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Fire Boat 34" Laser cut Window kits
… t way round with the matt side facing outwards, they can be painted grey if required using acrylic or enamel paint or just left white like the photo's. again lightly sand the gloss side to remove any burrs to aid adhesion. I stuck the frame …
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Sea Queen Refurb
… be remade, deck/superstructure/roof panels/windows etc. The hull needed stripping back to give a good surface for the finished paint work. Completion of the basic boat is now getting near, and ready for fitting out with motor radio etc. Hop …
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34inch RAF Fireboat
… ,Finally got started on the fireboat. Have stripped all the paint and varnish from the deck up and also inside the hull. Now have separated all the cabin roofing and upper bulkheads for access to the keel which has delaminated in places. Th …
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1/16th scale Fire Monitors
… e restoration of my 34" Crash Tender, having got around the paint problems by eventually hand painting the hull! see http://modelfireboats.com/?link=3525 I'm now trying to make or resource some 1/16th scale working Fire monitors. I've alrea …
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what a struggle
… but being a sadist I have stuck with it.... (why?) the new paint job has been a struggle to say the least, the black hull sides must be re-done, I used a brand of aerosol I havent used before (tetrosyl) and will not be using ever again! it …
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back on the fireboat
… of several months. its wobbly decks and gaping gaps in the hull are all now filled and sorted, the deck is as smooth as a smooth thing! BUT I really really should have replaced the wavey cabin sides and fitted new decks...aint hindsight a …
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More Tests and Construction
… r 45 mins run times. I have corrected the waterline and the hull is painted to deck level. Made the two exhaust ports with working lids but not yet fitted. Work now started on the cabin. Reworked the back as I am not fitting the gantry, and …
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slow but sure
… y progress.. another really big job out of the way, all the hull is now stripped of paint, new rubbing strips, and a bit od detailing on the cabin roofs... hatches and things still loads to do db
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Well Its time to finnish It off
… decided to Finnish of the fire boat, as I have said I hate paint that is why I have 4 boats that need just the paint to Finnish them of so I have decided a concerted effort is needed to get them done , after the paint blooming the first ti …
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Vosper MTB ( perkasa type )
… tly finished MTB may be of interest. It consists of 49" GRP hull ply deck / superstructure. The fittings are from a mixture of ABS and metal, to give a good surface for spray painted finish. The drive consists of twin 850 motors and twin 50 …
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Who Is building/restoring what fireboat?
… he summer he restored it to its original condition with new paint and new fittings. After seeing his boat I wanted one so I brought a deans marine seaplane tender kit. it took 2 months to build and I've spent the last 6 months experimenting …
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Aerokits Solent Clas Lifeboat - Douglas Currie
… by Gray (Froggyt996). First he had to skin one third of the hull as only two thirds had been skinned. He then had to use copious amounts of filler to make the hull its correct shape see photo 3, instead of the stepped hull as per the origin …
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well deck
… he water only goes in to it and not in to the bottom of the hull, it seems to work ok and there are several ways you can do it. this is pre Paint
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August 1st Update
… boat at the back and pouring off the end of the rub rails. Hull painted, just spray cans. The deck was finished with 4 coats of Nelsons brush on clear coat. I wet sanded between each coat & its very nice and much better than the deck on my …
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July 10th
… shed" with Scotchbrite. Time to start thinking about primer painting the hull, then clear coat over the decks
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Rear Mast
… hould be maintenance free for a few years. I have given the hull a sand as I feel it ready for paint, I am going to do it first so I can have a test run to try the system out so paint time this week AT LAST .
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June 16, 2008 servo mounting
… nd motors for the batteries. there is a picture with a bent paint brush, this just shows how I give the underside of the decks and hull to deck joint a coat of epoxy
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May 14th
… for the deck planking to arrive. Without it I can't add the hull rub rail or the ply skin to the transom to finish the hull. I have decided that it would be less tricky to paint the cabin sides first and then fit the decking along side. Tha …
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Aerokits PT restored by Graham Taylor
… kit Fast Patrol Boat. When I bought the boat it had a sound hull with a few damaged fittings, which I removed. Since then I have made new guns, extended the front cabin to carry the life raft to make it look like a late World War II Elco PT …
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'Mary D' by John Simons
The hull of this model was my own design in 2004 and was sailed for 2 years, and then a new upper decks and battery system were added during the winter of 2005. The hull performed well enough but my original cabin design was too crude to ke …
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April 3rd
… section which has the longest span. On the underside of the hull on each side of the keel in places I has some 1/32" wide gaps between the edge of the skin & the middle member of the keel sandwich. Rather than fill with conventional materia …
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Rear tanks
The last day or two has been spent tidying up the hull, I think there is just the exhausts and water outlets and generator exhausts on the transom and a flag mast that has to be removable, I have finally got the transom looking half way dec …
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Hawser pipe
… ss washer on to it to form a flange, it should look OK when painted. The portholes on side of the boat are different design to the ones on the front, I don't know which I like the best, what I have done is taken the outer up stand of the on …
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Starting of the mast
… t it is too wet and cold to do in the garage and I will not paint in the workshop as it is part of the house and the smell goes everywhere, I am still working out how to do the foot rails on the deck, I am thinking of pinning them on by dri …
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Finished mount
… ey are made in the next part. It's the first and last cheap hull as it was more trouble than it was worth, I spent a bit of time going over the hull and superstructure with wet and dry. The idea is to keep it as near finished as possible so …
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Sliding hatch and back deck
… time. One of the other jobs today was to start the prep for paint as I go. I had not fitted the deck at the very back so that was fitted, and some filler as the transom was a bit tatty on the hull I got at the top so I left it a bit long an …
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17 Dec 2007
I have gone for 1 extra bulkhead just to hold the hull shape I may take a bit more out of it to lighten it. The shapes between the motors and shafts are the battery holders, I may put another one in so I can slide the pack back and forward …