Sorry, been missing for three weeks - like us all, other priorities take over modelling life - a set of rehearsals for a Choral Concert, 12 DVDs of lifeboat photos for modellers off Mayhem to burn off [great - thanks - have raised another £67 for the RNLI], a week sick with a horrible sickness virus and helping a couple of friends with their boat builds and also a couple of big articles for Marine Modelling International magazine!
Enough, on with this build. In the last post I promised to put a photo of the little 'converted' stand idea I 'nicked' off 17-09, simple, but effective.
Then, on this build, I am trying out a few new products recently purchased for my 'other life' in military modelling [modern jets, armoured vehicles and figures / busts] - no idle moments this end!! One being the series of Mr. Hobby 'surfacers' [grey liquid styrene -500 used here, but finer ones too being 1000 and 1200] that fill gaps and join lines. You will see evidence in the photos around the propeller shaft exits on the hulls and I also decided to see what it looked like to paint on the inside of the hull to 'tidy-up' the styrene deck supports, the shaft support boxes and the join line around the three hull sections.
This afternoon I have started to sand this back [not easy in such confined spaces], but then there were still gaps, so I have then tried the Deluxe Materials product - Perfect Plastic liquid putty. I also applied this across the transom area join, as there were very fine scratches here that could be seen in different light conditions. I have now come in to leave this to dry. Hopefully, when this is done I will later sand to a fine finish, which will allow me to start the hull paint job, proper. That will be tomorrow at one of 17-09s three workshops! Only time will tell.