Topic: Who's building what at the moment? (Read 326858 times)

Howard · « **Reply #675 on:** May 05, 2018, 10:01:46 am »

Am making a push to finish my Canning then back to the SD14 that's a labour of love and not a weekend job.
Regards Howard.

Tugtower · « **Reply #676 on:** May 05, 2018, 03:23:42 pm »

I’m in the latter stages of building the vintage model boat company’s ( before they got brought out) sea urchin, I’m in the process of finishing up paint and varnish work before I fit the final details and fittings.

Blog can be found here...
http://www.thercmodelboatforum.com/t1340-aerokits-sea-urchin
It shouldn’t take much more than 4-6 weeks or so now to finish this project, then I have an exciting new project which is a pair of scratch built CMB’s from ww1 then the ww2 variant, working only from the original redrawn plans.

Exciting stuff!

unbuiltnautilus · « **Reply #677 on:** May 05, 2018, 07:10:45 pm »

Quote from: Tugtower on May 05, 2018, 03:23:42 pm

I’m in the latter stages of building the vintage model boat company’s ( before they got brought out) sea urchin, I’m in the process of finishing up paint and varnish work before I fit the final details and fittings.

Blog can be found here...
http://www.thercmodelboatforum.com/t1340-aerokits-sea-urchin
It shouldn’t take much more than 4-6 weeks or so now to finish this project, then I have an exciting new project which is a pair of scratch built CMB’s from ww1 then the ww2 variant, working only from the original redrawn plans.

Exciting stuff!

That is a pretty looking little thing, and CMBs, just gets better! Keep up the good work

Rob47 · « **Reply #678 on:** May 05, 2018, 07:15:30 pm »

1/72 HMS Victorious

Bob

Bob K · « **Reply #679 on:** May 06, 2018, 12:41:44 pm »

With Wicksteed looming ever closer the Windsor Dockyard has had to divert resources away from HMS Agincourt to building self assembly furniture for my sister's new flat. It is kinda still a wood / building exercise, but not for something that floats.
Inconvenient, but family necessities unfortunately have to come first.

Southern Sailor · « **Reply #680 on:** May 06, 2018, 05:29:03 pm »

Quote from: James59 on May 04, 2018, 09:31:29 pm

Hi
Hannants are your best bet, I've attached the web address below, I had a quick look and AFV Club have a new kit out this year which you could pre order. Couldn't see a hellcat but there are a lot of Manufacturers out there and Hannants have most of them covered.

https://www.hannants.co.uk

Hope this helps

Thanks James59. 1:144 is a difficult scale to source. I'll scratch build. Brian

Glyn Roberts · « **Reply #681 on:** May 13, 2018, 04:14:41 pm »

Building the American Enterprise fast supply ship.

Regards Glyn

ChrisF · « **Reply #682 on:** May 14, 2018, 01:10:12 pm »

Finally started assembling the Fairey Swordsman. Began cutting out the frames and keel etc. at Christmas but got side-tracked by another project, jobs around the house and a holiday etc.

Southern Sailor · « **Reply #683 on:** March 12, 2019, 07:39:53 pm »

Some pics of my HMS Goliath build

Southern Sailor · « **Reply #684 on:** March 12, 2019, 07:45:15 pm »

Nearly complete.

Taranis · « **Reply #685 on:** March 12, 2019, 07:47:32 pm »

Would love to see that in uncompressed form. If you're happy with the photo? send me it and I'll post it full size Brian

Southern Sailor · « **Reply #686 on:** March 13, 2019, 10:20:53 am »

Thanks Andy I'll do that. I need some coaching on posting pictures. Can I change the caption from within the forum or must they have captions before attaching them to the post? I did reduce the size of all the pictures as requested by the Forum. I will PM you with the full size pic. Presumably its the pic of the boat on the water. Brian

Taranis · « **Reply #687 on:** March 13, 2019, 10:23:55 am »

Use the email Brian
I host all my pictures off forum thus I have no file size limit.
I’ve emailed you in case you lost it

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #688 on:** December 10, 2022, 01:51:32 pm »

So what are you up ....

1. Building at the Moment?

2. Planning to finish soon?

swiftdoc · « **Reply #689 on:** December 10, 2022, 03:12:29 pm »

Shannon lifeboat, started more than 3 years ago, building at a slow but steady pace.
‚gently gently, catchey monkey‘

SteamboatPhil · « **Reply #690 on:** December 10, 2022, 03:12:51 pm »

4ft long high speed steam boat (or 1.2 metrs if you are that way inclined) ready for mayhem next year, engine, finished boiler finished , now all the pipework.
Look out for the free running competition (IE straight running ...no radio ) for the mayhem weekend, details for you in January, so prepare to build (simple design..and limits)

SailorGreg · « **Reply #691 on:** December 10, 2022, 03:19:28 pm »

Well, not strictly building as I finished it a couple of weeks ago, but I have been experimenting with an airboat with two ducted fans and steering with differential thrust - no rudder but two channels mixed in the transmitter in response to steering commands. A couple of photos (still in yellow primer, although painted properly now) -

It works, but the steering has a short lag at high speeds which has led to a couple of embarrassing moments!

I need to play around with the mixing, and plan to spread the two fans apart a bit more, to the maximum beam of the boat to give more steering moment. All good fun!

Greg

SteamboatPhil · « **Reply #692 on:** December 10, 2022, 04:08:10 pm »

Cool, Fun, and a little chaos

dougal99 · « **Reply #693 on:** December 10, 2022, 04:23:24 pm »

Pilot 40. Hull and plan from Sarik. Started 6 weeks ago but have only managed to fir the prop shafts, rudders and motor mounts. The latter caused me lots of headaches as the base needs to curve with the hull and the top angled to aling with the prop shaft. A dodecahedron would have been easier!

Just as I started, my wife inconsiderately broke her arm just below the shoulder, so I've been chaufer for hospital visits and novice housekeeper not to mention twist-top jar and toothpaste opener. Now I've got to put up xmas decorations. bah humbug!
merry crimble to you all

terry horton · « **Reply #694 on:** December 10, 2022, 05:11:17 pm »

I'm about halfway through building Deans Marines latest kit ,S Y Napsugar, which I purchased and received at the end of October.
A very attractive boat when completed.... some head scratching needed to collate some parts with the instructions and drawing and a call to Deans quickly resolved some missing parts issues but all in all very happy with progress so far.

Regards
Terry H

The Old Fart · « **Reply #695 on:** December 11, 2022, 09:34:36 am »

I'm building the same boat. Purchased from Blackpool show. Hull was already started, which I wasn't happy about. I don't know which build to follow, instructions, plans or CD builds. Looks like at least 3 different builds.Missing parts I printing on my 3d resin printer. Also bought 3 model figures, one has leg broken, another has lost it's head. Again now printing my own. Ordered set of running lights, receive 2 green 2 red no white.

sabre · « **Reply #696 on:** December 11, 2022, 10:08:30 am »

Still plodding along with a Billing Bluenose that I started six years ago. Got totally cheesed off with poor quality black paint so I bought an aerosol tin of satin black, masked everything off then when I went to peel off the masking it removed small patches of the paint under the tape so it was start again and repaint the lower part of the hull. Also got a Waverley sitting on a shelf awaiting a date with the aerosols as it too didn't like the white gloss paint that I was using. It was like trying to paint using milk. Don't do airbrushing as it seems too fiddly to me.

ChrisF · « **Reply #697 on:** December 11, 2022, 02:20:50 pm »

Still working on my five Fairey builds. Making progress with painting 3 of the hulls, hand painting using International Paints.

Have modified my drawings for a Fairey Faun lake/river cruiser and printed them off ready for a start soon.

John W E · « **Reply #698 on:** December 11, 2022, 04:21:19 pm »

I have been trying to finish off HMS Lindisfarne - been one of the longest projects I have done for a while - stop start, stop start, do something else, but getting there hopefully.

John

Ralph · « **Reply #699 on:** December 11, 2022, 07:23:13 pm »

Still puffing along with my Mountfleet Highlander which I started in January. -3C in the workshop/shed tonight so no painting for a while which is holding things up. As a wee diversion I picked up a black Friday deal on a 1/72 scale Revel PT boat kit which I'm converting to RC for calm weather sailing.

Ralph

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