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Double planking, a typically modeling technique or a technique also used in real wooden ships, commo
… iven the technical evolution of materials such as glues and paints, has thought of using a technique of this kind (which is typically modeling) also on real boats. Regarding double planking on real ships, I'll just tell you what I'm sure of …
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eezebilt Cresta
You've achieved a really nice finish on your hull. Is it spray painted ?
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Advice needed
Hi guys. I have never worked with gel coat. Can one paint it on a naked wooden hull? Or do you need to put resin on first?
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Advice needed
GelKote should NOT be applied to a bare wood hull, for a couple of reasons. 1) it has not strength 20 it will not adhere very well, 30 it is soft and can be easily damaged. The hull should be fiber glassed or epoxy coated. In either case at …
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Mystery boat
… seen when in the water, so I feel it will be ok. I got the hull repaired and am painting the bottom in stages As much as this has become a huge project, I’m enjoying it tremendously. I’m doing the work in my garage with the door open. My n …
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Boat colors
… r torpedo boat from the era of 1896. There is damage to the hull, and after repairing it, I wonder about the hull lower color which appears reddish / brown. Anyone know what it is and what is the closest commercially available paint to get …
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Boat colors
Thanks mates I just epoxy repaired the hull and will float test it first. I have the spray paint the affected area and see if it is close. If not, I’ll repaint the entire bottom Isaac
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Boat colors
… i Isaac, Argueably the best you can get is the Tamiya spray paint Hull Red (or Dull Red) TS-33. Its very expensive but unbeatable. If you look at the pics of my Puffer, you'll see what it looks like in action. Good luck, Bryan
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Sloop Emma
Hull is painted and once the paint hardens it will get several coats of gloss clear on the hull and semi-gloss on the deck and cabin. The sails will be cotton poplin in a pale blue the same as my schooner’s sails.
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Sloop Emma
Interior of the hull is fully painted and the deck has been glued in place.
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Sloop Emma
… rks well, interior seams are fibreglass and interior of the hull has received several coats of polyurethane. Next, I will paint the interior before securing the deck. There is six pounds of lead inside the wooden bulb. The seams have been c …
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Huntsman
Hi everyone well I have fully cleaned bottom of hull and fibre glassed with tissue Matt and when hardened of I will take some pictures of what I have used moving on now filler then paint then assembly. Well underway but a way to go yet Phil
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Huntsman
It's been a while but just started cleaning the hull tried paint stripper did not touch so went straight to a blow torch and burnt the paint of pictures below, I am going to fibreglass the hull with tissue pictures to follow, Painted the su …
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RA INGA IV Maiden sail
… eally great bit of very neat deck planking, and a beautiful paint job on the hull in my favourite shade of green. Regards, Gary.
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Jet Pump Thrusters
… ugh I have no experience with jet thrusters, I do sweat the paint issues all the time. You can always use an oil base paint over water based paints. You just can't do the reverse without priming the oil based paint with a decent flat oil ba …
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First build recommendations.
The most difficult part of a build is usually the hull but it does depend on the type of hull and it's construction. Plank on frame is obviously quite complicated but a simple hard chine hull is pretty straightforward and is more likely to …
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Modello RC scala 1/60, di piroscafo armato a goletta, liberamente ispirato alle cannoniere classe US
… planking. PUSH OILED STRING BETWEEN THE VERTICAL GAP IN THE HULL PLANKING AND DECK PLANKING." Well done Ross, this waterproofing operation in Italian is called "calafataggio" which in English should translate as caulking (I think). In ancie …
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Drifter
Well eventually got the hull finished. Painted,running gear in and ballast sorted. Now taking a month off and starting again in the new year. In the mean time I have a new toy to go with my collection, so welcome aboard ANTEO
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Modello RC scala 1/60, di piroscafo armato a goletta, liberamente ispirato alle cannoniere classe US
… s. It was very difficult to cut the channels flush with the hull. I managed to be precise with the cutter and therefore I recovered the channels, which I glued further aft. I removed all the "chains plates", which I repainted and reused. I …
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Thinning aliphatic glue to seal the wood
I use various methods for sealing the hull, both inside and outside. Mostly what I have available at the time. (I use Titebond II for gluing wood and watered down for stiffening rope. Never tried it as a sealer. I would be concerned as when …
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Brave Borderer
… t full chat and trying to film at the same time luckily the paint was not even scratched, thanks to changing to a bought glass fibre hull rather early in the build process, than the ply/ balsa hull I made originally.
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Sterling Lumba-Lumba
… sadly does not look like it will ever be reproduced as the hull mold was destroyed decades ago in some sort of inventory move and subsequently packed away and lost, possibly trashed. A gentleman from Revell mentioned this to me years ago a …
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Modello RC scala 1/60, di piroscafo armato a goletta, liberamente ispirato alle cannoniere classe US
… nitive total of 4652 grams. The brass bar is screwed to the hull and further blocked with a very fine layer of silicone. The brass bar is not visible either from the side or below, because it is completely covered with mahogany strips. In a …
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The immersed volume of the Jockscott model (theoretical attempts).
… r bow and stern. Ofcourse I couldn't make allowance for the hull curvatures where seemingly the 10% difference comes from. Another interesting point: your 2. diagram does not include the bow bulwark in the LOA which accounts for the differe …
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Sterling Lumba-Lumba
… ve this boat on the water quite a bit so a fiberglass outer hull appealed to me. However, when I got up this morning after a night of curing I realized that maybe a second coat of Z-POXY finishing resin would have been ok. As it stands now …
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Came across this Fairey Swordsman
… t to this stage today - I went with 3 rails and removed the paint to stick them down . Soaked and steamed some . Still need to trim the lower ones where they meet in the middle - not sure how I’m going to finish them if I fair them flush wi …
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Came across this Fairey Swordsman
… en fixing strakes (the underwater ribs on the bottom of the hull) to older hulls that I am refurbishing - or just adding them to hulls that never had them fitted before - I always mark the positions of them on the bottom of the hull first. …
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Modello RC scala 1/60, di piroscafo armato a goletta, liberamente ispirato alle cannoniere classe US
… ey would have been too small to see. The final result, once painted, was acceptable. Unfortunately, the cuts caused by opening the covers and screws ruined the aesthetics. I tried to cut following the design of the strips but a good closure …