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 of the ship thus became our day's goal as we hardened our patience to cut and glue those pieces together.
I think in the past, I had a special glue specifically intended for paper-craft, but I could not locate it anymore so we ended up using
fabric glue that I did have. The glue actually worked incredibly well since it's both translucent and solidified in under a minute. The main benefit of using it over Elmer's glue though was that it dried without warping the paper, which we unfortunately experienced when attaching part of the model at the start of this session.
The hull pieces were large and somewhat easy to cut out
[Figure 1]. The main time sink of the day was holding the pieces into the right shape for long enough to allow the glue to settle. Each of those teeth had to be glued gradually, but eventually (with our hands covered in excess glue from pressing down on the seams) the hull of the ship took shape
[Figure 2, 3].
Time spent: ~4 hours
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| Figure 2: Hull Outer Layer |
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| Figure 3: Hull Out Layer Cont. |
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