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Bottled Ship Builder

Steam schooner LENA. Scale 1/290


IgorSky

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On next day I put in the bottle with the dried of the first layer "water" the underwater part of the hull, and propped her with the pieces of the dried silicone to align. Then I poured another thin layer of silicone. Tweezers placed to the hull is for fixing it at the time of drying of "water."

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After another day, I filled and a third layer, reaching almost to the waterline.

Of course, the final conclusions it is too early to do, but so far that this material gives the optimistic expectations regarding its use for the project "The Old Man and the Sea." Just I think of the pigment should be added even less.

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And, finally, I was able to proceed with the final assembly at the stand.
Assembling was carried out in the same order in which it will be made later in the bottle.
At this stage I revealed some mistakes that could likely to affect the assembly in the bottle, but ... something to alter it was too late.  Although, of course, I was going to try to fix some of them. For example, I was going again to attach ladder to the bridge and I to lift up the lifeboats.

So, first I installed the rear mast, the engine room and the bridge.

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As you remember, I set on the deck several lifting eyes for fixing the rigging. Lifting eyes have a hole diameter of 0.2-0.3 mm. Since I'm going to put the mast in the bottle separatly from the hull, it will be quite a difficult task to stretch the thread through the lifting eyes. So I decided to insert the temporary loops from threads into them. 

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