Deck is placed and waiting for planking, 1st deck of cabins are in and are awaiting regular windows, foward of the porthole windows.
Oops, doors also and in the middle of the two cabin areas two stairways up to the next deck area.
Still need to build the cargo holds and the bow, but I want to do, from the helm back first, then this will determine how much length foward I'll build the rest of the ship.
Next comes decking overhanging the cabins to the rails,what you see now and the rest of the upper areas.
The pics. of the King Kong ship Venture are in my album.
Thanks for looking - Cheyenne

The portholes are pig metal offerings from Artisian Latina [ ? sp ], I ain't getting up to go look for the proper spellin, it looks close enough. l.o.l.
I still need a whole sh#t bucket of them for the build because they are everywhere on the ship, oddly the ship is also loaded with double hungs also ...... wierd.

Starting to take a very nice shape!! Looks like this will be a great looking ship. I've been thinking of using wood as a constructing material , do you have any idea's on how to make it look like steel? (get rid of the wood-texture?)

keep this up!

kind regards
Mark

Hot dang and Dag Nabbit, Cheyenne:

You're off an' rollin' now. . . those portholes are the
boss, dude. Glad you and me'un feel da same about
trying to spell the King's English.

But for some weird and even stranger reason, I keep
wanting to sing the main chorus from the Danny Kaye
(who?) Musical on the Great White Way, "Two By Two".
:-) :-)

Looks beautiful Cheyenne. I love the "supervisor figure" on deck to watch all your hard work :-)

Looking cool Cheyenne, is there anything you can't build?
:-)

Thanks guys, did some deck planking and some more porthole & window stuff foward.
I worked this weekend so I didn't get to do as much as I had wanted too.
Mark, a coat of grey auto primer should do it, maybe two, It's going to be heavy on the rust so some spots I'll want to absorb more paint then others, those areas will get minimal primer.
Ships are constantly painted so the older the ship the more paint , if you look at the ref. pics. in my album [ of the Venture ] the paint is very thick.
I may even run some spackle over some of it, so I'll have two different absorbshion [ doh, sp ? ] rates on the hull.

Cheyenne

D'oh! It looks like another supervisor showed up. Now you won't be able to get anything done. :-) :-)

Where on earth are you going to put this when it's finished? It's huge!!!! Looks superb but it's massive! What else have you got planned in there? Can't wait to see this finished but can't help wondering where you're going to park your car once this dio is finished... :-)

Cheyenne, man this thing is coming together quick! Quite impressive. I'm glad the hull is taking shape so easily, looks like the birch stiff was a good call for you. Mary just handed me some new stuff we got in the mail to check out called "Task-Board", I think it would have worked out very well for you on this too. Well man sent you off some pics, let me know lol. Anyway back to this, have you finalized a total length on this bad boy yet? Cant wait to see this weekends progress. Cheers kevin