The Orca From Jaws

The Hi All

I have been wanting to build the boat from jaws for a number of years now, but never found the time
until now. i looked all over the Internet for plans on this project but really struggled to find something that i could use i eventually stumbled across this site http://www.airagestore.com/plans/rc-boats/scale/the-orca-fishing-boat.html so i placed my order it took a while to come through as it was from the USA.
Finally the day arrived and i had my plans, the wife thought i was mad, i looked over them for a few weeks before i started to see the best way to begin.

The Beginning

The plans are very good quality, i chose not to cut out the templates on the plans and to use tracing paper and then transfer them to 3mm plywood. Unfortunately i only started taking pictures once the hull section was built.

HULL SECTION GLUED TOGETHER

Once the main interior bulk heads were all glued together, i started to glue the outer pieces of ply to the bulkheads. i ended up making a small jig which was a flat piece of wood with holes drilled into it, which i could insert dowels to help bend the ply prior to me fixing them as on my first attempt the wood simply snapped, so the jig is worth building.Now i am not going to bore you all with the rest so take a look at the next few pictures to see the progress so far

 I still have a long way to go yet starting with the bow section and getting the bowsprit constructed and a lot more detail to add that's after i have watched the film again!
check back later for the finished boat

Ok further developments 

I was going to make the barrels by hand but then decided to pull in a favour and got a friend to make them on his 3D printer the results were great.