Gerhardvienna

Just take place folks!
There is much more to come, I have made until now almost 400 pics, next things will come tomorrow. It was a long way before I could start, I had a over 2 years time to spend for research. But its on the way now, and will continue. This project is planned as a long time project, not under 4 years of building. The engine was built by Hartmut, a close friend to Georg, I do have the full set of plans and will make my own set of two engines. Also the boilers will be drawn and built from me, there will be two boxed boilers with circa 1 liter volume each, and feeding pumps for extra long driving time. So there is a lot of work to do, get some time, coffee and a Sacher Torte  
Best regards
Gerhard 

Hi to All
As I mentioned in my introduction thread, I`m building a model of the SMS DANZIG from the prussian navy. How did I get to this ship? I was on a search for a not too small paddleship, if possible a warship, and after a while of searching in the www. I saw what I was looking for. The original ship was about 76 Meters long, and had 2 steam-engines as well as full rigging as a corvette. But: there ae absoluley no plans to get, so I had to make a decision, how to do it. The only plan that comes close to the DANZIG is from the russian Vladimir, and by great luck i could get one set of them. The only smaller problem was, the russian ship is about 10 meters shorter than the prussian, so I had to stretch the plans. But things went well, the rest I have still to do, is to redraw some parts, as the wheel houses for example.
But now to the real build. The model will have two steam engines, the plans were drawn from Mr. Georg Held and me, here is a short video from the prototype:
an I will make the full rigging, as it was shown at a drawing from John Scott Russel, see the pic below.

 
I started with some accessories, as I always do, the first thing was the steering wheels.
 
As a first step to make the wheels, I printed a template on normal paper, cut that into triangles, and glued them to the wood, I used smoked oak wood for the wheels
.
 
The wood was then cut into triangles, and glued together as a octagon. This was set into the milling machine, and the holes for the spokes were drilled.

 
The octagons are then tightend into the lathe, and turned to round at the outside. Important: Always use a wooden shim as a rest for the octagons, they will break fast, if you forget that!

 
Then the center parts are turned on the lathe

 
The next step is not easy to do, the inner shape of the rim needs to be turned. ALWAYS glue some thin Plywood on both sides of the rims, this must be grinded away later. Turn this yery careful, the rings are tending to break, if you are too fast!

 
Now the finished rings need to be cut in halves, so the spokes and centers can be mounted, and glue the complete set together.


 
Will be continued................
Regards
Gerhard
 
PS.: As this is a review, there is a lot more to show, until we come to the presence!

Hi to All
As I mentioned in my introduction thread, I`m building a model of the SMS DANZIG from the prussian navy. How did I get to this ship? I was on a search for a not too small paddleship, if possible a warship, and after a while of searching in the www. I saw what I was looking for. The original ship was about 76 Meters long, and had 2 steam-engines as well as full rigging as a corvette. But: there ae absoluley no plans to get, so I had to make a decision, how to do it. The only plan that comes close to the DANZIG is from the russian Vladimir, and by great luck i could get one set of them. The only smaller problem was, the russian ship is about 10 meters shorter than the prussian, so I had to stretch the plans. But things went well, the rest I have still to do, is to redraw some parts, as the wheel houses for example.
But now to the real build. The model will have two steam engines, the plans were drawn from Mr. Georg Held and me, here is a short video from the prototype:
an I will make the full rigging, as it was shown at a drawing from John Scott Russel, see the pic below.

 
I started with some accessories, as I always do, the first thing was the steering wheels.
 
As a first step to make the wheels, I printed a template on normal paper, cut that into triangles, and glued them to the wood, I used smoked oak wood for the wheels
.
 
The wood was then cut into triangles, and glued together as a octagon. This was set into the milling machine, and the holes for the spokes were drilled.

 
The octagons are then tightend into the lathe, and turned to round at the outside. Important: Always use a wooden shim as a rest for the octagons, they will break fast, if you forget that!

 
Then the center parts are turned on the lathe

 
The next step is not easy to do, the inner shape of the rim needs to be turned. ALWAYS glue some thin Plywood on both sides of the rims, this must be grinded away later. Turn this yery careful, the rings are tending to break, if you are too fast!

 
Now the finished rings need to be cut in halves, so the spokes and centers can be mounted, and glue the complete set together.


 
Will be continued................
Regards
Gerhard
 
PS.: As this is a review, there is a lot more to show, until we come to the presence!

Just take place folks!
There is much more to come, I have made until now almost 400 pics, next things will come tomorrow. It was a long way before I could start, I had a over 2 years time to spend for research. But its on the way now, and will continue. This project is planned as a long time project, not under 4 years of building. The engine was built by Hartmut, a close friend to Georg, I do have the full set of plans and will make my own set of two engines. Also the boilers will be drawn and built from me, there will be two boxed boilers with circa 1 liter volume each, and feeding pumps for extra long driving time. So there is a lot of work to do, get some time, coffee and a Sacher Torte  
Best regards
Gerhard 

Hi to All
As I mentioned in my introduction thread, I`m building a model of the SMS DANZIG from the prussian navy. How did I get to this ship? I was on a search for a not too small paddleship, if possible a warship, and after a while of searching in the www. I saw what I was looking for. The original ship was about 76 Meters long, and had 2 steam-engines as well as full rigging as a corvette. But: there ae absoluley no plans to get, so I had to make a decision, how to do it. The only plan that comes close to the DANZIG is from the russian Vladimir, and by great luck i could get one set of them. The only smaller problem was, the russian ship is about 10 meters shorter than the prussian, so I had to stretch the plans. But things went well, the rest I have still to do, is to redraw some parts, as the wheel houses for example.
But now to the real build. The model will have two steam engines, the plans were drawn from Mr. Georg Held and me, here is a short video from the prototype:
an I will make the full rigging, as it was shown at a drawing from John Scott Russel, see the pic below.

 
I started with some accessories, as I always do, the first thing was the steering wheels.
 
As a first step to make the wheels, I printed a template on normal paper, cut that into triangles, and glued them to the wood, I used smoked oak wood for the wheels
.
 
The wood was then cut into triangles, and glued together as a octagon. This was set into the milling machine, and the holes for the spokes were drilled.

 
The octagons are then tightend into the lathe, and turned to round at the outside. Important: Always use a wooden shim as a rest for the octagons, they will break fast, if you forget that!

 
Then the center parts are turned on the lathe

 
The next step is not easy to do, the inner shape of the rim needs to be turned. ALWAYS glue some thin Plywood on both sides of the rims, this must be grinded away later. Turn this yery careful, the rings are tending to break, if you are too fast!

 
Now the finished rings need to be cut in halves, so the spokes and centers can be mounted, and glue the complete set together.


 
Will be continued................
Regards
Gerhard
 
PS.: As this is a review, there is a lot more to show, until we come to the presence!

Beautiful piece of miniature engineering on that steam engine, Gerhard.
 
John

This looks to be a fascinating project - think I'll pull up a chair and follow along.

Hi to All
As I mentioned in my introduction thread, I`m building a model of the SMS DANZIG from the prussian navy. How did I get to this ship? I was on a search for a not too small paddleship, if possible a warship, and after a while of searching in the www. I saw what I was looking for. The original ship was about 76 Meters long, and had 2 steam-engines as well as full rigging as a corvette. But: there ae absoluley no plans to get, so I had to make a decision, how to do it. The only plan that comes close to the DANZIG is from the russian Vladimir, and by great luck i could get one set of them. The only smaller problem was, the russian ship is about 10 meters shorter than the prussian, so I had to stretch the plans. But things went well, the rest I have still to do, is to redraw some parts, as the wheel houses for example.
But now to the real build. The model will have two steam engines, the plans were drawn from Mr. Georg Held and me, here is a short video from the prototype:
an I will make the full rigging, as it was shown at a drawing from John Scott Russel, see the pic below.

 
I started with some accessories, as I always do, the first thing was the steering wheels.
 
As a first step to make the wheels, I printed a template on normal paper, cut that into triangles, and glued them to the wood, I used smoked oak wood for the wheels
.
 
The wood was then cut into triangles, and glued together as a octagon. This was set into the milling machine, and the holes for the spokes were drilled.

 
The octagons are then tightend into the lathe, and turned to round at the outside. Important: Always use a wooden shim as a rest for the octagons, they will break fast, if you forget that!

 
Then the center parts are turned on the lathe

 
The next step is not easy to do, the inner shape of the rim needs to be turned. ALWAYS glue some thin Plywood on both sides of the rims, this must be grinded away later. Turn this yery careful, the rings are tending to break, if you are too fast!

 
Now the finished rings need to be cut in halves, so the spokes and centers can be mounted, and glue the complete set together.


 
Will be continued................
Regards
Gerhard
 
PS.: As this is a review, there is a lot more to show, until we come to the presence!

Hi to All
As I mentioned in my introduction thread, I`m building a model of the SMS DANZIG from the prussian navy. How did I get to this ship? I was on a search for a not too small paddleship, if possible a warship, and after a while of searching in the www. I saw what I was looking for. The original ship was about 76 Meters long, and had 2 steam-engines as well as full rigging as a corvette. But: there ae absoluley no plans to get, so I had to make a decision, how to do it. The only plan that comes close to the DANZIG is from the russian Vladimir, and by great luck i could get one set of them. The only smaller problem was, the russian ship is about 10 meters shorter than the prussian, so I had to stretch the plans. But things went well, the rest I have still to do, is to redraw some parts, as the wheel houses for example.
But now to the real build. The model will have two steam engines, the plans were drawn from Mr. Georg Held and me, here is a short video from the prototype:
an I will make the full rigging, as it was shown at a drawing from John Scott Russel, see the pic below.

 
I started with some accessories, as I always do, the first thing was the steering wheels.
 
As a first step to make the wheels, I printed a template on normal paper, cut that into triangles, and glued them to the wood, I used smoked oak wood for the wheels
.
 
The wood was then cut into triangles, and glued together as a octagon. This was set into the milling machine, and the holes for the spokes were drilled.

 
The octagons are then tightend into the lathe, and turned to round at the outside. Important: Always use a wooden shim as a rest for the octagons, they will break fast, if you forget that!

 
Then the center parts are turned on the lathe

 
The next step is not easy to do, the inner shape of the rim needs to be turned. ALWAYS glue some thin Plywood on both sides of the rims, this must be grinded away later. Turn this yery careful, the rings are tending to break, if you are too fast!

 
Now the finished rings need to be cut in halves, so the spokes and centers can be mounted, and glue the complete set together.


 
Will be continued................
Regards
Gerhard
 
PS.: As this is a review, there is a lot more to show, until we come to the presence!

Hi Daniel
 
I`m learning with every step you do on your Vic! Thank you for showing all this hints &tricks!
 
Regards
Gerhard