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  1. highlanderburial
    Close up of the 1906.
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    1/150 ish 1917 version vs 1/200 1906 version unfinished size comparison
  3. highlanderburial
    All except for the anchor fluke work on the 1/150 ish St Louis is complete!
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    Work on my 1/200 scale St. Louis continues. I finally got the decks looking like I wanted. (Mostly)
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    An interesting thing happened a few weeks back. A person stopped by our ship model club meeting and donated an S D model of the St. Louis done up in her WWI camo. The model was busted up from shipping. I started restoring it in addition to building my 1/200 scale St. Louis.
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    A video of the printing of the bow section! USS St. Louis Bow 3D Print 40x Speed.mp4
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    This is a great photo and having been to that part of the world up to Humbolt and Crescent City, I can see how that part of the coast is super unforgiving! This design has kind of grown on me since I started.
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    So I have been playing the game World of Warships for quite sometime and I have been begging them to release some of their warship files so people could print and model them. Last year they did just that with the 1905 USS St. Louis CL 20. It is a 426 fool US armored cruiser which fought in WWI and was built in Philadelphia, PA. I have been printing for some time but this is the first full on ship print I have attempted. I just got a very good new Fused Deposit Material (FDM) printer and it is working wonders on printing the parts for me to assemble so far.
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    I love this ship so I wish you joy of it! I will be building one at some point but my build log is a bit full right now! Can I ask where you got your references? I have been trolling both the national archives and the Philadelphia Historical Society to try and get more information on her.
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    Lag on the project again. I got the 3d prints done. I needed to fiddle with the supports to get it to come out correct. No paint yet but the here is the prototype.
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    That drawing is artwork onto itself. A very cool reference. Thanks for posting!
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    This was an amazing find. This is the reason I come to this site. The sheer amount of first-hand knowledge references and tips are awesome. Thanks for posting!
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    The final build on the gun looks great!!! Plus I love Revenue Cutters.....
  14. highlanderburial
    One of the major stumbling points on the project when I am not able to get down to the shop and work with wood is I wanted a decent pivot gun for the vessel. There really are none for sale that match this time period. On one of the forums here another user posted some amazing pics of a computer drawn version of the exact pivot gun I was looking for. Still there were no actual CAD files I could directly print from so I chipped away at sculpting my own. I finished modeling the gun, carriage and rail (with super challenging chamfer supports). Here are some pics. I have it on the printer right now and will post pics when complete. To be clear the last pic is not mine it is found by putting in a search on MSW for 18 lb pivot gun and you will see the thread.
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    Thanks for your amazing rendering. I was able to build one out in a CAD type program using your pics for a visual. It is on the printer right now and I will take pictures when it is finished. I needed this for my scratch build. Simulating the chamfer deck supports under the rail was tougher than I thought it would be.
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    I got the initial bulwark planking in place. This was kind of a "do or die" for me on this model. Fortunately this came out well and I will be looking to build the cap rail soon. I also did a lot of lay out work on how the steering gear will work. This ship will have a wheel with drum and block tiller system. I noticed after looking at the plans several times that the cover on the steering tiller seemed pretty wide and oversized. I then remembered that this vessel has a stern launched small boat. This would be a platform that the crew could stand on while prepping the boat and staying out of the tiller swing radius. It also gives the crew a step up to get up to the davits. I also did some more sanding and prepped the hull for the next plank layer.
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    Slooooow progress... Bulwark beams finished and rough transom put in place.
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    I got the channels installed Small jumps! I measured out the pivot gun ring and marked it on deck. I started on the bulwark frames.
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    Slow and steady. I added a slew more treenails to the deck especially near the plank butts. I sanded the nubs down flush. I then took a rag with some thinner and actually got to see what it looked like. There are still several spots that still need some more nails but overall I am happy with the effect.
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    I think I was shooting for around 1 inch treenail heads. The drill bit is a .5 so the nails will likely be a skosh big for hitting .75. I would love to say I was factoring in for the white glue but I think this was the drill head I had at hand...
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    More planks more picks!
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    Yet more deck work at a grueling slow pace. I like it so far though.
  23. highlanderburial
    More planks more progress. Sorry I have been busy outside of the hobby with work and home stuff.
  24. highlanderburial
    This is exactly what I was looking for. I was trying to find out what an 18 lb pivot gun looked like on smugglers/slavers/privateer vessels in the 1820s. They were mentioned but even with Chappelle's drawings I had a hard time visualizing it. Is this possibly available in an .obj or .stl file for at least the gun and mount itself? Regardless you have done me a solid with this one sir!
  25. highlanderburial
    I wanted to try treenails so I dyed a bunch of toothpicks with light brown acrylic maple stain. So far it seems promising. I pre drilled the holes and stuck the picks in gently and then when both were inserted I used more force. I used some flush nippers to cut the picks off pretty close to flush. At first the stain looked drastic but after a quick sanding the effect was nice.

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