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LED Tug Mast Navigation Lights
… s are standard domed lens types. I ground the tops flat and painted the tops with several coats of matt black until it was opaque. After testing I closed off the mast with some plasticard and fitted ladder rungs made of copper wire. I also …
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Model Slipway
… with bow thruster and servo,will come with two cans halford paint one indigo blue other VW orange Reason for sale is with only previously building one model this may be suitable for a more experienced builder,every thing in place for a beau …
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Leaking Boat!
Is there a clever way to find where the leak is in a hull? In this instance, boat sat static in water for eight hours and collected some water between compartment ribs in the centre two sections. One of these sections is open and 'getatable …
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three model live steam boats for sale
… in' Maurice, No not yet. So far I've cleaned and primed the hull and bought new ESCs, 50 calibre MGs with mounts and ammo belts from Shapeways, scale crew members and Pacific cammo paints, Oh and the 37mm field gun for the foredeck. Then I …
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Leaking Boat!
… k you Colin. That commits me to re working the whole of the paint job on the Hull! Now if it were in camouflage /dazzle colours I could hide the join............... Cheers. NPJ
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Leaking Boat!
… ank! There are no short cuts to leak proofing an old wooden hull properly 1 internal deck / xyz mounting notwithstanding, if there's something wrong with the hull I want to know it so I can fix it - for good! if the probable source of the l …
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So, why not woodies?...
… builders off. it’s much easier being able to sand, fill and paint a hull etc to hide build quality than to construct it without the need for all of this. Just a thought.
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Wianno Senior progressing
https://m.facebook.com/wiannosr/ Had to change hull to red after some bondo work. Deck is painted, just some touch up and glossy polyurethane for the mahogany. it is coming along.
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After fibreglass and primer coat
So, the hull has been fibreglassed, and several coats of primer applied. What next? Mark the water line as seen on the PDF and photographs? OR Place model in water, load up with approximately the weight of servos, batteries, and other build …
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Crash Tender davit info...
… sioned and I only saw one fire tender and the colour of the hull was black the main deck was I think bare wood with the well decks and superstructure painted grey with and the top painted white except when overseas the hull of all raf boats …
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Crash Tender davit info...
… the plans do not specify white for anything other than the hull markings. The cabin roofs I believe would indeed have a textured coating as the crew were required to stand on them to operate the monitors etc. but I decided not to replicate …
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Warped wood
… also superb, 5 stars! Phew, just finished stripping the PTB hull, now I've got two hulls to sand, seal, strengthen and paint! All go folks Cheers all, Doug
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Fittings & Detail Parts
… art somewhere as well More soon, am currently stripping the hull of my 28" Elco PTB, prior to repainting in Pacific camouflage as PT109 Cheers, Doug PS: YOOHOO! The new ESCs for the PTB just arrived HobbyKing HK-30A, 30A cont. complete with …
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Warped wood
… all part brushing, and spray cans for the bigger stuff like hulls and decks. The cans don't reveal what the base is but the thinners is white spirit or any of the usual 'universal' substitutes. It's made in Holland, supposedly specially for …
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what have I got?
… 00 brushed would be sufficient. Some suitable decals on the hull sides would finish it off nicely. You could paint those side windows dark gloss grey to represent glass from a distance. Cheers, Martin
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Fire Boat (crash tender) colours...
… a quick thought before I hit the hay! For the non slip deck paint why don't you cover the deck with a suitable wet and dry paper? With a bit of luck you might even find some wet n dry the right shade of grey!! Don't know the size / scale yo …
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
OK, I admit defeat Seems the dinghy was painted black with a white lower hull. Also doesn't seem to be clinker built!? But since you have clinkered it please don't hide that under black paint Happy deciding, cheers Doug
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
… efore fitting the floor and seats . Once finished I will be painting the outside of the hull to match the main hull and varnishing the inside with a yacht varnish.
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
Back to the main hull Have finally got the hull sprayed today with this heat it has been drying faster than I can spray it on Firstly the hull was sanded with a 200grit paper to sand of the shiny coating to give the paint something to key t …
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Graupner ranzow refitting
… inally got round to sanding the deck edge to blend into the hull using permagrit files and 200grit sand paper ready for its couple of coats of a water based varnish before applying the paint Ron
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Help Needed new Builder Billings St Canute
… rder to keep in place than longer chunks and won't take the hull shape properly and smoothly. Try to keep the joints somewhere in the mid section where the hull is flatter and the joints are under less stress BUT not one above the other, st …
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Hacker-trinity
Hi guys new ebay purchase listed as bare hull only when it arrived it came with full fitting set and speed 600 brushed motor. bought it because of paint job and for some fast electric fun all for just £24.00 should go well with brushless se …
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
Today I have masked of the boat ready for painting when the weather warms up . Materials used where frog masking tape and some paper packaging that came out of the last delivery box from Amazon. Firstly I went round taping of all the fidly …
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Bristol pilot cutter mascotte
… r the weather to warm up so I can get the lower half of the hull painted
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2018 Boat Race
… ust managed to get the Sea Commander up and running, having painted the hull by hand, not 100% finished but enough to sail, if I bother to go, as there are several questions that need to be answered, like is the original organiser going to …
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Aerokits Patrol Torpedo Boat
… a about until I removed one of the life rafts to find I had painted the completion date on the bottom. I am currently stripping the paint and trying to get advice on the painting method. At present I am tending to favour air brushing Revell …
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WTF
… er of the speedboat was praising the strength of his boat's hull, from the manufacturer MHZ. "Der oben genannte MHZ (Modellbau Hobby Zavarsky) hat wirklich gute Rümpfe! Mein rotes Schiff hat ein wenig graue Farbe abbekommen, sonst nix... " …
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For Sale - Pilot ll from plans by Vic Smeed
For Sale. Plank on frame wooden hull scratch built from original plans by Vic Smeed. 86cm L by 28cm B. She is very well made, though I can't claim for construction as I bought her part built. I re-painted, added the drive train and electric …