TYNE Class Lifeboat build

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

That's when i get the painted boat back Bob, then I have to built all the bits on to it get the lights in, inner cabin built and then motors and all electronics inside, lol…….

i just have to be patient lol.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

model boats have been swapped ready for work done on a friends boat in return for mine being sprayed. I shall not get mine back now until November when my friend comes up to Blackpool for a mid week break.



however I will be doing some casting of fittings for them so will pop on from time to time, but will not be putting a progress report on of the model I am working on in reply to mine being painted………..



see no point as they are different types of lifeboat, and I'll get confused, never mind anyone else. lol.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

I haven't been idle whilst my Tyne class lifeboat has been in Wales awaiting some coats of paint,….not in the slightest.

I was asked by my friend Stavros if I could look at the fittings he had been given with a model Mersey that he was going to paint for a mutual friend Mick French, and also one that Mick had given him [of the same class of lifeboat, a Mersey] for painting his boat for him, and if any needed replacing could I "do something about them".

well, to be honest, but not too harsh, the white metal fittings for one boat were ok, but the "scratch built" fittings for the other, were on the very edge of being unusual because of lack of detailing on them, and built as stand off scale at the best, at worst, a waste bin calls for them.

and so, I have been left making new sets of fittings, plus all stanchion soldering for both boats……….plus rebuilding the aft end of both cabins to correct specification.

it is, honestly, as easy to make two sets of fittings and working parts, as it is just to make one set…….

so below are some photos of what I have been doing since I stopped the build on the Tyne…….may as well be doing something, as sat idle doing nothing and getting bored. lol.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

and these are some of the fittings I have made, two at a time, sometimes such as the hatches, six at a time, lol.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

BACK to the Tyne for a little while, and today received photos from my friend Dave Stavros Jones in Wales.

he has amongst other jobs been getting ready to spray my Tyne lifeboat, and today sent me the following photos and write up as to what he has done.

"Wey hey lets get rocking and rolling on this one at last,

well i decided first thing to do was to clear the workshop and ill be honest it took 4 hours to do….yes i am a mucky bugger lol

First job was to degrease the hull before rubbing down dry with 180 grit dry even though Neil had been rubbing down himself but there were pencil marks finger prints everywhere. After being rubbed down and blown off it was degreased again and tack ragged prior to priming.

High build primer was sprayed all over the hull and superstructure…I initially sprayed the hull upside down prior to giving it flying lessons so to speak so i could make sure I got 100% coverage of the hull,

the cabins were sprayed on the workbench which had been covered up to minimize dust with brown paper…Nowt but the best for Neil.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

A guide coat was applied I usually use black as red is what is known as a bleeding colour in other words it can come thru and spoil a top coat but as this is going orange it will not. This will be rubbed down when dry in around 48 hours with 400 grit rubbed dry.

[Fred wooleyParticipant @fredwooley76212]

Well that looks rather good there Neil

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

IT DOES INDEED, Fred……cant wait to see it all in orange red and blue…..she will look magnificent.

all down to Stavros…………i can't paint anywhere near what he can do.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

my friend Dave stavros Jones made a comment on another forum today that he hadn't done much to his Mersey today, as he wanted to watch the Wales/Scotland rugby match……i had just started sorting the fittings out for his and my other friend Mick French's Merseys' that i had been making for them since September 10th when i handed over my Tyne for painting.

It took me the length of the match just to sort them, i didn't realise I had made so many…..

I also trimmed the combing for the cabin to sit properly on the deck.

Just glad I only have to paint half of them lol.

as well as making the flying bridge decks on the aft end of the cabins of both boats.

who says i do soddly all. lol.

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Bloomin' heck Neil! Don't open any doors or windows when it's windy!

Chris

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

what could you mean, Chris…………i have no idea, lol.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

i am just playing the waiting game now, waiting for my friends cabin and my boat to come back from my other friend Dave, in Wales fully painted……

i received good news today in that the cabins for both boats, that had been given their undercoats and primers in the last few days, have this morning had their top coats of RNLI Orange sprayed on in 2 pac paint………..

they look brilliant, and sorry to say guys, far more exciting than the presidential elections at the moment.

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 04/11/2020 15:17:56

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 04/11/2020 15:18:27

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

the final obstacle to painting the deck and then fitting all rails and other clutter was the fitting of the rudder links to the servo.

with the help of the open hatch on the stern, this was done and the links all tightened up, set with locktite thread lock, and then a hatch made of 2 layers of 1.5mm ply cur across the grain to bend to the camber of the deck.

this was set in a no nails type glue, and has been left to set overnight.

tomorrow all will be sanded, and then masked up and sprayed with Rustoleum textured paint

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

the aft access hatch has been sanded and sealed with sanding sealer.

masking up done,

spraying with Rustoleum Aged Iron Textured paint applied to the deck.

just wait for an hour or so now for the paint to set and cure into the textured finish it turns into. i normally leave it a couple of hours to set and 24 hours to cure before i start any work on the parts that fit on to the deck to make sure it is hard enough.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

another small but important fitting has been almost finished this afternoon, for both mick's and Daves boat………..the strop hook/lever that tightens the retaining strops to the bow from the launch trailer.
made completely from plasticard.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

after a lot of problems with the painting of the deck in textured paint, and mainly due to my total impatience and not waiting for the paints to dry and properly cure in a coldish workshop and the mess that i alone got myself in to, i have finally sorted it all by gluing a layer of 80 grit wet/dry paper to the overall covering of the deck.

not my greatest achievement in my modelling career, and would give myself only 5/10 marks………and only then for digging myself out of a hole……..if only slightly…..so it has now been sprayed, and i will begin work on it in a couple of days.

if i were writing a school report on one of my CDT kids i would would say…………….."needs to have patience, has talents but blunders through and lives on his wits"

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Neil

I wish that I had your level of 'blunder and wits' as that deck is superb.

Paul

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

it is just ok Paul…………as teacher would say…….MUST DO BETTER, lol.

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

In my experience teachers always said Could Do or Must Do Better

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Yes, my wife, now retired, used to say that to me!

Chris

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

an easy cop out when you couldn't think what else to say, lol.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

so that is both sides done…..

the stanchions and stays have been attached together and to the toe rails.

next, once the glue has set hard, i am going to drill the stanchion plates through the toe rails and pin them, with a backing on the inside of very fine bore plastic tubing, so they look a little like nuts and rivets.

once this is done, they will be nice and secure, and put aside ready for spray painting polar grey [ford halfords].

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

now back to my Tyne class lifeboat…..Dave stavros Jones has today sprayed the hull with a beautifully lustrous covering of OXFORD/BALIOL blue in 2pac paint.

it looks from the photos absolutely beautiful

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

spent a little time today on my own boats fittings,

stanchions for the Tyne.

unusually, the tyne is the only boat in modern fleets not to have the stanchions attached to the toe rails…. the boards that run around the deck close to the bulwarks of the boat.

instead they are attached to semicircular brackets, welded to the deck…..a bit tricky for a modeler to get a nice firm attachment as not to break.

so, earlier in lockdown, i took some of the stanchions i turned and molded about 10 years ago and added a semi circle of plastic struct to the base and then made casting rubber molds…….

i cast a number a couple of months ago.

and so today i drilled the bases to take some pins made from 26 gauge piano wire so that the pins and the base of each stanchion would make a better connection with the deck, once glued.

i also drilled for the safety wire rails into the stanchions..Only the holes to drill now for the bracing wires from stanchions to deck, once the stanchions are dry fitted later in the build.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

my first images of my Tyne having taken her main colours after Dave Stavros Jones magical fingers have worked their beauty on the boat.

she looks absolutely stunning!…….cant wait to see her in the flesh

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