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[Stavros!]

Pray tell me Neil how are you going to motor these little beuties


Stav

[Neil]

now, thats a mystery to me at the moment mate...................might put a mast and sail on them.


to be honest I do have an idea but dont want to reveal it until I've tried it out.

[Neil]

Painting has started, the filler primer to the top half of the ribs has been sprayed on using Halfords finest.

The whole of the two hulls have been sprayed one coat today and now left to cure overnight. tomorrow i will rub them with medium  and then fine wire whool befopre giving them a second coat of filler primer, as even when sanded the printing can leave fine lines. once this has been applied and again rubbed down they will be given a couple of coats of undercoat primer, and again between coats rubbed down, before the final orange coats.

[Neil]

After the filler primer had cured over night it was given a rubbing with very fine wire wool and then another rubbing of 800 grade wet and dry paper, used dry.

It was then over the last 4 hours given 2 coats of white undercoat spray, and the second coat has just been given this evening at 19.30 hours.


Ill see how it is in a couple of hours and then give it a final rubbing down with 1200 grade paper, before I Pput on the orange top coats tomorrow, and then start on the fittings.

[Neil]

This morning I wiped the two ribs with some tacwipe to remove any dust and then gave a first coat of orange to the top of the sponsons, and then a couple of hours later after the paint had hardenned and the heaters had got warmth into the workshop i turned them over to paint the other halves.
I shall now wait an hour or so and then give them the next coat of orange.

[Neil]

now that the top coat of Brilliant orange has beem sprayed on to the two hulls, i have started to stick the waterproof black tape parts on to the boats.
And when i can find my compass cutters in the workshop I'll be able to cut all of the round "plates" for all of the eyelets for the grab ropes etc on the boats, which will be tomorrows job when i actually get up, but that and an emergency trip to the walk in centre at fleetwood with a near 3 hour wait today have left me kercanackered today.....so an easy day tomorrow.

[Neil]

Quite a bit of sticking bits on the ribs today.

The ribs'  boat registration numbers were added last, but before that I fownd an art shop in St Annes just down the coast where I go for my paints and other small supplies, printed me 100 round stick on vynal circular pieces pre cut for me to mount the rings for the grab ropes to attach too.

He told me that he prints pre cut all sorts of transfers for the local Blackpool model boat club including transfers for both modern and classic RNLI lifeboats if he has a base to work from.

My 100  rounds cost me just a fiver, which i was happy to pay for something ready within 10 minutes.

[Neil]

Who said painting was a joy and relaxing, hahahaaa!?
I started painting the main pieces to add to the ribs, and the black with orange stripes to the underside hull just after lunch, and finished about 20 minutes ago.
But they are looking quite nice if i do say so myself.
Still things to do on them before they are finished but it is back to the Clyde for the next few days as the owner is bringing the second of them next week so really want to get the resto of this one finished ready for him to take away, as there is no way i can fit two Clydes in to a small workshop together.
But for now pics of the two ribs as they stand at the moment.

[Neil]

Getting to the end of the build of the two Dclass ribs now having made some small items to fix to the sponsons, and the propellors for both ribs......and cast in resin and into plasticine moulds.

[Neil]

Made the little arials for the two boats this evening, and now just leaving them to set.
They will be glued to the aft bulkheads once everything else has been fitted and these have been painted.

[Neil]

and after two weeks of searching for the eyelets to fix the anchoring points for all of the grab ropes, i finally found them this ecening in a place i should have searched before...........the bl***y floor.

So after drilling all of the pilot holes in the centre of all of the black round spots and taking an age just to turn 3 of the 58 eyelets to be fitted and my arthritic fingers already starting to ache, I made a little tool out of thin copper wire, the rest went in quickly and nicely,
So tomorrow i shall find some black cord to wire all of the grab ropes up to the eyelets.


A job I have been wanting to do for the last 2 weeks.

[Neil]

A couple more jobs, The job seems endless, and more than building my old Atlantic 21's

Masking up for painting on the first aid drawers in the centre consol,

And now that the softer terracotta milliput arived last night I have started the bags for equipment [ I presume] and a spare propellor bag.

More detailing will be added once the putty has set.

They are on the radiators at the moment.

[Neil]

I might have given the wrong idea of how I feal about building these two ribs.    HEY NO  I'm enjoying it..........its something totally different to what I normally get asked to build and find it a real nice change and very interesting to do.......... my only reason for the sttement last night was to say it really is a nice little model to make and not a "toy" but a propper scale model. And on a small boat of just 16" long it has more detailing on it than some boats much longer that I have built over the years.. I am finding new things and learning how complex these little boats are not only as models but in real life too.

[Neil]

More bits and pieces for the D Class Rib.

The hand sets and bases for the intercoms have beed made from milliput.

As have the bags for the spair propellor and the tools and such. Now I dont know whether all the latest D class boats have them, but the Fleetwood boat has such fitments, and as this rib is based on Fleetwoods boat, she has got them, also made from milliput. all parts are curing at the moment.

And the main consol is now finished and ready to fit having had the medics chest markings made from a bit of green paint and some thin white car lining tape.. only wish the markings for the Marriner motor covers were as easy to do.

[Neil]

After painting and finishing the propellor and tool bags for both ribs I made all the parts from plasticard for the radio coms [I believe they are] on the starboard side of the main consol and from the milliput made the parts for other coms on the port side of the consol.

Finally as I was told what a certain part was that looked like a cammels hump, the other day which is the housing for the portable compass, I was also told that there were two housings for the compass, one by the aft side where the helm sits/kneels, and one in the bow area.

 So I thought that I would need to make two more.............unfortunately, because I have lost somewhere one of the originals that I had made a week or so ago, I decided to make 4 more using a stick of milliput in the shape of the cammels hump that I was able, once cured to sand to the shape I needed and then cut and sanded all four to the same thikness.


I think a beer calls now.

[Neil]

AHHH..... nectar of the gods.

[Neil]

After making all the small parts yesterday for the radio coms, I had to make the flexuble expanting wiring for the items,

After making all the small parts yesterday for the radio coms, I had to make the flexible expanding wiring for the items.

Take some lengths of 0'6mm brass or copper wire that I had from old builds and make sure you have at least 18" in each length to make the longer lengths of wiring. Gently aneal the wire to soften it in order to bend easily.

Take a short length of brass rod 1.25mm diameter and hold that and the end of the thin wire and wind around the brass rod, pushing the coil together every 15 mm length or so to tighten up the "spring" that has formed. Just continue to wind and push together the coils until tight together and you have 5mm left at the finished end, to fix in to the fitting.

Then when fixing the wire to the fittings, just drill the fitting with an appropriate very fine drill bit, and glue the wire to the fitting with cyano......simple as that.

[Neil]

A good day today, lovely sunny day to bolster the spirits , a Macs breakfast wrap whilst sat on Fleetwood prom, and then hometo some painting, string craft and then gluing of parts onto other parts, bringing these little crackers to a finish soon.
The coms items have been glued to the main consol after painting.
The grab ropes have been fitted and just a case now of gluing the parts to the hull and deck of the boat before attaching the outboards to the two boats.
I know they won't tilt and fold in to the aft part of the hull but as a small working [if you want] boat with the tilt bracket I felt it was better for a clumbsy sod like me to make the attachment brackets more robust and less easy to break...........after all, I'm not a rivet counter or cup hunter.....too embarrasing for me lol.

[Martin (Admin)]

Morning Neil,

Did you make the console too?   

[Neil]

yes, Martin in fits and starts over a few days,
it is actually NOT  a true assimily of the real thing, as it is about 12mm too short in height.
As I needed to raise the deck in order to fit in radio gear and battery pack............but at 20 feet out fron shore, you'd need a good eye to notice.

[Neil]

Then looking at the work I had done over the last couple of days, I swore in horror at what I saw, after all my work and my painting.

Look at the photo of the port side rear cone of the left hand boat in the pic.............two cross DENTS in the cone.............caused by me putting the boat on the radiator for some reason out of the way so that it wouldn't get damaged........so much for  that idea.

The boat had actually suffered damage in that the heat of the radiator had distorted the cone that was in contact with it..............so! lesson learned

I drilled the cone with multiple holes to give the  Dolphin glaze some purchace  and rebuilt its proper shapein to the nicely rounted cone that it was once and how it should be.

After an hours masking and repainting, it doesn't look too bad now.  Rebuilding it has done the trick.

[Neil]

well, thats my modelling over for the day............just been to the diabetic eye clinic for my routine yearly eye test, and after the eye die was put in I can't see sod all, everything is green, except for the lawn,.........and that is red.

no wonder they say you cant drive for at least 6 hours after, lol.

Aint getting old fun!!!

[Neil]

the bow of both boats was left in a terrible mess after I had glued the spray sheets on to the bow of each boat,

As there was no anchoring points for them, they tended to slip and slide here and there leaving epoxy glue residue all over until it started to harden, and then had to be scraped and sanded off.

then it had to be filled as did the the holes left where the sheets didn't fit to the hull. If I made another of these, I would actually make the spray sheets possibly from a very fine weeve fabric with the centre section as a plasticard unit, but you live and learn.

Anyway it is all now masked up ready for spraying

[Neil]

Repairs to the painting on the bows now done.

I can get on with the rest of the finishing now.

[Neil]

After fitting some of the detailing items that Liam Bell 3D printed a couple of weeks ago, I have counted that there are, I think a maximum of 9 jobs lect to do, 4 of those are small painting jobs, 2 are sanding and painting the oars, and of fitting the oars, and 2 of detailing and glueing fittings in placew already, and the final one is ordering the  decals for the outboard and fitting them to the engine copver. and that is it....................

might even make a stand for each of them so they dont fall over.................

oh yes, ad one to the tally, paint and fit the propellor to the outboard........10 jobs.