Jeff preisler
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About Jeff preisler
- Birthday 06/02/1965
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Ship modeling, plastic modeling and RC airplane modeling.
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Jeff preisler reacted to a post in a topic: Spray by MTC - FINISHED - BlueJacket Shipcrafters - 1:32 Scale
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I spent several hours yesterday and today finishing up the pilot house and forward deck house. After bending the brass railings to fit, (which took a lot of persuading), I sprayed them with Tamiya flat white primer and set aside to dry. Installing the railings were a little tricky but came out Ok. The port and starboard lights is the only thing left and I will install these later. The photos show I need a little touching up to do around the pilot house side portholes which I will take care of as well. Now it is on to fabricating the stack.
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Made some progress on the deck structures. The Pilot house was a challenge with all the portholes so close together, I had to be careful here using my Dremel tool. For the railings, I used a tiny piece of plastic strip behind the photo-etched railing to keep it away from the sides of the structures. to simulate the porthole glass, I used Microscale Kristal Klear. Not in the photos are the completed steps going into the pilot house and up to the bridge deck which I will add later in the build. The structures are not glued down yet just checking the alignment and taking measurements as I still have to spray paint the forward deck house.
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Installed rubbing strakes and bilge keels and then cut out the starboard slot for the spare anchor. After lots of sanding and some filling I brush painted 2 coats of Liquitex white gesso as a primer. Did some light sanding with 400 grit after gesso was dry, then I brush painted 3 coats of Liquitex red and black thinning with Liquitex matte medium to improve the flow. I normally use an airbrush, but this time I thought I would brush this as I was curious about the end result using the Liquitex acrylics. Brush strokes are minimal, and I am pleased with the end result. After dry I mounted the hull to its temporary base.
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Excellent job!!! Looks great!!!
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I decided to brush paint the model using Liquitex cadmium red for the bulwarks and blue gray for the deck. I did brush sanding sealer on entire hull before this step, but I did not use any primer. I thinned down the paint with Liquitex fluid matte medium and paint brushed on rather nicely. I will use the same red color for the hull, but I will see if I can thin this for airbrush use, if not brushing this will be ok. I also plan on priming the hull with the Liquitex white gesso first.
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As far as my question concerning the ship's forefoot, this is what I came up with. I first soaked an oversized piece of that 1/16 basswood in water and used my heat gun to make the curve. I cut that piece in 3 sections then glued it to the hull in that location. Viewing images of other models, I just saw a continuation of the keel around the curve and up the stem and made my best educated guess.
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After the last several months away from ship modeling, I started building Bluejackets Lightship #112 Nantucket from 1936. This was a kit that I purchased at Bluejacket several years ago while vacationing in Maine. After reading through the manual and studying the plans I proceeded to shape the hull. This solid hull was very close to plans and very little wood had to be removed, therefore, according to manual, the use of hull section templates was not needed. At the bow, I drilled out the hole for the central anchor hawsepipe boss and glued it in place. Marked out locations of all portholes and drilled them with an 1/8 drill bit. After gluing in the propeller frame/sternpost casting I proceeded to the next step but I'm a little confused. Unsure of the ship's forefoot construction, the kit gives you a 1/16" x 3" x 6" piece of basswood for this step. My question: Is this supposed to be just a continuation of the keel around the curve of the hull, or is it to simulate an additional plate of steel that was welded to the hull in this area?
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Thank you so much! I agree with you on the coppering of the hull, I think in this scale it looks just as good if done right. Glad you like.
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