Right. First things first. Reduce the outlay by £25 to a new total of £375. So I have £25 of credit to “play with”. ( ‘cos of returned items).
I mentioned the disparity between “Araldite” and the B&Q “alternative” under a more general heading. But now (at last) I seem to have a casing platform that I can develop into something approaching my goal. Curved corners included! It all seems (at first glance) to be pretty square ..but time will tell.
To be honest, even after all this work, I’m still not absolutely sure that this will all work.
Why?
Because it’s more usual to build any sort of superstructure into a model after the deck has been laid. I’m doing this one sort of upside down. And then I’ll get the deck to fit the superstructure rather than the other way around. Makes some sort of sense to me, but it may all end in tears. But I’m an optimist at heart.
The seats are now nearly completed. Thank goodness. The only remaining bits of the cabin interior are the LED lighting layout (and on/off switch) and the little table where the Admiral can park his briefcase.
19th of July. Last night around 10pm a dusky maiden arrived on my doorstep proclaiming to be my wife returning home after a week in Cyprus. I was only convinced of the truth when the kitchen was inspected (and passed). This lightened my spirits somewhat as earlier that day I’d fallen for a computer scam that was worrying the hell out of me. All to do with computer security. So ruddy plausible and the “repairs” to my machine took 3 hours…all under the control of this “Microsoft Technician”. I’m not usually a dummy about these things, but it was so absolutely believable. I stopped the payment (too embarrassed to reveal how much) and cancelled my debit card. Barclays said they were aware of this scam and knew of at least 1,500,000 (!) cases of this scam being successful. Microsoft are aware of the scam but refuse to get involved quoting “Freedom of access to the Internet”. Fortunately (and a fact that I was unaware of), payments by Direct debit are held by the bank for 3 days before payment is made. So I think I’ve been lucky…although still a little shell-shocked by the sheer professionalism of the scam. Beware!!!!
But on with the motley.
Add £4 to the total, now back up to £379. (B&Q epoxy).
As with all things made from plywood, regardless of thickness, some items need the ply to have the grain running lengthwise, and other bits need the grain running “across”. OK, I know that remarks like that are self-evident to experienced builders, but my not be so to less experienced folk.
The 1st pic is of a bit of 1/32” ply being used as a backing for the later layer of 1/16” ply forming the corners. Both of these are “cross grain”. The 1/32” stuff bends by itself, the 1/16” ply laid over the backing won’t bend so easily, so in the time honoured fashion, it needed to be “scored” to make it more flexible. Pic 2 shows the result. I’ll remind you here that all of this structure will eventually be clad with plasticard…so no filling of faults (of which there are many).
I just couldn’t resist doing this “mock-up” pic….just to show me how it’s all starting to come together. One needs a little fillip now and again.