Zenrat's Flying Circus

[NARSES2]

Must admit I haven't built a tall ship since I was a kid, and in those days Airfix kits came with full "plastic" rigging. Same stuff that their tank tracks were made from if memory serves ?

I seem to remember Cutty Sark having a copper bottomed hull as well, haven't been for eons however. Been in the pub of the same name though 

[Weaver]

Discussion of Sea Witch colours here: http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/7/t/70453.aspx

Copper seems to be favoured for the underside.

[zenrat]

Thanks H.  Unfortunately any pictures have fallen victim to PB (hwoick ptuii) but I shall read it all at my leisure.

[jcf]

Copper bottomed, which oxidizes to red-brown before going green. This was period anti-fouling - anti-fouling
paints as we know them didn't exist, and, more importantly, teredo worm protection.

The spars, this term refers to all sticks masts, yardss etc., would be coated in a Stockholm Tar and turpentine mix, deck seams would be paid with tar after caulking, and holystoned for maintenance.
Colour wise, they'd both be a natural wood tone, but not really like any of the light wood paints, the spars would appear more satin than matte.

HTH.

[zenrat]

Thanks folks.  This is all very usefull.

Gardening this morning.  I pulled out Minnie the Mulcher and reduced two of the "to be mulched" piles to, ummm mulch.
I'll say this about Minnie, she's got a voracious appetite but it all goes straight through her.  She can't cope with fibre through, it bungs her up...

[DogfighterZen]

Gardening this morning.  I pulled out Minnie the Mulcher and reduced two of the "to be mulched" piles to, ummm mulch.
I'll say this about Minnie, she's got a voracious appetite but it all goes straight through her.  She can't cope with fibre through, it bungs her up...

[zenrat]

Gardening this morning.  I pulled out Minnie the Mulcher and reduced two of the "to be mulched" piles to, ummm mulch.
I'll say this about Minnie, she's got a voracious appetite but it all goes straight through her.  She can't cope with fibre through, it bungs her up...

Yes.  Something fibrous got into my mulching piles.  Either bits of Protea or maybe roots but whatever it was if stopped the whole thing dead just like that.  To unblock her means lying on the ground, dropping her belly plate and shoving my hand up inside her guts.  Three times I had to do it.  What ever it was causing it looked just like the stuff she was happy to digest so I couldn't spot it.
Still could have been worse.  My neighbour borrowed her once and tried to mulch flax.  That has to be unwound...

[DogfighterZen]

Ouch... that's not a healthy diet for a mulcher... probably still has some of that flax in the axle or something, might be slowing down the rotation. No matter how dry the stuff is, the mulcher is not the machine for that type of rubbish. I've had to disassemble the and clean one up (just a bit bigger than Minnie) because one of the smart souls i was working with at the time, thought that green palm tree leaves would be an easy job for such a machine...  needless to say, the fibers were all tangled up and snagged around the blades and axle...

[zenrat]

The flax was a good few years ago so it's long gone.
Having moved the rock yesterday I compacted it today.  this meant making a "bomper".  To do this I used a scrap cast iron brake rotor (see dear, it did come in usefull), some surplus timber and a broken shovel handle.
Bomper by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Tell you what, using that was an excellent workout for my biceps. I was exhausted.

Got on with some of the car builds after wearing myself out.
Almost finished the Apocalypse Post van.  It just needs weathering and I need to make some mail to go inside it.
Interior of the Edsel is assembled.  Just need to paint the steering wheel.
Itasha Toyota got some BMF on the really really thin strips of trim along the sides and round both bumpers.

Spitfire has got the first colours coats on it
Grach has got underbelly and 2 out of 3 camo colours done.

[jcf]

I've been re-arranging the books, trying to get the piles off the floor  , and came acros
a ship modelling book I had forgotten I had: Ship Models: How to Build Them by Charles G. Davis,
a "how to build a ship model from scratch" book, and the subject is, drumroll please, the Sea Witch.


Here's a smallish version of the belaying pin layout for the running rigging.

[zenrat]

Fantastic.  Thanks Jon.  I'm going to have to concentrate to make sure I don't get my braces mixed with my clewlines.
I've been gluing the hull parts together and have got to the point where it says "paint the hull".
Although I think i'll clean up the seams, remove the flash and do a spot of PSR first.

I got on with the RAN FAA Crusader today.  Research (yes, I can do it for whiffed aircraft if i want to) has shown that if I want to pose it with the wing raised then I need to drop the flaps and slats as they were all interlinked.
There doesn't seem to be a resin flat/slat set available for the Hasegawa kit but I can't see why I need one.  Surely all I need to do is cut them off and glue them back on again?
With that aim in mind I have been cutting and so far have freed both flaps and one inner slat.

Edsel interior.
EDSEL WIP 22-02-18 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Grach. 
Grach WIP 22-02-18 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[PR19_Kit]

LOVE the interior of the Edsel Fred. 

How ever did you do it?

And it's right hand drive too, I just assumed all Edsels would have been LHD.

[zenrat]

Easy Kit.  That's the stock upholstery pattern.  I just painted inside the lines with different colours.  You can get some groovy designs doing that.  Depends what the guy who designed the stitching on the prototypical car had been smoking.  I think this one has an earthy native american feel, so maybe peyote...
I did convert it to RHD though.  Of course it was LHD.  All AMT kits are  .  Even those of British cars like Tigers and Cobras.  But you should hear the whinging from some US car modellers if a Japanese kit only has a RHD dash in it.  But I digress.
It's relatively easy to swap these as the bit with all the instruments is a separate piece so I just had to trim it slightly, glue it on the other side, swap the pedals over and then fill all the gaps with filler.  And PSR it until it looked nice.

[PR19_Kit]

Well it looks VERY good. 

[NARSES2]

Grach looks attractive