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Superstructure
Made and painted the mast glued onto wind screen. Windows glued on. All items glued into cockpit. Unit now finished. Work and paint for the hull. Rick
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Italeri Vosper RC conversion.
… lder Graupner rudder, and a metal motor mount bonded to the hull. The hull is one piece save the transom, I used 1/8th reinforcements and plenty of epoxy at the joints..don’t wanna lose that I made one glaring error, I cut the stuffing tube …
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AMPHITRUCK (second flotation test)
… ttachments better. These were all tested in position before painting and sealing the hull, then all removed for the next stages of work. Swim motors, main drive/gearbox, wheel steering servo with waterproof boot, driveshaft seal, rudder ser …
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AMPHITRUCK
The hull was sealed with a timber preservative thin resin inside. Screen surround and roof then fitted and removable rear screen made. all now painted with a sealer, primer and topcoat. Shafts were epoxied in at this stage, complete with cl …
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Decking
… to mention in the last page that my grandson got the job of painting the inside of the hull. This is for me one of the most important steps in the build, it ensures the future integrity of the hull from ingress of water into the skins and b …
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Forecastle Hoodway part 2.
… as possible to allow a reasonable air flow through into the hull, when the steam plant is installed. I marked out then carefully cut out the notch in the roof. Using a spacer I was able to temporally clamp things together, checking that the …
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Forecastle Hoodway.
… that a fan is mounted underneath to draw fresh air into the hull and another fan will be mounted aft to pull air out creating a forced draft. Here it is from the start. Recapping with the isometric sketches that have formed most of the guid …
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Ladders lights and such
… lt the second ladder sans solder. Worked out nicely. I then painted and installed the ladders. I had built sideboards for the port/starboard nav lights from plastic sheet instead of the ply in the kit. These were painted gray and glued in p …
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Power
Only little areas to touch up and fine tune the hull moved on to setting up ESC. Motor rudder and rudder servo had been installed and removed to paint the boat. Just a matter of putting them back in place hooking them up to to the ESC trans …
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Mabel river launch
A bit of advice needed please I’m spraying the hull this coming week do I need to varnish on top of the paint. If so I have some yacht varnish from household use would this be any good Mick
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Moving Forward!!
I had the day off today, so I repainted the bulwarks, touched up the deck and got the new rub rail installed. It’s not perfect, but it fit and laid down much better, stretched around the bow with very little lifting, and I was able to do th …
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More sanding and cleaning and a little cutting
… as it’s 1 am here ( woke up at 1230 can’t sleep). I got the hull flange cleaned up, trimmed a little better and sanded. I also cut the freeing ports out of the bulwarks. My goal is to try to finish the repaint tomorrow and get the new rub s …
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Mabel river launch
Hi I’ve painted the inside of the hull and then fitted the ply deck held in place with the Tesco shopping order as you an see we’ve had snow overnight. I then had a panic that maybe I should have used some varnish of some sort any thoughts …
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framework
… ed without problems Tried fitting small bits to bow so that hull shaping can be achieved (not reached that part yet should be about step 20) only to find the anchor guides do not line up and will have to be modified and will deal with prior …
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Back at it!!
… look okay. Also, I’ve removed the rubber rub rail from the hull, as it just didn’t fit to my liking. I have what looks like a better fitting rubber channel coming in a week or so. I need to sand the heck out of the flange, and trim it up. …
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One meter class yacht. Nimbus.
… lanking which was very suitable for the job of building the hull. Builders of this model are recommended to refer to Racing Sailboats by Chris Jackson which details the build methods very well and is a great help throughout the build. The p …
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Krick Police Launch
… idering the price, but I do feel that the ABS vacuum formed hull could be of a slightly better quality. Also I am finding the ply wood to be rather brittle. Does anybody have an idea for a good filler to use to fill the chips which will tak …
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Front 4inch Gun base and servo build.
… glue was to fail.I don’t want the servo falling inside the hull.(These screws will not be seen with the barbette in place) Having allowed all the glue to set I put it all together and cut the aluminium tube to length and once again thankfu …
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VINTAGE RUNABOUT
… ransom's looking a bit shinier now, so that's about all the paint done hull wise. Just a few more bits to go now,- screen, oilers and a bit more trimming. Weather's rubbish at the moment, so not rushing.
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VINTAGE RUNABOUT
… hey will need sanding and undercoating before the bottom is painted. Also managed to buy some red spray paint for the bottom, so hoping to do that soon if the weather warms up again. Had a bit of trouble getting one of the rails to stick ri …
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Almost complete Superstructure
… her side of the funnel. I'm getting better at detailing and painting now, but still room for improvement, and some "touch up" required in places. Everything is small and fiddly and even with small tweezers my big fingers get in the way and …
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Dutch Auxiliary
… rdwood was very difficult to thin as it was attached to the hull, a place where it had sat in glory almost from day one. I was now left with a model yacht with an ugly fin and absolute disappointment that this aspect had not allowed me to c …
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HMS SCIMITAR FTB
… ed the Glass fibre supplier, who offered to mould a lighter hull, at around 100g. Ordered it and arrived promptly. Nice and light at 100g, but somewhat flexible. A thorough dimensional check showed a slight twist in the forepart. Have found …
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getting its feet wet
… . filled the small slot with filler so hopefully its sealed hull had 2 coats watered down pva glue and a coat of paint now onto fitout of the interior
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Robbe/Krick Paula IV
… in, the upper was then masked with the included masking and painted, leaving the windows clear once unmasked. The accessories and fittings are of good quality, but maybe just a little off compared to the original Robbe parts. Don’t think th …
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Fletcher
… it to adjust for some of my over generous camber. Putty and Paint make you see what ain't. One of the nice things about working with the thin F/G decking was that I could see through it and the deck beams were visible. Next step was to lay …
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Fletcher
… right) that I would not need to access the aft have of the hull more than just thru the deck houses, I added the aft half of the deck. This has always caused me great trepidation because it seems that no matter how well I plan thing out, I …
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VINTAGE RUNABOUT
… ncluding plumbing, and it's just about ready for decking or hull painting. Water/air/smoke system is working, along with the BT/SD card stereo. Same setup as the Hartley cabin boat, with radio and Micro SD card, playable from a small BT pla …