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Length: 1450mm
Width: 301mm
Height: 500mm
Scale: 1/147
Build in Progress
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| The gift of baking paper. All 20 Ribs drawn up. Instead of going through the cost of printing the drawing and tracing them off them I simply trace directly off my laptop screen which I tilted flat backwards. I used the top of the screen ridge to align the top top and the bottom for the bottom row. |
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| You may notice on these drawing that there is a section at the base of the ribs to be cut out. This is for the water channel setup which will later house the waterpump. It spans 560mm from rib 4-16. |
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| All the ribs on the board and ready for cutting. Only one thing to note here is that I specifically have the keels going down the length of the board with the grain for added strength. |
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| All ribs cut out. Work that is still required is the trimming of the ends and cuting the tounge and groove to mount the ribs on the keel. Tomorrows jobs! |
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| Taking shape. Couple of things I have taken note of while doing this part. A criscross (left point to oposite right) measurement is an easy way of tell if the double keel is square. Ensure that the tongue and groove is not too tight or it will warp the keels. Some of my ribs are a little loose so I will place a spacer. On another note - some extra space is always welcome, now where am I going to put this thing! |
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| Ready for glueing. The process of cutting the groves and tabs is now done and both sides are of equal heights. A very tedious but well rewarding task. This top framing is called the sub-deck it acts as a support for the main deck and ribs. In between will still come the odd spruce to support the superstructure. |
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| The gluing part is reletively easy. Each rib was glued to the keels first and I used the subdeck to ensure they stayed straight and true to form. I used the battery as shown to act as a weight and baking paper under it so that it would not stick to my desk. |
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| With the ribs and subdeck glued in place I added extra bits of 7mmx3mm balsa strips under the subdeck between the ribs which will provide additional area to glue the Armor sheeting (sides). The image above shows a simple trick to keep a free hanging spruce. Loop a bit of string to the spruce and the support block, put the spruce in place and then wind up the support block like a propeller till both are sucurely placed. |
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