Sandy Hollow

[finescalerr]

I love your boat models and always marvel at your ability to design and build them. -- Russ

[Ray Dunakin]

Cool!

[1-32]

Afternoon all.
Cheers Russ and Ray.
The soundtrack of" Put Put'
The natural wood and primer finish of the river or lake trader.
I will add more bits before finishing it all.
Such great fun with all the bits.
Cheers

[finescalerr]

A splendid little boat. -- Russ

[Bill Gill]

She's a nifty looking little boat. I'm studying her steam engine because I want to model a small steam launch in HO scale for my son who once thought about converting an old refrigerator compressor into a steam engine and install it in a small hull.

[Bill Gill]

She's a nifty looking little boat. I'm studying her steam engine because I want to model a small steam launch in HO scale for my son who once thought about converting an old refrigerator compressor into a steam engine and install it in a small hull.

Here's what he was working on:

[Sami]

Wonderfull boat §

[Bernhard]

What a pretty little boat. "Put Put" probably sums it up perfectly.

Bernhard

[1-32]

Hello Russ,Bill,Sami and Bernard.
As always a very warm thank you for your interest.
I am sure we all have the same debate in our minds -what will be the colour and finish I really don't want to mess it up with a bad finish. It is even worse when the reference photos are black and white and 100 years old.
My approach is to stain the wood first with water-based artist inks and build it up from there, gently doing it.
Here we have some more photos of the build-up and some colour.
So far the materials are strip wood and styrene all fabricated. At some stage, I will add some commercial products like the propeller and the boat wheel.
Cheers.

[Ray Dunakin]

Looks good!

[finescalerr]

I love it. The weathering and coloring are just right for this stage. If you continue in the same way, this may be your best boat yet. -- Russ

[Bernhard]

I like that too. It looks very realistic.

Bernhard

[1-32]

Hey Ray ,Russ and Bernard.
Westlake has the best photo downloader when you go full size you get it all.
So following along here are two more .

[Stuart]

I can almost hear the chug chugging of this little guy running up the river already!

Stuart

[Ray Dunakin]

Nice!