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I know that feeling....ready to be done with a project!
This is a stressful time in the project-phase for me too.
You should always work at whatever speed remains fun, otherwise it just feels like work.

that! my fiend^^

but still, this work is a promise to my kids ... so i have a deadline till next tuesday...by midday it has to be finished...and dry enough to be proped up to hold a crew...


by the way... currently the bootom of thsi ship is kind of flat with the odd edge sticking out.... i wonder if any of you have an idea as to how to make this ship be able to float over the carpet waves without getting cought in some carpethairs...it is sadly too late to make wheels for the ship...any other ideas?

do it fast and do it noW!

lol... am doing it... doing it all right^^ sheesh^^


mind telling me tho what i should be doing?

how does the front of the bottom look?
square- ]
curved to a point (this but longer)- }
triangular- >
because if it's pointed, then the only other way I can think of is adding a strip to the bottom, though this wouldn't let it stand up...

to be honest i have thought to add skids like a sleigh... two at that... and the front bottom is for now very uneven...main pain so to speak... that has to be fixed tomorrow... i thought i get me some half disk shaped sticks...like so:



and maje the ends nice and round and thus let the boat sit on thoe and it can be dragged on the carpet then...

why didn't I think of that instead of just having one and it falling over?

well what about three then? one a bit longer in the middle? would that make it further easier to skid over the ground?

Indeed, three would probably work best

Why it's too late to add a wheels? If you can add skids, then it's possible to add wheels on this skids. May be some kind of a removable wheels, so the ship can sail any surface. I know, it sounds tricky...
Well, just my thoughts of that matter.

well the skidds would mainly be just some lenght of wood shaped to fit the bill...for wheels i firstly had to have wheels that i could use, and then i had to mount them and also i had to sink them into the belly of the ship... so not to raise the ship to high...i should have thought about that before...sadly my planning lacks forsight...most of the time anyway...

What about fitting small wheels from some toy into the skids? It's never too late, like they say...
But, well, I understand you - it's really a pain in the ass to add or remove something, when you're almost finished. In most cases it's unnecessary even.

you have a valit point mate... but for this project i also have to consider the force my kids are able to muster up... so it will only be skids... i have to say i feel more comfy for this solution...if i would have to make wheels work here i had to drill big wholes into the hull....very uncomfy feel about that at this time i say...

Well, if when you put it this way... Definitely with skids only it will be more durable construction overall.

my thoughts exactly...

Going for that caravel style?

why do you ask? seems i have misunderstood you there...

The images of the Imperial boats were caravels(ancient trade ships) but your present boat for the boys and their wars seems a bit more advanced than that medeival design the GW posted

well i guess a bit of the steampunk influence is also there... at löeast it will get a steely bow...which porbably will do a lot to set the thing apart from other ships...some things it seems i cant do without^^

A ramming prow! that would be mean!

well kind of^^ looks a bit like those icebraker ships...

ARRRR! RAMMING SPEED!

my point exactly...^^

Or instead of a ram you could have a giant steam powered hammer. That's an unique idea

I say fix a couple of working cannons and add a steel prow (just make sure to sharpen it)

that would be safe for the kids, right?
As long as the prow isn't coated in lead paint and the cannons only fire ball bearings?

ok chaps... the skidds are now in place...behold...

and here are some pics of the prow...later on it will look steelplated...

about the cannons...well i have thought about that but for now i am at a loss as to how to build at least two of those in a hurry....

Cannons!
http://www.amazon.com/PLAYMOBIL-ADD-7335-2-CANNONS/dp/B004YDSDK8

WOW

of course the thought rather just leaped at me too to buy some playmobile cannons... i thought more of the self made variant...


at dakkagrot... thank you... i take that as a compliment^^

playmobil cannons could work- after all, it'd be better bought as then the characters can hold the loading stick thingies and they can actually fire.