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tragik

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« on: February 18, 2009, 04:44:49 pm »
Hello all, stumbled on this site and i hope this will be my new home. Little about me, I have started to build my equipment up for building model boats (non-rc). I was a commercial diver for 7 years and have been out of it for a little while, guess you can take one from the sea but can't take the sea from the person. I have 3 boats already ready to crack open the box and start once i am ready with my work bench and equipment. Is this place a good forum for 'my kind' (building static tugs/ships)?

here is my first build goal.


i have gotten my answer on the cloth bumpers ( the kit has a nasty plastic one)

i plan on making it look like a weathered tug. so question.. so, the bits tend to have a rope wear on them. what i mean by that is as the rope tightens on the bit it will rub through the different layers of paint and sometimes down to the metal.. if a boat has been painted different colors in its life then you can see each layer.. has anyone tried this? let me know if i am just crazy..

thanks all..
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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2009, 04:58:09 pm »
Welcome aboard.

Crazy? you need to be to survive here :-))

Seriously though, you will find any amount of people willing to give any amount of help and advice, useful and otherwise!

Ian
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barryfoote

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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2009, 05:46:30 pm »
Welcome aboard tragic....

A great place for help, advise and some good fun. I have never heard of that type of weathering but would love to see some..

Barry
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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2009, 06:30:04 pm »
Welcome aboard
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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2009, 06:57:13 pm »
Is this the same tug?
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tragik

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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2009, 07:12:50 pm »
na, (nice tug though).. the Ravell one has two davits on the top deck for a life boat as well as ladders up on the bow to get to the wheel house.

thanks for all the 'welcomes'.
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« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2009, 07:29:46 pm »
Welcome Aboard - I bet we can talk you into motorising it and fitting a radio in - by the time you have finished the kit  :-))

Have you got your sanity tablets handy, you will need them being on this forum  %% %% helps to be a bit crazy  :o :o

Last but not least, one of the essential requirements on this Forum, you must post lots of photographs on this Forum of your build;  :-)) :-)) :-))

aye
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tragik

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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2009, 07:33:47 pm »
blue: trust me that will happen, i believe it is easier to see what needs to be done than read about it.. baby steps, ill get my feet wet modeling and making it look good. then i can try and put in a radio.. lol  :-))
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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2009, 05:12:02 pm »
Welcome Tragik...love that user name, very appropriate on here.   ok2  Don't listen to anybody here, they are all totally raving mad, get out now whilst you still can. Run away....

Seriously though, welcome to the forum, enjoy your builds.

Rich
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omra85

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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2009, 08:04:47 pm »
Tragik
As one of the very few sane members of the Forum, I bid you welcome.
As soon as you post a question, you will receive copious amounts of advice (some of it will even be believable).
I hope you have many hours of enjoyment with your kits, and we all look forward to hearing (and seeing) your progress.

Items which may be of interest to you may be found by using the "search" facility.
I believe we have already covered some areas potentially related to static modelling, such as -
How to unglue your fingers from the workbench.
How to unglue your model from the workbench.
How to cover up glue marks with paint.
How to remove glue and paint using a variety of household substances.
How to fill holes in a hull dissolved by various substances.
How to remove paint which has reacted with filler.
How to lighten an excessively heavy hull.
How to use gramatically correct swear words.

How to play "Name That Ship"

Enjoy yourself - life's not a rehersal!

Danny

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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2009, 04:14:41 pm »
Don't forget
"How to unglue your hand from a hull"
"How to unglue a hull from a trouser leg"

And I really must clean Gytha (the Lindberg tug, and a LOT biger than the Revell one) up and get her looking like she did at CADMA all those years ago.
A bit of judicious weathering on a model of a work boat always brings them to life, the important thing is to have a look at a real one and use that as a basis.
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tragik

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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2009, 09:31:58 pm »
lol GREAT advice.. i do have one question.. i am looking at the directions of my tug, here is my goal with this build.

build it with love, not slap it together
i want it to look weathered and used, (faded paint, scratchs, etc)
i want to scratch build certain things like ladders that are molded in etc.

question..
the instructions want to put the main deck onto the hull by step 10 or so.. would it be better to paint the upper structure (main deck and wheelhouse) first and hull first then bring it to the hull

or

put it all together and then paint and weather?
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« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2009, 11:57:38 am »
Most parts are better painted before if only because you can't get the brush where you want it without painting something else on the way in or out.  Weathering, however, is better left until later, as the muck does not follow the same rules as paintwork.
If it's going to be motorised and RC'd you need to rethink and rewrite parts of the instruction book as the original only intends deployment on the sideboard.
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tragik

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Re: Noob builder
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2009, 04:26:42 pm »
thanks for the advice, it will be static (no RC). I will move in that fashion. thanks
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