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Image Comments posted by jhearl
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No - the inspiration boat, Miss Violet, is at a marina near Kent Narrows, Maryland.
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Hard to list all the ways I made these things. Most of the tools are made from brass with lots of filing and often bits of wood glued on. The 5-gallon paint bucket is a piece of plastic rod turned on the lathe and painted white. The smaller cans are brass rod. Labels for the cans were found on the internet, sized appropriately, and glued on. Paint brush is an ordinary, cheap brush with a wood handle glued on. I enjoy doing this kind of stuff and over the past few years have gotten into putting these sorts of details on my models. First attempt at a diorama though.
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The scale is roughly 1:16 but for the most part, I just made things to look "right."
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No -just a one-off. First -time attempt at a diorama.
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Although it looks black in the photos, it's actually very dark brown (Jacobean stain on basswood). The deck on the real boat was coated with a mixture of linseed oil, pine tar, and turpentine, so I'm thinking it was pretty dark when fresh. I'd rather it had come out a bit more like the base the model is mounted on.
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Those buckets are for fish, not bailing! 🙂