Washington class 598 scratch buiding thread

[anonymous]

More progress today. Made the

More progress today. Made the sail from ABS sheet. I made ribs and a profile and glues and shaped. Pretty easy stuff and accurate as they were pulled from the 2 view I have.

More to come.

Steve

[anonymous]

More progress. All the main

More progress. All the main parts are built. Now to fix everything down, detail and paint. Not lobg now.

Steve

[anonymous]

Well it's got the basic

Well it's got the basic paint job applied. Now the real fun begins adding small parts, scum line and weathering.

More to follow.

Steve

[anonymous]

A little more progress. Made

A little more progress. Made a bunh of parts out of styrene and super sculpty and glued them on. Now it's ready for an airbrushed paint job.

More to come.

steve

[boss subfixer]

WOW (bold print # 72

WOW (bold print # 72 font) that looks great! Too bad about your molds, I'll bet you would do well with that kit.
BSF

[anonymous]

Thanks Boss. The molds will

Thanks Boss. The molds will be repaired. Glass hard copies made and sent to Merriman for scribing and new molds. This time GRP.

All is not lost!

Steve

[liftmys10]

Nice Job bro. From the

Nice Job bro. From the last time i saw it till now, you've done alot of work. Cant wait to see her in the water today.

Shawn

[anonymous]

Thanks Shawn. It will be

Thanks Shawn. It will be in the water next Saturday. Hope you can attend.

Steve

[casey thrower]

Are you going to make

Are you going to make the regatta? I hope to see your boat first hand. Great job!

[anonymous]

Casey thanks but I won't

Casey thanks but I won't be making it out there as I live in LA. Thats a long haul for me. I'd love nothing better really. Just don't how I'd get there with all my boats.

Steve

[anonymous]

Well this is as far

Well this is as far as I go for now. Next is to place the WTC and get her trimmed.

Dave Welch sent me this fantastic prop for here. almost a perfect fit. Thanks Dave!

More tomorrow.

steve

[nick-c]

She looks great!

Can I ask

She looks great!

Can I ask how you got the weathered vertical streaks on the hull?

I'm currently painting my alfa, any tips welcomed

thanks,

Nick

[anonymous]

Nick,

I used a combo of

Nick,

I used a combo of charcoals, airbrush and water colored pencils. I used Acrylic paints through the airbrush and then sealed everything with a lacquer dull coat.

Hope that helps. thanks Nick.

steve

[anonymous]

Well she runs great. Very

Well she runs great. Very fast under the waves. Hovers. Good rudder control. APC and fail safe work great.

Nothing left to do except take her to the lake and get those pictures.

Here's some pictures from the pool trials.

Next project is a scratch built type 17.

Steve