Another scratchbuilt O scale Mexican boat

[nycjeff]

Hello Robert, all I can say is Wow. What a fine job on your boats and structures. Very fine modeling.

[GPdemayo]

Excellent job Rob.....

[Janbouli]

Excellent , love every bit of it.

[friscomike]

Howdy Rob,

The boat is amazing, it looks so real and credible.  Congrats on this fantastic build.  So...what's next?

Have fun,
mike

[Jerry]

Rob that is just excellent.  Beautiful detailing and rigging!

Jerry

[Mr. Critter]

"La Calamita."  We'll christen her by breaking a scale bottle of Modelo across her bow.

[robert goslin]

Thanks Rick, Philip, Jeff, Greg, Jan, Mike, Jerry & Critter,
for all you nice comments.  Have really enjoyed doing this one.
So not quite finished yet.

I've got the name printed and attached to the hull now.  Just finishing up the figures, so hopefully finished by tonight, my time.

[robert goslin]

Story goes that Pelado was looking for a name for his boat. So he asked around.
Someone suggested he call it El Mofeta.  Pelado wasn't familiar with that word.
So they told him if meant handsome. He liked that so went and painted it on his boat, but doesn't understand why everyone keeps laughing. Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Reality is, it means The Skunk, but no one's been willing to tell him since.

So I made up some signs in Excel.  The green background is a close match to the stripe.
Then cut to fit. There are no visible seam as the sign is the height of the green plank and the end cuts run from the tyre bumper to the front of the hull.
Then sanded the paper fairly thin, glued on and weathered.




Again the sign on the stern runs all the way to the boat edges, so no seams.
I also added an exhaust pipe protruding from the deck. Rusted of coarse.


Here is Pelado and his compadre sitting on the deck.








I added a steering wheel inside the cabin.
I made this from a small thin metal washer and 0.5mm styrene strip for the handles.

[ACL1504]

Rob,

The "Skunk" just  gets better with each post. Love it.

Tom 

[Rick]

Rob, good back story on the name and an excellent job of camouflaging the name on the boat.
Figures look good too.

[Mr. Critter]

Smiling like a little kid, here.  What a charismatic model.

[nycjeff]

Hello Rob, the boat just keeps getting better and better.

[friscomike]

Howdy Rob, I think I said it all already.  The boat is simply fantastic, amazing, outstanding, impressive, phenomenal...  Have fun, mike

[Philip]

Awesome!

[robert goslin]

Thanks all for following along.  I really appreciate all the comments and encouragement.
Always good to have a funny backstory, no matter how improbable.

Here's some final pics on the Mini layout.  Although this boat will actually reside on the extension, which I will now start posting over on the diorama forum.









here it is next to the other fishing boat, recently completed