Catfish say Happy Birthday to Buddy

May is Catfish dogs (left) birthday. It is also his best friends Buddy (right)  Birthday month. Catfish and Buddy grew up playing together much like children in nursery school. They took many trips to the ocean and love to go to fund raising events. Catfish likes this picture so he had me put it up to celebrate is pals birthday.
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Britannia Model 2nd Hull Planking

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Woo Hoo. I finally finished the second planking on the Britannia model. I have never planked a wooden ship model hull before. It is not perfect and the shape is off a bit but it came out better than I thought it might. The stern is done incorrect because I missed something in the translation – like – english. I corrected my error the best I good with my limited skills in this area.

Trying to get the shape of the bottom pieces of wood was a challenge also. The two pieces had to line up exactly with the planking strips. I am hopeful that the rudder will hide some of the worst of it all.

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Cairo Model Update Progress Not Perfection

I have some of the rigging done. Need to touch up the painting and redo some crooked stuff LOL Some items not to scale but . .. well it is my first wood model and the instructions were, umm, lacked any detail.
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