying on with the staircases , I can see I am going to have way to much fun installing them lol.

 I made up the drawing for the brass hand rails.   I made the stairs, and painted them. Bent up the hand rails, Gnomer says the on looks like a 92 degree angle  not a 90. So I bent it back.

 

 He also says look at the stairs ,  they 

will be gone in a minute.  With that I glued it all down.

So we'll it is drying  I can now work on the wheel house.  But will be back at spacing the post for the next deck. Speaking of spacers I found the kit supplied spacer just today lol. I had no idea this was a  spacer, and there is some peices that help mark were the post go. It was hard to understand what the beginning of the instructions were,  but now that I am knee deep in to the Mississippi  it is all making sense now. A bit slow but I will finish  the race lol.

 This is a fun build  really.  It is different than building sailing ship. And will be glad to get back to some tall ships. I miss ratlines, 😢.  Lol

  Talk soon my freind,  just a grinning 😀 away lol.

Bob M.

Edited Wednesday at 12:47 AM by Knocklouder

[Pfälzer]

Back then, as a young guy, I also built a steamer like that after the Gorch Fock.
Unfortunately, I can't remember which manufacturer it was back then, but it certainly wasn't this one.

[Knocklouder]

The last area of concern was these black parts for the funnels, they seem to fit better now. Amazing what paint will hide.

I was concerned about how they fit, other logs had problems with things lining up.  I sanded a bit to much but was able to add some back. Then paint.

So they fit. Next I discovered why my stairs did not line up.  When I super glued the railing going up the stairs I did not have it lined up right.

With the amount of glue that I used, I would definitely cause more problems than it's worth. Next time lol. I will do better.

Gnomer says only I will notice, move on.

So I gave the plan the once over and found out that the kit comes with these tin plates I will call them.

They mark out were the  post go, luckily they line up.  It also has a spacer for the post ,exactly 35 mm. I could not understand  what these parts were or what they were trying to show me. Now that I know the funnels line up, the rest of the build should go  OK.

@Artesania Latina have made a great kit here. Its my lack of understanding some of the pictures,  but I am on the right track.   Although the instructions  could  have been better.

Pile fainted, he is up set with me because I wont stay focused on the job at hand. Posts  he says posts  not paint, but thinking of the details lol.

After Private Gnomer Pile  recovered from exhaustion , a little  water he was barking orders. Posts, here's the next one let's go. Lol. But tomorrow is another day. .

Thanks for looking , and  the likes,  

 As I look at the model, I can see how it will look. But I cant see if its on the river or on the stand. Lots of time for that I hope lol.

 Talk soon my friend's,  oh yes going to go see  @Gabek  on Monday,  he ordered some supplies for me and they are here, figures and stuff lol. Post them Monday  lol. Way to much fun in the shipyard  

Bob M.      ...

 

 

 

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Knocklouder
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