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  1. Kevin
    lol have you finished it yet?
  2. Kevin
    welcome
  3. Kevin
    Good evening everyone progressing with the railings and netting also the stations on the bridge roof are nearly complete have stained half the netting with a Flory wash to see the difference as i tone the white primer down
  4. Kevin
    Good evening everyone, yep two posts in one day and LOL i have still got 12 working days left put everything on that i have made up for a photo tonight, so i can start to work out how i am going to achieve making her look like a working boat, next month should be back to the hull and do some catch up work with that, i would say she is about 50% built now, but then on top of that there is all the clutter to be made the bridge walkway railings still need to be adjusted, as they form the handles on the steps leading down
  5. Kevin
    Good morning everyone made the other side walkway this morning, and put the netting over the rai;ing set that sits on top of the cod oil house, then put a matt white primer over it all nothing is in its final position yet, an still needs more work to make it look presentable
  6. Kevin
    WELCOME BACK, my long lost friend
  7. Kevin
    Good afternoon everyone Using my last 3 days of holiday, before i finish working on the 31st January, so i can now plan my projects and get back into regular posting again Bridge walkway the railings provided in the kit were not good enough for this so i have made my own, its another of those projects that takes time, but unable to complete until i work out howmuch room is available, as it is quite tight for space behind the bridge
  8. Kevin
    wonderful work Danny
  9. Kevin
    enjoy your break, im about to take one as well, to allow myself more time to do more boat building
  10. Kevin
    Thank you, and your more than welcome to follow my slow progress
  11. Kevin
    That would certainly make sence, but being clipped over the railings seams very naff way to do it, like the securing method at the top, this must have weighed quite heavy
  12. Kevin
    Good evening everyone, hope you all had a nice Christmas i have made an attempt to do something with the ends of the hand rails, i used masting parral beads. i have also started to tomne down the white in places and on the funnel Ash Chute made it up, but dont quite understand how it works, or how it is held into position, the photos show it clipped over the railings, and fails to show how it is held into position at this time everything is just placed into position for the photo, nothing is fixed yet
  13. Kevin
    Mark, good idea, i might see if parral beads from the victory spares box will fit
  14. Kevin
    Thats how the plans show it, im in two minds, as i can see it being a snag issue in the real thing, but if i cut them to terminate, they might look a bit short, so the jury is out at present
  15. Kevin
    Superstructure handrails and stations good evening everyone not made much progress recently, the williness to work on her is there, just not finding the time to put in on her however last weekend i managed to put the handrails on, made from single head statnions and the wire provided within the kit, i put them into position then used a bit of c/a to stop them moving, removed them and used a white primer on them, and put back into position presently making up the guard rails
  16. Kevin
    surprised they went for that when the 1/200 Trumpeter sells well, with the added PE sets, lots of other ships they could have done
  17. Kevin
    Lovely, some real nice detailed work
  18. Kevin
    the wife put it up whilst i was at work, knowing it would please me , so she could drop the bomb that we are visiting relations on Christmas day
  19. Kevin
    Good evening everyone, thank you for the comments and likes not having the bath tub size hull in the cave is certainly an advantage, not because of the space, but i am forever looking at it thinking, what the hell am i going to do with it anyway onwards i go Funnel area the choice of funnel colours is the admirals, and not to represent any port or company, just so happens to be the colours being used i made up the steam whistle pipework and the after pipe ( i believe to be a vent), and the made some bases for the cowls so that they can be moved to change direction the companionway has now got a pair of doors, but still to be finished and the turnbuckle for the after mast have been cleaned up and temp placed into position the turnbuckle for the after mast have been cleaned up and temp placed into position
  20. Kevin
    Good evening everyone Christmas is coming, My new builds have already arrived, but the hull of the St Nectan has been moved out of the way until the end of the festive season, but i still have the superstructure to work on Funnel i was not able to find out if the funnels had any type of protection on top to stop anything dropping down them like birds, wabbits or elephants, so i went out on a limb and decided that they must have, the mesh is from a old washing machine bag that i used to take to sea, the black is matt but still wet when the photos were taken
  21. Kevin
    Good evening everyone been a few weeks since my last post, m i went down with man flu, and has taken me a while to get over it after going as far as i could with the otter boards, i then went on to the gallows, from which the boards are worked tow pairs are made up and the fwd pair are different to the after set, the fwd ones are set at an angle going outboard, i wasnt able to work out if the other pair were then same, but i made them to the same angle anyway they fit in line to the hull ridges Masts having completed the main one a few weeks ago i wasnt happy with it so this weekend i made a new one and completed the foremast, both out of Evergrren tubing, which has allowed me to hide the wiring
  22. Kevin
    oh dear, that means you will be telling me off when i rig it all up wrong then lol
  23. Kevin
    Good evening everyone Otter Boards continued i went for the Flory Dark dirt, but a couple are in just grime, so i have a few options when it comes to putting everything in place i read after last nights post, that the outside edges were sheathed in metal to prevent damage to the wood when being dragged on the seabed, having scored one side of the wood to represent planks and then stained it i super glued the frame to it, then drilled holes though, turned it over, scored and stained then lined the other frame to the holes to represent the metal sheathing i cut a thin piece of card, attached it all round and painted now putting the bolts through and secure the heads on the opposite side next will be the brackets which will be this weeks work i not 100% sure where they fit, but here they are for tonight
  24. Kevin
    Good evening everyone Anchor winch the casting of this was quite bad in places so i will be doing a lot more work on it prior to primer Otterboards 6 of these are have to be made up, basicly two halves sandwiching a plank of wood, these have been cleaned up during the week after work primed with rattle can grey then being painted with the IDF Green (bought for the D9R) the boards is 2mm ply scored to represent planks and a Flory Grime wash to age it some are better than others, but all required cleaning up some of the cleaned off swarf ready for primer the paint gets darker as it dries various stains to find one im happy with
  25. Kevin
    Spent hours making this look ok, struggling with stable doors, nothing is fixed in position

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