Hi Everyone

The following has nothing to do with the model you can move to the TLDR

Firstly, thank you for all the responses in my previous post, on tools, I would just like to briefly outline my background, so as to give you an idea of my skills J; I work as an IT guy, have done since the early 90’s I am considered certainly by my wife as a typical IT guy never allowed near any dangerous tools and certainly not allowed near any decorating. My wife has good cause to feel this way I have flooded the house, electrocuted, cut and stabbed myself on numerous occasions. It’s not for the want of trying either, I yearn for the skills and abilities displayed here. I would love to be able to build things with my hands. IT people work in an ever evolving field, everything I have done in my whole working life, will never last much beyond five years and will likely be irrelevant in ten, still I am not complaining I have been fortunate it has provided me and my wife with a living.

So my skills with my hands are (Off a keyboard) very limited, my mind struggles to grapple concepts such as measuring things. In my last attempt with a plastic aeroplane (BF109) model many years ago I was no more than 5 minutes in, when my wife found me lying on the kitchen floor holding my thumb in the air blood everywhere (If you ask me). My father was not much better, so I never had a teacher, he was a ruff and tough lorry driver, so he at least in his younger days had pure brute force which actually seemed to solve many problems but taught me little. I am fairly sure he was much like me, I recall the time (and this is where my love of boats comes from) when my dad wanted to make his own sea weights for a boating trip we were both going to take the following weekend. Picture the scene frozen midwinter evening my old man has dug some small holes in the ground as moulds for his weights. He heats the lead to its molten form, on my mother’s cooker drags me outside to watch him pour the molten lead into the frozen ground, this really is a bad idea we both peer over as he tips the molten lead into the frozen ground, to this day I still have the marks on my ankles as the lead decided it did not want to be in the frozen ground.

Still, surely everyone can be taught, everyone can create things if they take the time to learn the processes, and train the necessary skills I am about to put that to the test.

:TLDR:

Last night I got home, I immediately knocked at the neighbours door and after some rushed pleasantries got hold of the box which contained my challenge, so far I have checked all the larger parts against the parts list, read the instructions, and found some more online resources on how to build the above ship. I have been concentrating on a term called the “Bearding Line” as this is where I believe I am going to have to start to make some of the first changes to the out of the box model. A resource I have found for this is located here

**LINK**

So over the coming week, I will remove the keel and the Bulkheads from the and start to prepare them for fitting together, I will also order the glues I will need for this project PVA and Cyanoacrylate as well as the recommended paints. Next entry will have nowhere near as many words and I will also add photos, currently I only have a box to show.

Barry