HC12 England

[glossieblack]

She's looking good BYT!

[Eric1]

She looks great!

[bigyellowtractor]

Cheers chaps

I am not overly happy with how it looks but I will lower my expectations, get it painted and hopefully get some use out of it while we have a bit of summer left here in jolly old England.

Still can't decide what colour(s) to paint it though so am open to suggestions. Subtle or traditional, or wild and wacky, I don't mind.

[narfi]

I think this is what I will probably do (without the graphics..... fun now but maybe not as Landon grows older :p )

[Jaysen]

Take a couple days and make it look the way you want. Paint will make all those little things jump out and bite you.

I still suggest light colors.

[bigyellowtractor]

Narfi,
You MUST at least do the spider logos

Jaysen,
I know you're probably right but I'm going to have to go somewhere between what I want and what I can live with.
Colours; I am undecided between something light like a powder-blue or maybe pastel green on the outside and a light grey in the inside or go the other way with a dark green / battleship-grey scheme.

My only slight concern with going dark is that the boat will be car topped so it might get bloody hot in the middle of summer (that can be as many as two straight days in England)

Keep the ideas/opinions coming boys

[bigyellowtractor]

I've got the upper panels sanded enough to be happy and have done the first lamination of rub-rail.

Still have the bottom to sand and the chine panels to fair.

[narfi]

That's a lot of fancy clamps!
I found that when doing my rub rails I hadn't clamped the bottoms of them as well as the top. I think it's natural to over do what you see....... nothing I couldn't overcome with thinish thickened epoxy but something I'll watch out for next time.

Second outlandish paint scheme I thought of.... I am American my wife is Canadian. So I thought one side US flag and Canadian flag on the other side with the interior the Alaskan flag. He is 1/2 American, 1/2 Canadian and 100% Alaskan.

For you though the British flag is a cool look maybe?

[bigyellowtractor]

That's a lot of fancy clamps!

They're from your side of the pond. Bought them about 10-years ago when I first planned to build a boat http://www.clipclamps.com They work really well and are a one handed operation

I found that when doing my rub rails I hadn't clamped the bottoms of them as well as the top. I think it's natural to over do what you see....... nothing I couldn't overcome with thinish thickened epoxy but something I'll watch out for next time.

I found if I got a few claps on, then squeezed the lamination into place, the clamps laid over at an angle, seemed to give a nice even clamping pressure top to bottom.

Second outlandish paint scheme I thought of.... I am American my wife is Canadian. So I thought one side US flag and Canadian flag on the other side with the interior the Alaskan flag. He is 1/2 American, 1/2 Canadian and 100% Alaskan.

For you though the British flag is a cool look maybe?

Flags are cool but you'd be bloody busy with the masking tape

Unfortunately, with the current political climate over here openly displaying the flag of our once Great Britain is taken to mean you are a xenophobic, racist, meat-head. (Which is totally fcuked up in my opinion)

[narfi]

Unfortunately, with the current political climate over here openly displaying the flag of our once Great Britain is taken to mean you are a xenophobic, racist, meat-head. (Which is totally fcuked up in my opinion)

I am of the opinion that unless you actually are xenophobic or racist, you should be proud to be xenophobic and racist.

What I mean is that there is nothing wrong with patriotism. You should be just as proud of your great country as I am that we defeated you for the opportunity to become even greater..... :p
That idiots twist those terms into meaning something they arent, shouldn't be allowed to change the reality of it.
(I am not endorsing xenophobia or racism, rather I am endorsing standing up against those who use those terms as a crutch for their own agendas.)