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Edmund Gardner Liverpool Pilot Boat
Back to work on the hull and painting together with the portholes, pilots boarding station and anchor ports completed. Yes the white line really was that broad. Wording on the sides, bow and stern yet to-do and work can commence on the supe …
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Scratch build of a fast bulker
… a lot since my last update sorry, all major parts have been painted and epoxied In, I never realised how amazing epoxy putty Is to put around frames, just roll It up and apply like bath sealant. each hold Is now waterproof to the waterline/ …
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Main deck supports
… ing has to be correct before gluing. I have also decided to paint the hull and all pieces before gluing them to ensure complete coverage (I will sand the bits where glue will be applied) I cant decide on colours I am thinking dark maroon fo …
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Prop shaft and rudder stock
… affixed the motor mount, propshaft and rudder stock to the hull of the model, The rudder stock I decided was to long so I have cut it down and to prevent undue stress on the thin hull I have placed a piece of wood across it to prevent any …
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Edmund Gardner Liverpool Pilot Boat
… ts and they are just surface detail and totally waterproof. Hull covered with masking tape followed by fiberglass tissue and then car body filler to finish; all ready to paint now.
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Edmund Gardner Liverpool Pilot Boat
… usually knock a model up in a few months. I hate making the hulls from scratch but here goes. Photo 1 shows the keel and hull formers taken from the plans. Photo 2 shows one of the bulkheads in place. Photo 3 shows all the bulkheads in plac …
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Wallasey III Mersey Ferry
1. The 2.4ghz receiver was fitted and the hull tested in the lake at this stage. All OK good propulsion and rudder response, so build can go ahead without any modifications. 2. Gangway doors fitted and brass handles turned on lathe. All dec …
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Wallasey III Mersey Ferry
… ut for saloons and access to interior. 2 Starting the spray paint work to the hull. 3 Cut always for bollards and gangway access on the raw hull 4 Main deck supports on hull interior a 1/4" soft wood strip glued with epoxy to the hull at co …
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A Cullermix tug conversion
… he first things to do were to strip it all down to the bare hull which meant removing the entire bulwarks and deck as well so that literally all I had was the wooden hull, this was then stripped of all paintwork and the inside varnish. The …
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Graupner Collie - part 2
… nning plus epoxy and then the fairing process repeated. The hull was then stripped back, smoothed and primed. Next a new keel ballast weight was shaped in wood, then used as a plug to make and mould and cast (in lead) a copy with embedded p …
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AEROKITS 46" FIREBOAT....A TROUBLED PROJECT
With all the original paint removed, the flaws in the hull are to be seen, were the patches of paint have not come off, after the hull had been sanded. The next stage was to attack the engine room, as mentioned this was originally IC powere …
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Paddler Project
… onged wet spell has finally got me doing something with the hull & wheels I now have. Please allow that I have no machine tools and only a little cluttered shed, and probably minimal skills. But I publish this in the hope that it might enco …
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AEROKITS 46" FIREBOAT.....A TROUBLED PROJECT
Well the first job was to remove the original paint work, normally this would have been done with the good old paint remover "Nitromors" which works well but can be very messy....but after an e-mail from a fellow club member he recommended …
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Assurance Class Tug
… eck of the Assurance Class Tug now ready to be put into the hull, the towing hook box area has been made stronger to insure that it can pull without breaking. Now to get it ready for it undercoat of paint.
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Inshore fishing boat
The main planking of the hull now finished. I had intended at the start of the build to paint the hull but because the planking had gone so well and no filler was used, I would sand, stain and seal it. A coat of Z-Poxy was applied to the in …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
That textured paint was from B & Q, it gives rough finish, and is just right. I masked off a thin strip around the hull, and any fitttings that where on, and painted with BS631 that I had mixed in an aerosol at a car paint suppliers Finally …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
… spect for anything unusal that should not be happening, and paint, boring! My paint process for the hull, reclean, sand with a block using 800grit, its already primered, paint the red, 2 or 3 coats, flat with 600 then 800 wet/dry, clean off …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
so a brief recap hull is primed and ready for paint, after being treated with glass cloth and resin. Work has been completed on cabin sides, prop tubes are fitted, and the method for fitting the motors done (anybody looked at the video in t …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
… you can probably tell, I'm racing through the glassing, and paint prep. its a real Important part of the build, but I found it soooo boring! Not long before the real interesting stuff comes along, especially the driveline Time to turn the b …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion -
paint, at last, I have opted for halfords filler primer, dont know why, I was disappointed last time I used it , but will give it another go. The hull is quite nice and flat, after a LOT of rubbing down, I wanted a primer that will allow so …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
… mentioned previously, we decided that we need to glass the hull, this will make sure the wood does not rot in the future, as we dont know how old the boat actually is. The hull was a bit of a job, getting the cloth and resin around the sha …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Next bit is horrible, preparing for the paint. With my smaller 36" Fireboat, it suffered after time with delamination, so I decided to fibreglass this boat, I had only done this once before, so was dreading this job. The photo is the fibreg …
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Glenn Aerokit 36" Mk2
Painting went quite well, the only snag was the red which kept bleeding through the black. The white line was I think successful, although a bit of a fiddle to get flat over the chine line, doing It on a hot day helped. The grey primer uppe …
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Sea Trials
… t is generally complete - still haven't really finished the hull painting although I did run it on Goole MBCs pond a few weeks back. it goes like stink with the Hobbyking 1000kv Brushless Motor and 7.2v NiMh battery pack and shows very long …
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Rethink on Ballast
The lead inside the hull made the model very heavy and difficult to handle. Other club members have been using detachable fiberglass keels on their yachts so got Brian to make me one. Had a right struggle removing the lead and needed to rep …
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"Rainbow" 1934 J-Boat Class Racer
… Everything Is a build-up, Including the mast and boom. The hull: mainframes were assembled on the keel, and attached to a strongback for planking. Bow, stern, and keel blocks were Installed. The whole thing Is sanded to shape, sins filled, …
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Decking Completed
… ace and rubbed down ready for varnishing. So hope to finish hull prep in the next few days, then on to the painting and varnishing. I will also be fitting the cabin roof's before commencing with the painting, as I like everything prepared b …
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Resin and Glass Cloth
… me use kitchen. The pictures show my next step, I've coated hull in sanding sealer followed by sanding to a reasonable finish. Then coated with Eze-Kote resin from Delux Materials, then sanded back lightly. I then covered with 24gsm glass c …