Showing posts with label Chairmans Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chairmans Challenge. Show all posts
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Cassiopeia sails!

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A rare sunny moment on Thursday saw me finally sail my latest model boat - and I'm pleased to say that it has turned out very well. ...
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Saturday, June 11, 2016

A boat project meets the deadline

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I'm pleased to say that my "Chairman's Challenge" boat is ready for this weekend's KMBC open day . As you can...
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Friday, June 10, 2016

Ruminating on Humbrol paint

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  Sage advice for model painters is to buy fresh tinlets when performing important work. This is what I did, but the results weren'...
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Thursday, June 09, 2016

I name this vessel...

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  Cassiopeia.  Thanks to Anonymous who suggested that the boat ought to have a name plucked from the original series of Battlestar ...
Tuesday, June 07, 2016

First sail

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On a quiet, but dry, evening last week, my dad and I snuck down to the model boat club to test our challenge boats. No-one was around s...
Monday, June 06, 2016

Time to put on weight

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  Time to get the Chairman's Challenge boat on the water, and that means this pudgy little hull needs some weight to get it down to...
Friday, June 03, 2016

Make it again Phil

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  Yesterday's post showed the back end of my model boat. You might have noticed the handrails.  These are supposed to be (as fa...
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Thursday, June 02, 2016

Back entrance

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  At the back of my boat, there is an entrance to the rear cabin. It's not very tall so a normal door wouldn't do the job.  ...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Front end filler work

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It's all very well having a curved roof, but at the front of the wheelhouse, it needs to slope down. I cut ribs from plastic to join...
Monday, May 30, 2016

How to draw a gentle curve

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A large boat roof is a challenge. I wanted a gently curved profile but struggled to draw this on a sheet of plastic. It's too large ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Successful scratchbuilding just takes good bodging

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Making models from scratch is a concept that terrifies people, but it shouldn't The photo illustrates some bodgery that has helped...
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Monday, May 23, 2016

Burning the midnight oil

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When I get into a project, I really get into it. This photo shows the state my boat was in after midnight a few days ago. 4 hours work ...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

No panic, just let me at the plastic

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"You realise it's just over 3 weeks to the boat club open day don't you?" My dad has been looking at the calendar....
Friday, May 06, 2016

Bulwarks!

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I'm quite pleased with this. Now the deck is fitted and level, I can work out the bulwarks - that is the sides of the boat above th...
Thursday, May 05, 2016

Wonky deck

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Trust nothing. I foolishly used the plank lines on the vac-formed boat hull as a guide when fitting the deck. As you can see from the...
Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Cabin V2

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Finger pulled out, progress on my Chairman's Challenge boat starts again.  The first job is to build a new mock up for the super...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Chairman's Challenge boat sails

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Better weather means more time sailing boats and one on the list to see afloat is the hull I'm working on for the Chairman's Chall...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Elastic motor mount

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Some new (to me) kit being tested here. From SHG Models we have a vac-formed plastic motor mount suitable for 380 sized units. It arrive...
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Now cut a big hole in the hull

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Normally, model boat building starts with holes being made in the hull for the propshaft and rudder. With that challenge model, the bigges...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Cereal card mockup

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Out with the cereal packet card and sellotape. An hours messing around produced my first mockup for the superstructure. Having looked...