Fire Island Lightship
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May 11, 2014The "Tub"3
June 5, 2014This kit is based on the Nantucket Lightship. Serious scratchbuilding of the bridge and new deck houses are needed to portray the Fire Island Lightship4
June 5, 2014New bridge underway...5
June 5, 2014Bridge 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.6
June 6, 2014Construction in-progress of middle deckhouse7
June 6, 2014Middle deckhouse coming along...8
June 7, 2014Railings on the bridge are done.9
June 8, 2014Bridge doors made from plastic sheet.10
June 8, 2014Door attached to bridge. Notice the "gingerbread" trim that has been added to the bridge.11
June 8, 2014Plastic rod for door hinges.12
June 8, 2014Plastic strip for hinge tines.13
June 8, 2014Wire door handle.14
June 8, 2014Finished door with kit ladder.15
June 10, 2014The kit's rear cabin has been striped and sanded down. A couple of the portholes have been filled.16
June 10, 2014More details added to the bridge, including brass handrails.17
June 10, 2014Re-building the rear cabin.18
June 10, 2014Making hinges for the mid cabin skylights.19
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June 10, 2014Finished hinges on the skylights.22
June 11, 2014Replaced the chunky plastic cable on the hoist with nylon string.23
June 17, 2014Making a new smoke stack out of rolled plastic sheet.24
June 17, 2014Added trim from half-round and flat plastic strip.25
June 17, 2014Added stack cap from plastic sheet.26
June 17, 2014Adding deck features. The brown wood block is from the spare parts box.27
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June 19, 2014Finished and attached the smoke stack.30
June 19, 2014Getting closer to being ready to paint.31
June 24, 2014Had 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.32
June 25, 2014About ready to start painting!33
June 29, 2014The hull is primed with oxide red, which will also be the base color below the waterline.34
July 1, 2014Paint: gray deck and cabin roofs; red hull35
July 2, 2014Masking the gray cabin roof areas with Silly Putty so white paint can be applied.36
July 3, 2014The dirty yellow color now being applied is called "spar".37
July 5, 2014Printed 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!38
July 5, 2014Starboard side done.39
July 5, 2014Ship'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.40
July 17, 2014Boats are done; light prisms added (bare metal foil)41
August 3, 2014All finished except for the rigging!42
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