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Starting to finally assemble the Trawler
… ns had to be re aligned. The cap rails had to be put on the hull. I then drilled the holes for the stanchions. Ran into some problems in the drilling process but caught the mistake before I started drilling. Being a new builder I have made …
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Battery housing
… the stern down the tubes I inserted between the box and the hull earlier in the build where it will, via a fuse be connected to the ESC. The connections go through an XT60 plug and socket to enable the battery to be changed easily, then int …
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HAKITS Morston
… r the past few days adding strakes along the outside of the hull. This has been reasonably challenging as there is nothing to clamp the strips to until the glue sets. It also highlighted something that I had done previously which made this …
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HAKITS MORSTON
I have just been able to fix one side of the upper hull skin which runs from the bow to midships. This was, perhaps, a bit trickier than fixing the lower skins due to them being shorter and therefore not so easily curved to the shape of the …
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The Stern Handrails Part 1.
… . The stern on the real Pilot boats is not as curved as the hull of the SLEC model that mine is built from so a bit of modelling licence is required to simulate these rear handrails. Neither will it have the rear ladder seen in the first ‘p …
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… 3 screws for quick removal. After the rail was made but not painted yet I positioned all the equipment. Because the flue/exhaust for my Steam generator is not positioned directly under the funnel I made up an offset flue out of steel pipe. …
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US1 Hatch - servos, switch, battery hard wired
… l Nimh pack for 6 volt 2700mAh delivered. Remaining work is painting the hull, making the sails and all rigging in place. Cooler weather has finally arrived here so my shop will be up and running at full speed ahead! Joe
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Update #3
… re coats of laquerto go on upper deck then turn it over and paint the hull. hook up steam plant radio rcvr.
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HARTLEY FLARELINE, NEW PROJECT
… think of a way of getting the power to the lights from the hull without a long plug in lead. I spent an hour in the electronics shop looking at all types of plugs and fittings, and finally found something I thought might work. 3.5mm stereo …
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Motor, shaft rudder etc
… , I added the coaming to the deck and Stabilit’ed it to the hull. Oh, just before that I added a ply battery/electrics floor, using some large aileron stock to support it in the vee of the hull, and also gave it more gluing area. Once I sor …
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Barge Ketch....back at it!
… t went on the shelf for a year. I did some more work on the hull and continued the build in early 2020. Then back on the shelf while I was building two sailing yachts. Pulled it back out last week and did some hand painting of the deck, etc …
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US1Meter's only Hatch!
This is the freshly painted Hatch. It's designed to hold the Sail Servo, Rudder Servo, RX and Power Switch. The arched element on top with a hole in it is a sheet guide for the Main Sail. Servo arms and all sheeting, rudder control arm will …
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KNK Mini Jupiter M401
… joints and fix it, but I got it handled. The bottom of the hull is planked with 3 narrow thin plywood sheets that overlap each other, giving the hull bottom strakes all the way aft. The side sheeting is one piece of the same thin plywood. …
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Leak fixed and a little fun!!
… found the culprit, sealed that, then ran thin ca along the hull plate edges, and spread thin epoxy inside near the suspected area just in case. I then took her to my church’s test pond, and ran her pretty hard. After about 30 minutes of ru …
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Update 1 - Phantom build
… the strut and the side planks is to coat the inside of the hull with epoxy resin and add some fibreglass between the frames. This I hope will give a little more strength to the boat and water proof it, with the added benfit of filling some …
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Update 2 - Phantom build
Planking finished last night and I was able to give the hull a more thorough sanding and shaping finally this morning. Gave the tops of the keel frames a levelling sand prior to dry fitting the deck after I got the epoxy painted in and bedd …
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Update 3 - Phantom build
… ays, not much to report I'm afraid - literally watching the paint dry. However I have been thinking of the next steps (thanks Doug for the Aliphatic glue advice) and preparing for the veneering in particular by measuring out and getting a f …
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Update 4 - Phantom build
… steep before I gave this a coat of primer ready for chrome painting. Added a locating pin to the inside of this and corresponding hole into the bow so I can be confident of its alignment (and a more robust fixing point when I reach that st …
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Update 7 - Phantom build
… r over the top completed. I used the left over 0.7mm x 25mm hull veneer as an edge planking and found some 0.8 x 8mm strip mahogany to use for the insert pieces. Fabricated some home made hinges and made a working hatch in the deck in lieu …
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Update 8 - Phantom build
… ther to use a wooden frame or make one from brass angle and paint it chrome. I need to also make up 2 air inlets which will sit in front of the hatch, then go back to touch ups particularly inside and under the hatch, and inside the hull at …
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Build continues
The hull is now painted white and red primer, build of the superstructure is also pictured.
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… r than scale mainly to improve strength and seeing that the hull will be painted you probably wont see them. Cheers, Stephen.
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Bulwarks and hand Rails
Hull Planking build up to handrail level. the kit had a plywood handrail but I dumped that and made mahogany ones. The mahogany used was from lift door surrounds from the 1950s. These were 12"x2" planks. Believe it or not these had be paint …
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Sponson detailing.....
… they are not cheap! A lot of today has seen the main detail painting completed which included 24 grab handles and several cell air valves! Jobs left to do is all the detail painting on the transom and the lacquer coats which will just about …
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Eastwind
… to start building, now that the tedious job of creating the hull was done. I added the lower bulkward on the bow and the breakwater aft of it. Both were worked out of styrene sheet. Oval eyelet were used for the hawser ports and the tow cab …
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HARTLEY FLARELINE, NEW PROJECT
… ndows are bent into position. I have also filled primed and painted the hull which will be checked tomorrow to see if it needs any further 'love'. I tend not to get too carried away with finish, as almost every boat, wood, glass or alloy ha …
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The Lighting Circuits.
… LED’s or perhaps not even bothered at all and made them as painted dummy lights. However the new superstructure, modelled on the Southampton Pilots Boats fleet, is an ideal candidate for a far more adventurous lighting arrangement. One fea …
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HARTLEY FLARELINE, NEW PROJECT
… spray rails and keel strip last night, so almost ready for painting, (just waiting for glue to set hard as solvent based paint will attack any soft balsa glue etc. Strips were attached with Loctite superglue gel universal which I have foun …