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Canute reacted to alross2 in New BlueJacket Shipcrafters kit in development: West Coast lumber schooner
I love our laser. This is one side of the forward house. The top piece is .015" laserboard and has the mullions for the windows. It will be laminated to the inside of the bottom piece which is 1/32" basswood. The square and rectangle on the bottom piece are the window frames which are .015" laserboard. When the house is completely built and painted, .010" clear styrene with its back side painted black will be glued to the inside of the inner lamination. Both houses will be built this way.
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Canute reacted to ccoyle in New BlueJacket Shipcrafters kit in development: West Coast lumber schooner
To be fair, Wyoming would have had a tough time getting in and out of the harbors at Arena Cove, Greenwood, Albion, Little River, Mendocino, Caspar, Noyo, Port Kenyon, etc. 😉
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Canute reacted to JKC27 in New BlueJacket Shipcrafters kit in development: West Coast lumber schooner
Damn...BlueJacket makes some wonderful kits.
They are my go to for fittings I need on my scratch build projects - it's the closest type of fittings that I need, as nobody makes fittings for great lakes ships (modern ones).
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Canute reacted to alross2 in New BlueJacket Shipcrafters kit in development: West Coast lumber schooner
Just for giggles... WYOMING and the West Coast Lumber Schooner - same scale (1/96)
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Canute reacted to Beckmann in TRE KRONER 1742 by Beckmann - 3"/8' scale - Transom-Model
Dear fellow modellers,
After quite some time, I now have some progress to report on my part.
Since I am building a transom model, it will later face the viewer with its stern facing forward. I was a little bothered by the fact that when looking into the model through the stern cabins, you are looking into empty space, so to speak. To remedy this, I added a rear wall to form the missing bulkheads to the ship's interior. Below are a few pictures of the first stages of construction with the bench in front of the upper gallery windows, the deck beams and the rear wall:
In order to get a good view of the interior later on, it was necessary to provide lighting. There are numerous options for model making here, which are more or less complicated, time-consuming and expensive. In the end, I chose the most primitive option imaginable and purchased a string of lights from Roßmann for €2.95. The small LED lights have a diameter of approx. 3 mm, very thin cables and are spaced 8 cm apart. I made a drawing of the lanterns and petroleum lamps that I had in mind as fittings and asked Igor Capinos to draw and print them in 3D, which I think he did very nicely.
Installing the lighting in the upper part of the model went quite well, as I still had access from above, but in the lower cabin it was a compromise, as I had to run the cables under the ceiling beams, which of course is not so nice.
Here are some pictures of the installed lighting on both levels:
I still need to work on the fit of the rear wall here.
This was followed by the completion of the aft deck with the offset above the arched canopy. My design here is speculative, as the original model does not show the built state here.
I inserted a bulkhead in the front area and added a deck to the upper platform.
Later, ladder ascents and brackets for the hackboard will be added there.
Finally, a few pictures of the overall model as it looks now.
The LED-light seems to be extremely bright, that is an effect of the camera of my mobile-phone. In reality it is more warm-white.
Best regards,
Matthias
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Canute reacted to NavyShooter in HMS Puncher by NavyShooter - 3D Print - 1/144
Good thing is that I'm not an aviator (except as a licensed drone operator!) I'm about 80% back to where I should be - met with a physiotherapist today and got to the root of things. Getting better. Went for a short drive today and that went OK.
Also back in the shop and got a motor mount assembled, and epoxied in place.
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Canute reacted to Ian_Grant in HMS Lion by Ian_Grant - 1/150 - RADIO - RESTORATION - WW1 Battlecruiser
I have re-installed the same pair of counter-rotating plastic propellers from the 70's.
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Canute reacted to ddp in HMS Lion by Ian_Grant - 1/150 - RADIO - RESTORATION - WW1 Battlecruiser
Ian, do both props spin in the same direction or does 1 spin right & the other spins left?
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Canute reacted to Javelin in HMS Lion by Ian_Grant - 1/150 - RADIO - RESTORATION - WW1 Battlecruiser
With two identical props you will have a stronger propellor effect when reversing. With counterrotating ones this balances out.
Depending if you go for right or left handed props, the bow will very strongly move to either port or starboard side when reversing. Which then means that whenever you'd want to reduce speed, you need to take into account a heading change and turning of the vessel. Rudders don't work when props run backwards, so you can't compensate for it either.
That's the only disadvantage I can think of. Perhaps also vibrations that will increase instead of cancelling each other out, but that's difficult to predict.
She's looking sharp!
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Canute reacted to Ian_Grant in HMS Lion by Ian_Grant - 1/150 - RADIO - RESTORATION - WW1 Battlecruiser
Footnote: I looked up the motor manufacturer data. Using 385 motors instead of 540 would give me about half the torque, at half the current draw. Since the 540 drew zero additional current with the prop in water as opposed to air it must have abundant torque for the task. Sigh. Could have had half the draw and twice the cruise duration.
I am going to try two identical propellers and if there are no adverse effects (I wouldn't expect any) then change the internals to drive both with one of my motors, thus doubling the duration. Maybe I could sell one motor and one ESC on to someone in the club? And my never-to-be-used 6V battery. 😞
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Canute reacted to Ian_Grant in HMS Lion by Ian_Grant - 1/150 - RADIO - RESTORATION - WW1 Battlecruiser
Hi ddp: Yes of course. The ESC units take care of that, reversing the voltage (or not) depending on whether I move the transmitter stick up (Fwd) or down (Rev).
Rereading my post, I think you misunderstood when I mentioned "gearbox"; I only meant a metal box with two shafts connecting to the prop shafts and a single shaft connecting to a single motor, with internal gears to connect them and rotate the prop shafts appropriately. Not a mechanism with forward and reverse gears!
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Canute reacted to ddp in HMS Lion by Ian_Grant - 1/150 - RADIO - RESTORATION - WW1 Battlecruiser
would not the motor go in reverse if you reverse the polarity with the battery?
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Canute reacted to Ian_Grant in HMS Lion by Ian_Grant - 1/150 - RADIO - RESTORATION - WW1 Battlecruiser
RC boat club has our annual demo at the "Stewart Park Festival" in Perth in a couple of weeks, conveniently located 8km from our cottage during our next stay. To this end I would like to get Lion on the water. I will probably take my sailboat too in case the wind obliges.
I greased up the propeller stuffing boxes then mounted the twin 540 motors, along with 6mm-4mm couplings, and 4mm U-joints I had in my parts box from the 70's. 😏
U-joint close-up. I have a handful since I had several boats running back then. I like the two-ball joints since the motor and prop shaft axes need not intersect. Due to the greater distance from baseplate to shaft centre compared to my old Decaperm motors, I could not get the prop and motor shafts to align; dropping the motors lower would have meant almost nothing to screw into underneath them!
Conducted a motor current draw test with my 5C NiMH pack. A single motor draws 620mA @ 6.3V on the bench ( almost exactly the manufacturer's no-load spec), and the same driving the propeller in the pool. It's obviously not feeling the load; I could probably have gone with smaller 385 motors😠. But anyway, 1.2A @ 12V, times two motors, 2.4A; I'd drain the 3Ah lead-acid down in about an hour at full speed (I think). A little more battery oomph would be nice.
In fact, I'm sure a single 540 motor would deliver sufficient power for both props if only I could order a gearbox with my random shaft spacing. I could do it with belts and timing gears but it would be a trick to get counter-rotation. On the other hand, is it even necessary in a scale model boat at scale speeds?
Also I am considering putting the twin ESC units on different channels so I can run on one motor only, most of the time.
In future I could try fitting two identical propellers and drive both from a single motor via belts, to save battery draw.
In the meantime I have added some detail.
Main director, and spotting top glued and painted black. The masts above the funnel tops are black too. The fore topmast isn't tapered or painted or glued in so far.
Aft searchlight platforms added, with more anti-splinter railing mats. Access is by ladders hidden in this view. Need to add some metal bulwarks behind them. Considering adding another searchlight each side; not historically accurate but it gives a nice balance between fore and aft searchlight groups and I like the look as seen in the 3D render (which is inaccurate in other ways too!).
Extra searchlights in the 3D render.
I've also been busy printing more deck furniture and gluing in place. Here is what surrounds "Q" turret at present.
The flat circles are coaling scuttles.
Bridge with rangefinder, chart table, both compasses, access ladder.
Thanks for following and commenting.......👍
Ian
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Canute reacted to SaltyScot in Oryol 1902 by GrandpaPhil - Orel - 1/200 - CARD - Russian Battleship
Really?!? I admire your consistency here, Phil. They look great.
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Canute reacted to ccoyle in HMS Huron by king derelict - Trumpeter - 1/700 - PLASTIC
My maternal grandmother was raised in Huron, South Dakota. I'm told that the local pronunciation rhymes with "urine." 🤔
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Canute reacted to Landlubber Mike in HMS Huron by king derelict - Trumpeter - 1/700 - PLASTIC
Looks like a great subject Alan - love the camo scheme! Looking forward to following along!
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Canute reacted to king derelict in HMS Huron by king derelict - Trumpeter - 1/700 - PLASTIC
I had planned to build something else on my return to this corner of the forum but it turns out I am short of PE bits and now I think I want to try and find some resin parts too. So this is hopefully a relatively quick build for the interregnum.
Trumpeter calls her HMS Huron but my initial reading suggests she should really be a HMCS ship being part of the Canadian Navy. And so she is referenced in my books.
The camouflage scheme on the box art drew me to this one, curiously the painting guide has something different
Ive also seen a Sovereign Hobbies illustration showing a four grey shade scheme. My book British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage offers another variation based mostly on Western Approaches green. This one is quite unusual and might be the final pick.
The box is misleadingly large, inside the hull is not exactly filling the box.
This is not going to use up a lot of shelf space.
I’m going to try to build this up and paint in pieces to avoid some horrendous masking, we’ll see how that goes.
Thanks for looking in.
alan
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Canute reacted to mikegr in Rebuilding the fleet by mikegr - 1/700 - restoring old plastic models
Another day with lot of work but zero progress. The resin foredeck got warped. Not much, but I decided to replace it with another one made from less flexible resin, also got the chance to work on the gun shields, giving them a more realistic shape. Of course this didn't came with out damage. But I'm good on such kind of surgeries.
The foredeck is glued on a 1mm plastic to improve stiffness, left overnight under pressure. It will be installed permanently on a later stage, want to make sure that it won't warp again.
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Canute reacted to DocRob in Brabham BT45 by DocRob - Model Factory Hiro - 1/12 - multimedia
Thank you Ken and Alan, the build is time consuming, but a lot of fun. I like to do one or two steps in the manual at a time, preparing the needed parts and add them to the model. The detail is indeed fantastic, these kits are little marvels.
Cheers Rob
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Canute reacted to king derelict in Brabham BT45 by DocRob - Model Factory Hiro - 1/12 - multimedia
Coming together beautifully Rob. The details on the kit are amazing.
alan
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Canute reacted to king derelict in Slavic Warrior VII century AD by king derelict - FINISHED - Pegaso Models - 75mm
Thank you Ken. It seems like one minute you are painting the initial glazes and then suddenly the final details. I’m trying to work up the courage to order a mounted figure. I think that might slow me down a bit.
alan
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Canute got a reaction from Old Collingwood in Brabham BT45 by DocRob - Model Factory Hiro - 1/12 - multimedia
Love the precision. Your build is exquisite.
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Canute got a reaction from Old Collingwood in Slavic Warrior VII century AD by king derelict - FINISHED - Pegaso Models - 75mm
Quite the formidable warrior, Alan. And you cranked it out fast. 👍
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Canute got a reaction from DocRob in Brabham BT45 by DocRob - Model Factory Hiro - 1/12 - multimedia
Love the precision. Your build is exquisite.
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Canute reacted to Javlin in Mitsubishi A6M5a Rei-sen by ccoyle - FINISHED - Halinski/Kartonowy Arsenal - 1/33 - CARD - Allied code name "Zeke"
Boy Chris that came out really Nice and I think one of the better ones!!