Alchemy Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Recently completed example of the old Revell kit of the North Sea Trawler. This boxing had the name decals for Arctic Corsair and, since i am a lazy, modeller, i built her with that name despite the fact that the kit is based on the Ross Co "Cat" boats. Straight out of the box with only the old net added to give some busyness on deck. My thought was to give her a fairly heavily weathered look as any fishing boat is a working boat and these were side trawlers dragging their nets up and over the starboard side. I did cut out the wheelhouse windows and replaced them with PVA glue; craved the moulded rope from the winches and replaced that with thread and did unspeakable things to the hull... 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Beautiful job,any chance of some more photo's and close ups..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Nice job on such an old kit, the real Arctic Corsair is now a museum ship in Hull I visited the ship over ten years ago, the guides are ex-trawlermen, they were very humble and unassuming gents who'd obviously led a very hard life at sea. You've done them proud with this model 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alchemy Posted April 20, 2019 Author Share Posted April 20, 2019 thanks guys. more pictures added with close ups... dont look too closely; my models always look best from about 4 feet ! 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Can I ask, what are you using for the fishing net, might be useful for a 1/72 scramble net? Stuart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan P Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 Very nicely done. The rusted effects have come out really well. I would also like to know what you used for the nets! Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alchemy Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 thanks for the kind comments gents. the net is a rolled up piece of 35th scale cammo netting that i have draped a few pieces of thread over to try to give the impression of a piled up net. the "floats" are the heads of map pins that i snipped the pin off and attached with a little drop of PVA glue. Its more of an effect look than real life; there should be otter boards and different rigging and the net should not be as clean... but, it looks busy which is what i was aiming for. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 your model looks smashing - a gorgeous weathered old lady Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Gidday Alchemy, A clever idea for floats. Regards, Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefy66 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 I looked at this closer than 4 feet at the weekend at the Scot Nats and it was great well done on the finish and rust effect beefy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 That looks really good. 👍 I build one for my father a few years ago, and, as you say it doen't really represent the Actic Corsair so I tried to scratch build the double dridge and varuius other changes with varying degrees of success... Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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