Gerhardvienna
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Hi Pat Thank you for your nice comment! A bit more to enjoy..... The floor to the engine room is set in again, now from 1mm plywood. This is just thefirst layer of the floor, another layer from 2mm plywood will follow with the engine. And the engine stands are in progress, while I`m still waiting for much more wood and other materials for the Cairo. The floor in the engine room Beginning of the engine stands. The gaps between the timbers will be filled with small pieces from wood, so the stands will hopefully look like the original ones. Regards, and many thanks for watching & nice likes Gerhard
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Hi Pat This would declare why they made it that way. When there was a pitch control, so the "Zero" position will be allright for sailing! Well seen and explained, thank you! Regards Gerhard
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Hi Philip Dont PLEASE do any damage to this beauty! If it`s not able to make the change, keep it as it is, better than a smashed ship! Regards Gerhard
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Hi Philip Looking really good! BUT............... I would make a slight change on the propeller, a prop with that shape will give no speed, but only swirl water. If there is a way to make the change, I would. Sorry for beeing late with that! Regards Gerhard
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While the sanding for the cutters core I made some drawing work for the engine and paddlewheel compartment. The timbers will be made from 5 x 5mm pinewood, and they will be slotted as we have seen on the photos in eric´s (@cathead) thread https://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/15945-designing-a-model-of-the-1856-missouri-river-steamboat-arabia/#comment-498868 , and on the pictures from the Cairo museum too. The attached photo shows how the timbers will be laid, but without the slots. Regards Gerhard
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ancre La Salamandre by tadheus - 1:24
Gerhardvienna replied to tadheus's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Hi Pawel Think this will be the stove? Nice idea to use that kind of red wood for the clinkers! Regards Gerhard -
Hi Nils Well done! With a little amount of paint they will be perfect! I like the boats. Regards Gerhard
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And first of all some good drawings.................... Just working on them! Regards Gerhard
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Hi johnhoward Great find, this shows how large the camber was on the roof. This will be more difficult to build, but possible. As I have no parts from the superstructure premade, I can and will make it that way! Regards Gerhard
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Hi Nils As I know your skills, it WILL work! Regards Gerhard
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Hi johnhoward Good progress, the deck camber turns things a bit away from all what i have seen of city class models. I`ll keep watching..... Regards Gerhard
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Hi Nils Great way to make the boats! They look good! Regards Gerhard
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Hi Carl This would not be good for a life steam engine. Too much heat, I will have to mek the engine from brass. And, my printer will not be ready for the dummy engine, lots of parts are ordered in China, as I will make the printer from "scratch" too! Maybe I`ll have another building report about that. Regards Gerhard
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Hi Carl Most of the sanding is done, just a few milimeters still left. Took me about 20 hours to get that far............. Beneath that I work on the PC for the engine, there is a lot of planing work to make. Everything must fit well to the hull, so I will have to make some sort of dummy engine for testing, and when all fits well then the real thing. Regards Gerhard
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Last days were busy for family things, but a bit has gone on too. First I had to play the @dafi and break out the former glued in floor in the engine room, and replace it with the curved part to the paddlewheel. The former version with the floor The new curved parts, all unnecessary beams will be cut away after planking the hull! Next was the larger carriages I made "far ago". They were painted flat black. I have read the johnhoward file, but decided to let it with only two different carriages for the great guns. And then there was the core for the cutters. This is hard work, grinding it by hand, but the shape comes out slowly ! Best regards, thank you all for watching! Gerhard
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Hi Carl Thank you! And many thanks to all interested for watching in & likes! The insides will be whitewashed, as all inside walls will. Engines and boiler parts will be blackened, as the original parts were. I HOPE, I can make the boilers as the 5 tube boiler that was there, but must calculate how much water volume they will have, and build a feeding pump to them for longer driving! Still grinding the core for the cutters at the time, no grinding machine in my shop, so I have to do it all by hands only! Regards Gerhard
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Hi Nils The DX Fix is a bit to strong for that small boats, in my mind! I would try it with the method from Nenad/Greg, think this would be much better than the foil. Or instead of that really thin shirt fabric (Hemdenstoff), strenghtened with thinned glue. Regards Gerhard
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Worked a bit on the core for the cutters, and painted the skylights with flat black. Looks a bit better than the brown colour, thanks for giving some advise go to @johnhoward Regards, Thank you all for watching! Gerhard
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Hi johnhoward I found one phpto at the NPS Site, and searched then for the Southern Belle stove. Was pretty easy to find, and looks like the original thing. Most important is the location for the vent, which is clear now, thank you! Those infos are worthful for anyone who likes to build a City Class ship! Regards Gerhard
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Johnhoward I think I have some of those candles somwhere in my storages, must search for them. But they are not expensive, if I dont find them I`ll order some Good hint, Thank you! Regards Gerhard
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Hi johnhoward Thank you, so I will change colour to flat black for the skylights, no big deal to make it. The ship will get LED lights in it, so all visible interior will be seen well, but I will have to search for flickering lights to get a real effect. The inside of the superstructure will be painted light grey or dark white, the way you mentioned as "whitewashed". Regards Gerhard
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Hi johnhoward I will stay with hinges, too much work to break them out of the frames. Breaking out the "glass" would be easier, but as I will let the windows open for sailing, this will not be necessary. I need good ventilation for the boilers and engine as this ship will get life steam, and I like to close such skylights when the model is set in the showcase. Much interesting is the question for coluor of the skylights, I found nothing about that! Shall I keep them as they are, or would (flat) black be correct? Regards, and thank you all for watching Gerhard
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Hello again, and so many thanks for your likes! Before I continued with the cutters core, I had to finish another work I`ve started earlier. The big skylight had no window glasses and no hinges, so I decided to make them first. If the coluor would not be correct, please dont be shy and give some info about the paint of this parts! After the skylight I made the core for the cutters, must be grinded to shape now. Then I can start with the frames and planking. Regards Gerhard
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Hi Johnhoward And.................... Where was this located?? I`m ordering all the wood material for the Cairo this upcoming week, so this would be good to know before I continue, dont want to go wrong By talking about the stove, found some pics from the Southern Belle stove Best Regards Gerhard
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Hi johnhoward Thanks for "lining up" the participants of the project! You did understand the request for the steam exhaust system correct. So I dont have to worry about the stacks for the engine, and build some tubes from the engine via the preheater back to the big funnels from the boilers. Paddlewheel icing will be no problem here in Vienna, but the water preheating system will be made. The drawing for the 12-pdr came from the civilwar-website, I scaled it down to the correct size of the barrel and made the carriage from the scaled drawings. Would be interesting if my scaled drawing will fit to Bob`s TurboCad drawings! Best regards Gerhard
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