1/350 US Coast Guard Island class 110' Cutter. TLAR Models #425

Procurement of Pop's Pickup is Priceless!

Properly pristine as presented!

P/E progresses. I'll get her!

I'd be permanently cross-eyed!

The stern towing bitt looks ok. I'm trying to get the crane base right, and it is just plain OOK-LEE! Rafael to the rescue, yet again!
The second attempt is better, but I think it's too short. Everything on this Master fights me. It's time for a break.

Following a couple of palate-cleansing projects and lots of resin model favors, the 1/350 110-foot WPB waterline Master progresses without much fuss. I hope to get her to mold before Thanksgiving.

Here's a dandy snap of CGC Orcas. Her afterdeck is a busy place, indeed! This will help with placement of details as the ship nears molding.
No, I won't be making any bloody 1/350 Wheelie-bins. Orcas looks as if she is standing out to sea for a cruise of some length.
(Credit to Military magazine)

I frame/support my Masters. The "Big Dogs" of resin ship model making make a flat mold and pour them much more rapidly and efficiently than I do, but then you have to wet sand the leftover resin wafer away perfectly to make a good fit. My method creates lots more waste resin, (that my customers never see) but simplifies the clean-up to assembly process. I think nautical objects have bottoms.
Quality, simplicity of assembly and model fun are tantamount at TLAR Models.

After the framework is on, more delicate details can be added without fear of knocking them off the Master on the way to the mold box. Handrails and firefighting hose racks are glued on with Tamiya X-22 clear, or Future. I'll add the piping to to the hose racks when I'm sure the acrylic clear has cured completely. I can still do SOME plumbing!

This project is going much better this go than she did before.
Thanks for looking in!

CGC Knight Island in a well-lit daylight snap! Not near as much firefighting plumbing to do on her portside.

I've got the hull pretty much the way I want it. It looks a mess now, bur she'll be much more pleasing to the eye when she's cast in cool gray LPP. I'm hoping the life raft canisters stay level and plumb. Sometimes, as X-22 cures, attached details "squirm" just a bit. I ordered fairleads for the stern, but installed the 3 I made up early this morning. She's in the mold box on the window sill for safe keeping.
She may go to mold before Halloween! Just a few more bits to fabricate and frame up! Yippee!!


Thanks again for looking in!

So many nautical terms...confused. Good luck with the casting!

Practice makes perfect and improves the skills Chris. I always like to watch you build your masters.