Hannah by KennyH78 - Amati - 1/300 - BOTTLE

[KennyH78]

To help break up the repetition of hull planking on my Medway Longboat kit, I decided to slowly start building the Hannah SIB kit from Amati.

I picked up the kit on eBay for $50 used, but complete.

First thing I did was to inspect the kit to make sure everything was there.

After that, I started by building the hull by laminating most of the pieces for the hull.  I decided to leave the last 3 layers on the bottom off since I plan to set her in water in the bottle.

And here is how she sits with a rough sanding to get smoothed out.

[Knocklouder]

Great start  Kenny, this little build was great fun to build, lots of great logs and builders for her here. @Glen McGuirehas to be reminded  once in awhile  to follow  builds , but I sure he will want to follow this one. He was very instrumental in helping me build mine .

Good luck, tagging along.    

Bob  M

[Glen McGuire]

27 minutes ago, Knocklouder said:

. @Glen McGuirehas to be reminded  once in awhile  to follow  builds , but I sure he will want to follow this one. He was very instrumental in helping me build mine .

Yessiree! Thanks for the tag, Bob.  I'm on board and ready to watch the action.  Looks like you are off to a nice start, Kenny.  Now you know why I do all my SIB hulls in laminated layers.  Learned it from this kit.

[KennyH78]

She is starting to look like a miniature ship.  I got the decks, bulwarks and stern piece attached.  The keel is also on the model, but isn’t glued in yet.  I will get it permanently attached before the bottom edge of the keel is removed so that she can sit on water in the bottle.  Next up is the task of painting the hull.