Friendship Sloop by captainbob - FINISHED - 1:48

[popeye the sailor]

try the doll house section of your local craft store........they stock wall and floor coverings that might be of help.

[Dee_Dee]

Bob

 

Your Friendship Sloop is looking great!

For the vinyl covered mattress, I have a couple of ideas:

Cut styrene to shape, carve a little surface texture, rolled contour and slightly rounded corners and then paint with the desired color.

Detail on the styrene can also be added by adding a layer or two of fine cotton fabric in the desired color.  Instead of gluing the fabric onto the styrene or wood mattress, saturate the fabric with polyurethane.  When dry, sand the fabric to get the final texture desired.  You may need to sand / poly / sand / poly a few times to get the desired texture.

If you don't have styrene, brown paper bags cut to shape, layered up and also glued with polyurethane, and finished off painted in desired color.  Or, use a blue and black Sharpie Marker on the brown paper bag before adding the polyurethane. 

If you want to stay with vinyl, stop by the local high end bicycle shop that carries road bicycles and ask them if they have any light weight butyl tubes that you can have a section of.  The rubber on these lightweight tubes is less than 1mm thick and the tube is about 1" wide with some texture lines on it. .

I checked the bicycle shops in your area and Ironclad Bicycles, 710 White Spar, Prescott appears to be the only shop that carries road bikes.

 

Dee Dee   

[captainbob]

Thanks Dee Dee, Those are all good ideas.  I'm not surprised you only found one shop selling road bikes.  Prescott is in the high desert mountains at 5300 feet.  They do sell a lot of mountain bikes here.

 

Bob

[captainbob]

Time for more.  The sides of the cabin and cockpit are one large oval.  So I made it that way.  First, using card stock, I made a template of the oval and used it to cut out a block from an old piece of 1 X 3 fir.  The circumference was about eleven inches so I cut a piece of 1/32” basswood 3/4” wide by 12” long.  I wrapped it in soaking wet paper toweling and then microwaved it on high for one minute.  It bent around the block as easily as if it were cardstock.  I wrapped a rubber band around it and clamped it for a day.  I then tapered the overlapping ends and glued them, wrapped the joint in plastic film and it is clamped and drying now.  Next time I manage to get to the boatyard I’ll worry about shaping it.

 

Bob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mirabell61]

innovative technique Bob,

 

bringing the microwave into the game.....

amazingly good result, I like

 

Nils

[michael mott]

A great job on the curves Bob, Have you considered party balloons for the vinyl they are a type of rubber and come in all sorts of colours.

 

Michael

[Piet]

Great idea on using the microwave for bending, instant steam bending tool!

 

Cheers,

[Omega1234]

Hi Bob

 

Now that's smart thinking!!!

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[Jim Lad]

Very cunning, Bob!

 

John

[IgorSky]

... but they are all too shiny.  Any suggestions? 

 

Bob

Hi Bob,

If the plastic is too shiny, may be, try to use an emery paper with very fine grain (1200 or 1600 or 2000) to clean excess gloss?

 

Best Regards!

Igor.

[cog]

Extensive cooking repertoir Bob! Hope it doesn't end up in a pot ... might just be a bit chewy Sharp thinking though - must keep it in mind!!

[captainbob]

Thanks for all the suggestions for imitating vinyl.  I may try several before I settle on one. 

 

I have tried many ways to bend wood.  Soaking in hot water, soldering iron, etc. but I’ve never had wood be as flexible as this piece was. It may have been the process, it may have been the wood, I don’t know.  I’ll have to try it again.  As for the microwave I do the cooking so the admiral doesn’t know.  Just a thought, under the forum “Shore Leave” there’s a heading “What did you cook today?” Do you think I should give them this recipe?

 

Bob

[IgorSky]

.  Just a thought, under the forum “Shore Leave” there’s a heading “What did you cook today?” Do you think I should give them this recipe? [/font][/size]

 

Bob

The excellent thought!

- I don't like the wood coocked in a microwave...

- Wow! You just don't know how to cook it!!! )))

[cog]

If it is pallatable ... you could give it try ...

[Omega1234]

If it is pallatable ... you could give it try ...

 

I'll try anything and I'll eat anything! I'm gonna lock that trick away for future use.

[captainbob]

Thanks for all the responses about the microwave to soften.wood.  I have not tried it on harder woods.  If anyone does let me know how it works.

 

Bob

[cog]

Thanks for all the responses about the microwave to soften.wood.  I have not tried it on harder woods.  If anyone does let me know how it works.

 

Bob

Can I borrow your microwave ...

[captainbob]

Can I borrow your microwave ...

Sure, anytime you're in the area just let me know.

 

Bob

[popeye the sailor]

interesting ideas from Bob's kitchen 

[Dee_Dee]

Bob,

I've steamed 1/32" x 3/16" walnut that needed edge bending in the microwave. Since these need to 'cook' a bit longer, the strips were wrapped in paper towels and then put into a 9" x 12" casserole dish with a quarter to half inch of additional water (to prevent 'cooking' the microwave.)  Microwave on high for three minutes, let it sit in the microwave for five minutes, added more water if needed and cook on high for another three minutes.  Handle with care.  

Dee Dee

[cog]

Soon we'll start a 'model cooking forum'

[popeye the sailor]

Carl said it was palatable....so I tried it............don't do it

[captainbob]

Ok, back to the build. 

 

I found my 1:48 scale vinyl.  It turned out to be the foil around the top of a wine bottle.  I wrapped it around .06" (3" scale) plastic sheet.

 

That's all for now.

 

Bob

 

 

Edited February 5, 2015 by Cap'n'Bob

[Jim Lad]

And very acceptable vinyl it makes too!   

 

John

[capnharv2]

Time for me to drink more wine!

[Omega1234]

Very nice, Bob!

[Mfelinger]

Congratulations, it looks great!  

 

Matija

[cog]

Now that's vinil!!!!! Couldn't have bought/find anything looking more alike

Edited February 5, 2015 by cog

[Piet]

Fantastic find Bob and great looking benches too!

 

Cheers,

[Elia]

Bob,

 

Very clever solution to scale vinyl covering. It completely looks the part. Well done.

 

Cheers,

 

Elia