One Down One to Go

[Heavens Eagle]

Works well! Aren't you going to have some dead dinos out front? If so the outboards would not neccessarily look like anything we have.

 

[Cheyenne]

Works well! Aren't you going to have some dead dinos out front? If so the outboards would not neccessarily look like anything we have.

Thanks Paul , yeah artistic license runs rampant , my son said , " Who cares about accuracy on the outboards , they look like outboards , you're building an apocalyptic thingie with dinosaurs in it , how can anyone fact check them , what color were they ? got any reference photos ? " .

 

[Cheyenne]

A little more progress .

 

[moon puppy]

That's so cool!!

 

[Paulw]

ditto

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Dats a verra big beastie! Your going to need a semi hauling it.

 

[Cheyenne]

Dats a verra big beastie! Your going to need a semi hauling it.

The PBR was a [ roughly ] 30' foot boat and drafted about 2' .
Where I live nine out of ten people have boats . An F250 Ford or Dodge , Chevy equivalent can easily tow a 30' boat .
I towed my 23' boat , put her in and hauled her of of the water with a small Jeep Gladiator V6 .
I had [ a long time ago ] a Toyota 4 cyl pickup that I also used to tow [ put in , take out of the water ] another 24' I once owned .
Around here we don't " long haul " boats over any real distance , mostly a couple of miles to a marina or dock you use from your house and driveway and everything's flat , we're all sea level folks .

 

[Rhino]

You have my attention, suh!

 

[Cheyenne]

A little more progress ..........

 

[moon puppy]

OK what's the cabin roof part?

 

[Cheyenne]

OK what's the cabin roof part?

Pup , that's a furniture blank .
Used for feet on sofas , tables , chairs etc.
I cut it in half , primed it painted it white , added a strip of half round styrene on the bottom and made a half round piece of 2mm thick styrene on top .
I've got all kinds of shapes made of wood . There used to be an unfinished furniture store that specialized in all kinds of shapes and stuff for making your own furniture , closed now but in the day I grabbed all kinds of shapes that could have modeling potential .

 

[moon puppy]

Very resourceful

 

[Robertp]

Could you give an sbs of the wood floor of the boat or just the colors used? I am having a hard time with wood, faces and anything having to do with plastic.

 

[Cheyenne]

Robert , there are two schools of thought on wood , real wood [ coffee stirs , balsa or bass wood strips ] and styrene strips .
I've seen excellent results on both mediums .
I use real wood [ coffee stirs ] for floors or any other type of planking . For my thinking , the wood already has grain . Styrene , you need to scribe the wood grain effect .
I also use MinWax wood stains on wood , in the mock teak deck case , Golden Oak .
For my time and money styrene strips need to have the wood grain scribed on and then painted convincingly , too much can go wrong [ well at least for me ] , wood I just cut to fit , stain , and weather moss/mold greens [ green acrylics , chalk pastels ] and sometimes add a light black or dark brown oil wash which helps pick out the grain .

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These are MiniArt pre made doors painted acrylic light grey , then painted with a crackle medium then painted with white acrylic .



Greenhouse , all basswood , painted acrylic grey , then crackle medium , then green acrylic .

 

[Brokeneagle]

Great model making. The scratch work is marvelous!

 

[Cheyenne]

Getting there , slow but sure .......

 

[moon puppy]

that's awesome Glenn, great details everywhere.

 

[jknaus]

WOW!! Very nice work. Love taking it all in.
James

 

[Paulw]

Awesome stuff. I want one in 1/1.

 

[Rhino]

That's very boat-esque! You could almost have left her Jacuzzi-driven. I like that it's all analog. No LCD screen to crap out at a critical moment!