Another scratchbuilt O scale Mexican boat

[Rick]

Rob, excellent painting and weathering.

[Dave Buchholz]

Looks like that ol' tub is gonna several gallons of rust remover before fishing season starts up again!

[GPdemayo]

You've created a real fixer up scow, great work Rob.....

[Bernd]

Rob,

What the other guys have said. Looks like something you'd find on the beach.

Bernd

[robert goslin]

Thanks Ron, Mike Jerry, Tom, Rick, Dave, Greg & Bernd, for all the comments.

Yep, she's pretty rough & ready and will definitely will need a good sanding if Pelado ever gets around to painting it. At least the boards are intact to keep her afloat.

[Philip]

Looks creek worthy to me! 

Got any oar's yet?

[robert goslin]

Thanks Philip.  Will need more than a paddle to get out of that mess.

[robert goslin]

So following on from the decrepit hull, the cabin is also doubtful.
Story goes that Pelado went to the chandlery to get some marine ply to repair the cabin.
The price was way too much.
They suggested he could use some old tin signs they were throwing out.  Free if he took them straight away.
So with a smile on his face, he & a compadre loaded them up and made the cabin "watertight".  Not pretty but it will do.

So I made the front out of styrene and balsa, and angled the walls slightly to give it some character.
The side walls are styrene with grain carved in.


Gave it a base coat of Tamiya desert yellow.


close up to see the grain detail


Painted all the framework is a faded green, and white for the wood panels.
Then added the old tin signs for the repaired panels.


I did one panel just in rust.


Then I decided it still wasn't decrepit enough.  So made up some more rusty panels for the roof.
I used some burnt orange copy paper and did various brown washes and some sponging of metal colour to achieve the rusty look.


Then clad the roof and the little cabin is done.




The roof panels




Trial placement on the deck.  I think the cabin suits the hull quite well.

[Rick]

WOW! Does that look good.
Outstanding painting, weathering and rusting.
Rob, great job!

[Dave Buchholz]

Hopefully there is an extinguisher on board for that fire hazard.


Very creative idea for using "old signs" for the cabin panels. i have never "scene" that before in any scale.

[ACL1504]

Rob,

I love the use of the signs. Just what a Mex  would do to fix his boat using metal signs he "borrowed".

Tom

[Mr. Critter]

"Then I decided it still wasn't decrepit enough."

Nothing beats a model with a contrived whimsical back-story.  But then executing it...

Mister Goslin?  Wow.

I would like to swim to Australia to shake your hand and operate your railroad.  I shall bring decent cask-aged tequila.

Not settin' foot on that boat's deck, though, nor going near its cabin.  Kind of afraid of hepatitis.

[friscomike]

Howdy Rob, you are quite the artist.  Congrats on such wonderful models.  Have fun, mike

[robert goslin]

Thanks Rick, Dave, Tom, critter & Mike for your nice compliments.
I'm really happy with how the cabin came out. I love rust.

And always like like to tell a story, to put it into context. When exhibiting, it's always good to have a back story of why something looks the way it does.  I usually get a good laugh from folks.

Regarding the use of old signs for repair jobs, I have seen it done prototypically, usually on an old door.
Here's an example of a door repair from great Aussie modeler Richard Ginyer.

and the second shot is a loco roof from brilliant California modeler Gary Beatty.

[IWannaRetire]

I also love the use of old signs.

It's exactly what anybody hurting for cash and needs shelter would do.  Decades ago, I rented a house that had an existing homemade lean-to shed constructed largely with old wooden storm windows.  The landlord was a wealthy realtor, I already learned he wouldn't put a dime into any repairs.  I was using the shed regularly, so when the lean-to started leaning more than originally designed, I repaired it in the same style, using lumber gleaned from cast-off large factory pallets.

My temporary tarp was a cast-off vinyl billboard, available for the asking if you caught a sign crew swapping one out. 

Nowadays, one can buy these used billboard tarps from several vendors. When my own flat roof blew off a few years back, I found more than one company that heat seams them together into almost any size.  While waiting for new trusses, I used 2 of these seamed together tarps to cover a 35' by 45' building, after the Menards tarp the insurance company threw up disintegrated in a month.  I actually could have ordered a single seamed tarp big enough, but it would have weighed 160 pounds, twice what each smaller tarp weighed at 80 pounds, tough enough for me to take up a tall ladder nowadays.

Several years back, I started but never finished a model of this building in its flat-roofed configuration.  Maybe I ought to finish it and model it during its repair stage coved by the billboards for hot tubs and Viagra?