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Mississippi Sternwheeler by kpnuts
gjdale replied to kpnuts's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
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Hi Daryl, Just wondering if you've got an update on this interesting project?
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Really enjoying this Colin - thanks for re-posting.
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Thanks B.E. - very pleased to have aided and abetted a fellow modeller in the acquisition of new toys (er, I mean tools)! . I feel it was the least I could do after all of your assistance to me. Welcome back Jeff and thank you for the kind words. Your Vic bow section is looking fabulous.
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Glad that was of some help Jeff. Keep up the great work - that looks like a really nice little kit and you're doing a great job of enhancing it.
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Hi Jeff, Fabulous work so far - looks great. Re your question on coppering and gore line, I don't have the book in front of me right now, but I'm pretty sure that Longridge says in the text that there are 12(?) rows of coppering parallel to the waterline (ie working down from the waterline). This would form your gore line, and then come up from the keel letting the copper tiles follow a line of "natural" curve. I hope that makes sense.
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Looking forward to seeing the re-posted pics Colin.
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Hi Michael, and welcome aboard. Thank you for your very kind words. I have been silently following your pilot cutter for some time now and have been quite humbled by the standard of your work. I'm looking forward to completing this build so that I can do something in a slightly larger scale - probably not quite as large as yours though!
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Very nice Bob. That Holly sure does go well for deck planking. When the visitors start getting to be too much, just sneak back off to the shipyard and lay "just a few more" planks.
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Sounds like a plan Brian - I'm rather partial to a nice single malt myself. Drop me a PM when you're next headed this way.
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Thank you Brian. Do you get up to Canberra at all? I'm always up for an adult beverage or two and a chin wag!
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Thanks Mobbsie and Sjors. These were very easy to make, and while you could call it "mass production" of sorts Sjors, it was nearly all "handraulic". The trick is to use only the tiniest amount of glue in the first stage, which makes the final separation easier. Mobbsie, I haven't decided yet whether to paint them black or leave them "au naturale", but I'm leaning towards paint.
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Thanks Augie - it's not an original idea though. I'm sure I picked that up from someone else here at MSW!
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Ouch David! What bad luck! Looks like you've done a nice recovery though.
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Haven't managed a lot of time in the shipyard lately, but the block party continues and the yards are slowly taking shape. I completed belaying the Truss Pendants, Jeers, and Lifts on the Fore Lower Yard, and have just completed attaching the blocks for the Fore Topsail Yard. I've decided to attach each yard to this (or relevant similar) stage before proceeding with sheets and braces etc. The Topsail Yard is attached to the Mast via a Parral instead of Trusses. The Parrals are made up of a series of "Trucks" (essentially egg-shaped wooden beads) separated by vertical "Ribs". The kit does not provide for the Ribs, so consulting once more with Longridge, I decided to make my own. Longridge provides a good diagram (with dimensions) and description on pg 213 (and Figure 139). To make the Parral Ribs I first cut a strip of 1/32" x 3/32" Swiss Pear into pieces approximately 6mm long and then spot-glued these together in gangs of three and the ends tidied up on the Byrnes disc sander. They were then roughly marked (by eye) to find the approximate locations for the holes which were then drilled with a 0.5mm bit. The "B" shape was then drawn (again by eye) onto the gang, and filed to shape with a triangular needle file, finishing with a flat needle file. The gangs were then given a 15 minute soak in bath of Isopropyl alcohol to soften the glue before carefully separating them again. The results are quite pleasing - and of course I made about double the number needed to ensure the God of the Space-Time continuum gap is fed appropriately! I was also a little side-tracked lately by completing this little model of Leonardo da Vinci's Aerial Screw that was given to me for my birthday recently (I beg the Mod's tolerance for this one off-topic pic):
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Hi Lawrence. Thanks for dropping by again. That picture is on plan No. 9, which is placed between pages 228 and 229. I'll send you a PDF version of it via PM.
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Looks fantastic Rusty. One question if I may. What is the reason that you (and others) use the Fiebings leather dye for staining the timber, instead of say, an ordinary black spirit-based timber stain?
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Superb work on the Tryworks John. Well done!
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Great stuff Mobbsie - glad to hear the a catharpins are working out for you. Your intentions re the futtock shrouds are the correct way to do it. I have a picture of this in Longridge if that's helpful at all, but I suspect that you don't need it now. Let me know if you want it anyway and I'll scan it for you. Here's hoping Santa arrives on time!
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Storing and using those tiny drills
gjdale replied to Modeler12's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Michael, ME is Model Expo. They currently have the boxed set that Mark referred to on sale (code Jolly13). -
Hi Sjors, Have you tried the dead-eye jig (the one I copied from EdT)? It really makes it easy to get the dead eyes all lined up correctly. A picture is at post #3 on page one of my log: http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/163-hms-victory-by-grant-dale-mamoli-scale-190/?hl=%20victory%20%20grant%20%20dale
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Looks like you've cracked the "repeatability" challenge Clare. Well done.
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Very nice Danny. The contrasting wood colours really give it some extra oomph!
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