Chasseur

Hello Ben
I have recommended to the client that they display the Model in a way that prevents the patrons from being able to move the cabinetry in any way.
 
Michael

I realize this repair is way out of my league but I do have a suggestion that someone likely mentioned. Bolt the display to the table and bolt the table to the floor, that's it that's my two bits worth now I'll sit quietly and watch the progress.

Hi Carl,
yeah my camera is old and not very good I must admit. The chess is good and I volunteer twice a month. The seniors enjoy it and it’s proven to reduce, or eliminate ... Alzheimer’s and dementia which is a bonus for them!

Good to see your health has improved and you’re working diligently to complete her!
Happy New Year Bro!

I got the hull painted up. I will weather it eventually to make it look like it's been out to sea on a vicarious voyage. Next is to install portholes amidship. You can see holes per-drilled.
Jeff

 


 
 

It was that colour - black, white, red!    
glad i dont have that sort of patience though

Hi Carl,
yeah my camera is old and not very good I must admit. The chess is good and I volunteer twice a month. The seniors enjoy it and it’s proven to reduce, or eliminate ... Alzheimer’s and dementia which is a bonus for them!

I got the hull painted up. I will weather it eventually to make it look like it's been out to sea on a vicarious voyage. Next is to install portholes amidship. You can see holes per-drilled.
Jeff

 


 
 

I got the hull painted up. I will weather it eventually to make it look like it's been out to sea on a vicarious voyage. Next is to install portholes amidship. You can see holes per-drilled.
Jeff

 


 
 

I got the hull painted up. I will weather it eventually to make it look like it's been out to sea on a vicarious voyage. Next is to install portholes amidship. You can see holes per-drilled.
Jeff

 


 
 

Good to see your health has improved and you’re working diligently to complete her!
Happy New Year Bro!

Good to see your health has improved and you’re working diligently to complete her!
Happy New Year Bro!

Good to see your health has improved and you’re working diligently to complete her!
Happy New Year Bro!

Good to see your health has improved and you’re working diligently to complete her!
Happy New Year Bro!

Good to see your health has improved and you’re working diligently to complete her!
Happy New Year Bro!

Druxey that makes sense.
As the ship is depicted in a static mode and the Albertic, and not the Ohio coming into a specific country. It would seem correct then to show the white star house flag at the masthead of the aft mast and the red ensign on the stern post.
 
I would be comfortable doing that.
 
Michael

I'd be inclined to show the correct house flag and ensign rather than the presumed replacements. Otherwise you'll continue to confuse future folk looking at the model!

Wefalk according to the technical data original HP ink Cartridges are permanent. I like the principle of the clamp that you show.
 
michael

Liked that luxury long-nosed clamp in brass to catch rigging lines etc. There used to be something similar with a slightly flexible 'nose' (like a Bowden cable) about 10 cm long for electronics people to catch wires for testing in old-time wired boards.
 

 
Concerning printed flags: as not all ink-jet printer dyes are permanent (as mentioned by someone further up), I retraced the printed designs in acrylics with very fine brushes. The draw-back is that you loose (some of) the transparency.

Curious use of flags, Michael.
 
The following link is to an actual Oceanic Steam navigation Company house flag at the NMM at Greenwich - I think your blue version must be an incorrect addition by an earlier restorer - I can't see Bassett Lowke making that error!
http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/408.html
 
The American flag would be a 'courtesy' ensign.  The ensign of the country that a ship was visiting.  This is also, in my opinion, a later addition, unless the model was built for an American company office, in which case they may have included the courtesy ensign.
 
The blue ensign is definitely in the wrong place - again, I can't see Bassett Lowke making this error.
 
The red ensign is in the correct place flying from the ensign staff at the stern and is the correct British Merchant Navy ensign, however the blue ensign would have been flown if the ship's master and a certain proportion of his officers were Naval Reserve officers.  It was the practice of many major shipping companies to insist on their officers being in the naval reserve, but I'm afraid I don't know whether this was the case with White Star (some companies thought that the flying of the blue ensign gave their ships a bit of extra 'swank'.
 
John

Hi Colin
Happy new year to you Sir.
Colin I have just finished reading a a fair bit of information regarding the ship and shipping lines that are associated with this model.
Turns out that it was a rather interesting. source information from Wikipedia
1. keel laid in Germany in 1914
2. halted construction during WW1
3. launched in 1920 as München
4. handed over to the British as a war reparation before entering service
5. she was immediately sold to the  Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
6. She was renamed the Ohio and began service in 1923
7. in 1927 she was sold to the White Star Line , and renamed the Albertic
8. she served the north Atlantic route between Britain and Canada from 1927 until 1930
9. The Albertic was laid up in the River Clyde
10. she was eventually broken up for scrap in japan in 1934
 
One of the things i am curious about are the flags that were on the model, the masthead flag on the foremast although almost completely faded to white appears to have been an American flag
the one at the masthead of the aft mast was the disintegrating blue flak of the white stare line, although the white star lines official flag appears to have been red

The flag on the small staff off the aft mast was a very faded blue ensign
and the flag on the stern flag post is a red ensign that does not appear to be of the correct proportions
 
My guess is that all these flags have been put on this model during various repairs by well meaning people to make it look "good" I somehow doubt that this combination would have been carried out by Bassett Lowke, but I could be completely wrong in my hypothesis.
 
What to Do?
Michael
 

Very nice progress JesseLee. Your netting looks just fine and I'm especially impresed by how great the ship's boat came ot.  The hearts look equally marvy and don't fret about the ropes being a tad too large, it seems you are managing alright.
 
Cheers,

Bowsprit, Jibboom & Flying Jibboom all assembled and glued into place. Figurehead glued on. Could not get a good close-up shot of it like I wanted.
 
This is the part of the build where I have to be extra careful because I always bump, snag and break things that stick out. I actually delayed this step until now for this very reason.
 
Jesse

Attached the hearts.
 
This seemed to take up more room than the pictures and instructions show. It was like I made the ropes for the hearts too thick but I didn't want to tear it all up and start over. I'm going with what I got but wish it all fit more snug like the pictures and diagrams show.
 
Jesse
 

Bowsprit, Jibboom & flying Jibboom assembly.....