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Future Fairey Projects
Yup - as we are both masters of the paint brush Chris ..........a rattle can could be the way to go to get a realistic glass fibre hull finish 37” long plus the swim platform will make a nice size model that should perform very well 12 mont …
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Future Fairey Projects
… m as that is the length of the Fairey Dagger from which the hull came from. The platform tends to be included when it is more substantial and moulded as part of the hull. Downside to building a model of a full-sized plastic/fibreglass boat …
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Mary Ann 472
… the navigation lights were placed and if the settings were painted Red and Green. Some placed the forward crew hatch in line with the mast and others are off to the side. Some vessels have a raised foredeck. I was also looking for the stov …
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Trotamares ex-fishing boat
… e knows. You can do a practical check in the water once the hull is finished, but in my opinion, it's better to calculate the immersed volume (equivalent to the displacement) first, to better organize the work. At this point, I would subtra …
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Model Expo/Seguin tug 1:32 scale
I just acquired a older kit but it has a fiber glass hull. I love the wooden hull but the real boats hull was painted white, deck grey, and cabin was varnished. then later painted white, the box shows different paint job. so I'm trying to d …
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Modello RC scala 1/60, di piroscafo armato a goletta, liberamente ispirato alle cannoniere classe US
… along as I'd hoped. I'm particularly pleased because, after painting, you can't tell either by sight or touch that each of the four cranes isn't a single piece but is the composition of many parts joined together. I'm also pleased (technica …
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Dutch sailing barge
… gain but now returned to finishing off the Dutch barge. The hull is now painted and varnished, have also made the spars - the next step is to add the fittings and get the sails fitted. Will then add the RC equipment, before doing a float te …
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Water Scoop Location.
… he most likely cause for this strange behaviour is that the hull is being affected by torque? This is further confirmed by turning the rudder to the LEFT when the nose is diving under the water as this causes the boat to immediately stop di …
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Lost Transmitter
… rk. I used the bottom half of the Chinese boat let into the hull of the old RNLI Lifeboat. I then had to blend everything in with filler/resin and paint - the motors are twin jet units. All the electrics are built in to an all in sealed box …
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Interesting Robbe kit from years back...
… f I had to do again I’d use more modern glues, fiberglass n paints. Lots of hull saw dust work!
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Question of the Day?
… . But, contrary to that I have a very old 575 yacht and the hull is as good as new so just be careful. Plura plastic is very stable, the Bugsier 3 (Graupner) tug boat kit came out in 1974 and was still being produced 40 years later. That wa …
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LesRo Kits Colour Brochure.
The LesRo Rapier shares exactly the same hull as its rather more successful cousin the Javelin, but has a different cabin style. The Javelin sold really well and so there must be a lot of them around somewhere - but I have never seen one on …
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Animal and nature photos to enjoy.
Take a 10 meter hull, drop it in a sculpture garden and get Roy Lichtenstein to paint it! Today at Storm King Art Center.
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Huntsman 31 on Southport Lake 20/08/25
… lunt compared with the Huntsman 31. All this means that the hull is well supported and stable with predictable, controlled handling. Is yours the bigger, scale 1:8, 34" Huntress, Roger? I'm getting some paint on my 1:12 Huntsman 31 as I'm v …
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SRAKES on Classic Model powerboats
… and was flexible enough to bend around the contours of the hull without steaming or soaking in water - but I only secured tiny parts of the length at a time when working around the tightest curves of the bow. All of the strakes that I have …
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Dilemma
… te (an apprentice wages forced economy!). The inside of the hull was coated with glass fibre resin and chopped matting was added to reinforce the engine mounts. The bow area of the hull was filled with two part expanding foam that was mixed …
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Dilemma
… think I can feel a modified Swordsman coming on that has a painted deck, a modified screen and no pulpit - so I can enjoy running the lovely hull sooner….and add the other details later……
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Dilemma
I'm just about to start painting the hull on my 1:12 scale version. I started building mine years ago (my second build I think) but then got distracted by starting other Fairey builds which I've already painted!
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3D Printed Models
… present the welded plates. Maybe even coat it with resin or paint and sand it down. The watertight container is a length of drain pipe with 3D printed and laser cut sections and end caps, rather like the Robbe sub. Lew, just a thought but A …
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Crew For Boat
… ve also seen resin printed figures from jagerhobby based in Hull. The owner is the new chairman of the York model boat club. The detail on those are very fine, at around £10. All types need painting. Hope that is of some help. I will now ha …
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Weight calculation
… e motor, battery and RC equipment etc. and the shape of the hull and would do others do and arrive at an answer by trial and error. Myself and ToraDog did make contrasting posts but that was more from me being lucky to some extent with my m …
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New restoration project, 48" raf crash tender mk2.
… y checked my stock and have 2.4ghz 6 channel rc system. All paint, and lacquer, fibreglass tissue and ezekote to cover the hull. So shopping list is quiet short, thank God as wallet is very depleted. Cheers Colin.
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ORCA 1/9ème Jaws
… ship, medicine tubes from my medicine cabinet were cut and painted. They were then filled with resin to represent the meat. I placed small pieces of lures found at any fishing tackle store. The hemoglobin effect is reproduced using red pai …
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ORCA 1/9ème Jaws
… forated to facilitate the routing of electrical cables. The hull has a hard chine, which made assembly quick and easy. Once the hull was finished, it was simply fibered and resin-coated with G4. Then, a coat of filler and sanding was applie …
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Fairey huntsman
So today’s task getting all the paint off the hull so it can go white this blue paint is normal house gloss with the looks of it
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Dumas Crockett build
Keep filling in hull now it’s ready to do primer again. Then paint. Added some more parts to the cabin structure. I’ll start railings next and keep gluing on the cast bits. Once hull primed n a final fill touch up I’ll glue deck hardware. A …
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Dumas Crockett build
… epoxy coat over fiberglass I went back to the BaD shop. The hull was ok after gladding. Not a lot to clean up. So I put rudder n servo in the ship. Then glued diwn the rear deck section. Masking tape held it until glue dried. Went Bach and …
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Modello RC scala 1/60, di piroscafo armato a goletta, liberamente ispirato alle cannoniere classe US
… I only resinated the inside to reinforce and waterproof the hull. I know they looked better before I painted them white and blue, but that's because I'm a terrible painter (if one of you had painted them they would have come out much better …