Topic: Luxurious cabin cruiser "Najade" (krick) (Read 11399 times)

Stuw · « **Reply #75 on:** February 24, 2021, 09:20:59 pm »

Quote from: Backerther on February 24, 2021, 11:47:12 am

Hi Stuw;

Thank you for a good question to the point.!
That's partly right with your thought.
In addition,if the the deck was lowered,side edge will touch the water surface when the boat turns and rolls,
by which the some kind of drag force would be feared to generate.
Moreover the deck I thought had to be flush with the original deck height,by which I tried to avoid the difference
of height between the two decks.
Frankly speaking, I spent rather much time about how I should treat this modification work.
And the result was like this.!!

See the following pics and video for reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUdfeYrDSG4&t=95sk

Understood! As your boat is very fast, it’s in the correct place!

Backerther · « **Reply #76 on:** February 25, 2021, 11:55:23 am »

Hi all;

Pics for today are just a small progress....
Door windows and window wipers...That's all for today!

Backerther · « **Reply #77 on:** February 26, 2021, 07:48:09 am »

Hi all;
Pics for today are how I added a decorative touch all around the hull by a fancy side protection moulding for a real car.
Needless to say,it's quite OK for the originally well designed Najade not to be done with that decoration at all.
But I wished to put an accent in a whole white hull by a chrome shined molding as in the following pics.!!

Backerther · « **Reply #78 on:** February 27, 2021, 11:37:39 am »

Hi all;
An anchor was installed like these and I am happy with the progress of the assemblies based on the instruction
manuals though it was in German language.,,,,

At these general assemblies stages,no peculiarly difficult works took place contrary to early stages when
there were many to think about how to treat with...

zooma · « **Reply #79 on:** February 27, 2021, 11:40:35 am »

You have a nice tidy hobby-room........and I like the anchor fitting too

Backerther · « **Reply #80 on:** February 27, 2021, 12:34:16 pm »

But it's toooo small like a chicken coop....

Instead, sailing place is rather large.

zooma · « **Reply #81 on:** February 27, 2021, 01:11:29 pm »

Spray painting must be difficult for you - I only have a small space to spray paint in and it does not work-out very well. Too many fumes and overspray dust gets everywhere.

Bob.

Dreadnought · « **Reply #82 on:** February 27, 2021, 01:27:06 pm »

Looks great!!

Backerther · « **Reply #83 on:** February 27, 2021, 01:53:37 pm »

Hi Dreadnought ;

Thank you for your kind comment.!

Backerther · « **Reply #84 on:** February 27, 2021, 02:07:56 pm »

Hi Bob;

This is my painting space where is also sooo narrow.

This is located at back garden where is covered with the thin films as seen in the pics.

zooma · « **Reply #85 on:** February 27, 2021, 04:04:15 pm »

That is a good idea and the narrow space is an advantage for spraying as you have basically made a nice little bay that helps to block the wind a little.

Bob.

Backerther · « **Reply #86 on:** February 28, 2021, 06:27:57 am »

Hi all;

My Najade was installed with the stanchions and handrails using an angle gauge as per the instruction manuals.
The pics show the upper rails were finished in the first place.

zooma · « **Reply #87 on:** February 28, 2021, 10:07:23 am »

Did you hold the top rail to the stanchions (with clips?) and then solder the joints together?

Capt Podge · « **Reply #88 on:** February 28, 2021, 10:39:33 am »

Great job on those guardrails - sets it off nicely

Ray.

Backerther · « **Reply #89 on:** February 28, 2021, 11:06:47 am »

Hi Bob;
Yes, they are kind of split pins and stanchions are just brass tubes.
So the rails were held by split pins which were tightened easily and both "legs" were then inserted into the stanchions tubes.
Therefor it was so easy to fix the rails for soldering which was as per the manuals,including the split pins.
Instead,each stanchion must be fixed as securely as possible for these soldering work to fix the 2mm rail rods.

zooma · « **Reply #90 on:** February 28, 2021, 11:09:43 am »

That is a god idea - I need to find some small spilt pins to use when I make the pulpit for my Swordsman .....and other handrail projects!

Bob.

Backerther · « **Reply #91 on:** February 28, 2021, 11:19:44 am »

Hi Ray;
Thanks a lot for your kind comment.!

It was easy but it was rather troublesome since I tried to make them as neatly and tidy as possible...

Backerther · « **Reply #92 on:** March 02, 2021, 11:28:30 am »

Hi all;

The lower railing works also finished fundamentally as per the instruction manual.

Backerther · « **Reply #93 on:** March 03, 2021, 02:09:34 am »

Hi all;

Today's pics are on smoothing the bases of radar arch as neatly as possible.
1;Before
2/3;After

Backerther · « **Reply #94 on:** March 04, 2021, 11:48:30 am »

Many and various sizes of handrails were painted chrome silver at this stage.

Stuw · « **Reply #95 on:** March 04, 2021, 12:16:19 pm »

I have been reading of the difficulty people have trying to paint items to have a realistic chrome metal versus silver paint look. Do you have a particular paint or technique that you used?

Loving the detail on this model....

Backerther · « **Reply #96 on:** March 05, 2021, 05:48:21 am »

Hi stuw;
I am currently using the colors as seen in a pic below.
But I am one of those who are not satisfied with the present so called chrome silver color....

Backerther · « **Reply #97 on:** March 05, 2021, 06:39:19 am »

Hi all;
This time all the windshields were installed after painted as shown below.

Becoming gradually the final shape...

Backerther · « **Reply #98 on:** March 06, 2021, 10:36:37 am »

Hi all;
In the next place,I applied the hull side blue stripe seals as shown in the pics below.
These stripes are very effective to give the smart accent greatly onto the monotonous white hull design.

Especially the stripes seem to contribute an elegance greatly to the white hull when on the water...?

Backerther · « **Reply #99 on:** March 07, 2021, 06:09:35 am »

Hi all;
At last,the stairs were assembled and set in place as shown in the following pics.
My "granddaughter"can be seen in the pic saying with her hands up joyfully "Nice stairs has been complete! waai,waai!
I could go up to the upper deck where my grandfather is on!"

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