FlyingFish

Just spent a very enjoyable time catching up on your build. I do admire the way you have gone about the research, and been prepared to go back and change things when needed. The result is spendid! 

Good to see the work continues. Best wishes from me too.

Blimey Nils - you are cracking on with this - great work! The director would have hired you for the movie progress like this! The sheet metal work looks spot-on!

Great start Gary, like the lines - she looks like she could turn on a sixpence. Like you I am on a building pause until later this year, too many things to do in the summer! Looking forward to hearing from you in due course.

17 hours ago, Ian_Grant said:

You mean this one??

Wow, your hand is tiny, Ian.

A movie boat! I'm in! Great start Nils.

As ever, wonderfully precise and clean work. I wondered when that big match would appear!😄

Over here the 'frills' and the bright orange livers are sometimes kept - they are great hook and pot baits. Scallops fried quickly in salted butter with chilli ginger and garlic are a favourite meal in my household. Yum.

Very interesting introduction - and a perfect choice - looking forward very much to the log, Gary!

Very nicely done!

If that's for me 😊 ....

No - windows PC, and the printer is an Epson inkjet. I see now that you have 'cut marks' ticked which is probably the same thing. Happy sellotaping!

1 hour ago, KeithAug said:

They were not exactly cheap.

Some national ones do A0 for £1.20 a sheet, folded A4 which seems ok (though I come from Devon which may explain it). I think the issue is more that they will charge more to post in a tube.

No doubt you know this, but just in case - my print settings box has the option to print 'cutting guides' for posters which I have found helps greatly with aligning the whole thing.

1 hour ago, Keith Black said:

It would have died of ugliness

Well, it would certainly part your hair with the top down!

Incidentally my father had a Triumph 2000 TC with an overdrive switch on the top of the gear stick. It was exactly the colour of Cangarda's hull - mallard green. 

I have pulled up a sunlounger and poured a G&T for this - what a lovely looking boat!

I'm sure you are up to the challenge Keith - and I look forward to following along!

Thanks Keith for sharing a very accomplished and well presented build. The final pictures are a great testimony to your work! Looking forward enormously to the next build, but agree that a little 'pause for thought' is always a good thing.

Another approach might be to use thin UV resin to cover the flat area. The surface would need to be horizontal to avoid pooling at one edge. I've used this on instrument panel faces before. Seal with a thin clear nail varnish as it can remain slightly tacky otherwise.

Thanks Roger and Wefalk - thats very helpful, I have found myself turning to hotter finer tips on the iron, so I'm heading in the right direction - 950f is a little above my set-up which I think is 450C . I'll get myself a bottle of Bakers Fluid. I see 250ml  (a little over 8 oz) costs about as much as a good bottle of wine, but no doubt will last a great deal longer!

A question for you Roger - I find when working in metal that if parts needed to be soldered close together that it is easy to melt previous joints when adding new. You seem to have no problem here - I've tried various attempts at heat sinks, but not with any great success. What's your secret?

Wonderfully precise joinery! Interesting build indeed.

A masterpiece.

Looking forward to this one!

Great job Gary - keep 'em coming!

23 hours ago, KeithAug said:

I am wondering about the non sensible scale of 1:24

Great subject for a build - especially if you can take the wife cruising in it.

Sorry to hear of the setback - its a bleedin' nuisance eh? Take it easy, and spoil yourself.