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20. My tray table. It is height adjustable and has casters.


23. Dry fi tting the rudder, propeller and support shoe.


when making a dot, its bottom will always be where it should be. (Figure 21) I then marked the top of the painted boot-top.


21. Marking the waterline. T e hull has been masked and primed but the boot-top has not been completely marked and masked yet.


Several items fi rst had to be added prior to fi nish painting. I needed to build a rudder, its support shoe, and a propeller with its stuffi ng box. Everything but the propeller would be painted so they needed fi tting now. T e propeller on the real Lady Isabel was leſt -handed and 24 inches in diameter. I decided to see if a nice, scale propeller could be found from a commercial supplier. Roboesch, based in the Netherlands, makes a wide line of model boat propellers, mostly intended for working models. A large selection is on the internet. Mine came from eBay. It was a good fi t for this model and only a little machining in the hub area was necessary to make it perfect. Figure 22 shows the propeller and its stuffi ng box. T e stuffi ng box and the support shoe were both soldered brass assemblies that followed measurements of the actual parts. (Figure 23)


22. T e Roboesch propeller and the stuffi ng box.


mounted in a height stand. Rather than trying to draw a continuous line around the hull, I poke my pencil point into the model, making small dots about a half inch apart. T at works particularly well in places like near the stern of many hulls, where the pencil point could liſt and wander. Even if the point does wander


Finish painting followed. I used Badger acrylic paints exclusively, #16-01 Engine Black for the sheer plank and boot-top, #16-02 Reefer White for the topsides, and #16-401 Anti-Fouling Red Oxide for the bottom. T e latter is a departure from the boat on display, which uses a “copper-bronze” paint, which is harder and not the soſt anti-fouling paint that would have been used if the boat were in the water. (Figure 24)


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