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1. chugalone100🇺🇸Silver

   Vice-amiral·il y a 3 ans

   Yo my opinion, the £3.50 You spent many years ago, it was one of your best investment and now it’s paying off.
   Great looking model with very slick lines, I like it.
   I will follow your model till completion.
   Best of luck.
   Jul
2. PeteJev🇬🇧Bronze

   Quartier-maître 2e classe·il y a 3 ans

   Hi just to let you know I am still progressing albeit very slowly. I took advantage of a very large rainwater puddle at the bottom of my garden to check water tightness. All good and very pleased to see that it floated. I have just started to do the windows and portholes glazing and surrounds it seem to be taking an age. Enjoy the good weather Pete

   Aimé par Scratchbuilder and Trident73 and 2 others
3. flaxbybuck🇬🇧

   Capitaine·il y a 4 ans

   Its looking good Pete. I'm a bit surprised at your choice of paints because the different mediums used do not always agree with each other. Have you noticed any reaction when using acrylic on enamel or vise versa ?🙄

   Aimé par chugalone100
4. PeteJev🇬🇧Bronze

   Quartier-maître 2e classe·il y a 4 ans

   Hi all I seem to be working in parallel with Neil W my ancient fire boat kit is in a similar stage of painting. I decided to aerosol spray paint and after 2coats of sanding sealer and 2 coats of Isopon grey filler primer both inside and out the red underside (2 coats) was Rust-oleum Balmoral acrylic and the black 2 coats of Hammerite smooth. Just doing the cabin roofs in white again using the acrylic craft enamel. I am planning to spray the whole boat with clear varnish as the final finish. (Question should I do this after all the deck fittings have been installed) One other task is the glazing and window surrounds, I am using the SLEC pre-cut system but with no instructions I am planning to glue the glazing in 1st to the openings and then put the surrounds on after. (is this the best way?) at this rate I might be operational later this year.

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5. DuncanP🇬🇧Bronze

   Commandant·il y a 4 ans

   Hi Stephen. In response to your query about the water outlet it comes out at the side of the boat directly in line with the black ESC. The water intake is immediately behind the prop.
6. DuncanP🇬🇧Bronze

   Commandant·il y a 4 ans

   Hi Pete. In response to your query here are some photos of my installation. Immediately behind the wheel house I have the battery installed laterally against the bulkhead and held in place with velcro (not shown in photo). It's a 2200mAh Lipo battery. Also in here is a water-cooled ESC. The next 2 compartments have the motor and a plastic box containing the RX and a r/c switch for the spotlight. Also the rudder servo is mounted here. The rear compartment has the rudder and a battery box with 2x AAA batteries for the spotlight. There is no other ballast. Hope this is helpful. Cheers Duncan

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7. PeteJev🇬🇧Bronze

   Quartier-maître 2e classe·il y a 4 ans

   Hi Duncan P many thanks for that additional info, that was a similar strategy I used for the hull skinning so I will try that again with the rubbing strakes. Have you any photos of the RC and motor installations as I have not yet decided on the locations of the kit. Also did you need to ballast the boat. Thanks Pete

   Aimé par Colin H
8. DuncanP🇬🇧Bronze

   Commandant·il y a 4 ans

   Hiya,
   Further to my earlier reply I perhaps should have said that on taking the strips out of the steamer I immediately fastened them to the hull shape using automotive (stronger) masking tape and left them until they had fully dried out. I then attached them as I mentioned previously with Deluxe Materials Roket Max thick cyano glue. I can see from another post that someone questioned using cyno glue but I haven't had any problems with it coming adrift even though it was bonding to paint rather than bare wood.
   The photo shows the crash tender prior to the spray rail being fitted and you can see a lot of water ends up on the deck! The video shows the boat now running at a much better angle and very little water finding its way onto the decks.😊 Cheers Duncan.

   Aimé par DaveWhittaker and Colin H and 4 others
9. johnf🇬🇧

   Aspirant officier·il y a 4 ans

   Keep going. I am sure you will find model boat building and sailing far more satisfying - , and much less frustrating than building and almost immediately and invariably afterwards crashing model planes.
   
   Welcome on board!
   
   John. 😊😊

   Aimé par PeteJev and MouldBuilder and 1 other
10. Colin H🇬🇧Silver

    Amiral de la flotte·il y a 4 ans

    RodC, here is a link that should explain your query about RAF fire boats. https://firemuseum.uk/cool_timeline/1930-50s/
    Cheers Colin.

    Aimé par Nerys and DuncanP and 2 others