L.O.3 creating my artefact

I created my artefact in a double lesson before lunch and after school. Making my ship is so far going well. First I got my plans next to me and I drew out the shape of the hull onto a piece of cardboard with a pencil and a ruler and then I cut it out with a carving knife. To make the other side of the hull I got the first side and drew around it with a pencil. I cut out that side as well and then I had both pieces. Next I had to change my plans because if I had carried on it would not stand very well and it would be hard to make because it would have to be held up. Now I have decided to make a waterline version instead. This means that I only make the parts of the ship that you could see if it was in water. After I changed my plans I had to stick the two bits together at the bow and stern. To do this I used masking tape. Next I got the two pieces and put them upside down of a piece of cardboard. I drew around them and cut out the cardboard with a carving knife to make the deck. I stuck on the deck with masking tape. The next bit I made was the superstructure. This is the bit that is onto of the deck. I got a thinner bit of cardboard and cut it so I had a big bit of cardboard with two bit hanging down one on the side and another at the front. I stuck it to the deck and cut two other bits of the back and other side and stuck them on with masking tape. When I was putting on the superstructure the deck made it hard to tell which side was the bow and witch was the stern so after I stuck down the superstructure I realized that I put it on the wrong way around. The structure was too far forward and the bow, witch should have been big and open, was small and the stern was instead. If the paint does not hide this then the ship will not look very good because there will be a big empty patch on the back and it will be crowded at the bow. The last thing I did before lunch was to cut the funnels form thick pieces of round cardboard. Another way I had had to change ma plans has been that I have to get rid of alot of the detail on the superstructure because we cannot make the balcony walkways without cutting though the cardboard and seeing the inside of the ship and it would be too complicated to stick one in on either side. In the after school session I organized I decide to fix it by first putting two pieces of cardboard over the bow and stern. Then I put on another piece of cardboard with the new front and back on. This is good because I am now back on the plan I made for the model but it not sticks out at the side at the front and back because there is more layers of cardboard there. This is bad but it is better than what it would have looked like it I left it how it was.