Finally some time to share with you the progress on the Mayflower...
While thinking about how to make a nice hull I decided to spend the time with a little bit of work on the self adhesive foil. So I made some walls and doors... The first three pics show my results, altered with black/brown oil paint. The following four pics show how I made the hinges for the doors:
4) cut out with scissors and scalpel, color black (waterproofed marker), the left hand one is a ready one,
5) bend one part with the tweezer,
6) form the hinge on the NOT sharp edge of a box cutter,
7) make imitations of nails with the tip of a compass.
Then after some sleepless nights I got the idea how to make a more or less smooth hull...
... A
"old" technique I used once as a kid to form nice convex parts out of carton came into my mind...Pictures 8) to 13) should explain how I use this technique to make the parts for the hull. Of course back then I had no mouse pad and used a little iron sphere instead of a stone.
I decided to make only one hull - as smooth as possible - without any additional material (balsa wood sanded into a nice smooth shape, insulating foam,... etc) since I don't want to have a too big mess in my living room (the mess is already big enough..
). Nevertheless, no smoothness without sanding...
While so fascinated about my "old" way of forming rounded parts I totally forgot that one of the frames was not in the right size
! I made a mistake earlier and forgot about it totally (Picture 14)... After removing the two hull parts and correcting the frame I used
the same parts again, which ended up in some disastrous dents
!! Well....I thought: "..this is a paper model so if some parts are not good enough, hey I got enough pizza boxes!"
But it was unnecessary work with removing the parts from the hull frame again...
Until now I was able to finish the hull on the lower starboard side.