Well at last I have made some time to revisit building my Fairey Marine Huntsman. I managed to get an hour in the garage today and decided to spend some time finishing off the keel. Having glued all the sections to the main keel I decided to file and sand down the uneven edges to [...]
Fairey Marine Huntsman was a classic sports cruiser and I am trying to replicate one in a model. This blog record my efforts to date. I have been absent from the garage for several weeks now due to many reasons including a increase in sales in my wife antique silver business but at last today [...]
Model Boats | Fairey Marine Huntsman Building project has been very slow of late and I have had little time to dedicate to the project. We have had a major engine failure on our real boat Blue Marlin II which has absorbed my time together with a once in a lifetime trip to the Australian [...]
Well I have not had any chance to continue the build here of my Fairey Marine Huntsman due to big problems with our real boat a Quicksilver 630 SD.
Little progress to report this week due to the weather! Have just spent an hour in the garage in the freezing cold and have decided to call it a day.
I have managed to trace and cut out the mian keel section though. This is one long piece of 1/4 inch marine ply and was quite [...]
Having attempted the first bulkhead I will admit to making a bit of a pigs ear with it. Having cut it out with the Axminster Jigsaw I was quite pleased with it until I held it over the plan for comparison. It was not quite of the quality and accuracy I was hoping for. It [...]
Well the first problem I have encountered is finding somewhere which stocks the raw materials in sensible sizes for building this model. I need 1/16, 1/8,1/4 plywood of the right grade. I had tried the local builders merchants and none stocked the smaller thickness ply.
I eventually discovered Totem Timber in Cattedown Plymouth who not only [...]
