Mike Collier
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Very nice! Great job! I’ll have to build one myself.
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Finished my Smith Island Crab Scraper. It was a lot of fun, I learned a lot about building wood models.
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It looks pretty good! The picture with the sail did something happen to the side?
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Painted the inside of the boat, glued on the decks , built engine box, transmission box and fuel tank. Installed the propeller and rudder.
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Today’s work, I have all of the decking supports in and the motor mounts in. I sanded and sprayed shellac inside of boat to seal it. Tomorrow I’ll spray the interior light green and build the motor and transmission boxes.
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Still working on the bottom planking, slow progress but will get it done. Some of the areas near the front and back the planks need to be slightly twist, so I cut the planks to length soaked in hot water until the planks could be twisted then I used CA glue and held the planks down until the CA sets. Seems to work ok.
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Thanks, yes I did see and read it, very good builds.
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I think everything is here , I should have looked closer to material list . I do like the kit, the hard part was getting the sides on right, the spreader bar I think is to low so I raise the bar up higher and got the sides on better.
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Yes, I like their kits, I will build more. I started to glue the two keel parts together when it wouldn’t line up, I looked at the precut keel and it was a little warped. I soaked the keel in hot water for 15 minutes,then clamped down tight to my rod building lathe. Then I traced out the side with the plans and graphite paper, then cut out with sharp carving knife.
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The Wye River Models Crab Scraper boat looks like a pretty good model. It very good plans and a great instruction book with a lot of good pictures of the different steps. I think it’s short some of the wood need to build the model, but that’s ok I’ll go to hobby shop and buy some. I’m looking forward to build this model because these are the kind of models that I want to build.
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