Keith Black

14 minutes ago, Knocklouder said:

That is so cool Keith, I think the interior would look great in white and black trim for the windows , and under the penny to the left of the door looks like there is enough room for a Rum keg on a little white stand. 😀.   Great work my freind.

 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. 

1 hour ago, clearway said:

nice one Keith- i never realised they had steam engine controls in the wheel/ pilot house - would cut out the need for an engineer as well as a fireman in the boiler/engine room.

 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.

1 hour ago, tmj said:

Nice work on those small parts! Pardon my ignorance, but I'm curious. What was the tallow used for?

 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. 

 A little trim makes a huge difference. 

3 hours ago, Cathead said:

That's spectacular!

 Thank you, Eric

3 hours ago, wefalck said:

So it kind of operates like the knee-levers on electrical sewing machines? Interesting mechanism.

 

She now really looks like a hard-working vessel 👍🏻  I like these unsual workboats.

 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.

 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

 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? 

 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  

 You should be extremely proud, John. The love you've put into the restoration is clearly visible. 

 Question, did the steering wheel actual steer or was it merely something to hang onto? 

 Welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard. 

 Coming along nicely, Mark.

 The upper deck railing turned out sweet, Phil. 

2 hours ago, Glen McGuire said:

NO NO NO!!  They have all been well behaved of late.  Don't give them any ideas or encouragement

 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. 

 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? 

 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. 

 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.  

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.  

15 hours ago, RGL said:

The Micromaster stuff is stupidly good 

 And stupidly expensive for items 1:96 to !:128 scale.  

Mai Tai time in the big house is the signal for the cows to start looking for weak points in the fence. 

1 hour ago, Bryan Woods said:

I don’t want it concentrating in all of the perpendicular cracks

 That's where the dirt goes. Weathering/washing is an art I'm far from mastering but I do enjoy the learning curve. 

 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

 Congratulations, Glen! Gorgeous work, she looks stunning. 

 No Pancho? 

Unbelievable meticulous gorgeous work, Ilhan. 

 Very nice results on the start of the deck planking, Mark.