KeithAug
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Not quite sure how I missed this build until now but it was a pleasure catching up. I think some of the build ideas are quite inspired and i particularly liked the "bow" for fairing the frames, the clamping of the frame laminations and the cutting of the hull planks. Everything is up to the usual high build standard. Well done.- 153 replies
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The madness of the model shipwright is amply demonstrated. lovely work Keith but it boarders on masochism.
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A remarkable amount of plan detail available given the age of the ship Phil. It all looks rather exciting. I wait the build with anticipation.
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Very nicely done, always a tricky job.
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Cap San Diego by mikegr - 1/160
KeithAug replied to mikegr's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1901 - Present Day
I am pleased you are having another go. She is a very handsome vessel and deserves to be modelled. I remember my first model had plenty of car body filler in the hull. -
A nice little project which I look forward to seeing develop.
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Eberhard - Try using actual size photographs. or console yourself that they would have looked much worse under a microscope. No one will ever notice.
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I don't really have that sort of detail but my expectation is that the crosstrees would be rigidly attached to the mast. I will glue the band to the mast so on the model the crosstrees will be rigidly attached.
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The fit you are getting is truly amazing Richard, and your build speed is very impressive.
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Thank you Keith. I have spent couple of day making the crosstrees. I needed some .165" wide brass strips. I had bought a few brass door "finger" plates a few years ago when they were being sold off at a huge discount. From these I slit off a number of strips on the mill. The cross section of the crosstrees is .2" high by .160" wide. To ease bending I decided to laminate them from 3 strips of .2" x .053" mahogany. I soaked the strips in boiling water for 5 minutes before clamping them in the bending jig and leaving overnight. I then used the bending jig to clamp the laminations while glueing. . I then cut and bent the bracing straps and soldered them to the mast bands. Various holes were drilled through the crosstrees to allow the shrouds to pass through and various instruments and fittings to be mounted. the holes for the shrouds were strengthened with brass tube. I checked the look by doing a temporary install on the mast. The finished article:-
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The next job is the crosstrees but these come with a few challenges. Firstly it isn't proving easy to get their correct span. Photos taken from the deck suffer from parallax error and all the photos taken off-board Germania are either side or three-quarter shots. I decided the best approach is to make the spans equal to the beam at the fore mast and main mast positions. The second problem is that the photos of the cross trees are proving difficult to interpret and I can convince myself that they are constructed from metal or wood and are both rectangular and round in section. Here are the better photos:- I think I am going to go with my interpretation of the third photo which is a rectangular wooden spar shaped around the front of the mast and secured with a metal brace to the rear. I did a sketch of my interpretation. The top sketch is of the main crosstree. this has a span of 8.8". The lower sketch is of the fore crosstree and is only done to record the relevant dimensions. In this case the span is 6.5" Having decided on a plan I made myself a jig to assist bending and assembly. The hole positions match the circles drawn on the sketch. The jig allows both crosstrees to be made. The dowel up-stand is the diameter of the mast and is replaceable as i need 2 because of the different diameters of the main and fore masts. The holes towards the top edge take nylon pins, these will locate the bending points. Different holes will be used for the two crosstrees. Hopefully this will make more sense when I do my next post (assuming that it works!!!).
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Shaun Nice woodworking skills. You must have been working with wood for some time???
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Innisfree - Thank you for commenting on my build. Your suggestion re the radar prompted me to check web images and as you say the dome may well house a weather radar. Mark / Pat - thanks to both of you for your thoughts.
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More mast fittings but at least these are a bit more interesting. On the main mast are two supports for mounting the main radar and what I glass is a satellite communications dome. On the fore mast is a further support on which is mounted what appears to be a small radar. Why two radars? Starting with the bracket for the communications dome ( which also carries the fog horn and the main mast fore brace). The fog horn mount only features in one of the pictures but I like it so will go with that option. I started with a very basic sketch, i didn't feel I needed to draw all the detail so I only committed the basic dimensions to paper. I like soldering jigs because they make the work easier and more accurate. On this occasion the jig was machined from a scrap of wood The dowel locates the previously made mast hoop and the cross slots locate the flanges for mounting the dome and the horn. A brass pin at the end locates the tube for the mast brace. The components were soft soldered together. The bracket cleaned up well. The horn was machined on the lathe with a bit of double handed turning to create to curve, The motor for the horn is carried in a rectangular box at its rear end. This has a bit of profiling and was made on the mill. The bracket for the main mast radar is less complicated but was made in a similar manner. The fore mast radar bracket was similar - but shorter. Thats all for today folks.
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Yes Gary, but i can't help thinking that I should be doing something for society. However i will probably just do more modelling. Tank you Chris and Veszett
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Keith - unfortunately the cube root is a much better way of considering the relativity between the original and my creation. So that means i should charge 1/(36x36x36) or 1/46656 of the sale price = 107. For 4000 hours that means .026 per hour. I think I am undervalued.
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Keith Much too many, fortunately i don't count because if i did would be depressed that I was wasting my golden years. Total elapsed build time is just coming up to 3 years. Preliminary research started about half a year before that. However I take comfort from knowing that many builds are much longer than mine -------- I may be mad but not as mad as some of you.
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That sounds interesting. I look forward to seeing how it goes.
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An interesting build which I will be pleased to follow.
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Neat idea - must remember that one. Very clean build - impressive.
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Thank you Bruce - I looked with interest but unfortunately it is a bit to expensive for me. Interesting thought Mark.
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Mark, The photos I have are only part views but the sketch below hopefully shows what I mean. Eberhard, Keith, John, Druxey, Pat, Thank you all for your comments - you are too kind. I am pleased to report the weather has turned milder - 15c (59f) in the workshop today - second jumper postponed.
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