Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Bryan Young on May 27, 2011, 03:00:23 pm
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Noy everything in modelling can be classified as a "pleasure". Some tasks, however hateful, have to be done (who else would do them?). Although I suppose it's my own fault for building ships of a by-gone age....therefore with a lot of rigging....top of the list must come these bleedin' ratlines. Thank goodness we now have "superglue. Another pet hate is having to make multiples of non-mouldable bits. That's just boring. You'd think that laying hundreds of deck planks might be "up there"....but I find doing that quite therapeutic. But some aspects of rigging gets the Gold award. BY.
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PAINTING!!!........NO CONTEST, for me, lol, what ever I paint it looks as though I've applied it with a tar brush.
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Love painting, can't stand fitting electronic equipment. I am so self critical of the installation, if it doesn't look like it came out of a SciFi movie robot I get the hump...
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sanding a hill dawn flat douse my head in >>:-(
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I'd have to agree with Bryan.....rigging. That's why I pick vessels with very little rigging. Painting is no problem, I rather enjoy that. I do very much dislike repetitive jobs though, like long lines of windows.
John
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filling and sanding, no matter what I do I can never get that smoother than a baby's you know what finish like most of the others on here
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Planking :(( but then I am building a WW1 battleship! LOL so it has to be done :-)
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Sanding for me, it seems to take for ever and still does not look smooth >>:-( >>:-( >>:-( >>:-(
Brian
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filling and sanding, no matter what I do I can never get that smoother than a baby's you know what finish like most of the others on here
Yes, filling and sanding as well. If I can score three for three, I may be in the wrong hobby!!
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for me its drilling, fitting and glueing over 270 stanchions then soldering on the wire guardrails - about 1000 solders
and some always go wrong.
Geoff
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I would go with Pugwash. Making the railings for my ferry really screwed my noodle.
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To Pugwash"....Geoff...just as a polite reply to your method of photographing plans. That's fine for a "small" plan, but some of the things I'm looking at are pushing 10ft long. I'd need a Cherry Picker to do it your way!
But again, I'm a bit out of order. (I still don't know how to "advertise" a 1:48 drawing of a 660ft long ship!) Bryan.
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True Bryan thats why I did mine in sections - or better still just take one photograph of a 3 foot section as an
example of your plan - that would surely keep happy any reasonable barmpot.
Geoff
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True Bryan thats why I did mine in sections - or better still just take one photograph of a 3 foot section as an
example of your plan - that would surely keep happy any reasonable barmpot.
Geoff
Geoff, you really ought to listen to me. There are lines between lines here. You have my phone number, give me a call. Bryan.
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working in small tight areas. Trying to fit large no longer nimble hands and fingers into small tight hatches to thread lines through tiny holes or to do up tiny nuts (that I allmost always drop and loose)
Freebooter
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Got to give the sanding and the de/dusting a top dont like , then its the varnish,looks o k ,then walk around and you,ve missed .
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Planking and painting :((
Paul Freshney's article on painting in the Model Boats Construction Special tells me what I ought to be doing but I have always been an inveterate bodger.
Bryan, how about starting a companion topic on 'Most enjoyable modelling jobs' to cheer us up.
Colin
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Jimm, i am with you there ,get the long nose tweezers out .
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How about this for an idea....
Imagine if we could assemble the perfect team of modellers to make a model, each just concentrating on their best skill.
Imagine the standard of model that could be made..
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Hello, You should have been at the world champs in the early days of Naviga, it was rumoured that is what some of the continental teams did. Quality was superb and this was in the 70s. It was difficult to imagine one man making what were masterpieces of modelling.
Nemesis
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The Chinese entries were group efforts too.
Colin
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it was also rumoured that one or two of our own were too. %% %% %%
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Ooooh Neil, how COULD you?!
All the ones I was aware of on the scale side were solo efforts.
Colin
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Colin, you want me to start yet another topic?
At the moment I'm plodding along with repairing this ruddy trawler, and basically hating every minute of it. But the "thing" that keeps me going is that "someone" caused this damage and I'm not going to let him/them get away with it. This is "doing things twice"....and not nice. The worst thing that can get into your mind is that things that you don't like doing will finish up looking rather second-rate because of that mind-set. A funny conundrum. But not "funny" as in ha-ha-ha.
My favourite bits are those concerned with superstructure and other parts that when made and fitted sort of lift the model from being just an inanimate "lump" to something I can imagine myself walking around and doing my "sailoring" bit. If I can do that then as far as I'm concerned I've got the job about right.
However, if in my miniature form, I find something that is not "sailor-proof" or unworkable I get bloody annoyed and have to "make it so". So I try to get it right the first time around. Takes thought and the ocassional swig of the Laughing Cavalier as a calming influence.
I like making the "old style" wooden bridge fronts and the superstructures...no matter how many windows there are. BY.
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I like making the "old style" wooden bridge fronts and the superstructures...no matter how many windows there are. BY.
Bryan, I couldn't agree more.
Colin
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Repetition of work, eg window and stanchions (more precisely threading the wire particularly around corners.) {:-{
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If you really want to see what a team can do, go to the Pendon model Railway web site. Or better still, go and see it in real life. Cabbages as you've never seen them before. O0
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Hi BY,
never,never build a ship in a bottle.
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I have been thinking a lot about this topic (and now I have a headache, I don't usually think much at all :-) ) and I can honestly say I don't actually "hate" any part of boat modelling. I really enjoy planking (not the kind that's been prevalent on the TV news recently), filling and rubbing down is very therapeutic, and I find painting to be extremely satisfying.
I do, however, intensely dislike having to re-do a job as a result of stupidly making a mistake :embarrassed: - and that's happened to me more than once >>:-(
Peter.
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That Blue star ship is a typical example of the craftmanship that is on this site ,some very modest people here ,should be proud of what you,ve made ,T T has made a beaut ,,it just goes on an on .
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Sorting accumulated tools and other odds 'n ends lying around the workbench and returning them whence they came coz I failed to put 'em back as and when I used them. >:-o
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Hi All
eventually this will be a pleasure - but now as a newbie it's frustrating. Picking a motor, esc, batteries for refurbishment when you have no idea what the jargon means and what is suitable vs overkill for what you have. Fortunately some kind chappies here have been suggesting items to me. In time I'll love making informed decisions ........ but for now it's a pain to not know.
Regards Norseman
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Crawling around the floor looking for that tiny piece of plastic.
Memo to self. Keep the floor swept. <*<
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Crawling around the floor looking for that tiny piece of plastic.
Memo to self. Keep the floor swept. <*<
That's what you have children/grandchildren for! :P
I have that problem as well.... Tho isn't annoying when you spends ten mins on your hands and knees looking for a part and the other half says "what are you looking for?" so you show a picture of the part. Thenthey say "Oh you mean this?" bend down and pick up said part <*< >>:-(