Welcome to the hood club mate

Hi,

Thank you for your comments gents,

Well I'm not having the best of tme this weekend sportswise my beloved Liverpool threw away a 2-1 lead this afternoon..... anyway I worked my way through Issue 2 this evening......




Cheers Phil

Hi,

Sean you're not wrong mate..... it's getting big at this rate I'll need a bigger table lol

managed to complete issue 3 this morning, so here's how she now looks....




Cheers Phil,

Thanks alot for the advise Willie,

I had totally forgot about this issue being raised - so thanks for that mate

Cheers Phil,

Hi Mike,

Yes I'm going to screw it to a board when it comes to the bow and stern sections as I can't see it twisting at the moment because of it's flat shape...... but then again......

Cheers Phil,

And still it grows lol. Nice work

what was just a joke a couple of days ago has actually come true - I do need a bigger table!!!!!

Phil,

Hi,

Since my last up date I have worked my way through the issues and I’m now on issue 22 which starts the planking phase of the build.

In the end I decided against screwing the hull to a board simply because as I have the parts I was able to add all of the supports within a couple of days instead of having to wait for several weeks during which time the bow and stern section may have twisted.

I know that I’m behind most people on this build but I’m well aware that there are those that have yet to start so I throught that I’d offer my opinion on the build so far.

Firstly the positioning of the two support panels (26a) supplied in issue 8 wasn’t made clear in the instructions but thanks to Colin’s (formally Zeptrader of course) excellent blog I was able to position them correctly which is following the profile of frame 26 and not sitting back from the frames edge as you might expect to avoid blocking the slot in the frame.

Next came a problem with aligning with the sub assembly built in issue 12 with the wall piece 75 supplied with issue 13. The instructions note in issue 17 that the wall piece (forms the back panel) should be flush with the top of the sub assembly and there are plenty of supplied photos to demonstrate this, but in fact there is a 1mm or so difference - does this matter? Well no one knows as the parts that are related to this area have yet to be supplied (collection currently on issue 53) so it’s a case of either wait and see or as many other builders on various forums have done - take a best guess. Some builders have chosen to sand the roof down others to raise the wall piece - personally I’ve chosen to leave it as it is, because if I have to at a later date I can always sand the roof but I can’t lower the wall piece - time will tell if I‘ve made the right choice!!!!

Issue 20’s infamous missing spacer pieces (103), just in case you aren’t aware of it are supplied with issue 24.

And finally…….. deck 112 supplied in issue 21 will need to have its end tab sanded down before it can be installed.

Apart from those points all of the supplied parts have gone together well with no issues with warping etc. And for the most part the instructions have been well set out and easy to follow.

Here’s how she looks after the first 21 issues……..





Onto the planking then………………………….

Thanks Phil,