Trojan Boat Forum

Gotta ask what you used for materials? I am assuming the wood work is real wood, also guessing you stained some basic wood as appropriately as opposed to using teak, mahogany, etc separately. How did you form the hull, and what did you create the railings and fittings out of - they look spot on - e...

Posted this a long time ago and it got a fair bit of interest. Anyway, I made a short YouTube video of it as a starter for my channel where I planned to post movies on all my models. Well, the movie's been up for a year and a half and only myself and the boat owner have ever found it!! If anyone is ...

Hi Capt. Maniac Glad you liked the model. I did consider making a mold of the major components so that I could later make castings. This is something I've done before so it makes it an easy task to replicate them in urethane. Maybe I should have!! But ... now that I'm done there's no way I'd go back...

Hi Rossjo Here's the line drawings I used. They're not fancy because they're just photographs converted to Line Drawings using my photo edit program but they were good enough to get the major dimensions correct. Each of the four views is in the same scale so if you enlarge the page they'll all stay ...

OK, checked my collection of reference pictures and I see a strip at the stern and wraps slightly around the transom ... that it?

His boat doesn't have them. An early 70's model.

I just know you're now going to ask me "where's the little ladder on the swim platform?"

F

Spray rail? Where would that have been?

Frank

Thanks for all the complements. Now I just have to hope my buddy likes it when he finally sees it tonight!! Might be on EBay tomorrow. Yes, it was built from scratch ... every last bit of it. I couldn't find any proper drawings of the boat so I scoured the web for shots at good angles and converted ...

I built this model for a friend who has this very boat (just bigger). I spent about 2 years on it but had long breaks where I worked on other models. Everything is hand made in my little workshop using all kinds of scrap aluminum, stainless welding rod, black plastic from a welder's mask! and the hu...