Repairing the 1991 Oberto 1/10th

[Darin Jordan]

Hey Gang,

I have begun to repair my 1/10th Scale 1991 Oberto... I figured I'd post some pics along the way in case anyone might want to see how it's going...

Here are the pics of the boat with the damage from the Oberto's retaining wall... (YUP... Lost RX signal and it drove right into Aurthor Oberto's retaining wall at his house on Lake Washington... )

[Darin Jordan]

I cut away the damaged wood, and have laid in some new pieces to fill in the structure. Just really kind of rough-cut these pieces to fit, then epoxied them in place. Then I sanded it down with some heavy grit sand paper on my finish sander... I'm using all birch ply on this so it'll remain strong, so sanding is a bit more time consuming... Shapped up nicely, however, so next I'll add some marine filler to fair everything in...

[ace028]

Looking good, looks like a first class repair!!!

[Eodman]

Darin you do good work!

[Ctonez]

Darin, what's your filler of choice? Is it that same blue/gray stuff Brian uses?

or something different altogether because this is ply as opposed to FG?

[Darin Jordan]

Corey,

I'm using "Formula 27" by Evercoat... it's basically a marine bondo for Fiberglass, wood, etc...

Doesn't spread too well when it's chilly out, but I never worry too much about the first layer anyhow... just getting things filled in, and I'll sand away from there. Might be ugly for a bit, but after some work, it should all fair-out well and look great...

Here is the first pass:

[rcboatfan]

nice repair job

[Stealth Assassin]

Darin, what's your filler of choice? Is it that same blue/gray stuff Brian uses?

or something different altogether because this is ply as opposed to FG?

Might want to try evercoats metal glaze (polyester base) or evercoat has a more flexable called poly-flex. My bad for hijacking...

[Darin Jordan]

Sanded down the first round of fillers...

[Darin Jordan]

Next round of filling/sanding... I'm using Squadron putty to fill in some of the imperfections and holes left after the "bondo" was sanded...

As you can see... I'm not very graceful at this... I guess I kind of go by the "slop on and sand" repair methodology... But I like to build this stuff up in thin layers...

[rcboatfan]

lookin good

[Darin Jordan]

Made some more progress... I'll let this white dry for a few days, then tape it off and attempt to match-up the green as best I can... blending it is going to be the real challenge, but I'm going to attempt to airbrush it and see how close I can get.

[Ub Hauled]

Looking good Darin,
now all you have to do is make the other side look as good as the one you did

[Darin Jordan]

Well guys... this is the best I could do... The repair is great... the paint application is good, but the color doesn't quite match. I used the exact same paint, but not from the original bottle, just ordered from the same source, and it's a tad darker... I painted it over a white base, just like the original, but it's still darker...

Oh well... I tried! It doesn't look bad in natural light, and overall it turned out nicely...

I'll get a power system re-installed and this boat is ready to go...

Hopefully this thread helped someone out their figure out how to repair their own hull...

[Doby]

It looks great! Is it possible that the sun caused the original color to fade? If so, then the new color should eventually fade to the same lighter green.

I could be wrong though.

[Darin Jordan]

It looks great! Is it possible that the sun caused the original color to fade? If so, then the new color should eventually fade to the same lighter green.

I could be wrong though.

Time will tell... It may fade some...

It would have been easier to blend things if I hadn't tried to salvage the decals... I was working around them the whole time, so I couldn't do things as evenly as I'd have liked...

Ready for action again, however... Just in time to sit in the garage for the winter...

[Stealth Assassin]

I am really starting to like your scale hydros...

[hkusp45]

Very nice job Darin!