… the boat as it is very cold in my workshop. Also I started painting the hull, the colours with cellulose spray and then decided to apply a 2 part clear varnish. This was a mistake, the varnish went on to give a nice smooth glossy finish bu …

… re out & now have an OS 25 FSR & is a very rough water type hull as a model & cuts the rough water away very well. Anyway the item is the 'basket ' radio aerial. EASY to make . I made a balsa plug or innards. I then bent wire around it to s …

… lls cut off and replaced with full depth new wood. the open hull structure still has whats left of the original side walls in place (painted white) db

… adjacent to the glue join. A solution is to cover the whole hull in tissue and fiberglass resin. Once set you can smooth the finish with wet & dry sand paper and paint. if you want to show the wood on the outside of the hull you need to run …

… several pictures of model boats the fenders going round the hull seem to be made out of what appears to be black rubber tube. Am I correct? My Solent Lifeboat (built 25 years ago) has a plastic tube and, like me, Is becoming brittle with ag …

… several pictures of model boats the fenders going round the hull seem to be made out of what appears to be black rubber tube. Am I correct? My Solent Lifeboat (built 25 years ago) has a plastic tube and, like me, is becoming brittle with ag …

I am just painting mine now I have tried to keep it as light as passable, I have twin screws and am going brushless, the price is coming down all the time, I am looking at the equivalent of good race 05s geared two to one, and nicads I am l …

HI Tall Paul Sounds like the hull has split along the glue joints. I have had to repair many of my wooden hull models because of this problem. I normally use car body fiberglass cloth with resin/hardener. This can be obtained from your loca …

… he summer he restored it to its original condition with new paint and new fittings. After seeing his boat I wanted one so I brought a deans marine seaplane tender kit. it took 2 months to build and I've spent the last 6 months experimenting …

… d (cabin housing the engine room in the full scale1:!). The hull bottom skin has to have many many coats of paint. The rear deck well is merely held in place sitting on two runners on each side of the hull inner sides and the well deck plat …

HI its a Kingston mouldings hull fiberglass 34" and the rest is scratch built it is ready for paint and has been for some time I hate painting . the majority is plasticard and the bulkheads are lite ply, the boat is very light. it has twin …