Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Wheelhouse


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Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker.
The fishing boat’s wheelhouse is made up of 5 very nice resin castings. I had to open out the windows by removing the vestigial coverings left from the mould and lightly clean the edges. Flatness was checked and some gentle finger tweaking sorted out any problems.

Superglue fixed everything together quickly and pretty solidly.

The last job was to add a plasticard floor. A couple of scraps of plastic glued on the bottom of the sides gave me some ledges to keep things level. This keeps the box square and adds strength.

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