Hull - Bullwark

The next step wasmaking the bullwark and this is also made with XPS foam that I cut in strips of 25 mm and 30 mm with one side cut in a angle. On the hull I made markings where the strips need to come but with a extra 2 mm to get enough thickness of polyester putty.

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The bullwark of XPS foam.

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Starts to look like a ship.

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The XPS is glueed with kit and fixated with needles.

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The shape is starting to get there.

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at the back is a straight piece of foam.

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After the glue is dried I cut a part of the foam away where it touches the hull
so this can get filled with polyester putty so the foam doesn't get visible when the putty is sanded.

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The bow section is sanded.

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and the back is roughly in shape.

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The first layer of polyester putty.

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And now sanding.....

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The first layer is sanded.

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At the back the layer of putty was to thin so the foam came through,
so I removed some extra foam that will be filled with putty.

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All the rough surfaces will be filled with a second laer of putty.

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The second layer is in place.

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and the backside is filled up.

During the sanding some of the foam kept coming into sight, so I tried the filler on a spare piece of foam and unfortunatly it reacted with the filler. So I decided to remove all the visible foam with the grinder and fill it up with polyester putty.

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The visible foam grinded away.

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The small holes on the bullwark.

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All the small holes in the putty

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Because the width of the side was different from left to right the right bullwark got some extra putty.

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After a last sanding final result, time for details....