G.L.
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The hatches into their position on the cross section.
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I saw the outline of the paper out of the grating.
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To tailor the grating, I transfer the inner sizes of the hatch on a piece of paper and position that paper on the grating with some paper glue.
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Finishing the hatches with sand paper.
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Raw hatch and grating
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I glue them together using the same piece of millimeter paper as before to obtain right angles. I let the glue of the hatches dry with some weights on top of them. On completion I check them on the cross section.
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Sawing the coamings for the hatches.
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As you can see, I made the grating a bit larger than needed just in case it wouldn't be fully intact. I will wait until the hatch is made to size it to the correct dimensions.
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All the pieces put together.
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In the grooves I glue 3 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick laths. I start at the outsides and form the grating on a piece of mm paper to be able to glue the laths at 3 mm interspaces
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On my Proxxon saw table I like to use a table saw sledge on which a millimeter paper is glued with the 0 mm line exactly on the saw blade edge. With the help of that sledge it is easy to saw 3 mm wide grooves of 1.5 mm deep at 3 mm intervals.
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I make the grating in walnut because it is a better wood than oak to saw out little pieces. I start to saw 3x3 mm thick planks and I glue them together with a drip of wood glue at each end. Like this they form a 3 mm thick plank.
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I will now make the gun deck hatches, starting with the grating for the after hatch.
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12.16 Cabin entrance set into its spot. I do not glue it yet, I want to wait until all the deck gear is colored. It is located a bit right of mid ship to allow to pull the jib boom backwards.
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12.15 Doors and hatch open.
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12.14 Doors and hatch closed.
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12.13 I finish the hinges by filing them.
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12.12 To make the door hinges, I make four brass strips and saw four pieces of brass tube with a length equal to the width of the strips. I solder the tubes on the edge of each strip.
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12.11 The cabin entrance with hatch and doors. The doors are not yet attached with hinges.
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12.10 To give the hatch the same curve as the roof I glue it together on top of the roof. A piece of paper between both prevents that the hatch is glued on the roof. When the glue of the hatch is dry, I sand it and make the hatch rails. On the front side the pincher is holding the front plank in place while the glue is drying
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12.9 After the roof is sanded.
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12.8 The top side of the cabin entrance can now be covered with planks. I glue a strip of black card board between the planks because I presume the roof was caulked. In the roof the opening for entering is left uncovered.
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12.7 I glue the bottom-, top front- and top middle beam between the 2 sides and fill the so formed front frame with planks. The width of both top beams was almost double as it should be. When the glue was dry, I sanded the topside of the deckhouse arched with the band sander as can be seen on the picture.
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12.6 I start to make the frames of both sides of the deckhouse. Afterwards I fill the inside of the frames with planks.
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12.5 Just behind the chimney is the cabin entrance. It has a gliding hatch and double door. I would like to make a functioning hatch and doors.
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