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steve244
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Hi Andy just caught up with your build and i must say it is amazing truely amazing dont know what else i can say a proper museum quality build mate
\ said:Thanks Ian. I'm sure she will give it some of them feminine touches soon.Cheers
Andy
Hi Andy, agree totally, will not buy another kit from this crowd. The focs'l break on the port side was 1" longer than starboard.\ said:Day 7As i said earlier the instructions are no help and i decided to go it alone. First job was to fit the rails around the sides of the hull, some compound curves meant slotting the rails to get them to fit without snapping the wood this made it form very easily. Once these were in place i had to fit the cross supports and to make sure these were in the correct location i offered in the ply decks and marked off the locations. Next once this was all in place i made up some fillets and additional supports for added strength at the joints. All this was tacked in place with CA and tomorrow i will mix up some resin and hardener and run it around under the edge support strips.
Fitting the deck ply temp showed up anothe problem... the hull moulding is slightly out of shape across the width and the ply does not fit correctly and has some heafty gaps along the edge, im in two minds as to making new decks or filling in the gaps, i will contemplate this further when i see how much bigger the gap is once the curve of the deck is formed. Just another pitfall of this kit. I dont think i will build another one from this manufacturer.
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Cheers
Andy
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