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Brilliant JR Oh and don't forget the oar locks then they wont look like spades

I've done a little more work on the RIB - details on the cooler box & fuel cell (still needs a handle), finished the outboard & made a fishing rod:

Primer & paint, "wood" on RIB is "Buff" dry brushed with "Hull Red" & "Yellow Green", + finished with Clear Orange...








"Wood" on oars is the same apart from clear "Smoke" on top, rod ditto but with Clear Yellow:





A Johnson outboard would have been funnier, in hindsight...





Still need to make some ropes or bungies for the Blackfoot RV trailer these were intended for, plus I need to find a better way of displaying/storing it: propped near vertically is not conducive to keeping a load in it

Fantastic, Jon!
You've got a good eye for picking the correct colors. Both the wooden deck and the inflatables look spot on.

PS: did you know Ole Evinrude invented the first practical outboard engine, and was Norwegian?

Fantastic job!
That rib looks just "right"

Waaaaaahhhhhh fabulous Jonny

larbut wrote:

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PS: did you know Ole Evinrude invented the first practicable outboard engine, and was Norwegian?

With a name like that I thought he was Spanish j/k

Legend has it that he invented the outboard motor as it took so long getting to his favourite picnic spot on the river that his ice cream had melted by the time he got there... Naysayers point out that was 5 years after the outboard had been invented by someone else - but "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"

larbut wrote:

You've got a good eye for picking the correct colors. Both the wooden deck and the inflatables look spot on.

+1

That's bonkers...
Do you ever find yourself looking back at earlier projects & not only shock yourself at the level of detail & realism you now achieve in comparison, but wonder how much of that extra effort has been spurred by seeking to impress onlookers on here?
Truly spectacular!

No, I've never wondered that.