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The Hull assembly For the hull, I initially followed the Mark Porter plans. (You can see the printout I made hanging behind the model :-) It took me a few weeks to get the 0.8 mm plywood. It had to be specially ordered for me by the model shop. The 0.4 mm was not available, so I will have to improvise when t comes to the ducts. Below the finished base:
 Because
my 0.8 mm ply came in a 1meter section, it was not long enough to make the
sidebeams in one piece.After glueing the components together with cyano acrylate, I put some drops of 2-component plyurethane glue in the joints and heated it with the heat gun. By tilting the hull all directions, it filled the gaps beautifully as it was very liquid for a minute or 2. Next, supports are made from 6mm Balsa, to support the side beams. Mark's plans do not specify how to arrange this, so I made my own supports:
All supports added to the hull centre section.
Positioning of side decks and bow/stern area: Finally, the side-decks are supported by a balsa spar.
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