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RGL
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Now a word about customer service. After I finished my Varyag, I was in love with their fittings that are just not available commercially. I e-mailed Artwox with a photo of the Varyag I built (it was their kit) and asked if I could purchase some of their fairleads and a couple of small funnels for the Emden. The deck plans have 6 fairleads and if you look at the photo they are 2mm and I just could not replicate them. In the mail today I received the items in the attached photo. I just had to pay for postage from China. That, my friends is customer service. Eduard, take note.
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Now, the searchlights and their controllers, the circled blob is the revell search light, the aftermarket ones are as close as I could get to the plans. I made the control boxes out of a resin funnel vent filed down with the addition of 3 flywheels. I will run a small piece of ezyline up to the base of the search light to represent the control rod. You can just make out the scratch built pin rails, I made 4 from wood or the deck and 3 smaller ones for the bridge in plastic.
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Plodding on. I have painted the masts. You can see from the Huff plans there is a LOT of rigging to do.
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I love those blocks, all the hard work is done for you. I'm think once you use them everything else looks like wooden off cuts (except for Chuck's blocks of course). If you don't have the machinery to scratch build your own it's the way to go, considering how many you need to use, it's a time is money argument
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Do you ever have one of those days when your shoulders just camp up from too much time at the table? Moving onto the masts, I was going to use brass and redo the entirety of both Masts from scratch. The kit ones are just not that bad, they just have no detail. I trimmed off the yardarms, and started with them at bare poles. At this scale, this is where the sore shoulders began. As you can see the photo of the photo etch, the platforms for the searchlights are planked, but Huff says they were metal plate, so I just glued some on top and filed it down. Using some spare yardarms from my Varyag build, I added proper yardarms and signal rods, plus the other etched platforms required. Rigging this stuff will be a nightmare. I still have to add the 4 lights which are aftermarket as the kit ones are blobs of plastic. I also have to add the searchlight control boxes which sit below them which I'll fabricate from resin.
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David, my grandfather was from the slums in London and stowed away at 14 on a ship to Oz and started working as a nurse, became a physio and ran a boxing gym on the docks of Newcastle (Australia), that's about it.
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OC, you'll be happy to know North Star has just released a new detail set for the RN you could use. It even has ships cats which won't chew models! I'm hoarding stuff for the Dreadnought at the moment for my next build, but unfortunately their 12pdrs and winches are out of stock. Greg
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Bit of paint and weathering, comes up OK, added some Artwox Chain (Park from Artwox is sending me some Fairleads which are not included). I have not even started on the spare anchor or its' fish davit, nor railings. Long way off. As you can see it is a very small area and adding more tackle will just look too busy. You may notice I have added an ammunition elevator, winch, vents and a hatch mentioned no where else but in the Huff plans. Its a 21 year old kit, so it's getting old in the tooth.
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Moving back to the front of the bus, this has probably been the most labor intensive part for such a small area. Cutting off the bollards and re shaping the capstans etc, scratch building the anchor chain brakes, adding the metal deck, it is so bloody small it has become a case of less is more as adding any extra tackle will just look messy. I have added an open source photo from Eduard how it is supposed to look if you just use the Eduard stuff.
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Looks just like a bought one Dave, some of us had to work at Easter tho! I got today in and will post when the daughter gets off the computer.
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Funnels rigged and added. I can now add the final deck fittings, the anchor chains etc, then start on the masts, finish up the railings then some side details. The last bit will be the guns.
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Wow, I just can't use power tools, afraid of losing bits off me. Soo much easier than doing stuff by hand, they are going to look perfect.
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Nearly there with the funnels, just have to align and plonk them on and put on the guy wires. Now they are painted I have added the small brass horns and the small fly wheels, and the rigging for the bits that stick off the fore and aft funnels which i still am unable to find out what they are. they don't look that great on macro but when looked at compared to my hand size they have come out OK.
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The whole etch thing just seems to take forever at times! Because of the scale you say to yourself where did it go? 2 days work and I can't see it anymore! As long as you know that's all that matters old boy, I'm still trying to rig funnels.
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Nearly done with the funnels. A primer coat, fix the gaps that show up, top coat and add some brass horns. I scratch built the pipes on the sides, and added some vents to the top as described in the plans. It's amazing how far we've come since the 1995 kit with aftermarket and bloodymindedness. You can compare what the kit gives you to the possibilities.
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Moving on and thanks for the likes and comments. The Eduard fret has rings designed for the rims that that placed on the funnels. As such I needed to make mantles for them to sit on. This requires the rings to be made into a circle as they come in 2 halves. As you can see I used to little piece of wood so I can CA them together, then run them onto the funnel which is secured on a dowel then sliding them on piece by piece after using some tiny flue rings for them to sit. This has taken me a couple of days to perfect as I started over a few times to get them to run parallel. There are 4 little pieces which sit on the fore and aft funnel. I have no Idea what they are. Anyone? they look like little pulley system which i wonder are used on coaling the ship. The Eduard fret provides a tiny little crows foot which does no correspond with the Huff plans for the attached photo of his model at 1/100 (Which would be a scale far more friendly on my eyes and shaking fingers after coffee. I scratch built some using some tiny brass rod with a pulley at the end and a ring 1/3 from the end which i will attach rigging after I have painted it. I did the aft funnel first to get some dimensions so I could figure out the clearance needed for the steam pipe / Ships horns on the outside. Each funnels also has about 30 individual steps which run up the front of them to the caps (Which I will do after I finish the funnels.
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Moving onto the funnels. The kit supplied ones have representations of the rings and steam pipes on the outside. Yep, have to go. Trimmed and sanded. The amount of aftermarket for this will consist of the Eduard fret, flue rings, steps, flywheels and brass rod to replace the steam pipes. A fair bit of work really. If your look at the plans they have an enormous amount of detail to get right.
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Again legendary stuff, in a way your build is a representation of smelling the roses as one goes through life, not a race to the finish.
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The ammo hoists were made from resin mushroom vents and card, with a spare hoist from another kit. The other vents are from the same alliance model works set. The two speed indicators are north star. I will eventually add the two vents behind the ships wheel which are not glued down as the rear mast needs to go between them. There is an extra cable reel on the rear most large vent. I also added a handle to the chain brake. Sorry the binnacle is kit supplied with two tiny bits of plastic attached to represent the metal they put on compasses to stop the magnetic field of the ship upseting them. Finally some distance shots to show the size to the eye. The back deck only really needs the 2 big guns and 2 little ones which will go on last, a couple of life boat stanchions, and of course a mast. Where required I will put individual stanchions and wire them as well as the propeller guard chains.
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Emden Update. The rear deck has taken me ages. Primarily as it is piece work on a very small scale as well as adding extras to the Eduard set. There is no reference to funnels, Cowl vents, Ammunition hoists and tackle and extra cable reels. The zoomed shots make it look a bit messy but with MK1 eyeball it comes up OK. The first two photos I have circled in red what are extras I have added apart from the Eduard set, and the second photo in green are what was left over from the kit. Basically the bottom on the rear capstan and a chain brake for the rear anchor. I scratch built the pin rails as they would not be out of scale at 1/100 if I used the kit supplied one, as well as scratch building the cowl vents from brass pipe.
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