For christmas I had picked up some Wooden Boat Kits from leevalley.com. I thought they would make a fun little project with BigE. After all his fun with Pirates I thought he might enjoy seeing a ship go together. That was mostly correct. There was a few too many peices and weak instructions to hold his interest. But he really did enjoy the finaly result.
Note by weak instructions I mean every piece had a number on every connection. Two peices with the same number were to be connected at those joints. The issue was that there was no real over all guide. I started with the keel and just worked my way up. It made it a little frustrating. All the pieces were pre-cut on the four sheets.
Here we are early on. You can get a glimpse of the instruction sheet and the precut pieces. This is where we started to slow down.
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Here we are with some decking installed
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And the final assembly ... minus the rigging.
BigE decided to name it the "Scurvy Pirate 10"
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I'm not sure that will be going on. It might make those masts a little sturdier so I might do it. We're thinking about using some construction paper or cardboard to fill in the sides. It will give the other Playmobil pirate ship something to fire at.
2 comments:
If only there was an instructional video that could be played at 1.5X speed!
I would have made a video except it would be 10 hours long and there was no piece named the "eight hole board"
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