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First Post . Paint Advice for 1900s tug
… aybe Monday hit the Rc hobby shop called Ron’s in Glendale. Paint is the spray Acrylic for plastics. Coated with clear. Hull is plastic so my CA was put on to attach deck too thick. It melted plastic. I was going to fill in but said not wor …
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Checking Hull Exterior for cracks/leaks
… my shed today and took some pictures of the outside of the hull. As you suspected, there is evidence of places where water incursion could be occurring. All of it seems to be at the point where the sides of the hull and the bottom meet. It …
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More painting
The hull has been painted with several coats of 'Appliance white' from a rattle can, rubbing down carefully between coats with 1200 grit wet and dry, used wet. There is a 'Racing Sparrow' logo available to download from the website: https:/ …
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water, paint, copper
… deal with open gun ports, hatches, etc. After glassing the hull, she got beams for the spar deck installed. 3/4" x 3/4", they're probably a bit more than was needed. Tubes were installed for 5/16" stainless threaded rods that would hold he …
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Painting, Stand and Hatches
With the keel in place, time to start painting. The underside of the hull and the keel have been given several coats of grey etch primer from a rattle can. Each coat was sanded and any irregularities filled with knifing putty. After three c …
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My Susan Paint and float tests
The last of the masking-up and hull painting.. The power plant or drive motor, was originally going to be a 385 size type of motor, one of the expensive ones from Howes, ( lol ) at £3-£5 each, i really like these little motors as they have …
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My Susan Painting
After most of the Build was finished, time for some paint. As this is a wood build, most items received about 6 coats of 50/50 cellulose dope and thinners, lightly sanding between each coat. The first job was to paint he insides of the Bulw …
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Hull progress
… can mount it closer to the stern allowing more room in the Hull for the sail control servos. I now intend to paint the inside using epoxy resin and secure some ballast lead sheet.
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Paint 2
Painted the lower portion of the hull. Clean up and second coat to come. Than sealing finish coats. Rick
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Half Hull models, Bluenose Fishing /schooner
The J Class yacht half hull models turned out rather well and were well accepted as presents which left me without one for myself hence the start of the classic fishing schooner "Bluenose". I have admired this yacht for many years and was o …
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Half Hull models
… y next build I decided to attempt building a couple of half hull yachts. I sent for a reference book about half hull modelling but it covered basically the carving of half hulls from a large piece of timber, very nice but I wanted to persue …
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ABS hull treatments
… ecause I am looking for ideas how I could strengthen my ABS hulls as well as possible. The last time I worked on my ships was in 1989 and since then a lot has changed in terms of the treatment of the hulls My question: What would you do fir …
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Painting your projects and sealing wood???
Trying to understand what stage you seal and paint your projects. I getting ready to start sealing My MV American Beauty with all the external parts stairs side rails, and such It would make the boat very difficult to sand, seal and paint a …
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Re: Fibre glassing the hull
Interesting how you take on the challenge of glassing the hull. When I do mine boats, it is done with multiple strips, overlapping, and when dry, lightly sanded. I use a auto body filler if needed which is how I was taught. Then sanded smoo …
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Fibre glassing the hull
… ed to this type of work. The first job is to give the whole hull a coat of resin which is diluted 50:50 with water; this allows the resin to soak into the wood giving a good bond, when dry after about an hour it can be lightly sanded with a …
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Paint and windows
… off so I decided to hunker down on the SAR. Got most of my paint done, save for the orange rub rail that goes around the perimeter of the hull. I also painted my window frames and installed the windows. Paint came bout good, windows decent …
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Well deck and the start of (ugh) paint
… uffing box. 2. External structures. Cabin and well deck. 3. Paint everything you can!!! Because of the multiple colors, and the fact that the deck and hull are one piece, having the hull and superstructure painted will make the next steps e …
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Skinning the hull
The hull sides and bottom are skinned with 1mm ply. This is supplied laser cut to size. I held the first side in place while Finley applied the superglue. I'd bought some superglue from the local pound store which came with a long flexible …
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1/24 scale Vosper RTTL with a wooden hull
… recently I inherted a 1/24 scale Vosper RTTL with a wooden hull which I plan to finish off. Im guessing its about 40 years old. Unfortunately some of the paint is starting to flake off so a repaint of the Hull is going to be nessesary. I w …
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Hull Continued (Mounts)
… i could of hidden the wires better. Gave the inside of the hull a quick coat of paint. Now i will be jumping about on this build as the main assembly has been done. Martin555.
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1/24 scale Vosper RTTL with a wooden hull
Hi Phil, So far so good If the remaining paint is sound then leave it. Sanding any further may start weakening the hull where the wood is already exposed. Ask me how I know Resin: If you are going to resin the hull then don't hold back, do …
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1/24 scale Vosper RTTL with a wooden hull
Well, I've spent a good few hours on the hull and this is where we are at. I'm halting working at this point basically until I can hear what you guys think and make sure I'm heading in the right direction. Basically, I've been, very careful …
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Back on the Hull
… and rudder only using the hatch and the opening inside the hull, so i now know that i can do any maintenance in this area when required. A screwdriver with a Magnet attached helped when screwing down the servo screws. Now with the deck glu …
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1/24 scale Vosper RTTL with a wooden hull
I do enjoy a bit of detective work - I believe that this hull was constructed from the Vic Smeed plans. What gave it away was that there was a number written on one of the frames which corresponds with a number on the plan for that correct …
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1/24 scale Vosper RTTL with a wooden hull
… be addressed with suitable lubricant. Okay, for your white hull I believe your original RTTL hulls were painted gloss white for the overseas versions - but - after time salt air and etc., would flatten the gloss off to make it look like a …
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1/24 scale Vosper RTTL with a wooden hull
… one. Here are a couple more pictures, one showing where the paint has pealed off. The gold water line looks like its some kind of thin tape and a small piece at the bow has come away, taking the paint with it. Obvously the whole lot will ha …
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Paint, stupid rub strip and start on Superstructure
… y’all. It’s been a bit since I posted. I wanted to get the hull painted before I posted again, but I ran out of paint. I finally got most of the paint work on the hull done, I still have a little touch up to do. I then decided to add the r …
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Hull Complete
… m the pictures that it doesn't look too bad after a coat of paint and I'm hoping that it will be even less visible on the completed model. I don't know whether to be disappointed or not with the second and inner bulwark planking. There are …