You & me both bruther!! :drinks
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1/700 Asheville Class Patrol Gunboat
- Thread starter Rhino
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You & me both bruther!! :drinks
Plastik Smurff
Active member
I see it but I don't believe it,actually no I don't :captain you have better pepers than I.
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Looking really good here. I am also impressed with the inclusion of the smaller boat. That is cool!
When you sand your resin parts, I like to wet-sand, so none of the spikey toxic dust flys! I wash my hands a lot!!
The reproductions came out almost pretty-good! The Defender 250 boat is a pleasant extra!
:captain
Man, no wonder you're all up in the rum! :drunk
I found a cutaway of the Asheville Class PG.
I'm gonna make some progress today. Lots to do! :captain
:woohoo: :coolio
Rhino
Super Moderator
:skipper I wasn't happy with the shape of the pilothouse, and I found some p/e hatches, Sooooooooooooooooooo.........
I got out me .015 plastic, and the Waldron punch set I inherited from ol' Chuck, and got busy fixing the profile, with bonus open pilothouse hatch! Capt Isaac Brown, of CSS Arkansas keeps an eye on the proceedings! 
ldguy
The resin cast ladders & hatches looked a might chunky for this scale, as well.
She got her new exhaust stacks for Her Caterpillar diesel engines today! Much better!
CA glue to hold the new bulkheads;
A dab of accelerator, and wee bit of wet-sand. No Resin Dust here!!
I got out me .015 plastic, and the Waldron punch set I inherited from ol' Chuck, and got busy fixing the profile, with bonus open pilothouse hatch!
Capt Isaac Brown, of CSS Arkansas keeps an eye on the proceedings! ldguy
The resin cast ladders & hatches looked a might chunky for this scale, as well.
She got her new exhaust stacks for Her Caterpillar diesel engines today! Much better!
CA glue to hold the new bulkheads;
A dab of accelerator, and wee bit of wet-sand. No Resin Dust here!!
Rhino
Super Moderator
when you handle miniscule P/E parts, it's good to have 'bitty stick'em/hold 'em sticks. You can buy these, but I make mine.
Micro Liquid tape is a contact adhesive. Dip your toothpick, let them dry, and then.........Model Fun! I attach my float planes to my Cruiser catapults with this too!
Starboard side progress :yipee
Port side progress
And now, onward to the Weapons!! Muhhu ha ha HAHA ha!
Micro Liquid tape is a contact adhesive. Dip your toothpick, let them dry, and then.........Model Fun! I attach my float planes to my Cruiser catapults with this too!
Starboard side progress :yipee
Port side progress
And now, onward to the Weapons!! Muhhu ha ha HAHA ha!
Man that's small... :captain
Rhino
Super Moderator
Snow Day! Model Day!!
Here's some more! The Defender FSB needed new outboard motors, so I made some. Start with l-shaped bits of .015 plastic card
Glob some thick CA glue onto them. and accellerate!
Sand to rudimentary shape. I cut, very gingerly, two slots into the stern of the FSB.
Install!!
I'm trading horsepower for fire power here. I've seen these little speedsters all over. Some have smaller engines. Mine are BIG! No stern gun mount for this Lil' Lady.
Wet-sand flush with waterline hull
2 400 H.P. Mercruisers make this a Defender 250 VFFSB!!
Here's some more! The Defender FSB needed new outboard motors, so I made some. Start with l-shaped bits of .015 plastic card
Glob some thick CA glue onto them. and accellerate!
Sand to rudimentary shape. I cut, very gingerly, two slots into the stern of the FSB.
Install!!
I'm trading horsepower for fire power here. I've seen these little speedsters all over. Some have smaller engines. Mine are BIG! No stern gun mount for this Lil' Lady.
Wet-sand flush with waterline hull
2 400 H.P. Mercruisers make this a Defender 250 VFFSB!!
