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Still Stripping......With Care!
… y. It is coming along, but do I really have to remove every paint layer after the old primer? Surely if it is well sanded some little bits can be left, not large patches just bits in very awkward places…………….please? Other questions Where th …
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Bit of a problem.............
… n and if it's done right. BUT: it would leave a kink in the hull lines cos the wood would no longer have the natural bend between the bullheads. The inserted piece would be flatter. You can see this effect clearly on the port side of my PTB …
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Bit of a problem.............
… aning engine blocks Use a heat gun and a scraper to get the paint off without destroying the wood. Like I had to do with my Gina 2 fish cutter and PTB hulls. Much less dust than trying to sand / wire-brush the paint off. That way will take …
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Dumas 1203 Coast Guard Lifeboat (RNLI Waveney conversion)
… e Star Wars 3.75" figures that with poetic licence could be painted to represent crew. However, at this point the model is approx 1;16 scale and the figures would be 1:18 scale so maybe too small. There are 1:16 scale lifeboat figures avail …
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Chris-Craft Special Runabout
… ve right over the transom from chine to chine, whereas this hull and the Special Runabout had a break, albeit a small one at the deck level. Anyway, I redecked the Hornet with 1/16th" ply, leaving the engine hatch long. I also had to make a …
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nearing completion!
… heelhouse contents. Just the Coxswain and seat to build and paint for a completed wheelhouse. The rest of the weekend has seen the cockpit just about finished, painted and laquered. So, to complete the model the following items need to be b …
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Detailing continues!
… have pressed on this week with the decks being finished and painted. all deck fittings scratch built, stanchions fitted and a crew figure painted and fitted. Today has seen the start of modifying the cabin to make it look like the UK versio …
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Dumas USS Crockett
Asheville Class gun boat model is 51” long weighs 22 lbs. hull covered with 2 layers of 2 oz. fiberglass cloth and resin. All plywood and balsa construction finished with fiberglass resin and Model Master paints. Working radar mast, turrets …
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Sterling Emma C Berry
… odel is 49” long and with ballast keel added weighs 17 lbs. hull is covered with 2 layers of 2 oz. cloth fiberglass cloth and painted with Krylon spray can paint. Hitec sail winch servo for main sail and standard servo for jib. Model has au …
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(Yacht) Adele
Model is from Dumas kit hull covered with 2 layers or 2 oz. fiberglass cloth and resin. Deck mahogany covered with 3/4 oz. cloth and resin, painted with klass Coat epoxy paints. Running lights and cabin light. Built with removable interchan …
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Final Finishing before Sea trials ;-)
… ashback to May Got sidetracked with 'lectrickery' an' stuff Hull was given a final spray top coat and gloss clear lacquer coat. All flatted back in between coats with 3000 grit Tamiya W&D sponges. Used wet with a drop of liquid soap. Then a …
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Dumas Express Crusier
… otors and hardware. Two layers of 2 oz. Fiberglass cloth on hull 3/4 oz cloth on deck Klass Coat epoxy paint . Model has cabin lights and running lights. Power 2 x 7.2 packs.
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Emerald - "Round the Word" ocean racing yacht.
… some free time, it is under a review and refurbishment. New paint on the deck and upper hull (above the waterline). Solid state relay modules added, to replace the micro switches, operated from a cam on a servo (replacing analogue channel 2 …
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Wianno Senior progressing
https://m.facebook.com/wiannosr/ Had to change hull to red after some bondo work. Deck is painted, just some touch up and glossy polyurethane for the mahogany. it is coming along.
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Rebuild Flower Class Corvette
Realigned motor to shaft painted hull add waterline and ballast and K40 runs well on 7.2 to 12v A nice model to have a good size and attractive on window sill.
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U-181
… er all to drown the crew I decided the same for my U26! Not painted or fixed yet Looks like you have a very similar dive system as my Akula II from Engel, or do you have two tanks? Main and trim or fore and aft? I also used perspex (5mm) fo …
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54 year old Crash Tender
Lots more work on the old girl. Scraped the cracked paint in the bow and filled with epoxy. spread epoxy under the new rubbing strakes having cut them from the same mahogany as Vanity's hull. Almost ready for paint now, having filed and san …
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After fibreglass and primer coat
So, the hull has been fibreglassed, and several coats of primer applied. What next? Mark the water line as seen on the PDF and photographs? OR Place model in water, load up with approximately the weight of servos, batteries, and other build …
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Gina 2 Billing Boats Fish Cutter - Restoration & Conversion
… we all hail from Kent (mostly Folkestone) and Beryle often painted scenes of the south Kent coast, Dungeness, Rye etc, including the fishing boats, I long assumed that the boat, Reg. E714, was from a south coast port possibly in Kent. Afte …
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Amsterdam
… y what it is.. All she needs is a full strip and revamp and paint... T. L. C. She is plank on frame hull like yours and would love to know the age of her and the kit make if u could help me out with this information that would be fantastic …
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Live and learn!
OK, I've learned that. When paint companies make a batch of paint. You should get as many cans from that batch as possible! For a set project if need be! I used Bright Touch automotive paint. For the bulwark and outer hull. Had to get two m …
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Seaplane Tender 360
… ryan, If you want to do the SOE version she was most likely painted all matt black! The colour of skulduggery What ever you do, despite your good intentions to retain the 'old patina', judging by the photos you are in for a complete strip b …
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Fittings & Detail Parts
… art somewhere as well More soon, am currently stripping the hull of my 28" Elco PTB, prior to repainting in Pacific camouflage as PT109 Cheers, Doug PS: YOOHOO! The new ESCs for the PTB just arrived HobbyKing HK-30A, 30A cont. complete with …
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Warped wood
… all part brushing, and spray cans for the bigger stuff like hulls and decks. The cans don't reveal what the base is but the thinners is white spirit or any of the usual 'universal' substitutes. It's made in Holland, supposedly specially for …
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Seeing the light
… s in a very short time; ten minutes. it says that it can be painted after ten minutes. Don`t think I will test this. I have fitted the deck and sanded down the hull sides to match. I think the weather is almost good enough to start the pain …
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Sea Scout 'Jessica' Sea Trial - at last!
… to bite my leg It's worth the effort to get a really smooth paint job on the hull. I'm sure it helps give that little extra speed, and the water and muck just pearls off so it's dead easy to dry and clean afterwards I've always been wary of …
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
OK, I admit defeat Seems the dinghy was painted black with a white lower hull. Also doesn't seem to be clinker built!? But since you have clinkered it please don't hide that under black paint Happy deciding, cheers Doug
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
… efore fitting the floor and seats . Once finished I will be painting the outside of the hull to match the main hull and varnishing the inside with a yacht varnish.