Life is getting quite exciting

I put all of my boats in the kiln with glaze on at the same time which sounds like a proverb or something. I don't know, it wasn't really a great idea because if something went wrong they would all be ruined, however I'd done enough tests to know that i needed to fire at 1000°c not 1080°c so prevent the glaze from running so i was pretty confident. Also only my stuff went in that kiln so I wasn't at risk from someone else's mistake. below you can see all my boats in the kiln looking pretty, and then them laid out on the trolly in the metal workshop ready for me to cut out all the decks.

Once id cut the decks I still had to solder the cabins on to them which took ages even with the big boy torch. it did help though that i was leaving the patina and not sanding them because i definitely wouldn't have had time.

This was a very long day of fiddly tasks and burnt fingers (oddly enough from the sanding not the torch, turns out friction creates a lot of heat and copper is an excellent conductor of that heat into your finger tips) but i managed to get a lot done. All i have to do now is glue them together and hang them from *something* which i need to figure out.