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In my quest to own more 'Scale' model boats, this Sea Queen came along. The paint is flaking and peeling away in various places, so a rub down and repaint will be required, when I get around to it.
Yep, another project 🙄
Yep, another project 🙄
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When the glue has dried, I chop off the heads of the brass tacks and drive the shaft down into the skin to give a mechanical as well as an adhesive fixing.
Bob.
This is probably a lot more important when skinning a lightweight construction, but old habits die hard (as they say).
For the same reason I try to fit the side skins in pairs, although with the bottom skins already attached distortion is a lot less likely - unless the model is being built with a lightweight construction.
Bob.
I was planning the keel and chine stringers ready to add the second bottom sheet of ply to my Arrow and realised I was was carefully collecting up the shavings and putting them in a bag - they will contribute (very slightly!) to heating our house in the winter when I burn them in the wood burner. Very little gets thrown away.
Not so much with plastic bags, but especially with off-cuts of wood that are “too good to throw away” as they are bound to “come in handy one day”.
I have got quite a big box of these really valuable small off-cuts now - they take so long to sift through and sort-out that I often just cut a fresh piece of wood anyway as I don’t have the time to search for the one piece in amongst all the others that may be suitable !
I used to save the packing plastic that so many things come in these days, but I tested a piece in a bucket of water and left it in there by mistake overnight.
When I came back to remove the lump of white foam the next day, it had dissolved !
Without this accidental test, several of my Classic Model Power Boats could have been relying on this self dissolving foam to save it in the event of an emergency!
I now know to avoid this type of white polystyrene foam and only choose the (often) more yellow coloured “closed cell” type that most defiantly is water-proof…and buoyant !
Recycling can be waste of time sometimes when we choose to keep things that really don’t have a use for at all !
Bob,
I think this a disease that affects most modellers, it is a sub-set of the the 'that'll come in useful some day' syndrome.
The main problem is that when we need that thing you carefully saved the odds are we can't find it, or suddenly remember that we threw it away a week or two ago, which is something we fail to admit to and still turn the place upside down searching for it!
Fortunately I have chosen to recycle every time……or as I like to say - restore it !
My Classic Model Power Boats fleet mainly consists of recycled (restored) models that were either delivered broken, given as unwanted, worn-out, or broken.. or even rescued from a skip!
Regarding the recycling of foam packaging, this stuff always looks tempting to add as buoyancy inside the hull.
…but some of the expanded foam packaging needs to be “tested” before being used as buoyancy aids, because a lot of the most popular hard white coloured foam packaging actually dissolves if it is soaked in water !
Recycling old plastic bags can become an addiction - especially when you start saving even more of the “better ones” as being perfect for storing all your other plastic bags in….😂
Bob.
Also from packaging; several slabs of 1" thick expanded polystyrene, some about 1' square.
Very useful for insulating plant pots on the terrace from subzero ground temperatures in winter.
Also for making simple lightweight boat stands and frames to hold batteries and other odds and ends in place inside the model😉
Recycling is King guys an' gals👍
Cheers, Doug😎
PS Some thirty years or so ago I read the following model boat builder's motto in 'Modell Werft'. (Model Shipyard).
Translated it means:
We never throw anything away which won't begin to stink in a week or two.🙊
I think some peoples idea of packed well and protected differs hugely, and have received one or two of mine in similar packaging, and lack of protection.
It's bloody annoying.