Topic: New member (Read 1980 times)

ohioiom · « **on:** March 11, 2022, 11:19:17 am »

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

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #1 on:** March 11, 2022, 12:50:42 pm »

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

Ralph · « **Reply #2 on:** March 11, 2022, 04:38:01 pm »

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

Baldrick · « **Reply #3 on:** March 11, 2022, 08:01:28 pm »

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

roycv · « **Reply #4 on:** March 12, 2022, 06:17:24 am »

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

Baldrick · « **Reply #5 on:** March 12, 2022, 06:40:46 am »

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

derekwarner · « **Reply #6 on:** March 12, 2022, 07:01:41 am »

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

Baldrick · « **Reply #7 on:** March 12, 2022, 07:10:10 am »

Quote from: derekwarner on March 12, 2022, 07:01:41 am

Why are two English Gentleman talking in that European system SI, or Metric talk

Derek

Because we were decimated 51 years ago.

derekwarner · « **Reply #8 on:** March 12, 2022, 07:58:23 am »

So Baldrick says .....'we were decimated 51 years ago'

......what you personally?.......if so Baldrick, what did they do with the left over bits ?

Baldrick · « **Reply #9 on:** March 12, 2022, 08:42:00 am »

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

SailorGreg · « **Reply #10 on:** March 12, 2022, 10:58:46 am »

Quote from: Baldrick on March 12, 2022, 08:42:00 am

We are sensible most of the time

And welcome Peter to Mayhem by name and mayhem by nature!

Greg

ohioiom · « **Reply #11 on:** March 12, 2022, 11:09:26 am »

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

Ralph · « **Reply #12 on:** March 12, 2022, 09:10:50 pm »

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

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #13 on:** March 13, 2022, 02:17:22 am »

Quote from: Ralph on March 12, 2022, 09:10:50 pm

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

ohioiom · « **Reply #14 on:** March 13, 2022, 11:45:44 am »

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

Mark T · « **Reply #15 on:** March 13, 2022, 01:19:20 pm »

Hi Peter

Good luck with your build mate - ask anything on here as there will always be someone to help you!

Mark

ohioiom · « **Reply #16 on:** March 13, 2022, 01:53:33 pm »

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

Ralph · « **Reply #17 on:** March 13, 2022, 10:47:02 pm »

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

ohioiom · « **Reply #18 on:** March 14, 2022, 09:54:09 am »

Thanks Ralph,

Do they have Gas Mantles too!!

Regards

Peter

Ralph · « **Reply #19 on:** March 14, 2022, 09:07:03 pm »

Quote from: ohioiom on March 14, 2022, 09:54:09 am

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

jaymac · « **Reply #20 on:** March 14, 2022, 10:24:48 pm »

We still had gas lighting in '59 in Edinburgh just off Princes Street

Dave_S. · « **Reply #21 on:** March 15, 2022, 07:43:58 am »

My first wife's grandmother lived in a house in Derby still lit by gas mantles in the early 1980s.

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