WWII Liberty Ship

Ben M
Watching .- will you add in progress pictures?

Devin Brown
Yeah I'll give updates.

Treehugger
Good luck! Looking forward to seeing your progress. I think this will be a nice opportunity to try out rigging with wire, if you haven't tried this yet (I haven't but will). 🙂

Devin Brown
Thanks I'll need all the luck I can get. This my first ship build. My great grandfather died in WWII on a liberty ship so building this for my grandpa. I haven't done any rigging yet so it will be interesting lol. I'm also completely hand painting this so the tiny parts will be interesting as well!

Łukasz Gliński
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Devin Brown
The bottom hull and water line plate left huge gaps had to use a lot of putty and a lot of sanding to remove the gaps. Currently I am applying primer over the putty to ensure there are no more gaps that need fixed.

Treehugger
I have two of these kits, and both had the same issue. :*(

Devin Brown
There is a lip on the bottom hull that shouldn't be there. I sanded the lip off but still left big gaps. After I get everything flush then it's time for the rigging 🙂

Devin Brown
Update: after 3 coats of putty 9 coats of primer and about 3 hours of sanding, I finally got the hull gaps filled in. Now time for painting and then the rigging.

Devin Brown
Calling this one done for now. Rigging still needs to be done but I ran out of patience with this model. A lot of gap filling, a lot of sanding.

Treehugger
There is imo two big challenges, the hull parts in particular, and then everything else that has to be sanded flat, all the stuff above deck.