Hercules by vaddoc - 1:64 - Steam Tugboat

[vaddoc]

Time sure flies!

 

Many thanks for the visit and likes

@Dr PR Phil, I remembered you sharing this and it was on my to do list, unfortunately I had to use so many pieces of wood to straighten the hull that there was no space for a brush, most of the inner surface of the hull was inaccessible. I ll be using epoxy for sure in the future though.

 

So, very little progress to share but here it is:

 

I finished with the propeller shaft housing, it is secured, sanded and faired. I think this was a much more elegant solution than Occre's but also much more difficult.

 

Next I started cutting the openings on the bulwark. One side went fine:

 

The other not, the drill slipped!

Trying to see how to correct it, I broke it even more!

Ok, no need to panic. It was relatively straight forward to fix it:

It has since been sanded and the screws replaced with tree nails. When painted and more stuff added on, it will be invisible.

 

I then attached the rubrail on one side

Now the rub rail continues around the stern in a pretty tight curve for a 3 x 3 mm pear strip to accept. I emersed the strip in a pot of boiling water slowly pushing against the pot wall, the strip took the bend in no time. 

This is all I had time to do between work and extended summer vacations.

 

My work load is going to drastically increase soon, so clearly the most reasonable thing to do is to start another log on an ambitious project - coming soon.

 

Best wishes to all

Vaddoc

[Keith Black]

 Great recovery, Vaddoc. Hercules is coming along nicely. 

[Rick310]

Very nice recovery!  Model looks great!

Don’t you just love self inflicted wounds!

Rick