Kevin Aris

good evening everyone the build is now day 96 and im still enjoying it 96 consecutive days is by far the longest period of time i have ever spent without a break the pointy end is now pretty well complete, and hope to move aft tomorrow the kit is incorrect in the marking of the hull plates where they line up over the bilge plates so remaking of about 10 plates is required, its an old kit and i dont think there would be anyone around to tell here is this weeks work the dotted line on F plates should be on the E plates as a result i butt joined the bilge plates and then had to rip them off sticky tape to hide the seam lines seal everything with varnish

good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes, the wife is much better now day 91 stbd side hull and bilge plates even though the wife was ill, i still made sure a did a bit on the the build every day, maybe an hour tops, but back on it today the kit is quite clever considering, its my modelling that lets it down, but even that seams to have been taken into account, and so far the plates have gone on ok the sticky tape under the plates is my idea, and im happy i went down that road, i have ensured a better contact with the frames, and yes the tape has been glued as well so that the whole lot does not fall off the bottom of the hull plates shows the position for the top of the relevant bilge plate once i was happy the bilge plate was in the correct position i secured the hull plate over it as we get to the pointy end smaller plates are laid under the sheerstrake, these take a bit of adjusting to sit properly i will tape over these butt joints later on i just laid another coat of varnish over, hence looking a bit wrinkly

hi guys thank you for comments and likes been quiet in the boatyard the last week or so, the wife has been ill with a bad viral infection, although she is well on the road to sarcasm (a sign of being back to normal) everyone is welcome to visit and see the friendly dog, in fact @bootneck was my one and only ever non family visitor and that was at least 6 years ago cakes and coffee are on me

lol dont look at the 1/48 Bellona then

I started adapting the CAF HMS Enterprise in my signature

thats a very good start to the build

i love larger scales, 1/96 and above, so they tend to be longer term builds, whether mainstream kits or not it is always going to be hard and lonely to keep followers hanging on to watch progress, i even have the 1/200 titanic with full KA MK1 upgrade set and think i would get bored with that very quickly i love the fact that someone drops in and makes any comment, Thank you

im not aware of anything else like this, lol im not in a hurry to do another though, this will last me another few months

good morning everyone i have now passed the 83rd day of the build, about 1/2 way, and still not thought about going back onto another project did some stbd side framing, i think it will all have to be done, and then cut out whats not required the forepeak has been built up but not secured yet now some of the deck plates have a home i have found that using white PVA tacky glue the card still gets damp and sags between the transverse beams, although this mainly disappears when it is fully dry i have found that if i use a paper tape superglued onto the beams and then put the deck beams on that i get a better result for now i have tacked the the biggest hull plates to get an idea of the way ahead plan all the rest of the plates are individual, about 150 off them, and they are butt joined, not overlapped

Very nice indeed Im starting to miss the sea time, wonder if they will let me go back aged 60+ i will always remember doing a hands to bathe off Andros ON Sceptre with a oil drum BBQ with a bridge lookout (armed), we was relieved after 5 minutes (watch change) and replaced by a another with a stick

Thank you the worst bit is still to come, thats the hull plates, they are not overlapped, but butt joined

Good evening everyone well im on day 76 of this epic build now, and it still impresses me i played around with the cargo ideas, and basically lost interest in it, not the right time, no real thought went into it, wrong scale, and a distraction from the build, will go back to it when the cargo spaces are ready so back to the build upper deck forpeak sorted upper deck transverse beams in and fitted to frames

she looks very nice indeed, I was chatting to Chris Watton the designer (Vanguard Modes) yesterday who at present is designing his newest design the HMS Indefatigable, to be released this year,

good morning everyone Yesterday was day 68 of the build in the last week most of the most side frames have been put in the upper feck midships section box girders with transverse beams was made up to be fitted soon started the after cargo hold load out so that the stbd side frames can go in

that is very very nice indeed

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Very nice, not hears of the Lanz before

that has come on very nice indeed I used to often think, oh i would just love to build something different (lorry, car, plane), purchase, open, start, get bored, as to why I have no idea, so now i just admire others work

good evening everyone now on day 60 of the build, and she has come on a bit since the last update

good evening everyone thankyou for comments and like comments day 48 tween deck transverse beams a lot of progress made in the last few days i decided to make a lot the internal decks and deckheads in modules i have found, for me it works very well, and allows me to get all the longitudinals quite straight, also allows painting a lot easier lots of transverse beams ready for fitting these are for the stbd side midships engine room lower level ready for paint tween decks level nearly complete, looks sqiffy due to the fact the decks are just placed on, and not slotted into position

good evening, everyone thank you for comments and likes let me know if you are getting bored with my posts, please day 43 tween deck box girders frames 54 to 99, upper deck transverse beams port side 17 to 54 painted cargo hold deck and bilge tanks Kevin’s shipyard paint schedule - machinery spaces green decks customer requirement – green decks in all cargo holds forward of the engine room and machinery spaces (this is just as well as I painted them wrong) the transverse beams are attached to the longitudinals but not the box girders Day 44 tween decks box girders made upto frame 99, all lower deck cargo bulkheads made up

good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes no dog photo bombs tonight day 42 port side engine levels corrected, bulkhead 84 made up and fitted everything with a clip is just a temp hold, not glued

i hoping the detail where possible will be shown as sections will remain open if it was brass i would be looking for handouts lol and it would be far to heavy

good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes day 41 engine room levels as the port side will be fully enclosed i started putting in the engine room levels for that side everything seams to be lining up so far put some paint down as well today green and white for machinery spaces, grey and grey with white box girders and deck heads for the holds i had some decent outside photos of the engine room until i realised i had put the i had put the flat level in the wrong position, oh and the boi wanted a mention lol couple of the better photos from today with the engine room level in the wrong position