Christian Kosial is a regular visitor
to the Station and has created magnificent working models of the
Poole lifeboats. His latest endeavour is to create a model of the
Tyne class City of Sheffield.
In the third instalment you can
see pictures of the fine work to detail the stanchions, fenders
and railings around the hull.
Christian explains some of the complexity around this stage of
the work: ‘First of all I build a profile made of wood 40cm
long, paint and polish it. Next step is to make a negative casting
form of the profile made of resin. (See picture below left with
the step by step from right to left). Then follows the very dirty
work to make the profile made of rubber: it takes 2 days to remove
the profile out of the casting mould. After some improvements of
the fendering (8 pieces) I make the holes for the bolts. It takes
about 6 weeks in total to make the profiles!
‘Next step: I stick two profiles made of plastic for the
fendering around the boat. These right-angle profiles are only 1.5
mm. This takes 3 weeks. I know it’s not like the big lifeboat
but it looks good when the rubber fendering is placed on the boat
because these right-angle profiles are like a border and I can paint
the hull and the deck separate from each other. So the last step
for fendering was to make about 120 bolts from brass with a diameter
of 2mm. This allows me to mount and dismount my fendering whenever
it’s required.’
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