Rhino
Super Moderator
It started innocuously enough.
My big buddy Don gave me a mold for a boat. He didn't recall why he made it, or what he used the casting for. I didn't have any idea what I would do with a mold for a deck-to-keel, albeit interesting looking boat mold. It sat around the "Nut Department" here for a year or better.
I was happy as a crustacean making my little 1/700 waterline ship & boat model kits. I've had pretty decent sales for no better than I had done promoting them since 2015. A couple of customers and a guy that runs a website that lists available model kits of US Coast Guard subjects suggested a full-hull 1/350 82' Cutter.
Mike McCabe had an idea for a Diorama using 1/350 cargo ships and Vietnam-bound 1/350 WPB's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qFusIsArTU
Neeto!
So in last nights casting chores, just for grins, I cast Don's interesting mold. Just to have a look-see.
It looks promising, but this will be lots of reshaping, :stinker filling, :pp sanding, :gogo grinding,
shaving, :drinks
The hull is 15 scale feet short, so We build Her up!!
It's fugly now, but She gets better!
You must have a starting place for EVERY Looney notion. I also want My People to know without doubt, that their requests do NOT fall on deaf ears in the TLAR Models corporate infrastructure!
Copious amounts of Tamiya gray filler with lots of wet-sanding. I started on the bathroom lavatory on a sheet of 240 wet-or-dry sandpaper.
What a MESS!! It a good thing there is NO Wife here to cuckold me for having gleefully splattered gray, sloppy, water all over the Lavatory as a new TLAR Idea is born!
Main deck, flat and filled.
"Don't worry Daddy, I'll help you get your bottom in shape and fit out your upper works."
My big buddy Don gave me a mold for a boat. He didn't recall why he made it, or what he used the casting for. I didn't have any idea what I would do with a mold for a deck-to-keel, albeit interesting looking boat mold. It sat around the "Nut Department" here for a year or better.
I was happy as a crustacean making my little 1/700 waterline ship & boat model kits. I've had pretty decent sales for no better than I had done promoting them since 2015. A couple of customers and a guy that runs a website that lists available model kits of US Coast Guard subjects suggested a full-hull 1/350 82' Cutter.
Mike McCabe had an idea for a Diorama using 1/350 cargo ships and Vietnam-bound 1/350 WPB's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qFusIsArTU
Neeto!
So in last nights casting chores, just for grins, I cast Don's interesting mold. Just to have a look-see.
It looks promising, but this will be lots of reshaping, :stinker filling, :pp sanding, :gogo grinding,
shaving, :drinks
The hull is 15 scale feet short, so We build Her up!!
It's fugly now, but She gets better!
You must have a starting place for EVERY Looney notion. I also want My People to know without doubt, that their requests do NOT fall on deaf ears in the TLAR Models corporate infrastructure!
Copious amounts of Tamiya gray filler with lots of wet-sanding. I started on the bathroom lavatory on a sheet of 240 wet-or-dry sandpaper.
What a MESS!! It a good thing there is NO Wife here to cuckold me for having gleefully splattered gray, sloppy, water all over the Lavatory as a new TLAR Idea is born!
Main deck, flat and filled.
"Don't worry Daddy, I'll help you get your bottom in shape and fit out your upper works."
