Riva Aquarama runabout by michael101 - Amati - 1/10

[michael101]

Hello friends 

I’m very exited to start sharing with you my build log of the Riva Aquarama 1/10 of Amati

my review for the kit

its outstanding beautiful kit everything it’s high class 

I hope you guys enjoy the work and the process of my build log 

and please feel free to add your comments 

 

First of all I had to send the box for framing 😎 (even the box made of high class material and beautiful printing )

 

 

 

 

 

For starting I saw the manual that told you to plank the boat over the keel and totally cover it at the bow on this why :

 

 

 

 

 

But I didn’t found it aesthetic and after searching pictures of the original boat I did found that the original boat do have keel :

 

so I decided to add a keel for the boat ..

the thickness of the plywood it’s 4mm  so I decided to add a keel of 2mm wide as following :

 

first of all I made a template of the exact curve of the bow by marking the hull on 18mm plywood than I cut it by scroll saw

 

 

 

 

 

and after all I made a notch with the router for putting the strips inside the template without having a problem of banding side way by mistake 

this banding must be flat for side way because we want to add it exactly at the middle all over the hull and making a beautiful keel 

 

 

I have cut the first strip from walnut because I didn’t want to spend a lot from the mahogany planks that came with the kit 

and anyway the first strip will be covered by the bout planks from the sides 

the first cut was 2*2 And all the rest was 1.5*2 from mahogany I made in total 1 strip of 2*2 and 3 strips of 1.5*2 so the new keel it’s 6.5mm (it’s a lot more than what I need but after the 2nd plank I will sand it down to be flat with the 2nd plank

 

 

 

After banding the strips I add them to the hull by insert planks of 1mm underneath for gluing the new keel exactly at the middle of the hull 

 

Here you can see the new keel I (took the hull out of the stand for shooting a picture )

 

 

Edited Friday at 05:41 PM by michael101
corrected log title

[yvesvidal]

Nice and more realistic change to the kit. I do not understand why they would have designed the kit in this way. The keel may be very subtle on a Riva, but it does exist no matter what.

 

Other thing: Amati shows these horrible staples/nails to hold the planks.... The real RIVA is assembled using clamps, as shown on the picture.

 

Yves

[michael101]

Hello Yves nice to see you in my build log 

 

you right , it will be much better with the keel 

‘and about the step with the nails I’m not using this method but it ok to do it like that because it’s the first plank , there is second plank that will cover it

[gsdpic]

Looks like you are off to a good start on this beauty.  I'll follow along.

[michael101]

3 hours ago, gsdpic said:

Looks like you are off to a good start on this beauty.  I'll follow along.

Thank you Gary 

[king derelict]

You are doing a great job of improving the kit to something more like real life 

Alan

[michael101]

12 hours ago, king derelict said:

You are doing a great job of improving the kit to something more like real life 

Alan

Thank you Alan 

I think it will be much better with a nice keel to give a flat line for the connecting planks all over the boat