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1/24 scale Vosper RTTL with a wooden hull
… be addressed with suitable lubricant. Okay, for your white hull I believe your original RTTL hulls were painted gloss white for the overseas versions - but - after time salt air and etc., would flatten the gloss off to make it look like a …
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1/24 scale Vosper RTTL with a wooden hull
… ay it develops a minor leak where the prop shaft enters the hull. Do you mean between the wood and the outer shaft tube ? If so when you rub down the Hull see if you can dig out some of the glue from around the outer tube and then re-glue. …
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1/24 scale Vosper RTTL with a wooden hull
… one. Here are a couple more pictures, one showing where the paint has pealed off. The gold water line looks like its some kind of thin tape and a small piece at the bow has come away, taking the paint with it. Obvously the whole lot will ha …
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E poxy coating boat hull.
… u can buy pigments in many different colours. I epoxied the hull of my Nordkap. I used a very light woven glass cloth with good drape properties. I also used peel tape over the cloth, this material kinda floats on the surface of the resin a …
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wooden hull strengthening
The only time I would strengthen a boat hull with fibreglass or anything would be if I had built her extremely light for racing purposes. A normally built boat should not need it as long as the planking fits well and a bit of filler stops t …
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wooden hull strengthening
… ish will toughen the surface, then just get rid of your old paints as you brush the paint on and wet and dry in between. With different colour paint layers you can see how deep you go when using wet and dry to get a good surface. Most of my …
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Paint colours
The colours I painted mine were, Red primer and black for the hull and 'Polar Grey' and 'Appliance white' for the s structure, then finished with a satin varnish, these are not the necessarily correct colours, but they look good. Cheers, Pe …
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Paint colours
… g a Fast Patrol Launch by Les Rowell and would like to know paint colours. I always use Halfords rattle cans,does anyone know what car colours to use to match the grey for superstructure and the red for the bottom of the hull.Thanks in anti …
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I'm getting ready to build my Trent class Lifeboat and Humbrol paint
… ully cured they are totally waterproof. Quite true Doug, we paint our houses, / roofs etc with acrylics and nothing will touch it. Just painted my roof with acrylic. I use Reeves artists acrylic for lots of model bits, including the insides …
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I'm getting ready to build my Trent class Lifeboat and Humbrol paint
… pray all my model boats big or small. When working on a big Hull's i mix up plenty of paint and just keep topping up the Airbrush. For the large areas i use the Airbrush with the glass jar attached. I use the the small tins of Humbrol paint …
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Cigarette Hull
Hi All, I have just won this hull on Ebay, a Kingston mouldings Cigarette hull, I have not collected it yet. Has anyone, any information on the hull, which is 39.5" x 12.5", so quite big for a speed boat. Any ideas on the original boats pai …
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Paint types
… eference of individual modellers, 90%of my boats are wooden hulled. These I coat with very fine glass cloth and ezekote resin to give a hard skin. Then primed with halfords rattle can high build primer, followed by normal primer, and finall …
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Paint types
Once the hull is solid do you paint then or wait till further along ? And what is the best type of paint to use Thanks
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ACRYLIC PAINT
I'm looking at using ValleJo Premium RC Color paint for my Dusseldorf Fire Boat. ABS hull and deck, my understand is this is a great paint for plastics, They don't make a gloss paint you need to go over the paint with their water based poly …
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Painting
Hi everybody newbie here was just wondering what type of paint everyone uses for the hull’s??
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Painting
Hi George83, I spray my model hulls using Humbrol paint thinned with White Spirit. Also water based Acrylic paint can be used. Martin555.
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Painting over epoxy
… bus mk 3 IOM and have completed the planking and sealed the hull with woven glass cloth and epoxy, How should I go about painting for the final finish , Not sure on what primers and paint will work ? Simon
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Painting over epoxy
… boats over the recent years. In each case I have sanded the hull down to bare wood as the boats were vintage ones and did have coats of paint on them that could not be identified. Best to use thin applications of both primer then paint then …
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Painting
… is evening but in the mean time any thoughts on the type of paint I should use on the hull? The subject boat is painted with international 'Toplac' but the smallest tin they do is 750ml (£22.95) so its not getting that. The model was painte …
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Paints
I am a bit stuck as to what type of paints to use on my Thornycroft MTB. Do I use gloss or matt? What type of paint is suggested Acrylic, emulsion, etc? Who can supply - say - 250ml of any recommended paint as I will probably need to apply …
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Hull internal finish
Hi there, I seal hulls inside with Eze-Kote resin, clear long lasting and quick drying, ready to paint within an hour at normal room temperature. Hope this helps you. Cheers Colin.
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46Firefloat Mk2 paint
… 94 firefloat with no fittings. Can someone please help with paint colours, the Red and Black on hull are they both Matt. On the deck is the Dark Grey Matt non slip and are the roofs with the fire monitors the same. The rest of the roofs are …
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puffer hull
Some photos of the Hull ,first painted it orange brown(rust) then will do the red oxide followed by grey primer then finish with the colour so if it gets scratched or bumped the rust will show through
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puffer hull
decided to paint the hull today thought i would do it in the greenhouse put paper over the glass ,warm no direct sun got a loan of my brothers compressor and spray gun ,its all going swimmingly fine what could go wrong ? never forget mother …
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Painting
… fords and or The Range. Beware of mixing different types of paints i.e. cellulose, acrylic and enamel. I have had a disaster with mixing paints that took weeks to strip the hull back to sort out.
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Painting
Hi, do you guys use airbrush or aerosol cans for painting? Thinking in terms of a “plastic” grp hull etc. Thank you in advance.
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Painting
I use the Halfords rattle cans for painting hulls but make sure you use the ' for plastic ' cans so you don't get any paint cracking from the plastic flexing.
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Painting
Most model boat hulls are way too big for an airbrush and in fact, even a spotting gun on a decent compressor can take a while with it's small spray pattern, but a rattler can ain't gonna last long on say a 30" hull. I'd say brush paint wit …