Always room for improvement. You get better the more you do it.
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I have it already done Casey. Fashioned my own. Just have a few things to finalize. Will be posting it after the weekend.Last edited by Ken_NJ; 07-13-2025, 02:52 AM.Leave a comment:
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Loose ends
A few things I have not shown. To clean up the deck edges that meet with the hull, I used an emory board across both sides and...Leave a comment:
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Hull filler/shim
The hull edge was sanded with an emory board to clean up the edge. Strips of 30 thousandths styrene was cut from the sheet...👍 2Leave a comment:
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Once the deck was cut away from the hull, the deck sort of compressed or expanded so that it did not meet correctly with the hull. Here I marked the hull...
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Forward deck filler
For the lack of a better word at the moment, using filler.
The Exacto blade width was 20 thousandths. So...Leave a comment:
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Manfred has his hull sections halves basically bolted together so he can service the rudder area and the torpedo door area. With the bow sections bolted,...Leave a comment:
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Separating the deck
See the previous post for finishing up on making the deck cuts.
Here are a bunch of pics showing the result of...Last edited by Ken_NJ; 07-10-2025, 10:00 AM.Leave a comment:
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Bow radial cut
For the bow radial cut I heated a strip of acrylic with the heat gun and formed it around the hull. Then anchored it in position...Leave a comment:
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I do have the tools I used on the Marlin, you remember that. I used a pointed hard tipped tool on the Marlin. I'll keep that scribing-sawing tool in mind,...Leave a comment:
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Cutting the deck from the hull
I positioned the cut below the horizontal weld lines so that when the filler piece is added, it is added to...Leave a comment:
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Apply solvent to the deck joint
Before cutting the deck from the hull, the deck halves needed to be joined together. Using the Weldon 4 solvent...Leave a comment:
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Thanks David and Manfred.
Romel, the tape measure may work but for me it is too flexible and unruly and difficult to manage. The 2 inch wide...Leave a comment:
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Hull cut preparation
The forward and aft sections were joined at the central radial joint with three 080 machine screws on each side. In...Last edited by Ken_NJ; 06-26-2025, 10:19 AM.Leave a comment:
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Radial Joint
With the forward and aft sections bolted together, the deck area is pretty floppy. I added another tab with machine screw to...Leave a comment:
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I neglected to take pictures of doing the same with the aft section. Here are both sections 'bolted' together.
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