Keith Black
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Vaddoc, thank you. Knowing you're looking over my shoulder is contribution enough. I hope this build log helps you in some small way and more importantly I hope it develops in you an interest in this period of ship design. -
I am evolving, I spit on you, 2nd Law.
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I don't know why you would think that? Your work is very tidy and clean, top shelf stuff. I'm sure everyone in your family would be proud to display your work.
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Come talk to me a couple of hundred years from now and I'll show you what I mean.
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This from your website. Hence, the WESPE-Class was designed to be mainly a heavily armoured gun-platform, giving long-range protection to the tidal North Sea harbours that are surrounded by mud-flats and to give mobile protection to the deep fjords of Schleswig-Holstein's Baltic coast. They would be backed-up by heavy artillery (and later torpedo batteries) in coastal forts. The guns usually could only be trained by turning the whole boat. This seems more difficult then it probably was, because even in the old days of the rowing gunboats they would attack by rowing in a wide circle and when the intended target passed through the line of aim, one would fire. As the WESPE-Class was designed to let themselves fall dry on mud-flats, a possibility to train the gun was needed. I surmised that a Captain had to have all his skill sets at the ready when letting his ship settle on to a mudflat at low tide. I'm somewhat familiar with mudflats having worked on the Egegik River in Alaska.
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Eberhart, I would disagree only in that in time all paint is going to flake. By applying a protective coating (I use Poly) one is delaying that process. I think most modelers build for not their lifetime but for many more lifetimes to come.
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That's a total of 134,400 LB's which is an absolutely amazing amount of gun weight for a ship to carry back in that era. One wonders how they managed to lift off the flats if they let the tide run out from underneath them? Tidal flat mud is some very sticky stuff and and a great deal of suction is created when the hull of a ship is allowed to settle in at low tide particularly when heavy-laden. Operating in low waters had to be a gut-wrenching affair, a Captain couldn't afford to guess about the tidal topography of the area in which he patrolled. The weight of the XI Dahlgren gun (barrel 15,000 LB's) and carriages for a total of 20,000 LB's was stunning to me but they are mere toys compared to the Krupp 30.5 cm rifled breech-loading gun. You're doing a very nice job on the gun and carriage, it's the guns that are the crown jewels of a warship.
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Eberhard, what is the gun's barrel weight and weight for both barrel and carriage combined? Thank you.
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I noticed the absence of the ship's wheel in the photos and I wondered why so I went back through your build log looking for when you made the wheel and..........you haven't gotten that far! I swear I'm losing it faster than a sailor loses money in one of "those" houses on shore leave. My old mind is jumping to conclusions. When this project is completed, twelve selected photos would make for great calendar but I would hate to be the one with the task of narrowing it down to just twelve photos.
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I suspect heckblocks is a misspelling and isn't it Tanganyika not Tanganjika? Who is the kit manufacture?
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Look at all that shiny stuff! The execution and precision of each piece is absolutely mind boggling, each one a little jewel set in perfect symmetry. Incredibly beautiful, Keith. You made my day with the deck photos, thank you.
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It's so nice to see a young person take up ship modeling. JeffBoats, I wish you well with your first build. I hope you fall in love with the hobby and that we see more of your build logs after the Swift.
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That's incorrect. Actually it's a small circle within a larger circle, neither is a full circle.
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I have to agree with Pat, getting from stage 3 to stage 4, it would appear that the shifting carriage's rear trucks are maneuvering across unprotected deck.
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Beautifully done, Keith. The first picture in post #1147, the cowl mouths are black, is that paint or shadow? One sees the insides often painted red, what was the reasoning behind painting the inside of a cowl?
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Pat, it didn't look correct and I have no clue where they came up with that configuration. In the above Alabama build by Jonathan11, these sweeps make sense and appear correct. He's doing a nice job on his build.
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Todd I think what you are referring to are vent pipes? A picture of your Swift would help.
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Thank you, Pat. For these two guns the races are a simple circle. The next two guns, the XI Dahlgren converted to eight inch shell are beast sitting amidships facing forward. Their races appear to be complex, I'll be getting as much information from the H and H photos as possible and I'll also study the race configurations from the USS Kearsarge to help fill in the blanks should the need arise. There is also this from the Alabama. https://deadconfederates.com/2012/10/21/moving-the-big-guns-on-alabama/
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Thank you Roger, Tony, and Gary for the comments and kind words and thank you to all for the likes. The two 100 LB Parrott breech loading rifles are done with the exception of the circular deck tracks. I'll be making those next. 100 LB Parrott breech loading rifle statistics: Bore, 6.4 inches. Barrel length, 138 inches (11.5 FT.) Barrel weight, 10,266 LB. Shell, 80 or 100 LB. Charge weight, 10 LB. Maximum range, 7,810 yards at 30 degrees (80 LB). Flight time, 32 seconds. Crew size, 17. This from Wikipedia.
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I use Poly to protect painted surfaces as well. Rigging is a dust magnet, being delicate it's problem removing dust. A case addresses a whole lot of problems including inquisitive fingers.
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If it wasn't for the vapors I wouldn't use the stuff.
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