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Hull ready to paint!
… stained, some deck detail added (most detailing will follow painting and varnishing). Hull has had a good sanding with wet n dry and has had the grey primer added. Have also given the bottom of the hull a coat of red oxide primer. Following …
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Hull painting and trimline
After over 24 hours of paint and laquer setting time, have this morning before bed (on nights) added the white trim line and RNLI flags. As I said in a previous post, adding a thin white line between top red and blue is not seen on the real …
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Hull Painting
First finishing paint going on hull.
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Hull painted
Hull painted, now awaiting it to harden before adding white stripe on water line
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Painting the Hull
… her for a couple of weeks I have now completed stage one of painting the hull I am taking it carefully because I have used Gloss Black Humbrol enamel on top of the rattle can filler primer & I shall be using rattle can metallic on the hull …
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HULL PAINTING
Now that all the necessary holes through the hull have been done and made sure they are in the correct places, its time to start painting the hull. I prefer to now remove the earlier "test fitted" items, props, rudders etc and get the main …
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Painting the hull
After leaving the hull in primer for 4 days, sufficient time to allow the thinners in the material to evaporate. time to put the top coats on. I first masked off the upper hull and painted the white lower section using aerosols [halfords ap …
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Windows fitted to Hull & painted
… now picked up again and we have attached the windows to the hull sides. The top decks "A" and "Boat Deck" have had the cabins fitted using the Waterjet cut sides. Castings are now finished and painting well advanced Bill and Dave
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2nd July hull paint
OK so there is some paint on Primer and how much better it looks, all my fears of it still looking rubbish have diminished, for now. I have only primed it a couple of coats put on thin , I will flat it again and see how it is , it seems to …
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Hull and deck paint, prop installed and a ##&&!! virus!
… b mates today, so Anyway, I felt good enough to do a little painting this week, and finished the painting today. Might do a semigloss clear, might not. Decided on black below waterline, orange up to the railing, gray deck, will do the super …
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Hull painted
Well that is the hull done now I think. The green took several coats to get right. I decided Humbrol gloss #3 was a bit too bright for my liking so I mixed in some gloss black before I sprayed it until it looked about right to my tastes and …
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Machinery done, seats in, almost time for hull paint!!
… ve a few more things to do forward, then it’s ready for the paint shop. Cash
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Preparing hull for paint & finish cutting window openings..
… Next I proceeded to insert 2 aluminium flat bars across the hull fore and aft. My thinking is that I am going to use these to secure the deck to the hull by having 3mm bolts in the 2 towing bollards that will tighten onto a glued nut under …
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Hull painting commenced....
… t was time to stick some of that VW Brilliant orange on the hull. 3 coats throughout the day on the hull and transom saw a nice blemish free finish. Point to note was that I had primed the hull with grey yesterday followed by a coat of whit …
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Hull finished less painting and details
… nd de-grease, final job of the day was to give the complete hull less the deck a thinned coat of resin leaving to set up over night. Will start looking at the cabin tomorrow and see how I can alter that from the kit norm.
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Painting upper hull commenced
… ce dry, a light coat of Matt lacquer applied to protect the paint finish before starting the washes and weathering. A lot more weathering to come once I’ve painted all the black edge strips ect. I also finished staining and varnishing the t …
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Superstructure build started and hull painting completed.
… tted, some electrics wired for later fitting, deck sprayed, hull sprayed, superstructure build started.
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Hull now painted
So Emily helped me spray the hull and I like the colours that she suggested! Name and registration boards will be added later..
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Hull painting started
Have given the hull a few coats of hull red (Halfords red primer is close enough!). Have also added the red trim line at the top of the hull, most of which will disapear once the black rubbing strake is in place and its been masked off for …
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Painting almost complete
Filling, sanding and painting has taken quite a long time! After two coats of sanding sealer, two coats of primer / undercoat applied by brush I then sprayed two coats of white. So far I've applied one coat of blue to the hull below the wat …
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Painting
Here's some snaps after the hull has been painted. Still need to add the wear plates for the rowlocks. Have made a start on the removable fin keel. When this is completed I'll add the RC equipment and spars etc, before doing a float test in …
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wave master hull improvements
… back the keel now I hope far enough its the strakes on the hull to do next I have them on apt boat at that turns really well then can see about water proofing the wood and on with the painting
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Painting
Just about finished build and come to hull painting. I must have done something wrong here. I stupidly painted the raw wood with a Tamya spray. It looked all right but when I added a second, and third and fourth coat, sanding in between, ev …
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More resin for the hull.
Now that the spray rails are fitted, I can give the entire hull another coat of resin to build up a good surface for the paint process. As with the application of the glassfibre cloth I do this separately for each ‘face’ of the hull to ensu …
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Back to work watching paint dry
… xy and sawdust. The inside surface and the hammocks all got painted, and when dry, a covering board of stained basswood was glued on to cover the seam between hammocks and bulwark. I'm not happy with the hammocks color, it should be leaning …
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Better, she’s starting to look the part…at least the hull is😁
Just finished spraying Dickys hull with the lighter blue I acquired. Tell me what y’all think then I’ll own up to what I painted her with….
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Painting and Fitting-out
… anding between each coat to try to get a smooth finish. The hull is painted "Victory Red" and "Black", and the waterline painted white with Craftmaster Signwriting Enamel I made a frame to sit the boat on, using my laser level to project a …
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Starting to plank the hull
This week I ordered some lime planks for the hull from Cornwall Model Boats - 6mmx1mm and 6mmx0.5mm. I decided on lime because I read on another build blog somewhere that lime was very flexible, not too expensive and I didn't really care wh …