Work then proceeded with the framing on the deck -this is quite a flimsy piece, so does need the framing and possibly even more as none goes to the bow area, so this can twist somewhat as well.
Clamping while the Araldite dries:
Unfortunately you will need to fill in the blanks again, but suffice it to say that clamping was interesting due to the high sided shape of the deck section.
Next step was assembly of the rudders. Supplied in laser cut form are 4 pieces of wood, meaning two for each rudder as well as the associated brass shafts, tubes and rudder arms. I chose not to use the rudder arms, but they are shown in this photo:
As you can see from this photo, I filed out a groove for the rudder shaft big enough to allow the rudder pieces to be in full contact with each other for gluing. Again Araldite was used to join all these pieces together. What I did instead of using the supplied brass arms, which, quite frankly, were a bit useless for the task, was to make my own fittings that were better suited to the job as I saw it:
And:
The connecting rod between the rudders is just two lengths of .7mm brass wire soldered together - this was brass railing left over from my Zwarte Zee build a couple of years earlier - and bent to fit.
What is not shown in the photos is the mucking about required to get the rudder shafts in the right place, vertical in two axis and generally looking right. The first attempt had the shafts vertical looking down the length of the hull, but not vertical when looking from the side. So I ended up with two sets of locating hole in the plastic assembly of the kort nozzle where the bottom end of the shaft fits. The unused set got filled with Tamiya modellers putty which is my preferred material for this sort of thing.
As another thought, the thing about these rudder is that once in place they cant be removed - there isn't enough wiggle in all the pieces that the rudders can be put in place after the supporting blocks are glued into the hull - unless one were to have large gaps between the rudder tubes and the support blocks inside the hull that would then require filling to make them secure. I could have chose to glue the rudder blades(?) to the shaft later, but the thought of all the Araldite running away didn't excite me all that much. The steps I took when something like:
- glue rudders together onto shafts
- drill some small holes int he right place in hull A certain amount of guess work involved here - drill once after checking 9 times...
- check the location of the holes
- when happy make the holes wide enough for the rudder tubes
- Drill holes in supporting arms on the Kort for the end of the rudder shaft
- check these visually with the rudders in place
- redrill as it wasn't right
- check again and fill the unneeded holes.
- When convinced everything is ok, put the rudders and shaft assembly in the right place, and slide the rudder tube over the shaft and glue in place with a small amount of epoxy.
- Shape the supporting blocks for the tubes, slide over the tubes and glue in place.
- hope like hell you got it right and live with rudders flopping about for the rest of the build.
You can also see in these photos, particularly the 2nd photo, that I added a supporting piece of ply where the kort nozzle is anchored by a nut a bolt (supplied - I provided the oversize washer) into the hull. This is not in the plan, but I didn't fancy the kort being fixed to merely the ABS hull.
Now we are in October, BTW...