Issue 12

All righty! The big buildup is over: time to put all those skeleton bits together!

So, take inventory. You're going to need all of the following pieces, plus all the bags of screws. Also, please note one of the 2-hole connectors is missing in this picture because I had momentarily mislaid it. Annoyingly, there doesn't seem to be any spares of it. Not yet, anyway.

Lots and lots of screws:

First off, we're attaching the bars to the framework as shown in the picture above. The magazine dosn't quite show how everything is oriented, so here you go with a quick shot to see which way up everything is and who's on top, etc.

Anyway, one of these bar thingies goes on like so:

And you basically mount the other three off of it, following the instructions.

 When bolting the two long bits together (once in the middle, once on the left), you might find that the brass bolts are kind of on the loose side. I'm hoping this won't be a problem as we put more of the frame together, but I may give them a dab of glue later if not. As always, your mileage may vary.

Anyway, here's all the bits together:

And that's a fair whack of the bottom hull, I'd say about a sixth of it right there. Pretty nice, and satisfyingly substantial to boot. Nice way to round out the month, even if the rest was a bit yawnsville.