Hi All,

A small update.

I fitted the second chine at the bow without to much bother and moved on to the stern centre keel.

I widened the slots for the keel until a comfortable fit was achieved, then in the rear 6 inches of the keel piece, put a series of razor saw cuts and filed the cuts out a bit with a miniature file. It`s quite a bend in the stern keel so required some serious clamping.

With the stern keel set, I returned to the bow end to start on the frame shaping (indicated by the red arrows) as this is where the plating will start.

As can be seen from the picture the bow plating will need serious bending and shaping. Time to bring out the old baby bottle steamer I purchased on ebay. When the bow plating is completed, there are two balsa blocks to fit in the bow and shape.

Below are some pics of the state of play at the moment.

Next update will be when the bow plating and blocks are finished.


Happy building.

Regards
delboy271155
(Derek)

Coming along nicely.

Interesting use of cable ties, had not thought of that, great idea

Jase

Hi All,

Thanks to all those who looked in since the last update.

Found a few minutes to test the next stage out today, so out came the trusty baby bottle steamer,(bought on ebay for £1, yes just £1).

Took it steady with the first steaming so not to over do it.

Have now clamped and tied the plate in place till dry.

In the second pic a black line and arrow show where the plate will be trimmed at a later date.
The red arrow shows where the front end of the plate will need to be bent down, this will be a second steaming just to the front end.

That`s all for now as just testing the waters (or steam) on this piece.

Regards
delboy271155
(Derek)

Very nice Derek, very nice work indeed.....

Regards

Alan

Hi All,

Had a week off work last week, so inbetween going out and about with the good lady to the likes of HMS Trincomalee and a parrot sanctuary etc I managed to get a bit done on the "Creole Queen".

Unfortunately it`s part of the build that`s very time consumming, but time and patience spent at this point can only pay dividends later.

So, it`s plating time.

As shown earlier there are three plates each side fitted to the underside at the bow end. These parts needed steaming, bending, shaping, bit more steaming as the shape changed and then fixing in place. With all six in place a very small amount of filling and sanding required.

The first two pics show the state of play at this moment in time. More trimming reqired at a later time and only a first sanding done. As there is still more plating to go around this area, I`m going to leave this as is for now untill I see the fit of the other plates.

The next job is to fit the main lower hull plates.

Pic three shows where the main plates butt up to the bow plates.(Not much work required here, it`s a pretty good fit.

Pic four shows the length of the main plates and where the work will be needed. As can be seen the plates do not butt to each other to well and at the far end there is some serious curve to be added to what are 11cm wide panels. Bring out the truty steamer again.


That`s it for now.

Happy Building

Regards
delboy271155
(Derek)

Looking good Derek , nice to see some meat on the bones

Sounds challenging Derek and interesting...

Regards

Alan