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  1. Keith Black
    Craig, that looks fantastic. And it's a pleasure to see Vicky's willingness to be a part of the project. Go team!
  2. Keith Black
    Thank you, Bob. Unfortunately where you want the rum keg to go is where the chart table goes. No black trim on the inside, it's just too dang hard to cut straight paint lines at this scale. Trying to paint black trim on the inside would probably drive me clean over the edge.
  3. Keith Black
    Thank you, Keith. The only reason I could justify having the engine controls in the pilothouse is because the pilothouse sits directly over the engine room. Had that not been the case then an engine telegraph and engineer would have been necessary. Thank you, Tom. Tallow was used on wood decks as grease to make things slide about easier requiring less energy. Pile drivers use tallow to help in driving piling. Lula maybe delivering that barrel of tallow to a pile driver, not sure how story is gonna play out. As promised. Sorry, I should have included this photo in my first post of the day. The heck of it is, the only view inside the pilothouse will be through the open rear PH door. I was going to stain the interior but now thinking I need to paint the interior white and why not, with few exceptions everything else is white.
  4. Keith Black
    A little trim makes a huge difference.
  5. Keith Black
    Thank you, Eric Thank you, Eberhard. I used the photo below as inspiration for Lula's pilothouse interior and engine controls. I scaled the controls to match the height of the pilot to be added later. A US penny looks huge when placed on the floor of the PH. I'll make sure I get the photo taken and posted next time. And that's the last photo I will use to complete Lula with the exception of the original historical photo of Lula. No more boilers, steam engines, derrick cranes, or pilothouses, just little Lula the car ferry. I need to make a chart table and chair (we'll see how that goes) and once those are done all remaining work is on the exterior. I don't know why but it seems like I've been working on Lula for a very long time when in actuality i'm barely into my fifth month of actual fabrication. I find myself slowing down and reminiscing as much as I work as the end of my intimacy with Lula draws to a close.
  6. Keith Black
    Thank you to all for your comments and likes. Lula as she now sits, everything shown is glued into place. I added a tallow barrel against the forward coal bin wall. The pilothouse stove stack will be shortened once the pilot house roof is attached. The engine controls have been added. Center and bellow the ships wheel is a foot plunger that activates the steam whistle. To either side of the steam whistle foot control are foot levers and next to the foot levers are the throttle control levers. When in the foot levers are in the up position both throttle control levers are connected to one another and operate in tandem. When a foot lever is stepped on and in the down position that particular throttle control lever is disengaged. If both foot levers are down then both throttle control levers are disengaged. To either side of the throttle control levers are the engine forward/reverse levers. When the levers are parallel with the ships wheel the engines are in the stop position. A little bit better view of port side foot lever. Thank you to everyone for your support by following along and being part of the journey. Keith
  7. Keith Black
    There is a thumb button on top of the lever.....starter button? Also, the steering wheel did turn because of the different wheel positions in the array of photos which is curious if all it's meant for is to hold onto?
  8. Keith Black
    In the last photo of post #178 that Craig posted, the steering wheel tube appears to be just mounted to the seat board with no internal linksge out the forward end through the body to the rear or an external link for that matter. IMHO, the wheel was nothing more that something to hang on to
  9. Keith Black
    You should be extremely proud, John. The love you've put into the restoration is clearly visible.
  10. Keith Black
    Question, did the steering wheel actual steer or was it merely something to hang onto?
  11. Keith Black
    Welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  12. Keith Black
    Coming along nicely, Mark.
  13. Keith Black
    The upper deck railing turned out sweet, Phil.
  14. Keith Black
    As if they need encouragement. Snake eating cows, Lordy what's next in today's crazy world? I really only like cows when placed between a bun. I've milked em morning and night for over a year, vaccinated, castrated (banded), and tagged what at the time seemed like millions of four month old calves (a four month calf weighs approximately 200 pounds and will kick your backside) on open land without chutes, watched em as one on cue raise their tails and without reason just start running, heads down and tails up looking like pennants flying from a hundred mainmast taking out every fence they encountered till the wind fell off. Yeah, between a bun.......with cheese.
  15. Keith Black
    I hate hearing about your fall, I know how painful those falls are. The plus side of all this is that you can ignore that white nonsense outside your front window. Doesn't Canada have their version of Florida?
  16. Keith Black
    Firstly, welcome to MSW, DS. Secondly, IMHO, Vallejo plastic putty is dang near useless on wood models. I wouldn't use it as planking filler.
  17. Keith Black
    The Tally Ho journey has been an important part of my life from the first episode. I've followed a couple of MSW Tally Ho builds that have come to naught. I hope you're more successful, Anthony.
  18. Keith Black
    Yes, 1:350 is nicely priced. I looked at MM as a source for my Tennessee's ship's boats. While the boats are quite lovely, the prices are astronomical.
  19. Keith Black
    And stupidly expensive for items 1:96 to !:128 scale.
  20. Keith Black
    Mai Tai time in the big house is the signal for the cows to start looking for weak points in the fence.
  21. Keith Black
    That's where the dirt goes. Weathering/washing is an art I'm far from mastering but I do enjoy the learning curve.
  22. Keith Black
    James, Archer Transfers here in the US sells rivet transfers, see the below link. I have no clue what it would cost to ship a sheet to the UK? https://www.archertransfers.com/search?q=rivet&_pos=2&_psq=rivets&_ss=e&_v=1.0
  23. Keith Black
    Congratulations, Glen! Gorgeous work, she looks stunning.
  24. Keith Black
    No Pancho?
  25. Keith Black
    Unbelievable meticulous gorgeous work, Ilhan.

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