February 01 2007 |

I am tired with this kid, i shortened his head/hair but may wait for the week end before trying to do another head.
Time for the boat!
Thanks to Petr0s from Germany I have now some serious base to work with. the only problem with those plans are that there is *no scale* indicated. And I just can't read Russian to spot if there is a hint about this important matter in the text.
So this is another PT boat basically, one normal small Steam boat that was used by the Russians to sink a number of Turkish boats bck then in 1877 using some "pole mines" wich means some mines attached to some long poles...
The size of the boat can't be more than 12 meters long.
so here we go...

February 02 2007 |

Okay, now for the tricky parts to make: i indeed want the boat to be stranded and partially destroyed on a beach, i therefore have to make those wooden transversal parts whose name i never learned.
First trying to measure them and to use a drawing software to outline all 17 of them

February 02 2007 |

...Then I really hate having to cut thick plastic, my fingers are covered with scars after 25 modeling years, i want this to stop.
What is softer than plastic and can be cut easely? yep, dry mastic will do.
I then proceeded to apply some coat of mastic over the outlines of the transversal parts of the boat. i flattened them with a greased wooden surface and let dry for a few hours -not to few because you will have the feeling of cutting through butter, not too long because Magic Sculp is a fairly fragile kind of mastic and breaks easely

February 02 2007 |

I then got all those transversal parts...
you will note that i left the paper with their numbers near, i also used an indelebile pen to mark them because it would have been complete chaos if I was about to meddle them.
On to next step which will be gluing the skeleton of the baot, and then a bit of planking :)

February 02 2007 |

Then the actual build of the boat begings..
first gluing all the transversal bars to the central plastic frame
then gluing each of the 2 top planks on the front of the boat

February 02 2007 |

okay, the boat skeleton is done! time now to do the planking with very thin balsa wood..

February 02 2007 |

okay; one side is done..

February 02 2007 |

The front part of the boat is done, i need some bits of the skeleton to stay visible.
I will go on tomorrow with sanding, a bit of mastic to hide the deffects, and i will try and start the engine too, if i manage to understand those plans ;)