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Day Dreamer gets a newly painted hull
This Midwest Maine Down East yacht is sporting a newly painted hull in Midnight Blue. Originally built and painted with a white hull, after twenty years it needed an upgrade. The Midnight Blue sets off the wooden deck work very nicely. Dann …
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hull paint
… iation.com/freeflightmaterials. You can apply direct to the hull and remove excess with a plastic scraper. Your hull looks very similar to the hulls we built for the Titanic and Olympic. We added a black tint to the epoxy to save on paint c …
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re Tug hull paint
… I correct that tugboats that operate in salt water must be painted with a different type of paint than those operating in freshwater? So a tugboat working on the Great Lakes or other large inland bodies of water and rivers are preserved di …
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stripping hull for repair and repaint
… ould be solid and watertight. I am attaching some pics of a hull I acquired for the 48" Crash Tender in a part (badly) built state. The last pic is of my Sea Queen hull after stripping for comparison. You can clearly see how the gunge can g …
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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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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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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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Day Dreamer gets a newly painted hull
Ronald!
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Fitting deck to FG hull
… Before putting it into place I suggest gluing blocks to the hull, all the way around, onto which the deck will sit. You should wash the complete hull with detergent to remove any traces of releasing agent, then rinse and dry it. The blocks …
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Hull sealing
… s magazine where he done an early Float test, he sealed the hull using dope and tissue however I have none of this to hand and am doing this build on a budget as it’s for my youngest son. The float test was done before the prop tube was fit …
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Raf Tender PAINT Colour
… e darker, but thats if you wanbt to be real picky! Deck was painted in cerrux none slip paint. You can achieve this by first dusting with light coats a textured paint, till you get the effect you want, then paint over in bs631 or whatever y …
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First Post . Paint Advice for 1900s tug
… oundation Franklin ,Rhode Zee and a few others. I am at the painting of the hull stage and would appreciate any advice on the best paint and colour to use to simulate a black hull and an underwater colour such as red lead I believe was used …
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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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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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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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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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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 …