Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: ohioiom on March 11, 2022, 11:19:17 am
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Hello all,
I am 87 with all my faculties, but not 100% and I live in Tamworth Staffordshire.
I am not an Engineer, but I am not a complete novice in Kit building, as I have built a lot of 1/24 Model Kits of cars and motorbikes and so have a lot of tools etc.
I have recently been given a Model Kit of a Caldercraft Clyde Puffer 'North Light'.
It looks as though someone has attempted to build it, but then given up, but I think all the bits and pieces are there.
This will be my first Boat build and quite frankly, I will need all the help I can get.
I will trawl through the Forum for information that will be relevant to me, but I would like to call on your expertise, now and again, without I hope, being a nuisance.
I am not sure what primer and paint to use on fibre glass, I haven't used it before.
Thank you
Kind regards
Peter
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Hey Peter,
Welcome to the Mayhem!
"I am 87 with all my faculties" .... well there's hope for me yet! {-)
Re: Caldercraft Clyde Puffer, I've built the Highlander kit, loved it!
My Build here:
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/Builds/Puffer_Jan/1ndex_Puffer_Jan.htm
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,242.msg1411.html#msg1411
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Welcome Peter,
hope you enjoy your build. For fibreglass hulls I use Halfords rattle can primers (give the hull a thorough wash to shift any release agent first). A light sand is a good idea as well but not always possible if there's a lot of moulded detail on the hull. Most top coat model paints will go over these without problems (Humbrol, Tamiya, Revel etc), and I usually finish off by spraying the entire model with Humbrol satin coat as a gloss finish can be a bit too much on a model.
There was an excellent thread on paint compatability, I think last year (by Stan??) which might be worth looking at. Not sure where it is myself but hopefully someone will post a link to it.
Ralph
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Welcome aboard Peter . I am also 87. I also have all my faculties and find boat modelling a real retreat from the trials and tribulations of everyday life , hope you will as well . My love is models incorporating as much visible wood as possible but have to adapt to the constrains of decomposition by wearing several pairs of glasses when building and gloves at night to stop my fingers locking up .
happy days.
Balders
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Hi Baldrick judging from your emails etc I woould have put you at no more than 86! I am 3 years behind you so here's hoping for a few more lucid moments.
Best regards
Roy
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OK Roy, perhaps a bit previous, but as of this morning I calculate I have been around for
86.389 86.390 86.391.years , and counting,TEMPUS FUGIT >>:-(
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Why are two English Gentleman talking in that European system SI, or Metric talk
Surely 86.389 years would better be known as 86+3/8, + a bit {-) .....in the Queens or Kings best British?
But how do you account for those Georgean Leap Years? %) .... just add an extra a bit?
So whilst we are here, how many bits does it take to make a whole?
I suppose our new Member ohioiom may know the answer?, but be rest assured Peter...any questions with your North Light build......just ask...a Member will only be too happy to assist
Derek
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Why are two English Gentleman talking in that European system SI, or Metric talk
Derek
Because we were decimated 51 years ago.
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So Baldrick says .....'we were decimated 51 years ago' %) ......what you personally?.......if so Baldrick, what did they do with the left over bits ? {-)
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Did you not hear about our NATIONAL CULL DAY (10%) down at Beachy Head cliff in Sussex ?
Ohioiom (Peter) Please excuse our hi-jacking of this thread, it happens on this site when the medication stops working . Please be assured we want to hear more from you as your build progresses and ask whenever you like . We are sensible most of the time
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We are sensible most of the time
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And welcome Peter to Mayhem by name and mayhem by nature!
Greg
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Hello each,
I am humbled and overwhelmed by the replies to my message, that I have recd. from members of the Forum.
Thank you all for your help and advice and the injection of humour.
Particularly, thank you Martin for the links to your Clyde Puffer Build, so comprehensive and detailed.
Thank you Ralph for the paint info. If anyone does have a link to the thread on paint compatibility, could you please publish it, thank you.
Baldrick, thank you for your input, also , thank you Derek and Roy and Greg.
Must go now, The Leader of the Opposition (Petticoat Government) has just brought my tablets!
Kind regards
Peter
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Hi Peter,
Still can't find the thread I was thinking of but if you go to the Home page and scroll down to Techniques there's a section on painting with all sorts of stuff in it.
Never tried posting a link here before so fingers crossed this works.....
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/board,107.0.html
Ralph
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Still can't find the thread I was thinking of but if you go to the Home page and scroll down to Techniques there's a section on painting with all sorts of stuff in it.
Ralph
One of these?
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,64913.msg689774.html#msg689774
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,66253.msg710232.html#msg710232
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,11295.msg105902.html#msg105902
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,27187.0.html
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,30094.msg297884.html#msg297884
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,50723.msg518433.html#msg518433
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,59901.msg630167.html#msg630167
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,50730.msg518697.html#msg518697
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Hello everyone,
I now have a prodigious amount of information to hand, regarding the painting of model boats.
Thank you all so much.
Best wishes.
Peter
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Hi Peter
Good luck with your build mate - ask anything on here as there will always be someone to help you!
Mark
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Thank you Mark,
You are right,I have found that there is absolutely nothing, that can't be found in posts on the site.
Kind regards
Peter
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Thanks Martin, second link down is the one I was thinking of but they all give similar good info.
Peter - enjoy your build. I'm trying to start a puffer build as well (Mountfleet Highlander), just as soon as I finish helping No2 daughter and her hubby install a kitchen, redecorate and modernise their new house etc etc (removed some lead sheathed wiring today, now how old is that?)
Ralph
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Thanks Ralph,
Do they have Gas Mantles too!!
Regards
Peter
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Do they have Gas Mantles too!!
It's not quite that old fortunately! I do remember coming across a house near Edinburgh in the early 1980s which was entirely gas - heating, lighting and fridge. Home of an amazing old lady, her only concession to modern life was a battery radio.
Ralph
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We still had gas lighting in '59 in Edinburgh just off Princes Street
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My first wife's grandmother lived in a house in Derby still lit by gas mantles in the early 1980s.