Monday, January 5, 2015

Remainder of matching skirt strips created and superstructure rough cutting

With more help from Christian I've been making great progress. We successfully create all the remaining skirt strips matching pieces.

We made much faster progress by using a small template piece, pictured below. This allowed us to not worry about the lateral alignment and simply make sure it lined up along the length of the strip. All the matching strips are paired to match a particular strip on the hovercraft to match their specific idosyncracities. (aks hand drilling inaccuracies.)


An example of the template for marking the mating strips.



Here's the time-lapse of this stage.


You'll see at the end we also started cutting the stock for the superstructure.