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KeithAug

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  1. 3 hours ago, FlyingFish said:

    I do believe he is saluting you!

    Andy - yes I noticed that. Maybe a Naval career.

     

    54 minutes ago, TBlack said:

    What will he call you?

     

    His big sister has always called me Grandi and my wife is Nano. So I think he will follow her example.

     

    Thanks to everyone for their best wishes.

  2. On 13 May I commented "i can start generating the hull transverse sections corresponding to the frames on Cangarda". Somehow we are now at the the last day of August and I have just completed the task. My productivity is sadly lacking,

    Cangarda has frames on a 18" pitch or 3/4" at model scale. The pitch is a bit over the top for model purposes so I plan to make every 2nd frame giving a frame spacing of 1.5".

    I have kept the numbering as per the plans supplied by Tr1-Costal Marine so every second section is missing. I took a lot of care with plotting (using the pencil, dividers and french curve method). I then spent some time reviewing the nested section to identify and obvious glitches. 

    Generally the nested lines seem to have turned out reasonably well.

    I have included all the drawings as PDF files  in the event that others want to have a go at building Cangarda.

    Full frames 01 to 35.pdf Full frames 01 to 37 to 39.pdf Full frames 41 to 45.pdf Full frames 47 to 61.pdf Full frames 63 to 81.pdf

  3. 20 hours ago, Roger Pellett said:

    Here in the US, “gender reveal” parties

    Roger

     

    Amazing, but it strikes mw that with the modern trends towards  "self identification" that it will take many years before parents will know for certain! Or perhaps they just delay the parties for later in life?

     

    Thanks to everyone for the good wishes.

  4. Hello friends. Just touching base to confirm that I am still in the world of the living. Sorry about the absence. Lots of family duties got in the way of ship building and the workshop has been collecting cobwebs for most of the summer. The geriatric members of the family (my age) seem to have accumulated various degrees of serious illness necessitating ongoing visits. Meanwhile my son and daughters house moves respectively have provided a string of opportunities from simple decorating up to patio construction and garden re-modelling. Grandparental duties are also likely to be in sharp focus for a number of months - grandchild number 2 (boy) arrives next Friday. In my day the sex and the arrival time were a mystery but it seems that in our modern word all uncertainties have been removed 🤞. I hope to get back onto a bit of modelling in the autumn as the weather deteriorates. In the mean time I will try to catch up with all your build logs. Best wishes.

  5. 1 hour ago, Valeriy V said:

    I don't quite understand your question,

    Valeriy, Te hull seems to have lines running along its length. I think this is to represent the steel plates that the hull was constructed from (presumably the plates were riveted together). My question was how did you simulate the these on the hull. 

     

    Thank you for the details of the power plant - it looks like triple expansion steam engine. The stokers must have had a difficult life - very cramped space, lots of coal dust,  lots of heat. It must have been hell.

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