cheers guys, its bark from North America supplied by my friend Ted Behne - see
www.barkcanoe.net but I am wondering if Birchbark from Scotland would be thick enough for a full size one, you could use birchbark from this country to make models.
There will indeed be a full size canoe but I will make a few more models first. The full size one will either be an Algonquin, or Ojibway canoe depending on if I can get lots of winter bark.
Its been an on an off project for a while but I am determined to finish it ASAP. The amount of hours that I have been working on it, well working it out probably about 16 hours of solid work to get this far but making models is far faster than the real thing although you do use the same building processes.
Oh the one thing I like about birch bark is that you can hide your mistakes d'oh my models are no way as good as Ted's