1930's Aberdeen Steam Trawler - Modified 1/48 Calder Craft Milford Star

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Thanks Trey for your support.

After many hours of Googling etc I still could not find an adequate colour photo of a well weathered Trawler on a Pontoon or drydock to show me how the hull below the waterline corrodes, so I have had to guess. The results are below for better or worse. I used Lifecolour UA 701 and UA 702 and used a stippling action with a large and small stiff brush. I have thrown in a couple of shots at the end showing the superstructure in place (temporarily).

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The hull was given three coats of flat varnish from a Tamiya aerosol after first coating the Vinyl Decals with some Lifecolor clear varnish in order to protect them.

I deviated from the instructions for the vinyl decals as I found aligning individual decal letters very difficult. I found that if you gently peeled of the backing sheet by generating a tight curve, the complete word(s) could be left on the front backing sheet thus allowing the complete word(s) to be positioned in one operation,see below.

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I going to do the stern and winch platforms now followed by planking the deck and weathering. Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

Looking fantastic Derek. I will need some of them rivits for my next project and stock... is there somwhere in England i can get these from.

Cheers

Andy

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Looking fantastic Derek. I will need some of them rivits for my next project and stock... is there somwhere in England i can get these from.Cheers

Andy

Thanks Andy, I don't know of any U.K. supplier, but Micro-Mart are excellent, have use them a few times now and I always get delivery in 7 to 10 days. Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

Thanks Derek, i see they do 2 sizes O and HO, for a ship the size of the one I'm building next, which is 1030mm long scale 1:50, would they be too small.

Cheers

Andy

[Guest]

Thanks Derek, i see they do 2 sizes O and HO, for a ship the size of the one I'm building next, which is 1030mm long scale 1:50, would they be too small.Cheers

Andy

Andy my Trawler is 1/48 so your 1/50 is as close as you will get, you need the 'O'-scale sheets I used 4-Packs for the Trawler. You get 2-sheets per pack.

The 'HO'-scale is 1/87

Cheers Derek

p.s American 'O' scale = 1/48; U.K. 'O'-scale = 1/43

[Guest]

Thanks Derek, ill get some on order.

Andy

[Guest]

the rusting below sea level looks very good to me derek,well sea worn from salty water,nice job all round

mobear

[Ian M]

That Hull looks great! All the effort of the rivets has really paid off, With the paint on they really look fantastic.

Ian M

[Guest]

Hi all. The kit is supposed to be supplied with three 750mm lengths of 4mm x 2mm wood for the stern and winch platforms, non were supplied. There was one 900mm length of 3mm x 1mm wood which did not have a home so I used that for the stern platform, for me this looks more in proportion anyway. I have deviated from the kit instructions in so much as I have only partially planked the platform as I am guessing the lifeboat support cradle would be secured directly to the roof of the coaming and not the timber sheathing. The central strip is to support the lifeboat keel. Will make up the cradle from scrap wood later (nothing supplied with the kit).

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For the winch platform no kit timber was supplied, so I decided to use my 0.5mm x 3mm lime strips, I sandwiched these strips together to obtain a 1mm thickness. I have shown them in position with the winch temporarily. The winch probably looks too rusty at the moment, but you have to visualize it with the planking and deck heavily weathered.

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I am now starting to plank the main deck. I am guessing that on the trawler the timber sheathing would be roughly 16ft long which is 4" to scale. I have started to cut the decking from 0.5mm x 3mm lime wood strips which looks about right; I need roughly 300 to 330 of them. They will be sanded all over and I will use super glue as I did with the stern platform above. I give the wood a thin coat of the glue; it dries in less than a minute; I then apply a second coat and fix it to the painted deck. I use the loctite which comes with a brush, see photo below.

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Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

going great guns there Derek looking very nice indeed and the weathering looks very good dont know how you do it. steve

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Spent most of the week cutting and sanding the 4" strips needed for the weather deck. Have glued on some of the fittings before planking the deck, these are the four gallows, the chequer plates, and six coal skuttles; have repositioned the skuttles so that they are actually above the coal bunker position shown on the Hall Russels drawing. Still more fitting to add but they are white metal and need a lot of cleaning up.

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Have started planking around the fishroom hatches in order to assess how difficult it will be. There is always a gap about one plank width around hatches, winches etc, so as you can see I secure planks with blue tack, measure the length; cut them all to length and before glueing remove one of the planks. Once all the planking is finishes I will weather all the deck, fittings etc.

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Cheers Derek

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My fingers are about dropping off making and handling the planking, so thought I would have a break and post a few progress shots.

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After taking this shot I thought I have better prepare the reeving sheaves, bollards and fairleads as some of these will need to be fitted before I can plank around them. The sheaves and brackets come with the kit; the white metal castings needed a lot of cleaning up. I fitted a baseplate under the brackets. The Bollards are as supplied with the kit. I decided to purchase new fairleads as only two were supplied with the kit and I am fairly sure four would have been fitted (two at the stern missing -I think), also the fairleads supplied looked very small to my eye.

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Finally a couple of shots of the planking just as my fingers gave up.

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Cheers Derek

p.s. Forgot to mention that you may have observed that the two rear Gallows have been removed as I kept bumping into them, so will refit them when I am finishing the planking at the stern

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[Guest]

thats truly fabulous mate looks neat and tidy

mobear

[Guest]

What a fantastic job your doing of that one. Will be stunning im sure, well on the way to it as it is.

Andy

[Guest]

Wow that planking is looking awesome!! I do'nt envy you the task but you're nailing it !!