Jack12477

That goes for your entire build ... at least to me!!!

That's what we call 'a mobile unit' Bob. I'd rather be near at hand by the admiral ... I like a face to face communication, else there is always some form of static ... besides, a surprise visit from the admiral to the workshop can be very stimulating ...

This is how to make the cannons

A bit more fiddling with the Carb.
First I made a whole new one with a flange at the manifold side. The top air intake also needed to have the adjusting screw added, it was easier to make a new one rather than trying to fix the first one.
 
I "knurled" the edge of the adjusting screw by pressing the head of the 1x72 screw under the edge of a file and rolled it along on a flat surface of MDF then beveled the edged on the lathe. the spring came out of a tiny ball race which I took apart for the springs and balls.
 

 

 

 
Michael
 
 

I respect your comment Crackers...I can't guarantee.....but I will certainly keep it in mind.   still can't wrap my head around it though.......a guy like me having a model in a museum.   I'm not an expert or a shipwright.  I do thank you for the humbling comment 
 
Wayne and George:   thanks Wayne for the kind word    those guys came to me like that!    been very hard to put some meat on them bones.   all I can do is keep them from thinking about existential thoughts.......{ Divinity series running gag}
 
thanks Carl:   of late.......we've spent more time taking Gibbs out to the field,  than anything else   the admiral has been lax....I have come to know the phrase "when you least expect it"  ....   contrast will come soon.....not sure what kind of detail I will add,  but it will be colorful 

If I am correct, (and I am no expert by any means) the maximum deviation is 4 thousands of an inch in any of the three examples. (Taking the maximum and minimum measures) I don't think that's something that can be perceived by the naked eye or that will affect in any serious way the building of a ship model. I think this is far beyond normal expectations.

thanks again for your kind comments and likes.   yepper!   quite a lot done yesterday....but still more to go. 
 
 
thanks George......nope!  jes'  me..........and of course Chester and his small band of saw-bones
 
     {jes'  thought I'd make you laugh} 
 
 
hey Matti.........nice of you to look in       many reasons why I chose to do this one......the construction for one thing    I've had this one on my mind though for quite a while.........feels good to finally have her on the table.   I do have a few sailing ships on the roster......perhaps I'll see you there      thanks for looking in my friend 

A very belated happy birthday, maybe I should do it in advance ... you're still young at hart!!! Being 18 yrs old, you'll manage mate!!! See you soon back at the bench

So, Vulture has now been cat-scanned? If Ziggy were a Labrador Retriever, it would also have been lab-tested!
 
Glad to hear no significant damage all round Danny. Pets are wonderful companions but they do try our patience at times.

turning the model around,  the rigging was redone,  and went even beyond that!  the bracket and eye bolt was installed.
 

 
after given time to dry,  the rigging was brought back into the picture.
 

 
the sway bar bracket was added and painted.
 

 
the sway bar was added in this picture........but the aft sway bar {chain} was added as well.  notice how it hangs limp,  as the boom is in the retracted stage.  when fully deployed,  this slack goes away and becomes a ridged counter for sway.  this 'bar' is a good example of the radius that the boom has in it's travel.......at this point,  the forward sway bar does most of the work.
 

 
the hull fitting
 

 
the boom fitting
 

 
the counter weight chain 'eye' brackets were added.   the path the chain will be routed can also be seen here.
 

 
I used a long pin to stake the chain on the pulley,  on the control panel,  and cemented in place.  the runout was set up the same as the boom rigging......from the deck side.
 

 
the spotlights were ready to go,  and they were cemented in place on the aft top bar.
 

 

 
the last thing I did.....was a spur of the moment thing.   that air horn,  visibly seen after I had made it,  was making me crazy.   I don't want to let you down Piet.......I hope you can see this from where you are,  but I refined it as promised.
 

 
I still have a bit more painting to go on it......undecided to leave parts brass,  or paint them copper.   but,  it will be trimmed and placed on the roof.   even though it's not in the Billing's plans,  it's a great idea.....too great an idea to pass up.
     thank you Piet for your suggestion 

Carl, you have one of "those" garages too !    My car hasn't seen the inside of the garage in over 5 years, maybe even 10 years. :( 
 

Hello all and thanks for the birthday wishes, also to the ones who PM'd me.  81 Years young - I honestly never thought I'd be this old     But, living on borrowed time for many years I'm thankful for each and every day.
 
Well Mark, I'm not too thrilled with the molding but will have to wait till after I come back from Fayetteville, N.C. next week.  I haven't even looked for water or alcohol based stains yet.  
 
Dave, the models are all stowed in the truck and I hope to shove off between 0600 and 0630 tomorrow morning.  It's gonna be a boring ride all by myself.  Yeah, I'll be careful alright, it's the other drivers I'm worried about.   
 
Hello Jack, good seeing you again and yes please, go play catch-up.  I'm actually doing the same thing and am at page 59 now.  
 
Y'all hang in I'll see all yuns next week.
 
Cheers,

thanks John......
 
 
so anyway......now that I have my mind straight.......it needs to be forward......the counter weight reel is aft.  basically,  my original idea is good,  just that the telemetry is a bit off.  to avoid having the termination line hinder on the top bar,  the double block needs to be in a more forward position.   I was looking at the aft spotlights,  doing some touch ups,  when the thought came to me......a bracket.  two more pieces of the styrene tubing were cut......actually four,  but whose counting    these were cleaned,  sanded square,  and cut in half.   a couple triangular pieces of styrene was cut from the flat stock strip,  I had cut earlier.   glued to one half of the tubing.......these were roughed out.
 

 
they need to be trimmed and rounded.  while they were drying,  the other control panel was threaded and made ready to cement into place on the deck.   this time I made it a point to hang a clothes pin to the end and let it hang......in order to get the memory out of the thread.   there was some serious kinking being on that flat card it comes on. 
 

 
then,  in checking them and finding that they were dry enough,  I took the first one and shaped it.   a hole was drilled for the eye bolt.   I started to work on this one.
 

 
the other one is already on the bar by this time.
 

 

 
the other half was cemented in place to complete the bracket.  the spotlights will be done in the same manner......I had cut them with a razor blade,  so there was no material loss,  and no gap would be seen.   given a light sanding,  it isn't noticeable at all.  the eye bolt and double block was fitted in place.
 

 
I mentioned those other brackets for the stabilizer booms.  I guess you could call them sway bars.....this bar will arrest the boom,  to keep it in a equal arc as it is deployed,  and prevent sway fore or aft.  there is one for the aft side.....it is chain,  but it isn't critical........I'll show this later.   the forward sway bar does most of the work.  the port side is cemented in place.
 

 
since I plan to have them deployed,  not connected to the yokes,  I cut the bars to what I figured was reasonable.  I would have had to do some figuring to come up with the correct radius........these will do    eye bolts have been added to one end.  I'll have to watch how much of this dowel I use........or I'll end up getting more for the buoys   
 

 
the spotlights were touched up......even added a touch of flat white to the florescent tubes......mixing it around to activate the silver,  mixing it together.
 

 
after a pair of eye bolts were added to the other end of the bars,  they were painted flat white.
 

 
when the control panel was dry,  it was rigged through the double block.........clamping the clothes pin on again,  because I added more to the length of the thread.  the sway bar bracket was painted green at this time as well.
 

 
it was time to add the clear cello to the spotlights,  completing their assembly.
 

 
I also thought about the counter weight  rigging........this too needed some sort of bracketing to prevent the chain from sagging.   taking two of those rings,  shown earlier,  they were spread out far enough,  to clamp on the boom's outer framework at different places.   two did the trick.
 

 
an eye bolt was added as well for the sway bar attachment.   so.......both booms are permanently attached to the model now.   how they are deployed is the way she will look.   now I need to turn her around and duplicate what I did on the port side.   the addition of the double block bracket was a success,  there is no more hindrance...the rigging is free.
 

 
 

Carl, you have one of "those" garages too !    My car hasn't seen the inside of the garage in over 5 years, maybe even 10 years. :( 
 

Belated Happy Birthday from me also, Piet !  O-19 is looking real good. I have to go back and play catch-up on your build log.

Carl, you have one of "those" garages too !    My car hasn't seen the inside of the garage in over 5 years, maybe even 10 years. :( 
 

I have settled on a color for the gun stripe and am moving forward on the planking. Here is the color and the start of the planking on the starboard side starting at the stern and moving forward. These planks are just set in place and will need some fine tuning on the edges before the final gluing in place.

 
Ken

Quite a few guys to thank for dropping in and commenting - George, John, Pat, Greg, Richard, Carl, Crackers, Nils, Popeye, Steve, Grant, Mark and Al. Thanks guys .
 
 
Or you could follow along with my next build Greg .
 
 
I don't know so much about the experience bit Popeye - until this build I'd been buying most of the blocks or using kit-supplied ones. It IS more a question of technique, which I'm still working on - my more recent blocks look a lot better than some of the early ones on Vulture .
 
 Danny

Sorry.......I'm speechless!  (Great control panels).

I think the others have said it all... I'm a bit like Augie right now.. speechless.

Carl, you have one of "those" garages too !    My car hasn't seen the inside of the garage in over 5 years, maybe even 10 years. :( 
 

Popeye, just found your log. Great looking model.

Bob I am pretty sure that I will make it look like the one in the real Skipjack as much as possible, which I suppose is a long winded way of saying yes I will paint it green.
 
Most of the Drawings that I print for the engine as I am working on it are printed 2:1, and I am thinking that down the road a smaller boat model  with a 1/4 scale engine which would be the same size as my 2:1 prints would make a nice model.  Skipjack will be 28 inches so at 1/4 scale something that is say 16 feet long would end up being 38 inches long which is shorter than the pilot cutter hull by 15 inches. 
 
Just some idle musings this morning while i am warming up the shop.
 
thanks for all the likes today.
 
Michael

I'll do my best to stay where I am.  Garage.. dark (needs more lights), no heat or air conditioning, no enough power outlets and my Admiral would be really aggravated if she called me for help and I didn't hear her.

Carl, you have one of "those" garages too !    My car hasn't seen the inside of the garage in over 5 years, maybe even 10 years. :(