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Red Oxide Primer!
… to find Red Oxide Primer. Tomorrow if it's not windy. I'll paint the top half of the hull! This time I hope. I paint the right part of the hull! Oh, I had gotten a can of flat black. But it turned out to be kind of like a satin black. It h …
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
Back to the main hull Have finally got the hull sprayed today with this heat it has been drying faster than I can spray it on Firstly the hull was sanded with a 200grit paper to sand of the shiny coating to give the paint something to key t …
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Graupner ranzow refitting
… inally got round to sanding the deck edge to blend into the hull using permagrit files and 200grit sand paper ready for its couple of coats of a water based varnish before applying the paint Ron
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Hacker-trinity
Hi guys new ebay purchase listed as bare hull only when it arrived it came with full fitting set and speed 600 brushed motor. bought it because of paint job and for some fast electric fun all for just £24.00 should go well with brushless se …
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rudder and water cooling
… exit port today. Please note added strakes to underside of hull this is to force water under the boat, as vacuum formed hulls like this have curved chines which can cause the hull to be held back by the suction of the water. Also added som …
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
Today I have masked of the boat ready for painting when the weather warms up . Materials used where frog masking tape and some paper packaging that came out of the last delivery box from Amazon. Firstly I went round taping of all the fidly …
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
… r the weather to warm up so I can get the lower half of the hull painted
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Sanding down.
… f Patience Any short cuts here will show up all through the painting process See my Sea Scout 'Jessica' renovation blog re hull restoration!! My motto for painting is 'Brush for little fiddly bits, spray for big bits' e.g. hulls. I agree mo …
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Roof Skins
… I had finished my 4 footer. So this is a 3 foot boat, glass hull (cant remember where it came from) the rest is scratch. Superstructure plastic, with ply formers etc, virtually all fittings hand made from brass. Davit worked, windows opened …
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Main deck and cabin walls
… en coats only. Interesting effect with this lacquer and the paint (as opposed to the varnish); it seemed to 'melt and fuse' with the paint surface and smooth it out. Just had to be careful not to apply too much at once in case it all ran do …
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The Saga of the Cabin Roof or - Arrrgh!
… ght, OK make new pieces from the 0.6mm ply I still have and paint it - then my eye fell on some 1mm mahogany sheet (Ouch ). Tried to make the whole roof skin in one piece of this but the compound curve defeated me. The skin was steamed and …
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Devil in the detail!
… new blades with 0.8mm brass sheet, pinned and soldered and painted in oxide red primer. Last job of the day was to start building the cockpit floor and to give the hull another coat of resin.
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Wainscoting Completed!
… pics attached. Last pic is the 'before'! Now back to final painting of the hull. Already flatted back with a 3000 sponge used wet with a drop of liquid soap.
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Vintage Aerokit Crash Tender
… d motor. due to the power of this motor I have modified the hull under the water line with turn fins and trim tabs to reduce torque roll and improve turning stability, the underside is incorrect already as it only has one propshaft, where t …
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WWII Italian MAS 562
… pedo boat I found the craft interesting as it had a stepped hull, and this looked like a challenge, so more research and historical digging. Built in 1941 by Baglietto, Varazze: built of wood (mahogany). Baglietto, Varazze: built MAS 561 th …
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For Sale - Pilot ll from plans by Vic Smeed
For Sale. Plank on frame wooden hull scratch built from original plans by Vic Smeed. 86cm L by 28cm B. She is very well made, though I can't claim for construction as I bought her part built. I re-painted, added the drive train and electric …
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Anchor chain tubes
I forgot about this bit, it was done before the hull and decks were painted. The tubes to take the anchor chain, there is probable a proper name for these but I have no idea what it is The positions on the deck were marked off and two holes …
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Fishfull Thinking
… and rebuilding this boat with a totally new superstructure, paint job and electronics. I obtained the fiberglass hull measuring 24.5 X 9 inches from a California fellow via E-bay. Formerly a 45-footer Chris Craft at 1:24 scale, this updated …
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Bulwark supports
The deck and bulwarks were given another coat of paint, after this had dried the wash ports and rope hawsers were masked off and the hull given two coats of red primer, the water line was marked using a pencil on a block of wood, bottom par …
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(Pleasure Craft) Billings Sea King
… 7mhz Tx. New rudder, original propshaft with new couplings. Hull painted in Hammerite Gold and Plastikote white. Retained orignal Billings decals. New stanchions and rails. Re-veneered deck and added some fancy balsa work. Plains well after …
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Deck Beams and Anchor Port's
… out and fitting box's around the anchor port's, I have also painted the inside of the hull, next job is to fix some new cross beams for the new decks to sit on.
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Speedline 1/12 Severn Class RLNI Boat kit for sale Incl. all options
… parately. The ‘sets’ making up the full kit are as follows: HULL AND WHEELHOUSE SET £260 The hull and wheelhouse set comprises of three GRP mouldings, the hull, the main section of the wheelhouse and the inner wall of the wheelhouse. The hu …
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Richards 48" Swordsman
… but this will change to electric. So far, I have sanded the paint back to the wood and have filled the bow section damage. I have found an area around the hole for the prop shaft that has delaminated and come away from the keel. My plan is …
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SCRATCH FISHING BOAT
… rgot who designed it though. it is built from balsa for the hull sides covered in a pair of the bosses tights before sealing and painting.The stern and deck are ply then painted to seal. all the deck and cabin fittings are scratch built fro …
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(Pleasure Craft) BellaRagazza
… has been painfully slow since and mostly about planking the hull and fore deck in tiny mahogany strips. Painstaking work too. I will be picking this up more in between my Sea Commander work, probably while glue/paint is drying etc. it shoul …
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TRIUMPH (CG-52301) USCG Type F MLB
… arolina, USA. Baltic birch plywood false keel, ribs/frames, hull sheathing, deck and cabins. No formal plans; I was able to source a handful of B&W archival photos from the USCG website. Fortunately I was able to procure a motherload of arc …
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egrete - Rhine pusher tug.
… a 35" Dumas American Beauty. Both were given my boat shop's paint scheme (ILLINIWEK MARINE). I am multitasking on a couple boats, and one is another US Western river towboat, scratchbuilt up from a salvaged Dumas Am. Beauty hull. (That hull …
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MV TEAKWOOD
… the British india Steam Navigation Co. Evidently BI usually painted chartered vessels in their livery. Although the picture does not show the traditional and attractive BISNCo white hull cheat line, it does show the funnel markings. These a …