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Nantucket Light Ship by Fright - FINISHED - Lindberg - 1:95 scale - PLASTIC


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  • 1 month later...

catching up on your project here........I see your finished !  :)   you did such a great job,  even the water look great!   congratz on a model well done!

I yam wot I yam!

finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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Great work  - looks lovely.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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  • 6 months later...

Hi Robert, was lurking around here doing some research for my U.S.S. Constitution build 

 

 

and stumbled across your work, I remember a discussion we had some time ago on Finescalemodeler about you jumping into the deep end of the model ship building pool. If this build is any indication of your skill set, I say go for the Black Pearl, nice work! 

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  • 2 years later...

Robert - I just found the postings about you Nantucket Lightship model. You did a beautiful job on it. I recently acquired the same kit and am looking forward to starting it. I'm retired now and this my first model since I was about 12 years old. Question: what color/ brand paint did you use for the buff coloring on the stacks, masts and  air vents? Was it a spray? I'm having trouble locating anything similar.

Thanks! - John Bolster

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On 8/28/2018 at 10:37 AM, Fright said:

The past few days, I have been working on and off with putting together the pieces for the superstructures that go on deck. Almost every piece needed to be filed and sanded to remove flashing and seam lines. Many of the portholes needed to be filed out due to amount of flash that were closing up many of the holes. My inexpensive files that I purchased from Harbor Freight came thru for me on this one. After making sure a piece fit together, I used Tamiya liquid cement to bond the walls together. I also hit the inside of seams with a little CA glue to strengthen the bond. I used white glue to help fill any visible seams and, after sanding smooth, I sprayed all four deck structures with primer white.  

 

For the top decks of the structures, I sprayed them with Testors gray. After the three pieces dried, I taped off the deck portion of each piece and sprayed the edging and underside with white primer. The three pieces fit perfectly on top of their appropriate structure and all four pieces sit nicely on the deck. Nothing is glued yet as I need to do add detail pieces and do some detail painting. Note: the bottom edging on the corners for the engine room skylight (a-frame) need to still be filled to match up. 

 

 

 

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Great job !!!!!!!!  Did the kit come with the simulated riveting on the cabin sides or did you do it?  If you added it, any suggestions on how to do it? That adds incredible realism to the build. 

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