Building the IMARA TUG

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Thanks Ian, I think you hit the nail on the head there.
 
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looking nice and smooth.

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Day 22

While giving the hull a few days to dry after todays final coat of red I decided to take a look at the rear cabin. First off was to try and put right the mess they made of the moulding. At the rear side the whole end had caved in and dried, this left a concave look to it and it needed to be put right so I wedged a little bit of timber in there. This then cracked the surface finish so I had to sand out the step the crack had made. The I found that the two hatches on the rear were slightly too big because the mould was obviously too small, an other blunder they have never corrected.

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I remember reading a comment about CA and white metal crystallising and causing problems. Though I have never had a problem with it myself I thought I would try it the Poxy way and purchased some of this stuff. Seems to do the job just as well but a little slower than the 2 min thick ZAP.

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That's looking a lot better today.

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Day 24

Painting the rear cabin.

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Now for a little weathering

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You wouldn't think there were 50 parts in that cabin eh? .... but anyway ... it's painted and weathered brilliantly, the contrast between the slight gloss of the paint and the dull texture of the rust is very believable.... if the whole boats going to be done like that then it'll be awesome.

The red and black contrast of the hull looks smart too, nice and evenly painted with crisp lines ....

are you leaving the screws painted or are you going to give them a brass/cast overcoat.??
 
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Thanks Colin - the screws were originally brass as you can recall. Im thinking of giving them a coat of old bronze or something along those lines.

Day 26

The hull needed a good wash to give it some age so I mixed some Burnt Humber oil paint with a little Black afterwards with some white spirits and gave it a wash, drawing it downwards with some paper towel.

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As you are building this one as a runner as much as a shower, I would suggest that you take the props off, bung them in a tin of nitoromores and get the paint off them. The boat will run much better with bare props.

A nice brass prop also looks the part when its parked up on the shelf.

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Thanks Ian, It is my intention to do both with this one as I have seen some in a few shows that look great but could do with that little realism look. These boating guys are just sailors, They make a great attempt at adding that scale look but unlike you or I they don't quite have they eye or the knowhow to achieve a show stopping result. So if I can hit the bar with this one I'm hoping it will return some great first prizes.

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Day 28

I added some stain to the decking supplied with the kit and then distressed it to give that weathered look. As you can see the effect is fantastic, however, the problem is that you can see the grain across the part and it doesn't quite cut it for me and would spoil the finished effect.

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With this in mind I decided to purchase some 3mm x 1mm Walnut planking and started to plank on top of the ply sheet using it for reference. The finished result for this should turn out to be spot on.

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That looks the bees knees my friend!

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Top job with the seperate planks andy , looks much better than the other bit , cheers tony
 
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Thanks guys, its a bit labour consuming but the end result should be stunning.
 
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