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GLUE FOR ABS
… rcing strips (ABS to ABS) or sticking an ABS bracket to the hull etc. You just use a small paint brush and run some acetone along the edge while clamping the part. You have to be careful on the outside as it will mark the ABS finish if you …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… to go on with the discussion on plan creation... Actually, paint finishes on EeZeBilts is a bit of a problem. It's true that balsa is not a good surface to paint on, and a common trick has been to cover it - with tissue, brown paper, nylon …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… lts than I have. For my sons ones, simply used polyurethane paint on the hull as for full size dinghy's . Cant remember what for the superstructure - but did use satin type of varnish still available here for the pencil lined decks. Long ag …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… orks really well and can be stretched to fit most shapes of Hull. Both methods used with ezekote, give good results and are usually ready to re-coat or paint in less than an hour. Cheers Colin.
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… ly light glass fibre tissue. If you can brush on varnish or paint you can brush on Ezekote and tissue just as quick and easy. It dries in around 20 to 30 minutes, depending on ambient temperature and humidity. I used this technique to stabi …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… Great for cabin tops/sides etc as well, (could even cover a hull with it, - just dope it, trim it and paint it) It's about all I use on planes as I got sick of expensive Solarfilm and others going slack in the sun (it's very stable and does …
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Martin Westquay's Piper Cub ;-)
… Beaver float plane, with custom Harbour Freight decals and paint job!I was experimenting with servo operated rudder floats, every fibre in my body was saying dont fly on salt water, but how could you resist that backdrop Floats are quite t …
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46" RAF Crash Tender
… scue boats with planked decks, - later boats seem to be all painted ply. Almost everyone seems to go with the black and grey theme for most boats, (the RNZAF painted their 64ft HSL hull black with varnished coamings at one stage but soon ch …
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Hints and Tips.
… , too many years in salt water . Tips? the secret? I really paint all my wood models so thoroughly and make internal wood coamings inside of the superstructures and actually hose down first thing at home with a soft hose stream to wash off …
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fairmile c MGB
hi there, did you paint over the Mountbatten pink ? or was your hull grey and you painted it Mountbatten pink? John
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1950s sea commander refurb.
… iting the motor from Doug (RN in Munich). We are going to repaint the Hull in White, Cabin sides in Dark Blue, Cabin roofs in White. The decks will be left as my dad made them, just cleaned and a fresh coat of varnish. the inside of the hul …
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HMS Campbeltown 1941, 1/96 scale
… fighters shot down many a German which billowed cotton wool painted red and black. After gun deck now populated (excuse the snow effect which is dust caused by fettling my MA/SB hull)
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Older Billings Models
… he drawing on stock), Sea Star or Sea King both is with ABS hull. It could also be DMI admiral. But I don't recall any DMI / BB yachts that was to be painted yellow. Regards Carsten
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Sailing Ship Peking
… cement that fills the lower three and a half metres of the Hull The ship spent about a year in dry dock. Peking was refloated on 07 September 2018 with Primer paint Hull. She stayed on Peters Werft Pier for about 2 months and goes to dry d …
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Metal sanding plates
… ure mine are by Sandvik. I never thought to clean them with paint stripper. Thanks for that, I'll give it a try. The new laser etched one's from Japan are highly flexible though, perfect for sanding a round bilged hull. At £6.99 including P …
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Cleaning sails, toy yachts, etc....
I did indeed use an abrasive polish on the cream paint, but as it was a very severe crack or two all along the hull, I injected resin in the crack and clamped it up as far as possible, then Milliputted in to fair it. This was between two st …
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Cleaning sails, toy yachts, etc....
… ched holes. The only one I have seen was on a pressed alloy hull of a cabin yacht with wire stays. That would have been just after the war. Make not known. PS re creamish paint. Give it a light T Cut before painting to remove oxidation firs …
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Cleaning sails, toy yachts, etc....
… rful stuff which I bought for our historic narrowboat's new paintwork. it was a wooden boat and when I replaced the cabins and had painted them with Tra-mar Coatings hand made enamel paint, I waxed them with 3M's wax and they went another 3 …
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Another toy pond yacht????
Picked this baby up on freecycle, hull length is 19" with a beam of 4". Will need a good clean up and repaint sails are a bit rotten so will need to be replicated. Mast and booms are okay, just need to be cleaned up before refitting. Now I …
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LED Tug Mast Navigation Lights
… hampton yet. Been busy fiddling with my fish cutter Gina 2, hull preparation and preliminary coat of white paint, and cleaning up Colin's vintage Taycol field coil motor. See Electrical Blogs 'Taycol Supermarine'. Cheers, Doug
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St Canute Planking Help?
… it all depends on the finish required but if like most the hull is to be painted then the importance of having each and every plank trimmed exactly to fit is less important. Some years ago I spent many hours frustrated by my inability to c …
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St Canute Planking Help?
… nly pulling your chain about a small typo! "to get a decant paint finish". Sorry I too have a small compressor (without reservoir) for major overhauls, hulls etc and a bigger 'Master Class' job with reservoir etc etc for more exacting jobs. …
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Darby One Design hydro...
… caused his final crash. i I used to have a Mk 1 Albatross, Hull 137, but nI couldn't use it anywhere fast due to river speed limits, so I flogged it. it was all riveted aluminium, made by ex Spitfire makers. The countersunk rivets, after o …
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HMS Campbeltown 1941, 1/96 scale
… th a little dark grey for the deck. The dark flashes on the hull are just charcoal grey. The correct underwater hull red is also in the set. The Corticene (a type of lino deck covering) I can use on other ships like Hood, KGV, PoW, Ark Roya …
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HMS Campbeltown 1941, 1/96 scale
… far as Naval colours goes. One way out is to buy some Naval Paint Chips from Snyder & Short. http://www.shipcamouflage.com/royal_navy1.htm These are taken from the original chips of admiralty paints used to mix the Colour Coats enamel colou …
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HMS Campbeltown 1941, 1/96 scale
Hi John, Attached is the old Colour Coats Naval Paints chart form White ensign Models. it's based on original navy Paint Chips apparently. Of course precisely how the colours look on your device will depend on the settings of the display! B …
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Bending thin plywood
… t water for 10 - 15 mins and then forming around a suitable paint tin/circular object and left a couple of days to dry. The skins must be absolutely dry before fitting as further drying out when glued to the bulkheads will twist the whole h …
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1/16th scale Fire Boat decals
… bottom sprayed red today, so I'm nearing when I'll need the hull decals for FIRE, roundels and numbers. Anyone know where they can be had from? Also what does that stuff on the bow say/look like. I can hand paint that if necessary. Cheers, …