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Hull ready to paint!
… stained, some deck detail added (most detailing will follow painting and varnishing). Hull has had a good sanding with wet n dry and has had the grey primer added. Have also given the bottom of the hull a coat of red oxide primer. Following …
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Hull painting and trimline
After over 24 hours of paint and laquer setting time, have this morning before bed (on nights) added the white trim line and RNLI flags. As I said in a previous post, adding a thin white line between top red and blue is not seen on the real …
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Hull Painting
First finishing paint going on hull.
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Hull painted
Hull painted, now awaiting it to harden before adding white stripe on water line
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hull paint
… iation.com/freeflightmaterials. You can apply direct to the hull and remove excess with a plastic scraper. Your hull looks very similar to the hulls we built for the Titanic and Olympic. We added a black tint to the epoxy to save on paint c …
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Painting the Hull
… her for a couple of weeks I have now completed stage one of painting the hull I am taking it carefully because I have used Gloss Black Humbrol enamel on top of the rattle can filler primer & I shall be using rattle can metallic on the hull …
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HULL PAINTING
Now that all the necessary holes through the hull have been done and made sure they are in the correct places, its time to start painting the hull. I prefer to now remove the earlier "test fitted" items, props, rudders etc and get the main …
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Painting the hull
After leaving the hull in primer for 4 days, sufficient time to allow the thinners in the material to evaporate. time to put the top coats on. I first masked off the upper hull and painted the white lower section using aerosols [halfords ap …
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Windows fitted to Hull & painted
… now picked up again and we have attached the windows to the hull sides. The top decks "A" and "Boat Deck" have had the cabins fitted using the Waterjet cut sides. Castings are now finished and painting well advanced Bill and Dave
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2nd July hull paint
OK so there is some paint on Primer and how much better it looks, all my fears of it still looking rubbish have diminished, for now. I have only primed it a couple of coats put on thin , I will flat it again and see how it is , it seems to …
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Hull and deck paint, prop installed and a ##&&!! virus!
… b mates today, so Anyway, I felt good enough to do a little painting this week, and finished the painting today. Might do a semigloss clear, might not. Decided on black below waterline, orange up to the railing, gray deck, will do the super …
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Re: Paint came in, hull painted…the blue is mot quite right
… hese problems to be industry wide. The U.S. Navy warship is painted with the newest paint from various manufacturers that all “meet the spec”. The traditional “haze gray” is variously being described as “dim gray, light gray, tannish gray, …
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re Tug hull paint
… I correct that tugboats that operate in salt water must be painted with a different type of paint than those operating in freshwater? So a tugboat working on the Great Lakes or other large inland bodies of water and rivers are preserved di …
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Hull painted
Well that is the hull done now I think. The green took several coats to get right. I decided Humbrol gloss #3 was a bit too bright for my liking so I mixed in some gloss black before I sprayed it until it looked about right to my tastes and …
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Machinery done, seats in, almost time for hull paint!!
… ve a few more things to do forward, then it’s ready for the paint shop. Cash
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Preparing hull for paint & finish cutting window openings..
… Next I proceeded to insert 2 aluminium flat bars across the hull fore and aft. My thinking is that I am going to use these to secure the deck to the hull by having 3mm bolts in the 2 towing bollards that will tighten onto a glued nut under …
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Hull painting commenced....
… t was time to stick some of that VW Brilliant orange on the hull. 3 coats throughout the day on the hull and transom saw a nice blemish free finish. Point to note was that I had primed the hull with grey yesterday followed by a coat of whit …
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Re: Painting the Hull.
… de and 'rolls up' leaving a jagged edge. So getting a sharp paint edge with Maskol is dependant on how well you can paint the edge. In that respect it works just as it's supposed to Robbob.
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Re: Painting the Hull.
… ne detail masking. it's a sort of latex fluid that you just paint on and then peel off afterwards. It comes off cleanly and does a good job. Rob.
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Re: Painting the Hull.
… rubbery skin that you can peel off after spraying or brush painting. Works for me Cheers, Doug https://www.revell.de/en/products/colors-accessories/accessories/color-stop-30ml.html
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Hull finished less painting and details
… nd de-grease, final job of the day was to give the complete hull less the deck a thinned coat of resin leaving to set up over night. Will start looking at the cabin tomorrow and see how I can alter that from the kit norm.
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Painting upper hull commenced
… ce dry, a light coat of Matt lacquer applied to protect the paint finish before starting the washes and weathering. A lot more weathering to come once I’ve painted all the black edge strips ect. I also finished staining and varnishing the t …
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Re: Hull preparation and painting
… area against the item if required. I used 1/8” tape and the paint didn’t suffer. I didn’t leave it touching for very long though (!) and quickly pressed it down with a clean cloth. If I did it again I would probably use thee pieces across t …
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Re: Hull preparation and painting
… nd one has never come off yet! I have never clear coated my hulls, but see the need with these transfers. UltraCote is used to cover model plane frames and the iron shrinks the plastic but it also seems to do something to the adhesive. It s …
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Superstructure build started and hull painting completed.
… tted, some electrics wired for later fitting, deck sprayed, hull sprayed, superstructure build started.
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Hull now painted
So Emily helped me spray the hull and I like the colours that she suggested! Name and registration boards will be added later..
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Hull painting started
Have given the hull a few coats of hull red (Halfords red primer is close enough!). Have also added the red trim line at the top of the hull, most of which will disapear once the black rubbing strake is in place and its been masked off for …
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stripping hull for repair and repaint
… ould be solid and watertight. I am attaching some pics of a hull I acquired for the 48" Crash Tender in a part (badly) built state. The last pic is of my Sea Queen hull after stripping for comparison. You can clearly see how the gunge can g …