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I had a good rummage through my cupboards and thankfully located the rudder and it’s shaft. A few minutes later and it was fitted. Direction re-established!!
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Pat, Dan, Tom and Bedford - thank you all for your supportive comments. Today I was looking at the yacht thinking “that’s it” when I noticed the obvious omission. Sometimes in life we lose the big picture in all that detail and end up rudderless. I made the rudder in September 2016, now I just have to find it.
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Always a pleasure to catch up with your description Dan
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I really must crack on and get this build finished. At least I have had time to finish the display stand. It took some time to trim the front legs to get Altair to sit with her waterline level. Now all that’s left to do is make and mount the ensign and the Royal Thames Yacht Club flag. Oh and replace 3 stays that have loosened as the model has acclimatised to the house conditions. I must catch up on other people’s logs before I get withdrawal symptoms.
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Hi Brunelrussell - If you look at my Altair Build - top of page 20, this is an option for making a dome.
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Hello Mozatman, nice to see you have taken the plunge into ship modelling. MSW is a great resource and if you need it you will get a lot of encouragement and advice. Start a log so that we can all enjoy your journey.
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Haken, Pat, Richard, Mark. thank you all very much for your kind comments. Michael, an interesting thought. The only photograph I have is one of the smaller dingy strapped to the deck. Here the straps seem to be of webbing. To carry off the leather idea the leather needs to be very thin and i know of a source as my wife is addicted to fine leather gloves. She is also apt to lose one every now and again so next time she does I may do the upgrade. No boat progress this week although I have ripped out tiles, rebuilt walls, plumbed in sinks and radiators, and laid 140 sq ft of ceramic tiles. My daughter is pleased.
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ancre La Salamandre by tadheus - 1:24
KeithAug replied to tadheus's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
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Dan, I am still wondering how you are able to do this. Do you have an army of nanobots secretly working away? Very informative explanation, thank you.
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Hi Nils I assume the two guns mounted to fire forward over the deck are to keep the crew on their toes?????
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Hi Per I find rails quite tricky. Your approach seems to work well so I may give it a go next time.
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Over the last couple of days I made progress on the stand. Im planning to suspend the yacht on 4 legs and the starting point is to work out the proportions of the legs. This I have done by selecting the frames where the legs will sit and then drawing the adjacent leg to scale. The legs are made from polished stainless steel. Not a material I am very fond of working with. Where the side arms abut the hull I wanted something more forgiving than metal so the ends are machined from nylon. A brass insert between the side arm and nylon end will can be machined to tune final fitting. The top of the legs provide side restraint and where they bear on the hull they softened with "O" rings. The "O" ring grouves could have been machined directly into the stainless but I thought the brass end added a bit of interest. The bottom of the legs are drilled and threaded to take the base attachment bolts. A 1/4 inch thick stap joins each pair of legs. The base board is next.
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Pat, thank you and yes she is a rich mans toy. Hakan, Thank you. John, Thanks. a wee dram sounds like a good idea. The time came to introduce the launch to it mother. I made it cradle from mahogany strip, shaped using the templates for the frames. The holes for the lashings were reinforced with brass rivets (visible in the photos). The cradles are each held down using 4 spectacle repair screws. I made a card template to align the cradles and get them in the correct position. When the launch is on the cradles it fills the available space and must restrict deck operations to a significant degree. Altair actually has 2 other boats, both smaller than the launch. Photographs of Altair frequently show no boats on deck and when they are carried the smaller boats seem to be favoured. In the photograph immediately above I have removed the aft davit to ease access. I lashed the launch in place using a length of twine. Several photographs show the launch lashed in place. Mother is very pleased to have baby on board. I'm going to try and make some progress on the stand this week - before a diversion into refurbishing my daughters bathroom - yuk!!!
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Nils, Nice Pinnacle - although I did wonder how you had managed to build it in a couple of days between posts. Your explanation put my mind at rest as i was beginning to think you had discovered time travel.
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Thank you Tim. The darker mahogany is circa 100 years old. It is quite dense and close grained. It came from a once very nice dining table which i suspect was made from prime timber. Not very much like the mahogany sold today. The lighter mahogany was from block flooring recovered from a old building before being relaid on my daughters kitchen floor. I'm using up the offcuts. I think its about 50 years old. It does have a more open grain and fibres lift when coarse sanding.
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Thank you Pat. John, Sorry, I would have but I could not find spark plugs small enough ( i think in 1931 it was a petrol engine). John, You sound like my wife, have you been taking lessons? Richard - thank you.
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Over the weekend I almost completed the launch. The foredeck was planked - hard to tell though. I also made the foremost bench together with the 4 gussets that reinforce the attachment to the hull. The trickiest bit was the splash rail. The corners were much too tight to bend so these were cut from solid. Once mounted on the deck rail the were joined buy 3 bent planks. . It's probably worth explaining that I am using 2 sources of mahogany (one much lighter in colour) to add interest to the launch. I then added the interior detail of the engine housing, prop shaft cover and instrument bulkhead. The engine housing has the gear lever mounted. The rudder then went on with the bracket to support the lower end. I made and mounted the brass fittings on the small foredeck. The brass protective strip for the stem was also made and mounted. By this stage I had given the inside a coat of poly - still a bit wet when the following photos were taken. I have delayed mounting the wheel and throttle lever until the internal painting is complete. I now need to make the cradles for mounting the launch on the deck.
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Hello John. I always wanted to retire to Harrogate. A Yorkshireman down south is like a duck out of water. Welcome and I look forward to seeing your build.
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Amazing Dan, but it strains my eyes and hurts my head. May need to get my eyes sorted.
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She is looking very good Nils. The final few photo's show her off a treat.
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Christmas and New Year over and I am delighted to announce that the management has graciously agreed to the reopening of the shipyard. Pat / Bedford - Thank you for your contributions. Mark - Your light sabre is obviously very clever, my skill with manufacturing automation relegates me to the 3rd division, more of a latter day Zorro than Luke Skywalker. Paul - Thank you for taking the trouble to browse my log. I continued this week with the building of the launch. I completed the planking of the the inside of the hull and then marked out the position of the ribs before attaching them. I needed some quite tight bends but I managed them without too much trouble / breakage. Two bench seats run along the sides from amidships to the stern. I shaped these using the previously drawn hull lines. They are currently glued in place but I think I will add more supports for aesthetic / realism reasons. I spent last night awake making and fixing the capping rails in my head. Not very productive I would have been better occupied getting up and doing the job. Anyway the plan involved cutting the rails to shape using the inverted hull as a template. By about 3am I had rejected the alternative plan of bending straight planks to fit. My plan for clamping the rail while the PVA dried was effective if not a little basic. It involved holding it in place with finger pressure while blasting it with the hairdryer. My fingers got a little warm in the process but I gritted my teeth an toughed it out like a man. The next job is to plank the small section of foredeck before getting on with the internal fit out.
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