Hi all,

This is my Happy Hunter Build!

I actually started it over a year ago!

But after some personal events.

I am now continuing my build of the Happy Hunter!

I have installed the Bow thruster which works very nicely!

And I have also installed both prop shafts!

Today I put a second coat of the red oxide!

As I didn't like the first coat was too light!

My Happy Hunter will weigh 19.4 lbs.

She'll be the heaviest model I own!

My Smit Nederland weighs about 12.5 lbs.!

I'll post more pix as I build!

Stay tuned?

This is my first time setting up an Engine Room using 3 ESC's

My Happy Hunter will use 12 volts at 25 Amp's for her Main Engines!

And my Bow Thruster will use 6 volts at 3.2 Amp's!

Oh, I am also incorporating a P40-E which will come in handy on some monoverses!

I know where are my fuses?

I'll place the fuses before I lay the main deck!

I'm just taking my time with her!

If anybody has any suggestions, please by all means make your recommendations?

That's it for now!

Cheers,

Ed-

My Happy Hunter has about 20.5 lbs. of Ballast in her to bring her down to her Waterline.

There's are about 10.5 lbs. aft and 2.3 lbs. forward under the fiddly deck!

And another .6 Onces aft of the tillers

Oh, there's about .6 Onces at the Bow!

If you look very carefully, you'll see a red strip going from port to starboard in pic 1.

I had to carefully place the Ballast under the ESC's!

So, with the Ballast forward and Aft Ballast and the weight of the SLA's

I have a total of 20.6 Lbs.

I'm missing about a few Onces but that's ok no one will know! LOL!

Opp's now you know----

Cheers,

Ed-

Hi, All

I've laid the Aft Deck!

Which was a straightforward process!

Next, I'll have to place the ribs.

They're just in place they don't do anything but look good!

Oh, if you look at the pic that shows the entrance that goes up to the forecastle!

Anyway, its late here and I'm tired!

It's been a long day as I did a lot of grinding.

Cheers,

Ed-

PS, I have to cut out the scuppers also!
I'll do that tomorrow!

You know the saying?

"There's a first time for everything?"

Well, it's true!

I've never cutout Scuppers!

I looked all over the internet looking for ideas on how such a task should be handled!

Everywhere I looked they spoke about real scuppers on real ships.

So, after thing about it?

And I did this for days!

I then looked at the way the scuppers are on the Happy Hunter Model versus the Real Happy Hunter.

The Happy Hunter Model has Scuppers on the Aft deck and upper deck!

But, I looked at a picture of the real Happy Hunter and there are no Scuppers on the Aft Deck!

So, I decided to cutout the Scuppers on my Happy Hunter!

As this adds more details to her aft deck!

Each Scupper is 35mm wide by 5mm high!

On the Model you have to laminate a preshaped piece to the inside of the bulwark!

This piece has the Scuppers and scribed lines of where the Bulwark supports are placed!

Now you can then see where the Scuppers are placed!

So, what I did was use a light to see where the Scupper would be?

I then saw the center of the Scupper.

I then made holes to drill out the Scupper!

Then cut away the center after having drilled about 5 to 6 holes where the scupper is located!

Then I used my trusty rattail and a small flat file as well!

I did 10 Scuppers in 2 days.

I have to cutout 12 Scupper on her upper deck as soon as I get there!

Oh, I also drilled out her Portholes too!

Lots of fun with this Build!

Cheers for now,

Ed-

I'm in the process of placing the support ribs around the bulwark!

But I stopped working on the Happy Hunter temporarily to work on the Smit Nederland!

See I botched up the light colours on the Aft of the Mast!

So, I had to correct my mistake which I did!

It took 2 days of swearing, But I did it!

As you can see in the picture the Aft Mast lights are now correct!

Cheers,

Ed-