Session 06: Living Quarters and Turbine (Part II)

Over the weekend, I picked up some more tools in order to complete this session. An X-Acto knife (and backup blades!) was integral for cutting out the tiny spaces in the railings and Zip Dry Paper Glue was good for attaching the large layers of the living quarters together. The glue dried...

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Session 05: Living Quarters and Turbine (Part I)

This session was somewhat shorter in length than usual. No parts were fully completed, but sizable progress was made toward the living compartments located at the ship’s stern along with the turbine that will eventually be attached to the very back of the ship. The pieces for the living compartments...

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Session 04: Hull Interior and Outer Layer, Rudder

In this session we finished gluing together the hull interior structures [Figure 1] that act as support for the rest of the ship. These pieces were comparatively easier to assemble due to their polygonal design. After the glue settled, they definitely gave the hull weight and strength [Figure 2]. Next...

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Session 03: Finished Stand, Began Hull Interior

Not very much overt progress was made during this session. We started by completing the podium. We created the four rods that connect the base piece of the podium [Figure 1, 2] to the brackets that the ship rests on and then finished forming the brackets themselves [Figure 3, 4]. Next, we began...

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Session 02: Relearning and the Hull

We finally decided to get back to this project this summer! Hopefully can make much more progress this time around compared to the one-off attempt from before. This day we spent some time trying to figure out how we wanted to proceed. Eventually we decided to work our way from the ground up. The hull...

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