Plating! (Patreon)

The first hull plates have been extruded!

These are the innermost plates on the bottom, or second-innermost if you count the keel plates that were already done along the keel. This would be strake B. The strakes (or rows of plates) are lettered A to Z, so only 25 strakes to go... also a few extra in a couple of places.

There are nearly 2,000 shell plates on the hull, though I mostly only need to make half of that. The real challenge will be portholes and other openings, but that comes later. For now, my concern is extruding the simpler bottom plates before shifting focus for a time to other aspects of the structure.