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Painting almost complete
Filling, sanding and painting has taken quite a long time! After two coats of sanding sealer, two coats of primer / undercoat applied by brush I then sprayed two coats of white. So far I've applied one coat of blue to the hull below the wat …
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Painting
Here's some snaps after the hull has been painted. Still need to add the wear plates for the rowlocks. Have made a start on the removable fin keel. When this is completed I'll add the RC equipment and spars etc, before doing a float test in …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… wing the comparison between my Swordsman 33 and Huntsman 31 hulls. The Swordsman is only 50mm longer but has a wider beam and almost parallel sides. The model is much bigger and heavier which is evident when just moving them around whilst I …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… ilds from the drawing or kit. You know what, looking at the hull whilst painting it I wouldn't be surprised if it did need some ballast! Though it it only sits a bit high I won't bother. As we know for it's length of 33" (838mm) it has a wi …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… f my models) you really shouldn't have any problem with the hull supporting the weight of the superstructure, 2 motors, battery, RC installation, prop shaft and rudder etc. As I said before, a planing hull is very buoyant unlike a long narr …
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Re: Painting
Managed to get the hull paint sorted so is it now a good idea to give the whole thing a coat of some kind of varnish??
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wave master hull improvements
… back the keel now I hope far enough its the strakes on the hull to do next I have them on apt boat at that turns really well then can see about water proofing the wood and on with the painting
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Painting
Just about finished build and come to hull painting. I must have done something wrong here. I stupidly painted the raw wood with a Tamya spray. It looked all right but when I added a second, and third and fourth coat, sanding in between, ev …
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Re: Hull and deck paint, prop installed and a ##&&!! virus!
Nice pics. Did u get the Nuro virus? It gastro intestinal. Basically from shit. In resturants it’s usually on plate or utensils. An employee got it on hands n transmits it. Hand washing not the covid alcohol stuff works. Soap n water washin …
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More resin for the hull.
Now that the spray rails are fitted, I can give the entire hull another coat of resin to build up a good surface for the paint process. As with the application of the glassfibre cloth I do this separately for each ‘face’ of the hull to ensu …
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I Hate Painting!
… f the Faun I'm working on. I use good quality International Paints enamel and primer-undercoat and brushes. Couple of coats of primer-undercoat followed by a couple of coats of enamel and all well so far. Followed by what I was hoping to be …
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I Hate Painting!
Looks like I'm not the only one suffering grief from painting then. Some folks can get beautiful hand-painted finishes. I suppose that unless you go to the lengths that some do, like enclosures with air extraction, it's always going to be a …
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Hand Painting
… varnish is not as necessary. Some of the newer alkyd house paints dry very evenly, so brush marks are not a concern. I also use foam smooth surface roller pads are great for large hulls with latex paint. No matter what, I let everything ga …
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Hull construction and sheathing (the art of)
Guguseli, it's me again . . . The hull of the stern wheel steamer was a disaster. It was twisted in the longitudinal axis by 7 mm . . . At first I thought of rebuilding it. But a German shipbuilder (real boats) gave me the tip to fill it wi …
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Hull construction and sheathing (the art of)
Hi Roy. Waterproofing a hull both inside and out is essential, indispensable for a dynamic RC model. Of course the external part is a priority because it is in contact with the water (sorry, it's almost banal to say it). The internal part m …
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Hull construction and sheathing (the art of)
… ow cleaner or problems with a fiberglass overlay. Fillers & paint also adhere well. The glass cloth & resin impart strength to the underlying wood much like another lamination of plywood; resin alone merely adds weight. I do coat the inside …
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Hull construction and sheathing (the art of)
… little odour, if any. I use it to waterproof the inside of hulls and on the outside with lightweight cloth (1oz per m2) which ties different timbers together e.g. balsa blocks and ply or bass planking and provides an ideal base for paintin …
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Back to work watching paint dry
… xy and sawdust. The inside surface and the hammocks all got painted, and when dry, a covering board of stained basswood was glued on to cover the seam between hammocks and bulwark. I'm not happy with the hammocks color, it should be leaning …
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Better, she’s starting to look the part…at least the hull is😁
Just finished spraying Dickys hull with the lighter blue I acquired. Tell me what y’all think then I’ll own up to what I painted her with….
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Painting and Fitting-out
… anding between each coat to try to get a smooth finish. The hull is painted "Victory Red" and "Black", and the waterline painted white with Craftmaster Signwriting Enamel I made a frame to sit the boat on, using my laser level to project a …
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Re: Fairey Faun 17 - Planking Hull
Hi Chris Yes, if you're painting the hull, using balsa is a good way of forming tricky bows. I normally try and keep it to a minimum as shown with my Huntress hull but with the Faun I ended up using it back as far as Frame 3. Reason being I …
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Starting to plank the hull
This week I ordered some lime planks for the hull from Cornwall Model Boats - 6mmx1mm and 6mmx0.5mm. I decided on lime because I read on another build blog somewhere that lime was very flexible, not too expensive and I didn't really care wh …
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Under deck done, most paint is finished.
… om scrap basswood. I Velcro my packs in, and since the ST’s hull is a little thin I didn’t relish the idea of the hull flexing when i uninstall a battery, so I made supports on the underside of a piece of 1/8th basswood sheet, and used Stab …
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Paint type recommendation
… now getting closer to finishing and have to consider how to paint the plastic hull. Not having built a boat in decades and not having worked on a plastic hull before, I need some help finding the right paint. I need to match the superstruct …
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re Tug hull paint
Hi Stephen I for one just don't know that answer to this, the only thing I can say is that all my 1900s steam tugs are all black below the water ling and Red above, the ones that are from the late 1940 are red oxide below. Fred
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Fibreglassing a wooden hull
… ) is always an advantage. - The resin coating will make the hull waterproof (if it wasn't already), or at least improve the waterproofing (if the hull was already waterproof), but above all it will make the hull much much more resistant (me …
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Painted and part rigged
Now given away, It never sailed well. Made some sails. Painted the hull, add some stickers for windows. Have tried to do the rigging but will most likely need to change this. Things to do include the RC Box servo operation etc.
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Day Dreamer gets a newly painted hull
Ronald!