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Growing up in Pittsburgh I feel in love with the steam driven paddel-wheelers, (that gives away my age).

I have built the Chaperon, and have decided to take on the Portland. I just ordered the kit, and will keep you posted.

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San Felipe -- Panart

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Thanks!! This will be a great help. I just finished the Confederacy, and I see this represents a whole new set of problems.After I finished the Chaperon I am sorry that I didn't light it, so  I am definitively going to put lights in all sections so these pictures will really help.

 

Clarence

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Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

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San Felipe -- Panart

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I thought that did, there was just an extra cost. If they don't you ought to think about Model Shipways Chaperon. I really enjoyed building it. I did not do a build log on it though.

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Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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While waiting for my kit to arrive I was looking for pictures of the Portland. I found that my friend has a painting that has been in his family for over 100 years. I have included some photos of the Portland lighthouse with the Portland in the background

 

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Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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The UPS man brought my kit yesterday and I have just opened it. This is certainly going to be different than my previous kits which all but one were large sailing ships, and all were  Plank on bulkhead. The YouTube video will be a big help. 

I will take most of to day reading the instructions, and reviewing the plans. I know I want to put lights on it, and think I have that figured out.

I start adding picture when I have something to show. 

 

Clarence

Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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I have the hull in fairly good shape. I want to add the sponsons before I do the final shaping. Before that I am going to do the "deck mock up".

This puts all the decks temporarily  together with wood screws, so that you get a real feel for how things line up and how they should be assembled. This is a highly recommended step in the instructions. 

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Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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I put the mock up together. It really has helped me get a feeling for how the ship will look, and the work ahead. I'll now get back to finishing the hull, and work on some of the sub assembles 

 

 

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Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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I can't master getting the pictures and the text together.

Trying to hold the three wheels on the axle and add the 24 paddles. is tough so I built the fixture a both that maintain the correct alignment of the whells while you added the paddles. It worked fairly well. 

Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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I have the hull painted and have a little touch up to do where the paint leaked past the tape.  ( my fault)post-14839-0-99625500-1436897758_thumb.jpg

Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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beautiful build Clarence,

 

those metal paddle wheels look great

 

Nils

Current builds

-Lightship Elbe 1

Completed

- Steamship Ergenstrasse ex Laker Corsicana 1918- scale 1:87 scratchbuild

"Zeesboot"  heritage wooden fishing small craft around 1870, POB  clinker scratch build scale 1:24

Pilot Schooner # 5 ELBE  ex Wanderbird, scale 1:50 scratchbuild

Mississippi Sterwheelsteamer built as christmapresent for grandson modified kit build

Chebec "Eagle of Algier" 1753--scale 1:48-POB-(scratchbuild) 

"SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" four stacker passenger liner of 1897, blue ribbond awarded, 1:144 (scratchbuild)
"HMS Pegasus" , 16 gun sloop, Swan-Class 1776-1777 scale 1:64 from Amati plan 

-"Pamir" 4-mast barque, P-liner, 1:96  (scratchbuild)

-"Gorch Fock 2" German Navy cadet training 3-mast barque, 1:95 (scratchbuild) 

"Heinrich Kayser" heritage Merchant Steamship, 1:96 (scratchbuild)  original was my grandfathers ship

-"Bohuslän" , heritage ,live Swedish museum passenger steamer (Billings kit), 1:50 

"Lorbas", river tug, steam driven for RC, fictive design (scratchbuild), scale appr. 1:32

under restoration / restoration finished 

"Hjejlen" steam paddlewheeler, 1861, Billings Boats rare old kit, scale 1:50

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post-14839-0-41967000-1436898841_thumb.jpgpost-14839-0-52537600-1436898859_thumb.jpgI have started paneling the starbord bulkhead for the ladies salon. The plan calls for much more trim and molding than I am going to do. The main reason is the scale. At 1/8" to 1' a strip 1/32"x 1/16" is a 2 x4 in real life and the plan calls for a real life 2 x 12 in some areas . So I decided to not be historically correct, and use 1/32" x 1/32" strips and then after they are glued sand them to reduce thickness.

Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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 have almost completed the ladies saloon and the lights have been added. I have taken several pictures of the construction up to this point, but forgot to set my camera to a low file size and the pictures came out to big to include in the post. So all I have are pictures of the assembly together. It has not been glued yet because a lot of last minute touch up and final fit. 

 

The lights a 12v 5mm clear leds.

 

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Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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 have almost completed the ladies saloon and the lights have been added. I have taken several pictures of the construction up to this point, but forgot to set my camera to a low file size and the pictures came out to big to include in the post. 

 

 

Looking good.

 

You can easily re-size your large photo's to fit.  If you are using a Windows PC, simply open up the photo's in the included "Paint" program, and in the upper left portion of the 'home' tab tool bar at the top you'll see a 'resize' option.  Click that and a pop-up menu will open.  Click on the radio-button next to "Pixels", and simply change the larger of the Horizontal / Vertical numbers to 1200.  Click Ok, click save.  You now have a 1200x on the long side photo that you can use on the forum.  Make a copy first if you want to keep the original large photo.

 

I'm sure there is something similar on Mac, but I don't know what it would be called.

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Thanks

 

I haven't used paint in several years, and hadn't thought  about going that route.  I give it a whirl.

Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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Here is are some pictures that I had in hi res

two of the walking beam in

post-14839-0-04369500-1437844450_thumb.jpgpost-14839-0-41837700-1437844478_thumb.jpgwork and the ladies saloon 

Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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I like the curtains in the windows. Nice touch good work

Regards, Scott

 

Current build: 1:75 Friesland, Mamoli

 

Completed builds:

1:64 Rattlesnake, Mamoli  -  1:64 HMS Bounty, Mamoli  -  1:54 Adventure, Amati  -  1:80 King of the Mississippi, AL

1:64 Blue Shadow, Mamoli  -  1:64 Leida Dutch pleasure boat, Corel  -  1:60 HMS President Mantra, Sergal

 

Awaiting construction:

1:89 Hermione La Fayette AL  -  1:48 Perserverance, Modelers shipyard

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post-14839-0-37082900-1438710659_thumb.jpgpost-14839-0-77669100-1438710681_thumb.jpgpost-14839-0-11937600-1438710711_thumb.jpgStill have a few details and touch up to do,but basically have the main deck completed.

The lights don't look to bad. I was trying to get a different glow to the freight deck from the passenger area. It didn't come out like I wanted, but it's to late to change. And if one of the leds give out it can't be serviced.

Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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Have the Saloon deck enclosed. Still need to put up the stern supports, add the stairs, the rub strips and some touch up. 

 

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Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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at one time I did a lot of computer related work at home, and I separated my work on two computers.Since I never throw anything away I keep two machines really only using one.

Adding lights to the ship has complicated construction. The wires always seem to get in the way. I don't think I would do it again.

Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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I just laid things together to see how it looks

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I put some mini incandescent bulbs in the pilot house to tone down the brightness

 

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I have the nav lights on, bur I'll wait to get the masts up to turn them on.

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Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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Some later views. All I have left to do is the Port forward section. Hope to finish by year end.

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Flying Fish --  MSW

Essex ---  MSW

Constitution  --  MSW

Confederacy -- MSW

Philadelphia -- MSW 

Chaperon -- MSW

San Felipe -- Panart

Portland -- Bluejacket

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