Ship modeling

In my activity plan for CAS I said that I will be doing ship models. At last I found some time to clarify what I meant by that.

I always liked doing something. When I was little, I made numerous things from Lego. As I grew older I got interested in models of sailing ships. I had made some models in the past from card but I always wanted to make a model from wood. So I decided to make one as a part of my CAS program.

I decided to make it from scratch because that is more interesting and much cheaper than buying a kit. I had spent some time on the previous weeks looking for plans on the Internet. Finally I found very detailed plans for 'Santa Maria' (the flagship of Columbus in his first voyage to America). The plans were for a paper model but I decided that after some modifications it will be possible to use them.

On this weekend I finally started working. I transferred  the outline of the paper templates on a 2mm plywood and started cutting the first part out. This it a quite labour-intensive process. All the cuts must be very accurate otherwise the whole hull will be crooked.