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Cabin assembled
… ..time..to..assemble the cabin. The cabin is located on the hull. The aft 1/4 inch of the cabin lays over the hatch, from what I understand the hatch is slid forward under the cabins aft edge and pressed into place. Anyway, once I had my ca …
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Euro-Girl Semi Kit Review
… a thorough examination of the Semi Kit Parts 1,2 and 3. The Hull is a chopped strand GRP Hull and is extremely well made. It is thick enough not to twist and is approximately 2mm -4mm thick. The thick parts are where it is going to take the …
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HAKITS Morston
… ed to the workshop alas! Have been moving on a bit with the hull painting, a somewhat slow moving operation it seems. I have now painted the lower hull and upper hull, except for the final coat which will be applied after the deck and super …
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Re: Aerokits Sea Rover, I think? 29 1/2 inch
I also attacked the underside of the hull and sides with a sander. It's not in ready to paint finish yet, but it's smoother than it was and I can see more of what sort of condition it is in.
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Re: Pearla Malta - Precedent Fairey Huntsman 31 aft cabin 34 inch
… m/blogs/44658 The boat was free and had a heavy glass fibre hull, the real boat's hull was originally designed for off shore racing. I never finished it as I was disappointed with its performance (speed) and I killed one of its brushless mo …
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HAKITS MORSTON
… the big cover-up and set about priming the top part of the hull and then rubbing down first coat. I did not know exactly how to go about the order of painting the model but decided I would get the tricky part out of the way first. It is no …
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Starting to finally assemble the Trawler
… ns had to be re aligned. The cap rails had to be put on the hull. I then drilled the holes for the stanchions. Ran into some problems in the drilling process but caught the mistake before I started drilling. Being a new builder I have made …
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Battery housing
… the stern down the tubes I inserted between the box and the hull earlier in the build where it will, via a fuse be connected to the ESC. The connections go through an XT60 plug and socket to enable the battery to be changed easily, then int …
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HAKITS Morston
… r the past few days adding strakes along the outside of the hull. This has been reasonably challenging as there is nothing to clamp the strips to until the glue sets. It also highlighted something that I had done previously which made this …
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HAKITS MORSTON
I have just been able to fix one side of the upper hull skin which runs from the bow to midships. This was, perhaps, a bit trickier than fixing the lower skins due to them being shorter and therefore not so easily curved to the shape of the …
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The Stern Handrails Part 1.
… . The stern on the real Pilot boats is not as curved as the hull of the SLEC model that mine is built from so a bit of modelling licence is required to simulate these rear handrails. Neither will it have the rear ladder seen in the first ‘p …
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… 3 screws for quick removal. After the rail was made but not painted yet I positioned all the equipment. Because the flue/exhaust for my Steam generator is not positioned directly under the funnel I made up an offset flue out of steel pipe. …
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US1 Hatch - servos, switch, battery hard wired
… l Nimh pack for 6 volt 2700mAh delivered. Remaining work is painting the hull, making the sails and all rigging in place. Cooler weather has finally arrived here so my shop will be up and running at full speed ahead! Joe
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BUXTON MODEL BOAT CLUB
… from the designer Frank Russell. Neville hand laminated the hull in epoxy glass, and the fin and rudder in epoxy carbon. Hull finished in cellulose paint. Information provided by Neville Black.
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Update #3
… re coats of laquerto go on upper deck then turn it over and paint the hull. hook up steam plant radio rcvr.
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Re: Nearly ready to fill seams
… t a layer or two of glass fibre tissue on the inside of the hull. Stops the filler squishing through and looking unsightly inside. Had to do that on my fish cutter restoration, as it was like Chantilly lace after cleaning off 1/16" of old p …
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Re: Planking coming along
… es were over lapped allowing welding inside and outside the hull. A welder who repairs these vessels told me about this manner of construction. The model will have auto spot, glazing putty applied to the small spaces between the planks, the …
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'Ellipsis' International One Metre Class yacht
… from the designer Frank Russell. Neville hand laminated the hull in epoxy glass, and the fin and rudder in epoxy carbon. Hull finished in cellulose paint. Information provided by Neville Black.
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HARTLEY FLARELINE, NEW PROJECT
… think of a way of getting the power to the lights from the hull without a long plug in lead. I spent an hour in the electronics shop looking at all types of plugs and fittings, and finally found something I thought might work. 3.5mm stereo …
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Lesro RNLI Atlantic 21 RIB
… B. This was 95% scratch built after buying the sponsons and hull of eBay and then completely remaking all the details. I have made a detailed blog of the complete build on the forum. Point to not at this point is the figure is not quite com …
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Motor, shaft rudder etc
… , I added the coaming to the deck and Stabilit’ed it to the hull. Oh, just before that I added a ply battery/electrics floor, using some large aileron stock to support it in the vee of the hull, and also gave it more gluing area. Once I sor …
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Barge Ketch....back at it!
… t went on the shelf for a year. I did some more work on the hull and continued the build in early 2020. Then back on the shelf while I was building two sailing yachts. Pulled it back out last week and did some hand painting of the deck, etc …
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US1Meter's only Hatch!
This is the freshly painted Hatch. It's designed to hold the Sail Servo, Rudder Servo, RX and Power Switch. The arched element on top with a hole in it is a sheet guide for the Main Sail. Servo arms and all sheeting, rudder control arm will …
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Vosper MTB 77 - Italeri kit
… off and I managed to strip the model completely down and repaint and build it again. I have installed new prop shaft, prop, motor, rudder assembly and RC throughout. 'Sea' trials will be held soon as long as I can properly seal between the …
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KNK Mini Jupiter M401
… joints and fix it, but I got it handled. The bottom of the hull is planked with 3 narrow thin plywood sheets that overlap each other, giving the hull bottom strakes all the way aft. The side sheeting is one piece of the same thin plywood. …
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Leak fixed and a little fun!!
… found the culprit, sealed that, then ran thin ca along the hull plate edges, and spread thin epoxy inside near the suspected area just in case. I then took her to my church’s test pond, and ran her pretty hard. After about 30 minutes of ru …
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Excalibur
… ebsite "This boat is an exercise in gel coat... there is no paint and the colour scheme you see, including the pinstripe, is all in the gel coat. it's unlikely that we will do another one as its time consuming and the end result is a bit he …
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Update 1 - Phantom build
… the strut and the side planks is to coat the inside of the hull with epoxy resin and add some fibreglass between the frames. This I hope will give a little more strength to the boat and water proof it, with the added benfit of filling some …