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Q & A - 1915 steam drifter build
boatmadman:
Rick,
You can buy them as a kit to assemble I think, but I bought it as a set of castings and machined them. The casting set was £63 I think, but to be honest, by the time I bought all the tools I needed it was prob about £150.
I already had a small lathe etc. The machining was a little challenging, working out how to set up. It involved a little lateral thinking. For one operation I held the workpeice in the lathe chuck, and mounted a dremel flexi shaft in the cross slide clamp and used it as a mill. It worked!
Ian
andywright:
Nice hull, personally I hate building hullls, maybe I'm to impatient. I usually build from a grp hull, but i have to complement you on yours its really nice. The last hull I built took me 10 years on and off. It was a model of a Trawler/ longliner I used to own. She was built to 1/24 scale which gave model length of 24 inches.
boatmadman:
Hi all,
I use filehigh for pics, seems ok.
Ian
http://www.filehigh.com/
boatmadman:
I would like to acknowledge the information I am receiving without which this build would probably be impossible as there are no plans for this vessel.
My thanks to Glenn Mcintosh, who has a really good informative website at
http://glennmci.brinkster.net/mcibb/mcibb.html
I would also like to acknowledge the Buckie heritage museum in Buckie, (Scotland for you non brits), for supplying the one and only photo I have of BCK 209 Jeannie Mcintosh.
http://www.buckieheritage.org/
Ian
boatmadman:
Can anyone suggest materials to use to represent steel on a superstructure? Would plasticard look ok? And what is the best way to prep and finish?
Ian
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