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Dear All Apologies for my absence. We have had the builders in doing some structural work for the last 10 weeks and as a result we have had to move into temporary accommodation. With agreeing the work scope, monitoring progress and making sure that the quality is up to scratch I haven't had much time for the more pleasurable aspects of life. The workshop is currently out of bounds as it is full for the stuff from the rest of the house. I can't see the shipyard reopening until autumn but who knows. The good news is that we have a tentative re-occupancy date of a week on Saturday so hopefully we will definitely be back home by the end of June!!!!!!! I hope you are all keeping well and i look forward to eventually catching up with your builds. I did re varnish the PVA damage hull before being evicted and it looked just fine. It would have been awful to have sent months worrying about fixing it.
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House selling and buying - "Yuk" good luck Andy. Fascinating historical photos.
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All very fascinating and enjoyable.
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Nice work on the exhausts Greg - the technical observation on the design in various posts all add to the fascination of the build. What is the partial horizontal line on the end of the crank case representing - should it be all the way across or just not present?
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Very nicely done - I would love to know your technique Keith?
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Nice progress. I wondered about giving the hull a hint of green (weed). I can't add much to the shroud question and to me the photos aren't much help.
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Have you tried doing joined up writing with one of those pen things recently. It is really hard. They both fit together very nicely. Great job.
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Nice steering wheel but I love the bicycle seat.
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Thank you Rick. Gary Yes - I once arrived very early to work and parked in the completely empty works car park lit by a single lamp post. Just as was getting out of the car I heard a loud bang and looked up to see a car wrapped round the solitary post. With an entire car park to go at (with the exception of one space) the driver had managed to find the only solid obstacle available.
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Im not quite getting your worries about the deck darkness but your eyes are the ones seeing the real thing. Can the darkness be washed out with solvent?
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Yes - I had thought they might have been brazed.
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Thank you Pat, Rick & Gary. Another week has passed but unfortunately not all weeks go to plan - more of that later. You will recall in my last post the hull came off the mounting board. The next task was to remove all the up-stands to deck level. Those of you with long memories will recall that when I cut out the frames I scrolled along the deck line leaving only a small un cut attachment section. You can just about see the cut at arrow "A" in the next photo. Removing the up-stand therefore only involved two vertical saw cuts at "B" and a horizontal saw cut at "C". I tried doing the horizontal cut by plunging in a small Dremel circular saw. The saw did a lot of snatching so I tried a diamond cutting disc which proved to be a lot more successful. I left a small section of building board at the bow to anchor the decoration with an elastic band while gluing. I then went on to finish the wall cladding inside the engine / boiler room. This small section had been inaccessible from the outside while planking. The cladding is necessasary to produce a smooth internal finish as per the original. The cladding was glued in place using PVA wood glue. The cladding was held in place with pieces of up-stand and clamps while drying. However this turned out to be a stupid plan because the PVA expanded the hull planks and damaged the hull finish. I am very stupid! Fortunately only light sanding was required to get the hull smooth again. Now I get some more varnishing practice. For the cladding on the other side I have a different plan. The workshop has been a bit warmer of late so I am hoping for 2 coats of varnish per day. Oh what fun!
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Fascinating model and build process. I know nothing about 3d printing. Can you select the print quality to get very fine detail or does the extrusion head dictate how fine the detail can be?
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Hmmm! - stuffed up - a good engineering term - as in "I stuffed up the stuffing box and that stuffed up the ship, which sank.
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All looking rather nice. It would appear that the foils were quite small.
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