SMS Danzig 1851 by Gerhardvienna - Radio - 1:50 scale

[Gerhardvienna]

it just keeps getting better and better and better

great job

Joe

 

Hi Joe

Thank you

& thank all for your likes! I hope not to disappoint you with what comes next...............

 

The next parts to make are the davits for the longboats, not easy to do. The plan comes again from the Atlas du Genie Maritime, as most of the parts I built for this model.

 

The plans from the Atlas

 

The copied forms, glued to 1 mm brass sheet. Two more glued to the brass for spare parts

 

First raw cut with the jewellers saw

 

The davit, cut and filed to shape. It took me about 2 hours to come to this piont, there is much more to do until they are ready.

 

Will be continued.......

Regards

Gerhard

[ggrieco]

I finally got a chance to sit down with a glass of wine and go over some of your earlier posts. Loved every bit of it!

 

Glenn

[Gerhardvienna]

I finally got a chance to sit down with a glass of wine and go over some of your earlier posts. Loved every bit of it!

 

Glenn

 

 

Hi Glenn

Nice to have you here! So, sit down a little longer, and take another glass..............

 

Thank you all too for your nice likes!

The last days were filled up with even more work for my home improvement, but I found some hours too for the SMS DANZIG. The four davits are finally cut, and the soldering form is almost done.

 

Davits cut, two of them have still their paper sheets glued on. This will be removed after grinding and filing to final shape

 

The soldering form, stages to make it.

1), draw the inner contour of the part you will have to solder. This inner form must be as thick as the part that will be set into the form, 1mm in this case.

 

2), make the spacer for the parts to be soldered in

 

3), cut the inner part of the soldering form, and the place for the spacer

 

Outer parts of the soldering form follow the outer contour of the davit

 

The second outer part of the form will be made today, even the cuttings to the spacer. Some holes will be drilled, they are important to fix the form as well as to place the thin metal sheets that will hold the rollers later.

Will be continued.....................

 

Regards

Gerhard

Edited April 17, 2016 by Gerhardvienna

[NenadM]

Your log is realy great tutorial when, one day, I take my chance with silver soldering. You just showed that nothing is impossible

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Nenad

 

This is all soldered with usual solder wire, silver soldering is something I`ve not tried til now. But I will have to learn that, when it comes to the boilers and steam engines. My equipment for the normal soldering is just a 30 watts electric soldering iron, and soldering wire for electronic devices from Stannol.

 

Regards

Gerhard

[NenadM]

I just can not believe! Must try !

[Gerhardvienna]

I just can not believe! Must try !

 

The first attempts I made, were pure chaos, so don`t give up, when it looks really bad! Most important is not to be too fast, wait until the soldering iron is hot enough, and use soldering grease or liquid. I do it that way, and it works well for me. I`ll show what I do in one of the following posts, and maybe make a little tutorial about.

 

Regards

Gerhard

[WackoWolf]

A small tutorial would be nice for everyone to see. Thanks

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi again, and thank you all for watching, nice likes, and comments!

 

 

A small tutorial would be nice for everyone to see. Thanks

 

Hello Joe

 

Tutorial will follow, when this set of davits is finished, so I can copy everything into a new report. But it is still some way to go.............

 

Today I finished the soldering form, so the next things to do will be the fabrication of the roller sheets. Every davit will carry 3 rollers of 3mm diameter, with 1,1mm width. More about that will follow soon.

 

Grooves for the spacer cut into the outer form parts

 

Spacer for rollers in place, no slashes cut at this time.

 

That pin (with the white head) is important, it locates the place for the rollers axle!

 

Slashes cut to the spacer. This slashes are necessary to place the roller distance sheets, distance between the sheets will be 1,2mm, the whole head of the davit is only 4,8mmwide. The inner sheets are 0,1mm, the outer ones 0,5mm thick.

 

It took me 3 attempts to make the spacer, the smallest mistake will ruin the whole thing.

 

Regards

Gerhard

 

 

 

 

[NenadM]

You have nerves !

 

Do you notice that 0,5mm can be a bit thicker or a bit thiner than a exactly 0,5mm?

Edited April 17, 2016 by Nenad

[Gerhardvienna]

You have nerves !

 

NERVES???????

This is called steel wire

It`s just my way to build models, try, if it does not fit to my requirement, try again! And this so many times till it fits. As I built my german Schnellboot TIGER, I made the hull twice, the first one was not good enough. The starboard side was about 1mm too narrow ..............

 

Regards

Gerhard

[popeye the sailor]

superb workmanship Gerhard.........the fittings and davits look great!  

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Popeye

 

Thank You! But this is not even the half way, there are so much more things to do, but at the time I`ve no room to get to my machinery. Lathe and milling machine are closed for my home renovation, I hope within the next two weeks i can reopen all, and turn all that little rollers I need for the davits. Days will be filled then with a lot of work on two boats, I can`t get bored from doing nothing !

 

Regards

Gerhard

[Gerhardvienna]

Back again...................

In the meantime there were so many other projects to make, that I had almost no time for my ship models

But NOW it`s time to continue with something for the DANZIG! Next things to do will be the boats of the ship, the best I canb do with them, is to copy Archjofos method of building baots, as he showed in his simply perfect La Creole build report. Wood is ordered from http://www.massiv-holz-werkstatt.de/  should arrive next week. Then I can go on again with more stuff from that great prussian steamer!

 

All the best

Gerhard

[captainbob]

Glad to see you're back.  You have a fine boat build going.

 

Bob

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Bob

 

Thank you, that`s what happens when admirals take over

Breaks for the modelbuilders wishes, but as I hope, now it will be all set and done for her "majesty" and the next steps for the Danzig can be done. But; I`ll never know what comes next............

Regards

Gerhard

[popeye the sailor]

look'in forward to see you resume as well  

[Torbogdan]

A very good build so far! Just hitting the "like" button is not enough. Top notch!

[Gerhardvienna]

34 minutes ago, Torbogdan said:

A very good build so far! Just hitting the "like" button is not enough. Top notch!

Thank you!

 

There is a lot more to come, just working on the plans for the ship. There are no infos about her, so I will have to adapt other plans for the hull, maybe the plans to the russian Vladimir. But first comes the Cairo, lots of work on her too!

 

Regards

Gerhard