Piet

Thanks everyone for your "like" votes, very much appreciated.
 
@ John, yes, it seems so, I keep changing my initial intend for this model and start adding things I had not planned to do.  There is something that seems to drive me in doing it, but then again, I'm retired and really feel the need to add a few extra details.
 
@ Popeye, thanks for your approval of my methods in this madness    No, not a surgeon, just an airplane doctor with very steady hands    The trick is to start scoring with an Exacto knife along a steel straightedge.  This morning I was staring at the "surgery" I did yesterday and thought I should actually continue removing more deck to the next deck frame bulkheads fore and aft.  Reason is that the center of the deck is all small hatches that rest on T beams.  This gives me the way to fasten the fixed deck pieces in the port and starboard side as well as the means for the hatches to rest on.  All I have to do is make a couple of T bars from brass.  I showed John texxn5 how I made the one for dingy "hangar."  So what are a few more hours of extra work?  
The doors are giving me a fit, hard to get them in the right shape, but they will, sooner or later.  This stubborn Dutchman doesn't give up easy.
Yes, indeed, most of this detail work was not in the original plan and now I am "struggling" with trying to add things after the fact.
Yes, Popeye, in the end it'll be a pleasure looking at the boat and showing her off 
The only official plans I have are just the lines of the boat and a few more detail drawings of the interior and the deck plan.  Remco was able to get inside the Navy Archive and sweet talked them into letting him search for the drawings and make copies.  It took him quite some time but he found the drawer with the O 19 microfiche and made the necessary copies.  They were now of course of an unknown scale but fortunately the measurements were on them in mm!  All I had to do was doing some math and I got them to my scale of 1:50 and then redraw them.  The rest was duck-soup and I could loft the frames I needed.
The rest is al from looking at photographs I have, most through Gino den Ridder and Remco.  From these pics I have to interpolate the details and guess where they are located.  I have posted pictures of the line drawing at the start of this build.  For me that was really the main thing to have.
 
Remco also bought the model building plans for the O 21 but she is not quite the same boat as the O 19, many differences, except for "close enough" details.
All in all, I am quite pleased with the way she is beginning to look.  John texxn5 also thought that the paper "steel plates" did mimic steel plates and i tried to match them to the photos as much as I can see.
Thank you Popeye for your very kind thoughts.
 
@ John texxn5, thank you for plowing through my log.  A special thanks to you and Diane for coming to visit us in Palm Coast and listening to my stories.  Gwen and I had a most delightful time and it is indeed an honor and pleasure getting to know yuns.  Hopefully Gwen and I can make a trip out your way some time soon.
 
Well, that's all for today dear friends.  Tomorrow we may find more decking removed   
 
Cheers, 

Again thanks to all who clicked "like," I do appreciate your visits and appreciation!
 
Well, no work was done yesterday in the shipyard.  We had a very delightful visit from John txxn5 and his lovely bride Diane.  
 
However, today I did some work and will post a few pics knowing that a certain Dutchman in Schiedam likes pictures     
The very first thing was to glue the dingy hatch hinges to the side stringers of the dingy compartment.
While the glue was drying on the hinges I moved forward again to remove the small forward and aft portions of the deck at the deck torpedo launcher.  John told me to remove them so I'll do as he told me      No, he didn't tell me, I mentioned to him that I was planning on doing it and he agreed.  
So, I did some more surgery and removed the two sections, without doing any damage to the rest 
Then I got some 2 X 4 mm planks to make stringers to glue against the deck beam studs left behind from my cuts.  This'll strengthen the sides of the deck and affords a place for the new deck plates to rest on.
Slots were chiseled in the forward and aft deck bulkheads for these stringers to rest on.
 
In the meantime the glue for dingy hatch hinges had cured enough for me to attempt to glue the hatches to the hinges. I also had to cement a small brass support shelf for the port side hatch to rest on.  I used 5 minute epoxy glue for that.  So I started with the aft starboard hatch and it went very smooth.  Next was it's mate, the forward starboard hatch, that too went off like greased lightning     I must be living right today 
 
While the glue was curing I moved forward again and glued the torpedo compartment deck side stringers in place.
 
Back again to the back and started with the port side dingy hatches. Here too, everything worked as advertise, making me a happy camper 
 
So what next?  I soaked my glued up blocks of basswood overnight and tried to twist them to fit the shape of the deck sides where the engine exhaust shrouds are to be cemented.  I clamped them in my wood vice on the workbench and with my "watchmaker's" water pump pliers and a piece of 12 gauge electrical wire I secured this Rube Goldberg setup to the electrical conduit on the wall.  I hope it'll work, we'll find out tomorrow.  If it does I'll have to do the same thing with the second one.  keep our fingers crossed.
 
Well, that was it for today, it was 17:30 and my legs were getting tired, been standing in the dockyard for a good four hours.
Okay, pics below, here you go Sjors     
 

I cut small strips of file folder paper and folded them with a sharp crease in the center.  I try not to get any glue on the crease area to keep it flexible.
 

I used the same technique as the previous operation.  It worked just fine and didn't damage anything else.  The cuts were about 1mm outside the lines so now I trimmed them to the line and filed them as straight as possible. 
 

These are the 2 X 4 mm stringers to serve as supports for the deck as well as strengthening the sides of the deck.
 

Here they are ready to be glued.
 

Side stringers are glued and clamped.  I used a piece of scrap plywood to position them so the deck plates are all at the same level.
 

I attacked the torpedo side doors - - - again.  I cut the hand holds in and added the center pull bar. To do this I had to remove the paper.  That'll be replaced tomorrow and checked for fit - - - again. If they fit correctly then I'll install the hinges on the bottom.  These will again be made from file folder stock.
 

All dingy compartment hatch hinges are now glued in place.
 

This shows the hatches in open position. There is some spring in the hinges that pull them up some. I may have to find something like a piece of equipment to place on them to keep them on the deck.
 

Here I started with making the T stringers for the deck plate supports and the center hatches.
 

Here is my Rube Goldberg rig to twist the basswood blocks for the exhaust shrouds.
 
 
Cheers,    

Again thanks to all who clicked "like," I do appreciate your visits and appreciation!
 
Well, no work was done yesterday in the shipyard.  We had a very delightful visit from John txxn5 and his lovely bride Diane.  
 
However, today I did some work and will post a few pics knowing that a certain Dutchman in Schiedam likes pictures     
The very first thing was to glue the dingy hatch hinges to the side stringers of the dingy compartment.
While the glue was drying on the hinges I moved forward again to remove the small forward and aft portions of the deck at the deck torpedo launcher.  John told me to remove them so I'll do as he told me      No, he didn't tell me, I mentioned to him that I was planning on doing it and he agreed.  
So, I did some more surgery and removed the two sections, without doing any damage to the rest 
Then I got some 2 X 4 mm planks to make stringers to glue against the deck beam studs left behind from my cuts.  This'll strengthen the sides of the deck and affords a place for the new deck plates to rest on.
Slots were chiseled in the forward and aft deck bulkheads for these stringers to rest on.
 
In the meantime the glue for dingy hatch hinges had cured enough for me to attempt to glue the hatches to the hinges. I also had to cement a small brass support shelf for the port side hatch to rest on.  I used 5 minute epoxy glue for that.  So I started with the aft starboard hatch and it went very smooth.  Next was it's mate, the forward starboard hatch, that too went off like greased lightning     I must be living right today 
 
While the glue was curing I moved forward again and glued the torpedo compartment deck side stringers in place.
 
Back again to the back and started with the port side dingy hatches. Here too, everything worked as advertise, making me a happy camper 
 
So what next?  I soaked my glued up blocks of basswood overnight and tried to twist them to fit the shape of the deck sides where the engine exhaust shrouds are to be cemented.  I clamped them in my wood vice on the workbench and with my "watchmaker's" water pump pliers and a piece of 12 gauge electrical wire I secured this Rube Goldberg setup to the electrical conduit on the wall.  I hope it'll work, we'll find out tomorrow.  If it does I'll have to do the same thing with the second one.  keep our fingers crossed.
 
Well, that was it for today, it was 17:30 and my legs were getting tired, been standing in the dockyard for a good four hours.
Okay, pics below, here you go Sjors     
 

I cut small strips of file folder paper and folded them with a sharp crease in the center.  I try not to get any glue on the crease area to keep it flexible.
 

I used the same technique as the previous operation.  It worked just fine and didn't damage anything else.  The cuts were about 1mm outside the lines so now I trimmed them to the line and filed them as straight as possible. 
 

These are the 2 X 4 mm stringers to serve as supports for the deck as well as strengthening the sides of the deck.
 

Here they are ready to be glued.
 

Side stringers are glued and clamped.  I used a piece of scrap plywood to position them so the deck plates are all at the same level.
 

I attacked the torpedo side doors - - - again.  I cut the hand holds in and added the center pull bar. To do this I had to remove the paper.  That'll be replaced tomorrow and checked for fit - - - again. If they fit correctly then I'll install the hinges on the bottom.  These will again be made from file folder stock.
 

All dingy compartment hatch hinges are now glued in place.
 

This shows the hatches in open position. There is some spring in the hinges that pull them up some. I may have to find something like a piece of equipment to place on them to keep them on the deck.
 

Here I started with making the T stringers for the deck plate supports and the center hatches.
 

Here is my Rube Goldberg rig to twist the basswood blocks for the exhaust shrouds.
 
 
Cheers,    

Thanks everyone for your "like" votes, very much appreciated.
 
@ John, yes, it seems so, I keep changing my initial intend for this model and start adding things I had not planned to do.  There is something that seems to drive me in doing it, but then again, I'm retired and really feel the need to add a few extra details.
 
@ Popeye, thanks for your approval of my methods in this madness    No, not a surgeon, just an airplane doctor with very steady hands    The trick is to start scoring with an Exacto knife along a steel straightedge.  This morning I was staring at the "surgery" I did yesterday and thought I should actually continue removing more deck to the next deck frame bulkheads fore and aft.  Reason is that the center of the deck is all small hatches that rest on T beams.  This gives me the way to fasten the fixed deck pieces in the port and starboard side as well as the means for the hatches to rest on.  All I have to do is make a couple of T bars from brass.  I showed John texxn5 how I made the one for dingy "hangar."  So what are a few more hours of extra work?  
The doors are giving me a fit, hard to get them in the right shape, but they will, sooner or later.  This stubborn Dutchman doesn't give up easy.
Yes, indeed, most of this detail work was not in the original plan and now I am "struggling" with trying to add things after the fact.
Yes, Popeye, in the end it'll be a pleasure looking at the boat and showing her off 
The only official plans I have are just the lines of the boat and a few more detail drawings of the interior and the deck plan.  Remco was able to get inside the Navy Archive and sweet talked them into letting him search for the drawings and make copies.  It took him quite some time but he found the drawer with the O 19 microfiche and made the necessary copies.  They were now of course of an unknown scale but fortunately the measurements were on them in mm!  All I had to do was doing some math and I got them to my scale of 1:50 and then redraw them.  The rest was duck-soup and I could loft the frames I needed.
The rest is al from looking at photographs I have, most through Gino den Ridder and Remco.  From these pics I have to interpolate the details and guess where they are located.  I have posted pictures of the line drawing at the start of this build.  For me that was really the main thing to have.
 
Remco also bought the model building plans for the O 21 but she is not quite the same boat as the O 19, many differences, except for "close enough" details.
All in all, I am quite pleased with the way she is beginning to look.  John texxn5 also thought that the paper "steel plates" did mimic steel plates and i tried to match them to the photos as much as I can see.
Thank you Popeye for your very kind thoughts.
 
@ John texxn5, thank you for plowing through my log.  A special thanks to you and Diane for coming to visit us in Palm Coast and listening to my stories.  Gwen and I had a most delightful time and it is indeed an honor and pleasure getting to know yuns.  Hopefully Gwen and I can make a trip out your way some time soon.
 
Well, that's all for today dear friends.  Tomorrow we may find more decking removed   
 
Cheers, 

Hello friends and thanks to all for your "likes."
 
My day started great, had an early breakfast outside in our screen room on the back patio watching my koi fish frolicking in the pond and listening to the birds. Weather was just fenom      A little later the Admiral showed up to feed the birds and a couple stray cats.
Then with my first cup of morning coffee I sauntered around the yard and ended up in the garage where the build docks are.
 
I had been thinking about the two things that bothered me.
One, the lack of access to the deck torpedo doors for the hinges.
Two, whether to make hinges for the dingy "hangar" hatches or not.
 
So, I decided to try and make hinges for the hatches. I proceeded with cutting shallow slots for the hinges in the  longitudinal deck frame beams. The hinges will be made from file folder stock.  I also cut holes in the hatches for hand pulls.  I'll most likely tackle the hinges tomorrow.
 
Then I moved to the front and cut a part of the deck out over the torpedo lancher area. I was kinda procrastinating but necessity forced the issue. It is now much easier to work on the doors.  They need a lot of fitting because of the compound shape.  It's getting close to finally make and glue the hinges to the doors and frame.  Keep my fingers crossed.
The deck ahead of the deck gun has hatches in the center line of the deck for access below the deck for storage, I presume.  This will work out just fine for me, I need an opening anyhow to mount the torpedo launcher assembly.  The rest will be fake with only the outlines.
 
I also started to make the engine exhaust shroud on the sides of the rear deck structure.  I had to glue two pieces of box wood together to get enough wood to carve these things.  They will be made and installed after I'm finished with the current projects.
 
Okay, here are a few pics to show what I'm talking about.
 

Here I marked the area I needed to cutout. 
 

I laid one of the torpedo doors loosely on the ballast tank for show.
 

This shows the bottoms of the dingy storage area hatch covers. I had not yet made the handholds when this pic was taken. They will eventually be painted in gray.
 

I have laid the hatch covers loosely in.  I also decided to cut them into two pieces as shown on the photos. This may complicate matters for fit.
 

Here I am in the process of cutting the deck portion. I first started to cut through with an Exacto knife  and finished with my small saw to cut through the deck beams.
 

This shows the opened up area.
 

I temporarily placed the torpedo launcher doors in place.  Still needs a lot of fiddling to make them sit right.
 

Here is the approximate outline for the engine exhaust shroud.
 
Cheers,

I have some time to show some more progress that was made since my last post. 
I made a bunch more turnbuckles,eye bolts and other required hardware for the standing rigging.  It was all made from copper tubing and brass wire.
I saved the brass chain from my wrecked Revell Cutty Sark and used it here for the lower bowsprit bracing.
I just want to remind you on the fact that the bowsprit is removable, even with all the hardware attached to it.  Making the hardware took some time, obviously, but I was quite satisfied with it. 
When John texxn5 and his dear bride were here yesterday to visit us, he did see the finished product and was kind enough to tell me that he liked it. Thank you John.
 
Okay, the pics kinda tell the the story, so here they are.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Cheers, 

@ John,
 
I see that you had a wonderful time over there.
But Dutch people are always nice , look at Anja and me
And he not give you Dutch beer???????? Shame on you Piet !!!!!!!!
 
We are counting the years till you are arriving in Holland
 

Hello Sjors, well, today we got to meet one of your fellow Dutchmen....and his lovely Admiral.  We met with Piet and Gwen, and bent an elbow of fine Belgium Ale and exchanged sea stories...(or air stories in Piet's case).  Had a wonderful time and learned a lot of WWII history.  His story is remarkable.   His 0-19 is truly a work of art and I feel honored to have been able to see it and understand it's story.  Quite an expierience and only through MSW could this have been possible.  Once again the power of this Forum shines through. 

ther is no rush whenever you feel like workign on her
 
and i bet John liked the Leffe  i myself am not in to the heavier beers and cant get the one i like so at the moment i have a feww bottles of bitburg in my fridge

Spencer, you have eagle eye.
 
It was warped on picture above. After taking that picture, there was more work, and here is how it looks this evening
 

 
I am pretty proud to myself ( ha ha ) how it looks

I mixed and experimented with a few colour variations and finally decided on this:
 

 

 

 
This last couple of pictures shows where the ship stands currently.
I managed to get the poop deck in place.
I didn't want to totally cover up the captain's cabin and all the furniture, so I made a "trap door" of sorts with a mirror on the underside.
 

 

 
 

Several weeks ago I rescued a block of nice dry cherry from the woodpile and dried it further in the house.
The following picture shows a similar block of wood beside some of the finished strips I cut.
 

 
I am planning to make most of the deck furniture from this wood. I have actually used a little bit of it to make the gratings at the bow.
 

No more detours or distractions - the final planking is done!!! (YAY)
Spiling the planks at the bow took considerable time, but was well worth the effort. Thankfully, I had plenty of wide sheets of wood to allow for this technique.
 
Without further ado - an update!
 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks everyone for your "like" votes, very much appreciated.
 
@ John, yes, it seems so, I keep changing my initial intend for this model and start adding things I had not planned to do.  There is something that seems to drive me in doing it, but then again, I'm retired and really feel the need to add a few extra details.
 
@ Popeye, thanks for your approval of my methods in this madness    No, not a surgeon, just an airplane doctor with very steady hands    The trick is to start scoring with an Exacto knife along a steel straightedge.  This morning I was staring at the "surgery" I did yesterday and thought I should actually continue removing more deck to the next deck frame bulkheads fore and aft.  Reason is that the center of the deck is all small hatches that rest on T beams.  This gives me the way to fasten the fixed deck pieces in the port and starboard side as well as the means for the hatches to rest on.  All I have to do is make a couple of T bars from brass.  I showed John texxn5 how I made the one for dingy "hangar."  So what are a few more hours of extra work?  
The doors are giving me a fit, hard to get them in the right shape, but they will, sooner or later.  This stubborn Dutchman doesn't give up easy.
Yes, indeed, most of this detail work was not in the original plan and now I am "struggling" with trying to add things after the fact.
Yes, Popeye, in the end it'll be a pleasure looking at the boat and showing her off 
The only official plans I have are just the lines of the boat and a few more detail drawings of the interior and the deck plan.  Remco was able to get inside the Navy Archive and sweet talked them into letting him search for the drawings and make copies.  It took him quite some time but he found the drawer with the O 19 microfiche and made the necessary copies.  They were now of course of an unknown scale but fortunately the measurements were on them in mm!  All I had to do was doing some math and I got them to my scale of 1:50 and then redraw them.  The rest was duck-soup and I could loft the frames I needed.
The rest is al from looking at photographs I have, most through Gino den Ridder and Remco.  From these pics I have to interpolate the details and guess where they are located.  I have posted pictures of the line drawing at the start of this build.  For me that was really the main thing to have.
 
Remco also bought the model building plans for the O 21 but she is not quite the same boat as the O 19, many differences, except for "close enough" details.
All in all, I am quite pleased with the way she is beginning to look.  John texxn5 also thought that the paper "steel plates" did mimic steel plates and i tried to match them to the photos as much as I can see.
Thank you Popeye for your very kind thoughts.
 
@ John texxn5, thank you for plowing through my log.  A special thanks to you and Diane for coming to visit us in Palm Coast and listening to my stories.  Gwen and I had a most delightful time and it is indeed an honor and pleasure getting to know yuns.  Hopefully Gwen and I can make a trip out your way some time soon.
 
Well, that's all for today dear friends.  Tomorrow we may find more decking removed   
 
Cheers, 

Hello friends and thanks to all for your "likes."
 
My day started great, had an early breakfast outside in our screen room on the back patio watching my koi fish frolicking in the pond and listening to the birds. Weather was just fenom      A little later the Admiral showed up to feed the birds and a couple stray cats.
Then with my first cup of morning coffee I sauntered around the yard and ended up in the garage where the build docks are.
 
I had been thinking about the two things that bothered me.
One, the lack of access to the deck torpedo doors for the hinges.
Two, whether to make hinges for the dingy "hangar" hatches or not.
 
So, I decided to try and make hinges for the hatches. I proceeded with cutting shallow slots for the hinges in the  longitudinal deck frame beams. The hinges will be made from file folder stock.  I also cut holes in the hatches for hand pulls.  I'll most likely tackle the hinges tomorrow.
 
Then I moved to the front and cut a part of the deck out over the torpedo lancher area. I was kinda procrastinating but necessity forced the issue. It is now much easier to work on the doors.  They need a lot of fitting because of the compound shape.  It's getting close to finally make and glue the hinges to the doors and frame.  Keep my fingers crossed.
The deck ahead of the deck gun has hatches in the center line of the deck for access below the deck for storage, I presume.  This will work out just fine for me, I need an opening anyhow to mount the torpedo launcher assembly.  The rest will be fake with only the outlines.
 
I also started to make the engine exhaust shroud on the sides of the rear deck structure.  I had to glue two pieces of box wood together to get enough wood to carve these things.  They will be made and installed after I'm finished with the current projects.
 
Okay, here are a few pics to show what I'm talking about.
 

Here I marked the area I needed to cutout. 
 

I laid one of the torpedo doors loosely on the ballast tank for show.
 

This shows the bottoms of the dingy storage area hatch covers. I had not yet made the handholds when this pic was taken. They will eventually be painted in gray.
 

I have laid the hatch covers loosely in.  I also decided to cut them into two pieces as shown on the photos. This may complicate matters for fit.
 

Here I am in the process of cutting the deck portion. I first started to cut through with an Exacto knife  and finished with my small saw to cut through the deck beams.
 

This shows the opened up area.
 

I temporarily placed the torpedo launcher doors in place.  Still needs a lot of fiddling to make them sit right.
 

Here is the approximate outline for the engine exhaust shroud.
 
Cheers,

Thank you John for the kind words.  Yes, we had a great time yacking about ships and airplanes and Belgian beer     John and Diane are the most gracious couple and it is indeed an honor and pleasure to have met them.  What a great group of folks here on MSW!  Where else can you meet people in person you have never seen yet feel like you have known each other for a long time?  
Now, I had my cameras, yes plural, all three, handy and plum forgot to take any pics, sorry Sjors   
 
Thanks again John for coming to our humble abode and visit my shipyard, hope to make it to Houston sometime and quaff a few brews on your porch!  In the meantime carry on with your Morgan build, she's really looking great.
 
Cheers 
 
 
 

Thank you John for the kind words.  Yes, we had a great time yacking about ships and airplanes and Belgian beer     John and Diane are the most gracious couple and it is indeed an honor and pleasure to have met them.  What a great group of folks here on MSW!  Where else can you meet people in person you have never seen yet feel like you have known each other for a long time?  
Now, I had my cameras, yes plural, all three, handy and plum forgot to take any pics, sorry Sjors   
 
Thanks again John for coming to our humble abode and visit my shipyard, hope to make it to Houston sometime and quaff a few brews on your porch!  In the meantime carry on with your Morgan build, she's really looking great.
 
Cheers 
 
 
 

Hi Piet, it took me until now to finish reading your extensive log. Very nice indeed. I look forward to seeing the real thing this afternoon. See you then.

Piet,
 
It seems you just get a section almost finished when you think of a way to improve it!
 
I love the way you're going about this and making it the best possible model you can.
 
John

you did a very neat job of cutting out that opening.........you must have been a surgeon    I like the way you did the hatch doors.....nice detail.   these must have been  'after thoughts'...due to your  'steps of assembly'.  when building in this medium,  aspect to be added in are usually antisipated and the cutting is done beforehand.   this works out well for you in this respect,  since you need to make your cuts through the inner framework.   this will add even more detail,  with the way the various beams and such,  stops at the hatch openings.   with some simple embellishments.......this can be quite pleasing to the eyes      plans for these builds may have been drawn up in the past........we get them and enjoy them a lot!   but we will never experience the build in the same way that the original scratch builder did,  when he drew them up.
 
I know your not following any plans........see what we would be missing out on.....if you had drawn some up

Listening group THE YES, move forward, and poop deck bulwark is done and mounted. One peace made of three layer, and 2 working hours ( fastening of glue not included). No broke !!!!
 

 
Fixed eliptical, no circular curve of stern. After taking this picture, I corrected bulwark a little while, to remove little "horn" at left "corner", and to fix ugly traces of sanding on the composition of fences and decks. I was too lazy to shoot again (because I have first to cut loose from the outside speaker phone, turn off the music program Mixzing, to activate the camera, set up the camera ... my old  HTC Wildfire is overloaded and creepy slow )
 

 
As it can be seen, four crotchets ( Thenodidakta plan) are removed, two stay for now. I'm getting closer to the idea that, when (if ever) climb on deck ( I can not wait this ...), remove all of it and fix what is possible. Maybe even redo the planks. Devil in my head don`t sleep. If my intention and idea how second planking and coopering layer will look - perfect with covering all mistakes (  ) , that definitely will be the option. If I mess up ....

Thanks, friend, I ll keep it on mind
 
For now, I think I have enough and maybe a bit to much ( my plans, Sergal step by step instructions, Campbell, Revel instructions, Billing Boats instructions, and some books, and some instructions for other ships, Internet, Google adn Picassa pictures, not to forget youtube ... to research and explore, and ....   MSW). If a day lasts 30-35 hours it will be enough
 

Hi All,
 
When the Hoga was at Pearl Harbor it was all painted a dark gray and the detail is hard to see.  I thought I should show you the hull before it gets painted.  I will be painting the hull dark gray but the decks and cabins will be a light gray so people will not have to strain their eyes.  
 
Bob
 
 

 

 

Today I had some time between paint drying and glue curing on the O 19 sub project that I finished the top gun port mouldings.  They are now CA'd to the hull and look quite nice.
I'll have to force myself away from the O 19 build so once in a while to work the lower gun port lids.
 
Here are a few pics of how she looks as of this afternoon.
 

 

 

 

 

 
Cheers,
 
 

Hello everyone, 
 
After a few weeks of working hard on the O 19 sub I had some time to devote on the VOC ship "Surabaya."  I rotated the build board so I could work on the starboard side.  Today I completed the base of the lower gunport doors.  They are now ready to be painted red on the inside and get the hinges and open - close ropes installed with their hardware.
 
I had made the rough hinges already a few weeks ago but they need final trimming.  On the pic below you can see them all ready and waiting.
 
I also managed to start with the top gun port mouldings, just a little more work and they are ready to be painted and glued on.
 
You'd think that I have nothing else to do but that's not the case   There is still a lot of yard work to do and then my fish pond.
 

Wow, my closeup lens is distorting the ship quite a bit.  Okay, the gunport lids I completed today are laid out  in front on top of the build dock.  The upper gunport mouldings are laid out in the foreground on the mat and  the rough hinges are in the mat and on the build board.  Getting close now ! 
Cheers,