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Well I haven't seen that question before.
Basically you can either make it look brand new, or make it look weathered.
Noah was told to build the ark from gopher wood, and that is truly an unknown reference. He seems to have followed directions as there was a positive outcome. otherwise guesses have been cedar, cypress or reeds.
20th Century war ships commonly had teak decks. Teak starts out light brown and ends up weathered gray.
Is the material plastic?
I prefer them weathered and use a base coat of light gull gray.
A good basecoat color for new wood is Testors Radome Tan, or Sand. This is kind of a mixture of those types of color:
If wood, clear Minwax on basswood looks great.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Plus one on the sand/tan color!Iused a custom tan mix on the deck of my Arizona.The contrast between the "wooden"deck and gray metal superstructure and deck fittings is very attracrive.
" G "
Every time I see that America's deck I want to congratulate you all over again .You did a heckuva job , Mister !
"Noah- make it 50 cubits long and 30 cubits wide."
"Right!……..what's a cubit?"
Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...
300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, 30 cubits high.
A cubit is the distance from your fingertips to your elbow. This reference in Genesis is a product of the Greek translation. It's about 18", so that's a ship 450 feet long and 75 feet wide. Incredibly small for the task at hand but if you and your sons set out to cut down and mill the gopher wood, construct the ship and do it all with ancient tools, it's no wonder that Noah was 600 years old when the flood came.
A note here. There is absolutely no cynicism on my part here. I respect the Torah and I am in no position to question any of this, other than to say that until the Bible gets to Abraham, supporting history from other sources is pretty hard to find. It's there but rare.
So they built a ship about the size of a Liberty Ship.
tankerbuilder " G " Every time I see that America's deck I want to congratulate you all over again .You did a heckuva job , Mister !
No offense intended. It's just a line from a hilarious old Bill Cosby routine, just hoping to give you guys a chuckle. Sorry I got the numbers wrong!
Post some progress pics,is it the kit that was for sale awhile ago,or are you scratching it.Would love to see it.
Don't know the Cosby routine but will look it up.
If you get to see the Cosby routine , it's funny . Part of what makes it so is Bill's rubber faced expressions .
Tankerbuilder, I have it that you were a deckhand on the Ark, any truth to that?
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Yeah, go find your plank and we can figure out what gopher wood is.
Does it even exist anymore?
I'll post some pics when I get the decking done. It's going to be modified, with WW2 splinter camo and opened up for crane activity. I'm calling it the Worlds first martime sealift.
It may end up as a choice between artful appearance vs authenticity. Most woods weather to a gray, so it depends on whether there is a large enough crew (as on warships) to keep the decks scraped.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Gee ;
Funny you should say that .The Bow ( stem ) was my biggest job .
I always wondered why they said that . I was always having to Go For Wood ! L.O.L.
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