Sorted the lighting today

Well.... pretty much completed the 1949 40' Chris Craft Challenger.
I tested all her lighting individually as I went along. And wouldn't you know it, The 3V rice lights that came in the navigation lights I made from balsa wood are sucking up all the juice. The other lights (mast, bow and interior) are all 3V LEd's. I guess they don't mix. I will get it sorted out later. I will add hand rails to the cockpit roof when I find some.

Sorry all.... health and weather have been keeping from the shipyard. I am back!!! lol.

So.... I have completed the cockpit roof and installed it. I have made the navigation lights. As you can see I have made the port Stbd lights from wood( I resined them and then will chrome them.) I made up the stantions for the side stern railings and made up the railings. I also made a cushion for the aft doghouse (the boat I am modeling her after has brown cushions, but I think they are to hot to lay on in the sun). I also redid the cabin windows and blinds. I have added lighting to the wheel house as well. Ohhh and I intalled the porthole windows.

I know I have been slow on this one. I need to paint my aft cabin roof (waiting on weather). Then I can get the lighting sorted and mount it. Then I can put on her side rails, etc. In the meantime I decided to make her tender and davits. I made he mast and stern flagpole as well.

Little more progress on my 1949 40ft. Chris Craft Challenger. Have the fwd cabin windows in. Helm station built. Aft cabin roof made. Have the blinds and windows to do on main cabin. Coming soon.

Had some time to put together the wheelhouse windows. I also built the fwd seat and the dog house. Nothing is glued down yet. I need to varnish the wheel house windows (stained them today).

I discarded the windows I made last post and built these right in place over paper layout. Worked much better

Next section of work. I added the rub rails to the hull. Painted her bottom. I laid her deck down and cut out and installed the fwd seating arrangement. I did not like the sharp rake of the cabin top to the front windscreen, so I curved that down to look more realistic. I mocked up some window frames for the wheelhouse.

Well...yes I have been busy on the build as well as getting house and yard winter ready. I will not post all the work I have been doing, but enough to get you up to speed. Last post I had the hull built and prepped. So I decided to get some work done on the cabin.

I decided that I would like the entire superstructure to lift off in one go, so that included rails etc. I made a base floor that would lay over the stern pulpit and have the fore cabin sit on the foredeck. The deck in between would then run level with the deck I will add later.

I cut the base and the roof the same size in width etc.. and left channels on the outside edge of the roof and deck for the cabin sides to fit in. Then I built the roof by gluing my cut frames to a 1/16 piece of basswood that was cut to the roof pattern. I bordered the outer edges of the roof with a long block of balsa on each side. (Trimmed the roof frames to fit the balsa). Then I layed down my roof with balsa sheet and sanded the blocks down to meet the roof inside them. This gave me a nice contour to the roof edges when finished.

Hello all.... I have started a new project!! progress so far... she will be 32 " LOA and twin screw.