HM Gun Brig Adder 1797 by Geordie Tyne - Vanguard Models - 1:64

[Geordie Tyne]

A Quick Fix

 

I thought I would do a quick post about how I resolved a mistake of mine. I know a lot of fellow modelers will already know how to do this, however I thought it might prove useful to fellow neophyte ship modelers like myself. I do apologise if this is falling into "teaching your grandmother to suck eggs territory".

 

On to the mistake I have made. 

 

Either through over soaking of my stern gunwales or my bulkheads being to far raised, I have ended up with a bit of a gap between my gunwales. To rectify this, I have cut out two pieces of pear wood and layered them on top of each other.

 

The pear wood after being shaped with 240 grit sand paper. This was then further sanded with a 3200 Fexi File Flex Pad. A bit of watered down wood filler (Elmer's Interior) was then used to fill the two joints. 

 

The finished gunwale repair. I think overall I am happy with the outcome.

 

Thank you for reading my post

 

Regards

 

Geordie

[ECK]

Part of the satisfaction is fixing mistakes so things still look good.

[Geordie Tyne]

Just now, ECK said:

Part of the satisfaction is fixing mistakes so things still look good.

That is very true indeed. I foresee a few more mistakes being fixed in my future ...😄

[AJohnson]

Well, if you hadn’t told us Geordie, we wouldn’t have known! 😆

Good save!  😉

[Geordie Tyne]

22 minutes ago, AJohnson said:

Well, if you hadn’t told us Geordie, we wouldn’t have known! 😆

Good save!  😉

 That is very true (second time I’ve written that!) 😆

26 minutes ago, AJohnson said:

Good save!  😉

Thanks!

 Regards