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Of keel shoes,hull fittings and zinc plates...
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Hi everyone, I completed the rear lover hull, including center propeller plate and rudder fairing plates as per elco drawing 3178. The keel shoe needs still some filng to get the final shape, jumpers and connecting plates will be added after that.
If the keel shoe is acting as a ground strip also it should be left free of paint/antifouling media, but this picture would suggest that this was not the case on 80' elcos;that would be perfect because it would allow me to skip adding screw head detail to the keel shoe,everything would convenientely disappear under 3 coats of coperoid.
(note also the heavy stain from the crew wash basin outlet).
Does anyone have conclusive info on this?
Zinc plates are a detail I'd really like to add, however elco plans don't show them fitted on PT 103-196.Does anybody know if they were backfitted?
Regards.
Daniele Kläy
Posted By: Daniele Klay | Posted on: Feb 6, 2016 - 8:25am
Total Posts: 126 | Joined: Jun 23, 2015 - 12:43pm
That is some beautiful work Daniele! Love the vent detail.
Dave
David Waples
Posted By: David Waples | Posted on: Feb 6, 2016 - 9:55am
Total Posts: 1679 | Joined: Jan 2, 2007 - 9:55pm
You got to love Daniele's work. As its scale size of 1:16 will enable all sorts of great details we can do on smaller PT models!
Bridge
Posted By: TheBridge | Posted on: Feb 6, 2016 - 12:55pm
Total Posts: 318 | Joined: Nov 22, 2009 - 3:04pm
Beautiful work Daniele!
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Feb 7, 2016 - 10:25am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Good stuff, my man...
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Feb 7, 2016 - 12:15pm
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
Boy, am I impressed!! :-O (mouth open, amazed!)
Cheers!
--Bob
Posted By: Bob Steinbrunn | Posted on: Feb 7, 2016 - 1:17pm
Total Posts: 134 | Joined: Jan 23, 2016 - 9:16am
