bdgiantman2

Great job making those curved stairs going to the swim platform in the stern. Shadow is looking fantastic!

Hi everyone
 
Thanks for all the Likes and comments!  Greatly appreciated.
 
This is just another quick update.  I've been progressing with the internal fit out, albeit at a very early stage, taking care to ensure that the major cabin bulkheads are fitted and installed.  As usual, a whole bucket load more work to go; but it's a start.
 
Enjoy!
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Hi Ken
 
I think you know what I'm gonna say...."Absolutely brilliant.  Super lifelike and just plain darn, marvellous".
 
Top stuff.
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Hi Ben and Brian
 
One of the best things about MSW is the feedback and advice that people such as yourselves offer. Both of you are far more knowledgeable about these ships than I'll ever be, which makes your advice invaluable. Truth be told, I always wondered what the purpose of the domes were. Now I know.
 
Have a great week and thanks, once again.
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

I may be wrong, but I think each of those three domes serves a different purpose. So while they may be close, and I have seen numerous pictures of large motor yachts that have the domes in close proximity, I am not sure how much they would interfere. The biggest of the domes would probably be a navigation radar of one kind of or another, the two smaller domes would likely be for the Satellite TV and phone connections. Just my two cents worth.

I may be wrong, but I think each of those three domes serves a different purpose. So while they may be close, and I have seen numerous pictures of large motor yachts that have the domes in close proximity, I am not sure how much they would interfere. The biggest of the domes would probably be a navigation radar of one kind of or another, the two smaller domes would likely be for the Satellite TV and phone connections. Just my two cents worth.

I may be wrong, but I think each of those three domes serves a different purpose. So while they may be close, and I have seen numerous pictures of large motor yachts that have the domes in close proximity, I am not sure how much they would interfere. The biggest of the domes would probably be a navigation radar of one kind of or another, the two smaller domes would likely be for the Satellite TV and phone connections. Just my two cents worth.

I may be wrong, but I think each of those three domes serves a different purpose. So while they may be close, and I have seen numerous pictures of large motor yachts that have the domes in close proximity, I am not sure how much they would interfere. The biggest of the domes would probably be a navigation radar of one kind of or another, the two smaller domes would likely be for the Satellite TV and phone connections. Just my two cents worth.

Hi Patrick - I didn't mean at all to say there was a problem; my point was that they're satellites (probably) so they CAN be that close together. It was a comment on terminology (radome/radar vs satellite) rather than the actual arrangement of the build. Sorry for the confusion!
 
That said, bdgiantman is probably right - they probably serve different purposes - some combination of radar and satellite communications.

Shadow is looking really great now, Patrick! She is beautifully coming along, mate.
 
Brian

my god Patrick.........I don't know how you do it!    one totally awesome model  

Shadow is looking really great now, Patrick! She is beautifully coming along, mate.
 
Brian

Shadow is looking really great now, Patrick! She is beautifully coming along, mate.
 
Brian

I wish there was a "love it" button. Just a "like" isn't enough.

Shadow is looking really great now, Patrick! She is beautifully coming along, mate.
 
Brian

Surprise, surprise look what just showed up in the mail! The sitting Joe figure.
 
Even a blind pig gets lucky for they used the exact same head as the standing figure so the helmet and breastplate even fits Joe perfectly. I also tried my first hand at Sculpty and made a hat for Tim (standing figure) just to get a feel for using the material. 
 
Now I will have to put together my clay color list now to go purchase the colors of Sculpty that I will need to make the dive suit. 
 
I will have to break his ankles and re-glue them to match the deck surface.
 

 

 
 

Shadow is looking really great now, Patrick! She is beautifully coming along, mate.
 
Brian

Michael, yes the Foil paints are great for metal finishes. Here is a link to there selections.
 
http://www.krylon.com/products/premium-metallic/
 
I checked your build out and what a big model, I could not build anything that size in my workshop now. Great job and keep up the great work you are doing on it.
 
I heard form the company and the sitting figure will not be here until the 14th so I am moving ahead on the breastplate for the helmet. Unlike the helmet the breastplate will be all metal both brass and copper per the original.
 
First I developed a card stock pattern using the figure and then I formed the copper with a hole cut to match the shoulder ring and soldered them together. Once cooled and cleaned I final formed the copper shape to fit the figure. Next I used the card stock pattern and traced the outline to match the copper onto a 1/32" thick brass sheet and sawed out the shape. Using a small divider I traced the 3/32" inside edge and sawed it out. The brass ring was then annealed to soften and it was form fitted to match the copper and soldered in place. I turned and drilled the lead weight holders and soldered them to the front of the breastplate.
 
 
 

 

 
Next came the more challenging parts, the small wing nuts to hold the breast plate to the suit. I cut a V groove into a scrap piece of wood, set a 1/16" tube with two strips to either side and soldered them in place. Once cleaned with acetone the excess solder was removed form the joints. The edges of the side strips were held in a vise and filed down to 1/32". Then while held in the vise one side was sawed into 1/16" sections then turned over in the vise and the other side sawed to release each wing nut. Next I drilled 1/32" holes where needed and added 1/32" rods, slipped the nuts on and soldered them in place from the underside. Trimmed the rod ends and cleaned the entire breastplate.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Now back to more writing.
 
 
 
 
 

HI everyone - many thanks for all of your comments and Likes.  A special thanks to Leo-zd for the photos of his 1:1 ships!
 
A quick update.  I've spent the last couple of weeks cutting out and individually planking all of the internal decks.  In doing so, care was taken to ensure that each deck could be removed and inserted easily and smoothly.  
 
Here are the results so far.  I hope you enjoy the photos.
 
All the best everyone.
 
Cheers
 
Patrick
 

I took a break from writing and decided to start on the dive helmet and go the extra mile for the Maritime Museum adding the two figures but I am still waiting for the sitting one to arrive along with window glass for the boat. The sitting figure will have the suit on with the helmet perhaps sitting beside him.
 
I studying pictures of the helmet shape and details it finally hit me where I had seen the kind of shape before; the end of file handles. I found an old file handle that was the perfect size and cut it to length after milling a 1/4" hole in the end to receive a 1/4" aluminum bar as a work handle for holding.
 
Once the bar glue set I chucked it in the lathe and stated to core the inside out down to the end of the aluminum bar. I then located all the window holes drilled and sanded them to each size and then finished the coring process using the window edge thicknesses for reference. The wood shape was then finished up smooth with sanding and filing.
 

 
I then turned the helmet ring and shoulder ring to index into each other and test fitted them over the standing figure I have.
 

 
Next I cut all the window frames with an inside shoulder to hold the window glass.
 

 
Next I added the exhaust valve device with turned and formed parts.
 

 
Next I painted the helmet with Copper Foil paint having masked off all the brass elements.
 

 
Next came the faceplate again turned with a shoulder to receive glass like the windows and offset hinge drilled for a 1/32" pin and locking receiver. Here the hinge half is test fitted into window frame. 
 

 
Following is a series on fabricating the wing nut to lock the faceplate against the frame.
 

 

 

 
Here is the helmet finished to this point and awaiting the glass to show up as well as the sitting figure. Then to try my hand at working Sculpty over the resin figure with a dive suit. 
 

 
Now back to writing.

After some trial and error, the rudder is complete. Shaping and drilling little brass pieces on a large wood lathe is a little less then ideal but do able with some patients and extra material. I also purchased a few gadgets to help hold those small annoying little parts during soldering.

 

continue....
 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello friends.
 
Construction error on my part to the main frames
IV ( 27 Bow ) to  IX ( 69 Stern )
These frames have only one floor.
 
These following picturs show the correction on the main frames.
 
Karl
 
 
Teil 4

Thanks for the likes, everyone.  Druxey, thank you for catching that.  I inserted the tiller into the rudder for the picture, as you noted, upside down.  Greg, I plan on making the binnacle and may even show the capstan with the bars inserted.  

I have not had much time to work on Atalanta lately.  I got suckered into restoring a friend's tourist quality model.  We have all heard the story...  "Dearly departed Dad loved it so much and it reminds me of him."  Unfortunately, dear dad had no compunction about smoking in the same room with it or spilling a beverage over it.  At least the local hospital auxilliary will get a nice donation as payment for my effort.
 
The deck has been scraped down and two coats of Watco's have been applied, separated by 24 hours between coats.  The shine is because I was not patient enough to wait until tomorrow to take pictures.
 

 

 
Next on the agenda is the steering apparatus.  I actually was looking forward to making a ship's wheel.  I have never made one and this was one of my driving reasons behind purchasing a mill.  On the plans there are faint pencil markings for where the wheel was placed.  These markings were obviously not part of the original design.  My guess is that a wheel was installed when she refitted and coppering in 1778.  There is also a model (not on display) at the Royal Museum Greenwich which definitely shows a tiller.  So, a tiller it is.  I made my tiller of a less extreme angle than shown on the model.  The end of the model's tiller looked like it was almost five feet from the deck.  I made mine to end just above waist level to facilitate handling.  The model also shows a cabinet built around the rudder head.  This definitely was not on the plan so I am leaving it exposed.  I spent too much time making that rudder head look good to cover it up unnecessarily.
 
The tiller is made of castello with a knob of pear.  Looking through the RMG collection of tillers I found everything from what looked like a 4x4 to a fancifully carved piece of art.  I did a simple embossing of the sides.  The top was left plain.