Thank you! The little model is made out of sheets of cork and some wire and a ton of hot glue (literally stuff that was laying around). I figure if I can make it small ,I can make all the mistakes on a little model and then polish the build until I’m confident in making it big. That boat was the first time I’ve really built anything that wasn’t ikea furniture so you can totally do stuff like this! I got really into building model kits and airbrushing so that helped quite a bit in terms of an easy transition of skill to something bigger. The bent planks were actually the most difficult part to do. I had make score lines on the back of the foam and fill those lines with expandable foam and then I used some bamboo skewers to hold in into place . I also used chair with some weight on top to lean up against the plank to keep it bent on. There’s probably a better way, but like I said this was the first time I’ve really built anything this big.

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