Thread: GIS built in Slovenia? Marking waterlines

It is a start and it is gorgeous! What materials did you use?

MIK

The ext. color is great...I was thinking something like this color, a nice teal green, would look great on the Goat...tell is about the paint you used, too.

I also like the bottom paint...it looks good...any more photos showing the bottom...Mik do you indicate where the paint line could be on your plans (I am being lazy and can look)....why don't we see more GIS's with a bottom color...I'd like to see how it looks.

Can I describe this GIS as....sexy!?

Clint

Originally Posted by Compass Project

The ext. color is great...I was thinking something like this color, a nice teal green, would look great on the Goat...

Teal green?? I put in an order for Royal Blue!?!?

I'm am glad to see the stand is finally made. Where is that duck so we can get real perspective?

Mark

Mik, material I used is birch veneer sheets, 1,5mm thick. Spars are round pine sticks. It got brown color from staining as I wanter the gaboon look of the interior. And for the framing I used sapeli (?) 2x4mm. Mostly leftovers from my other boats (the same goes for the sail).

Re. ext. color. I'm afraid the light wasn't good to show the real colour.
It's close to navy blue. White bottom and the chines are just for the contrast. I didn't want it for the waterline. As the bow is normally out of the water I thought it would be nice if you can see white comming from underneath.

Well, Mark, the stand is not from GIS. It's borrowed from PDR.
I will take a shot of both of them together.

O! You beat me to it badly!
So it seems I'll have postpone my build. Going to college this fall ....

Hey sloaleks,

Maybe it would be good to drop Koala and Theodor a PM (click on their names above) and the option appears.

And Koala .... I am waiting for the pics of the two models together!!!

MIK)

Hey Mik. Yes I promised both boats together.

Below is one of the photos. There are more pics in my album: http://picasaweb.google.si/Koalcek/PDR_GISTogether#

NOTE: The scale of both models is 1:10 to Michael's plans.

What a great photo!!!

Thanks mate!!!

MIK

Originally Posted by Boatmik

Hey sloaleks,

Maybe it would be good to drop Koala and Theodor a PM (click on their names above) and the option appears.

And Koala .... I am waiting for the pics of the two models together!!!

MIK)

Yeah, thanks, will do! Models are looking mighty fine!

You can really see how crazy the sail size is on the PDRacer in that pic!!!

Y'all might be interested in the fotos of my PDR and GIS on the same beach. Just got back from our last Coots boating event of the season, and the first time Shredder and Sisu had been launched together.

The two baby blue hulls are PDR & GIS. This is flickr, so remember to click the "all sizes" button above each image to get a full size foto.

http://flickr.com/photos/dirtsailor2...7607418799960/

And here's a few more --

Sailing Together


http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t...t=PICT3125.jpg

PDR on shore, GIS rowing by


http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t...t=PICT3083.jpg

GIS rowing


http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t...t=PICT3090.jpg

PDR chasing a Core Sound 20


http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t...t=PICT3103.jpg

Jerry - second time out in GIS


http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t...t=PICT3133.jpg

Shredder & Sisu arriving at the lake


http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t...t=PICT3026.jpg


"Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you" -- Tommy Smothers

Nice to see a GIS rowing with its transom clear of the water by quite a bit...she should row very easily!

My question for Mik, et. al., is: Are there any GISs with a bottom painto job and a sharp paint line or boot stripe. It may look sharp and redue the apparent freeboard of the boat. Seeing arbordg's sheer stripe and the model GIS painted bottom makes me think a white bottom paint job and a good paintline contrasting with a Teal would look striking. Any pics of GIS done like this?

Cheers,
Clint

Howdy Clint,

I do like the plain painted outside ... but Koala did such a nice job of striking the waterline on his model and painting the bottom a different colour ... that is suggestive too of what a break at that height will look like.

Rather nice if you ask me!

Michael

If Koala could post a bow shot we can think about where to put the paint line. It might be fun to consider...it could make or break the paint job, that is the trick. Mik, could you suggest/draw what a paint line would look like best on a Goat? i.e., how high at bow and stern and we can do a fair curve from there. Often the nicest ones rise at the stem.

Clint