Member postings for Ray Wood 2

Hi Keith,

I would use a Matt Humbrol enamel, or emulsion paint, the test pots are quite cheap. Satin clear varnish over that if you need a sheen finish.

Regards Ray

Hi All,

Lots of fittings to produce to finish her now so my strategy is work from the bow to the stern, it's working so far 😀

Regards Ray

Thanks for that Dave,

Not many sober thoughts here 😊 well it is Sunday night and work tomorrow !!! Hick

Regards Ray

Hi Tim,

If I post glider pictures on here maybe shot at dawn 😯 may put a build thread on the dark side ! It's Raven by Jack Headley,design a bit of a classic Polyhedral 84" span job 😁

regards Ray

Hi Tim

Looks like a wet room will never be any good for us model boat builders ???

My slope soarer wings are coming on a treat 😀

Regards Ray

Edited By Ray Wood 2 on 17/02/2019 22:11:35

Hi All,

Let's not forget this is a commercial enterprise, pure and simple, nothing really to do with our hobby in the slightest.

Regards Ray

Hi all,

I wish my hobbies only cost me £10 per week , if it's 1 issue a week still cheaper! Wanting the end product is another question ? Comparison with the cost of beer these days, 3 pints a week Ooops 😀

Regards Ray

Hi Tim,

Bad luck ! I have found some spare prints of the Wild Duck drawings 😀 PM me your address & I will post them to you, off to Rye Harbour this morning to blow away the cobwebs 😯

Regards Ray

Hi Tim,

Yes the YM designs are good looking craft, next sailing cruiser maybe the Eventide at 26' my uncle bought the book building chine boats 1963 12s & 6 pence great source of drawings 😀 I will see if I have prints of the Wild Duck drawings she has a detachable fin keel and looks good on scale cradle.

Regards Ray

Edited By Ray Wood 2 on 16/02/2019 20:27:28

Hi All,

Even with the lead shot mixed in beware of the heat generated by the chemical reaction in that volume of resin !! Could easily damage the hull .?? I speak with some bad experiences, I'd put the shot into the keel void and cap it of with a P38 layer, then maybe glass cloth and resin over that ?

Regards Ray

Hi Richard,

As has been said already, making the ballast removable is not practical or feasible once you have a deck in place and the rigs above, I would buy a trolley for moving the boat

Regards Ray

Hi Tim,

That's a shame I had thought you were building her as the opening photo of the thread, but you know what you want to create, I like to save an old designs for posterity like my Yachting Monthly Wild Duck at a massive 22" long 😃 ,

Regards Ray

Hi Tim,

How is the superstructure going to look ? Will she have a cabin & cockpit ? You look like you have the mechanical department well sorted 😁

Lovely blue sky day here.

Regards Ray

Hi All,

My choice of canopy glue is Formula 560 by Pacer, proclaims on the bottle to be "The world's best" !! So it must be true ?? I have found it pretty good and dries clear 😃,

Used on my H31 windows same stuff Tim uses.

Regards Ray

Edited By Ray Wood 2 on 14/02/2019 22:08:39

Hi Tom

I have changed my job again, will PM my new email address to you 😀

Regards from the uk

Ray

Hi Eddie,

Thanks for your kind comments on sfb thread , is the Cambria drawing one of Richard Chesney's ? He was working on a drawing for Tiny Mite a barge yacht, when you see it you will want to build one 😀

Regards Ray

Hi All,

The indoor test tank used over the weekend, with 2 sub C 6 cell battery packs in the bilges, it took another 2 1/2 lbs of lead to get her down on her marks.

Needs a crew & some nets etc

Regards Ray

Hi Bob, great work as always, is there a model ship building forum which caters for static ship building of the type you do, we couldn't and wouldn't call your work model boats ??

Regards Ray

Hi Harry,

All those outboard motors took me back to my dad's first one, a British Anzani 5hp it was never that keen on running, and when going down the Thames at 5 knots on the tide how we wished it had a recoil started ! It didn't and frantic winding of a line round the pulley for us to try and escape the line whipping us behind him with the end 😃

Happy days when it fired, and we got back to Erith Yacht Club

Regards Ray

Edited By Ray Wood 2 on 10/02/2019 12:26:17

As Tim says once I'm afloat will start start digging the tunnel

But living in paradise what's to escape from ??

Regards Ray, with a cold one in my hand