ChrisF
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Warwickshire, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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Scratch building 7 Faireys at a scale of 1:12 and also have 2 built by Dave Milbourn
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5 boatsMy RTR/ARTR Plastic Power Boats
I bought the Club 500 first, ready assembled, off a fellow club member so that I could get used to operatin…
Non-Classic Fairey Builds
These come from the era of classic boats, including the 1960s and 70s and were timber hulled. The Fisherman…
Other Classic Fairey Builds
In addition to the Huntress I'm building all the other classic Faireys at the same scale of 1:12. None of t…
Fairey Huntresses
I mainly scratch build my own models but when Dave Milbourn offered me one of the prototypes he'd built for…
My ARTR Plastic Yachts
I bought the HydroPro Affinity not long after I started the hobby to learn to sail and do some club racing.…
ChrisF’s build blogs
7 blogsThis build is around the same percentage complete as my Swordsman - the hull is further forward with the bottom and sides being painted b…
The hull sides have been painted white and will now be left for a week or more for the paint to harden. Reason I leave it that long is I …
A discussion has started on another thread (Bobs,* A Super Rapier*) and this is going to continue so thought it best to start one of its …
Made the bilge keels from two laminations of mahogany sheet to get the correct thickness and then glued them in place. Once this was done…
In my quest to get all my Faireys to something like completion I have dusted off this model. The Huntsman 28, whilst well known in full-s…
Having virtually finished the drawings for a future build, the Bruce Campbell Christina 25, and enjoying a bit of drawing associated with…
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♥ 3 likesFairey Huntsman 31As with the Swordsman I've returned to this one to finish painting the superstructure, that is the roofs. I've routinely mentioned my love/hate relationship with painting and this did nothing to improve it! Th…
♥ 12 likesFairey Swordsman 33I've put the Fairey Fisherman to one side for the moment so that I can return to the Fairey sports cruisers. Been a few weeks since I started applying primer-undercoat to the roof so I gave it a sanding and ap…
♥ 19 likesRe: What new features would you like to see on MBW?@BOB27600 To some extent this is already in Articles & Links though I must admit I rarely go in there. Perhaps it should have sub-sections as on some other forums, but it's success will depend on members posti…♥ 5 likesRe: Sprite Plus@zooma Flat screens can look Ok if you have returns at the sides but I agree in this case a pointed screen would look better and match the roof and cabin window.♥ 1 likeRe: The tools/equipment of the ship modeler.Yes, I've got a number of worklights/torches/small strip lights and whilst they have their uses, for working on larger areas they are too bright or harsh and due to their small lamp area cast other areas into …
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