Fire Island Lightship
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The "Tub"
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This kit is based on the Nantucket Lightship. Serious scratchbuilding of the bridge and new deck houses are needed to portray the Fire Island Lightship
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New bridge underway...
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Bridge and deckhouses coming along. The kit supplied parts for the Nantucket are in the foreground. The kit's rear cabin is acceptable but will be modified.
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Construction in-progress of middle deckhouse
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Middle deckhouse coming along...
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Railings on the bridge are done.
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Bridge doors made from plastic sheet.
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Door attached to bridge. Notice the "gingerbread" trim that has been added to the bridge.
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Plastic rod for door hinges.
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Plastic strip for hinge tines.
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Wire door handle.
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Finished door with kit ladder.
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The kit's rear cabin has been striped and sanded down. A couple of the portholes have been filled.
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More details added to the bridge, including brass handrails.
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Re-building the rear cabin.
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Making hinges for the mid cabin skylights.
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Finished hinges on the skylights.
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Replaced the chunky plastic cable on the hoist with nylon string.
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Making a new smoke stack out of rolled plastic sheet.
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Added trim from half-round and flat plastic strip.
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Added stack cap from plastic sheet.
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Adding deck features. The brown wood block is from the spare parts box.
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Finished and attached the smoke stack.
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Getting closer to being ready to paint.
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Had to make the four top funnels for the foghorn out of plastic rod and tube (curved by melting), and filler. The main-stem funnel is a modified kit part.
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About ready to start painting!
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The hull is primed with oxide red, which will also be the base color below the waterline.
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Paint: gray deck and cabin roofs; red hull
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Masking the gray cabin roof areas with Silly Putty so white paint can be applied.
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The dirty yellow color now being applied is called "spar".
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Printed from WordArt in Word on white decal paper using pink ink so any edges wouldn't show too bad after I cut-out the decals. Happily, the ink washes off!
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Starboard side done.
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Ship's bell in place. The dirty looking spots on the bridge are black oil-paint wash for weathering that has not yet been "rubbed-in" to the latex base.
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Boats are done; light prisms added (bare metal foil)
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All finished except for the rigging!
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Kommentarer
11 May 2014, 10:44
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Back to building after a little hiatus of a few weeks. Update on the Fire Island Lightship is posted.
5 June 2014, 20:10
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Great admiration for scratch building. Something I've never attempted.respect
9 June 2014, 08:00
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Thanks H K! Building ships is a tank-less job 🙂
Thanks Jonathan. I like kit-bashing and scratch-building 🙂
10 June 2014, 18:09
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All finished except for the rigging, which can't be done until after she is mailed to her new owner...
3 August 2014, 21:29
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Very kind George, but the Biber can´t match with your light ship. Du sollst dein Licht nicht unter den Scheffel stellen! No idea what the translation is.
5 August 2014, 11:10
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Finally finished with the lightship LV-114, Fire Island! Some new pictures up.
5 September 2014, 17:52
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Great job! Quite a bit of alterations for the Bridge, Horn Room etc.
17 November 2014, 13:45
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I admire your scratchbuilding skills ! Great result, nicely weathered !
17 November 2014, 20:48