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| teleman |
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  Registered Member #1925 Joined: Tue Nov 29 2011, 05:32amPosts: 1357 | Tom ,Mike, Gene, thanks guys for your suggestions. I did know gene used fabric paint when i read thru Connie a lon while ago. I have to go by some. Hopefully tomorrow. My local Walmart only had some glossy stuff. Not good!! HAHA! Mike i will try your suggestion also. Ihave just about finished off the oars to keep the building process moving along. Mario    | ||
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| Gene Bodnar |
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 Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1778 | No problem, Tom. The fabric paint is actually called "dimensional fabric paint." A starter set comes in a set of 6 different colors in small, fine-tipped (very small hole) plastic bottles. A gentle squeeze causes a small amount to come out. It works similar to decorating a cake on a small scale. Wal-Mart carries it in their craft department. Gene | ||
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| teleman |
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| Registered Member #1925 Joined: Tue Nov 29 2011, 05:32amPosts: 1357 | Hi All, Well lifes priorities caught up with me last week. But looks like I will be hitting it hard starting tonight before Mother's Day next week(just thought I would put up a friendly reminder). My apologies on my absence... cheers Mario | ||
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| Registered Member #1925 Joined: Tue Nov 29 2011, 05:32amPosts: 1357 | Hi All, I decided to go with the idea of using FABRIC PAINT to give the look of nails n roves. I am really not crazy about a lot of those nails n roves to do. Since at a size between .05mm to 1mm, just not worth the trouble for something that would really not be noticed. Plus I am not a fan of trenails and/or nails n roves anyway. Call me crazy but I rather do ratlines. I do really not care for the the look. But I thought I would giver a go...my boat now has a bad case of the pimples. LOL! If you remember Jeff plans show dashed lines on the frames. Which would assist the builder in faring the frames. So what I did was fare each frame individually before I installed them on the boat floor. I left enough material to finish the faring after the frames were permanently glued into position. Has with my Bounty Launch build the instructions had me leave off the cant frames till the rest were fared. So I decided to leave off frames D n E nearest to the bow section to fare after the rest of the frames were completed... Once completed I glued them into place and I used frame C as a reference to do frame D and E. I layed my sanding block on frame C and went from there to get them all in line. Using a batten to keep me in line.... Now if you go back to page 1. You will see the that the boat bottom at the stem n stern areas come to a point. The plans had me cut out the stem n stern with a squared joint...So I spoke with Jeff and he did say I was right in deciding to Nip off the boat bottom ends to a squared end and butt he stem n stern post to them...(he is going to correct the plans at a later date) So here's a few pictures...            | ||
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| midnight |
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 Registered Member #609 Joined: Tue Jan 05 2010, 03:34amPosts: 46 | The fake nails n roves look the goods to me , nice work Mario . I'm keeping an eye on your build as i might give this a go . After i try to do the Battle station first that is . Cheers Dave | ||
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  Registered Member #4 Joined: Fri Jun 26 2009, 12:40amPosts: 90 | She looks great Mario. Very nice workmanship. Just a warning though: You may be hooked on scratch building now  Jeff | ||
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| teleman |
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| Registered Member #1925 Joined: Tue Nov 29 2011, 05:32amPosts: 1357 | Dave, Jeff, Thanks for the pat on the back. Jeff you really have created a nice set of plans for someone like me to venture into scratch building for the 1st time. I would n will recommend anyone deciding to take a crack at scratch building to try your Batteau out for a first try.....I'm having fun. Can't wait to see what Dave n Winston come up with on those stern kits they are considering. Dave I'm looking hard at that Battle Station also.... BFN [ Edited Wed May 02 2012, 03:48pm ] | ||
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| Scoot |
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  Registered Member #1728 Joined: Fri Aug 19 2011, 12:25amPosts: 29 | Looking good Mario. Nice looking little vessel. Great confidence builder. Very neat and clean as always. Scoot | ||
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| teleman |
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| Registered Member #1925 Joined: Tue Nov 29 2011, 05:32amPosts: 1357 | Hey Thank you scoot for your kind words man.... Mario [ Edited Fri May 04 2012, 03:04am ] | ||
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| Registered Member #1925 Joined: Tue Nov 29 2011, 05:32amPosts: 1357 | DID YOU EVER JUST HAVE ONE OF THOSE DAYS.... Well I knew things were going too smoothly.... Ok I am now at a stand still. I started to trace out the gar-board strack. Then I transferred it to white card. Then I placed the card gar-board against my frames to see how close I was. Well I was way off. I could not figure out why for the longest time. I took my traced out gar-board and layed it on the plans and it matched perfectly. You ever get one of those nights that all you do is think and your production is nil. Well after staring at my project and then back to the plans hoping to figure out what was going on, I finally saw it. If you look at my project my flat bottom boat floor is flat. But on the plans it is not so. It curves up slightly at the fore n aft ends. I never saw it till NOW. So am I correct in assuming that I will not be able to transfer the strakes on the plans to my material. Because measuring from stem to stern on the plans it 15 inches, on my model it's 16 inches. My option is now to mark of my own strakes on the frames and go from there. By creating my own planks. I need to know from you experienced scratch builders that I am making the right decision, and that I am understanding these plans correctly. Since this is all new to me. Thanks for any advice to help me out here.... here's a couple of pictures   | ||
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