June 2018

Our June Meeting was held at Ron's home in Niagara Falls.  The theme was to be on Adhesives as used in ship model building but the content has expanded and Ron requires more time to prepare so the presentation/demo will be in September.
​

Phil brought in his ongoing build of the Spanish Whaling Galleon San Juan (1565). He had introduced it to us via a photo, at our last meeting in May.  She had sunk off the coast of Labrador and there had been an extensive archaeological study  conducted on the wreckage from which Phil has been doing his research.  He had planned a trip to Red Bay, Labrador to visit the site this summer but the trip has had to be postponed.

​Phil showed us how he uses his build templates affixed to foam core to check his build.

---

Following our May meeting where our visitors from Rochester, New York, mentioned a PBR (Patrol Boat River from the Vietnam War era), John was inspired to purchase a plastic model which he intends to unleash his expert painting and weathering talents on! 
​

Ray brought his Shamrock V back to show the progress with laying the deck planks.

​

​He pointed out that at a scale of 1 inch = 6 Feet his deck planks are less than 1/8" wide and the odd thing is they do not run straight from stem to stern as might be expected, but follow the hull profile and nib into a central king plank.

He has some scrapping to do to finish the topside of the decking.  His scrapers are made from old hacksaw blades.  He heats them red hot to temper (soften) them, allows them to air cool and then files them to shape leaving a small burr on one side to do the actual scraping.

---