Hello again! While other projects are running along, i might as well start a thread about this kit too. I got it a long-ish time ago and i went through it's parts and did some little assembly tasks for it too, but then i broke one of the planks and it kind of killed my mood on forwarding this particular kit, and then i had a move where i lost my ship kits for quite a long while. Now i found them and thought to post this one here too. 
Kit box. Nice photo, my box has gotten some storage damage though, the fall and spring in outdoors storage did some moisture damage on the cardboard box.
I carved and painted the oars.
The mood killer. I was fiddling with these planks and trying their flexibility (should not have, these 100% need a good soak/steaming before bending, as these have laser scored line at the breaking point resembling a joint in the real boat's planks. the plank broke along that line even though it was not deep - so if anyone of you builds this kit, my suggestion is to support these parts during the bending process with clamps that hold reinforcement plates etc. on the scored line! Now i gotta figure out what to do with this one. I will try to contact the manufacturer if i could purchase a new set of planks. If not, i will make new one from local plywood.
At least i have some research to do while waiting for an answer from the factory - i bought this book a week ago when i was in norway travelling and visiting some boat museums (if you want photos, i could make a thread for them on the forum!) This book has 461 pages of information on oselvar boats and then a ton of pages that consist of the list of sources for the book. Also say hi to Paju and Tiku, my and my better 3/4ths's button quails! They are both utterly interested and scared to death about anything and everything i do on my desk!
Kit box. Nice photo, my box has gotten some storage damage though, the fall and spring in outdoors storage did some moisture damage on the cardboard box.
I carved and painted the oars.
The mood killer. I was fiddling with these planks and trying their flexibility (should not have, these 100% need a good soak/steaming before bending, as these have laser scored line at the breaking point resembling a joint in the real boat's planks. the plank broke along that line even though it was not deep - so if anyone of you builds this kit, my suggestion is to support these parts during the bending process with clamps that hold reinforcement plates etc. on the scored line! Now i gotta figure out what to do with this one. I will try to contact the manufacturer if i could purchase a new set of planks. If not, i will make new one from local plywood.
At least i have some research to do while waiting for an answer from the factory - i bought this book a week ago when i was in norway travelling and visiting some boat museums (if you want photos, i could make a thread for them on the forum!) This book has 461 pages of information on oselvar boats and then a ton of pages that consist of the list of sources for the book. Also say hi to Paju and Tiku, my and my better 3/4ths's button quails! They are both utterly interested and scared to death about anything and everything i do on my desk!
