Thank you all for your kind words and encouragement. Bradford, you are correct on both counts.
I have attached a few photos of the yacht for the next diorama. It is not quite finished. I have to build the railings/lifelines. I tried, for the first time, to make windows from glue. The windows in the large forward deck cabin and the pilot house did not turn out very well. The after cabin windows are a bit better, but I still need more practice. I changed the dinghy a bit to add more detail. The model had a flat picture of the interior of the dinghy; I built it in 3D and added a couple of paddles and oar locks.
You will notice that the boat has an odd forward pennant and the name has changed. My Granddaughter was inducted into the Tri-Sigma Sorority at Marshall U. The pennant is their emblem and the name on the yacht is their motto. I thought that she would like some bragging rights.
If you try this model, you will need to do a bit of shaving and tapering of the internal hull structure to get a correct fit for the lower hull. I also found the forward deck house cover structure on the weak side, so I beefed up the forward station to give it more rigidity. It really is a fun model to build.
I have started on the wooden pier, but it is not far enough along to provide pictures.
Until next,
John
