I had a small glass coke bottle, I had gotten it when the Loudon Raceway opened in 1996 {I believe that's the date}. I had packed it away in my sock drawer in preparation for the move. during the journey to the new place, the drawer must have tipped, splaying the bottle and a few other things out onto the dresser that it belonged in. Stephanie, John's sister {Kevin's friend}, was in the truck wondering what to do with the items, and looking for direction. I entered the truck, and she asked me about them...I could tell she just wanted to get back to business, but I told her where I had gotten it, and picked it up. my hands were so dry from carrying boxes, that the bottle slipped out of my hand and hit the floor of the truck, shattering into many pieces! Phyllis, my wife had come out to the truck at that moment......yea, I heard the gasp....and the utterance of where I had gotten the bottle. oh....well........good-bye memorabilia!
A few other things got broke......a few things got scratched......and a few things got bent.....like my hobby light, which I've had since the 80's. a few other things happened.....how about Terriyaki sauce and frosted beer mugs {2}, broken and running down the driveway......I'm hoping the rain {in the next day or two} will wash it away. I'll never forget this move.......I hope it's our last!
The new place offers me three places, where to set up my build table. the two that are the more viable though is a hallway which had no access to the other tenants. it long, but wide enough to for a table and shelving along the walls.....complete privacy. the other is the computer room, where, in the other place, I had been doing my builds. we had talked about it, and Phyllis rathered that I remain in the computer room. she would miss me and become lonely. now......how can I say no to that. truth be told, I probably would succumb to feeling the same way........it's nice to have someone to talk to. after a couple of days of unpacking, it was starting to take on the look of home sweet home.....time to put on my build groove! my older son Brandon complicated matters yesterday, by bringing over the drafting table he had given to me, the last time we were over at his house.....now I can set up both areas. I'll be able to work on the Nordkap, while work on the Gothenborg is drying, and visa versa.
The Gothenborg is a Swedish ship, and a friend I met on Model Ship World was very nice to send me over 100 pictures of it. He lives in Sweden, and took a tour one day during a star wars convention....seemed funny to see Darth Vader standing there, but I got a lot of good shots of the details that make up this fine ship.
I have been looking for more info on the ship, and will continue to do so, hoping to find that "fine touch" in a timely manner. one problem I've run into, is that I wanted to get a build slip for it, but the move cost me a bit more than I had hoped. I'll just have to make one, that's all. I saved all the scraps from the other builds, you never know when you'll need a small piece of material. the scraps that I am using came from the Cux. I started with a pine board.......shelving that I had taken out of a closet, in order to hang clothes in it again. It's big enough to house the slip and an adequate work surface. I measured out the area to assemble the slip, and marked the area, the width and length of the keel. the slip will have to perform two functions, hold the ship's frame steady and straighten the frame, due to warpage. I'm sure that this sort of warpage is quite common with wooden kits.......let's face it.......they sit in their boxes, on a shelf, until someone like me buys them and decides to assemble them. by this time, I'm sure that the elements have had time to work on them. I started with the stern holder, later marking and assembling the bow holder. to counter the warpage of the bow stem, I made a suitable bracket to keep it vertical. having done that, I decided to do the same to the stern, seeing that it has a high stem as well.
