Mayhem at Wicksteed - Please login or register. News: Mayhem at Wicksteed - Pages: [ 1 ] 2 Go Down. Location: Ashford, Kent. A year ago for my birthday, my dear wife bought me a kit to "Keep yourself busy".
I had just finished making a Springer tug, that is still awaiting a maiden voyage, and needed something else to do. I have tried to take photos as I built the thing and some notes on how I got on along with comments on the kit and how easy or otherwise I found it. I will be posting on this thread over the next few days. Ulyses is a plank on frame kit made by Occre Occio Creativo from Italy and comes delightfully packaged with laser cut ply panels, bundles of wood strips and lengths of dowel.
Also included are two lovely sectioned clear plastic trays full of goodies including white metal castings for portholes, anchors, ventilators, tyre fenders etc. The kit includes a brass rudder with plastic stern tube and a propshaft with a twin bladed plastic prop. There is an instruction booklet with parts list showing the items on each laser cut ply sheet. The photos proved extremely helpful especially when trying to work out what the white metal castings were as they were not described in the instructions.
Forgot to mention last time that there were also full size plans with the kit with some very useful dimensions on. Well first job was to look at the parts layout and mark all the part numbers on the laser cut ply bits. The Mowe 2 that I made with my grandson had the part numbers laser etched into them but not so with the Occre kit. All marked up, the next job was to find a building board.
Didnt have anything at home so a quick trip to the DIY store where I picked up a cheap pine shelf which was perfect for the job. Releasing the laser cut ribs from their ply sheet was a bit of a chore but a sharp scalpel made short work of the retaining tabs and very soon I had a small pile of boat parts. I used some plastic corner joiners that I have had for years as support blocks to keep the false keel upright and with a small engineers square set to glueing the ribs in place with a fast setting wood glue.
