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Keith Black

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  1. Keith Black
    Eberhard, thank you taking the time to explain. I thought I could shoehorn linoleum into Lula's time period but I can now see that's not the case. Okay, okay, wood flooring it is. But I did quite like the linoleum, Tom......from your girlyman brother. Tom and Pat. Unlike the majority of steam vessels Lula's pilothouse sits right on top of the engine room. In fact, if there was a hole in the pilothouse floor the captain/pilot could reach through and strike the engines with his cane. I'm going to portray Lula's engines being controlled from the pilothouse without the aid of someone in the engine room. If there are those that feel this is impractical, I have two EOT's, I could add on in the engine room and one in the pilothouse. But in the below photo I posted earlier, isn't that what's being shown regardless of the EOT? Oh, I'll also be adding a steam whistle and also keeping the bell.
  2. Keith Black
    She's really starting to show her beauty. Wonderful job, John. You and your wife enjoy your time away, be safe.
  3. Keith Black
    Doug, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  4. Keith Black
    I laughed so hard I think I broke my laugh emoji button.
  5. Keith Black
    I'm tryin' to quit, I'm down to a tenth of inch a day. Eberhard, I searched Mr Google for a dark antique linoleum and this is the best that Mr Google came up with. If in your travels you find something that looks more manly please post the photo and I'll scale it and print it and see how it looks. I like the linoleum look but I'm not 100% sold on this pattern.
  6. Keith Black
    Thank you to everyone for your comments and likes. After the potbelly stove debacle it's great to be back on track making progress. Because the engine room's roof is convex I laid down the pilothouse floor plates and bottom siding boards and sanded them level. This allows bringing up the walls without having to make a bunch of wonky cuts. After the floor plates and threshold were done the pilothouse flooring was added. The ships wheel is unattached and raw at this point which still needs to be addressed. If there was any elegance to Lula it would have been inside the pilothouse. Looking through the aft door, the floor is dark after the white threshold so the the floor doesn't look like it's painted white. The chart desk/table is white but the walls don't appear to be white suggesting they may have been paneled? One can also see a four legged stool with a backrest and then the wheel. That's all we can see for certain, anything else I may add and the interior treatment is conjecture on my part. Pilothouses seemed to be comfortable with a certain amount of beauty. This pilothouse interior is what I'll use as a templet for Lula less the engine telegraph. I could sand the flooring I added and give it a poly coat or... I could add linoleum which was a traditional flooring treatment. I think this looks pretty stinkin' hot. I like it but it's so different and out of character, it'd take some getting used to. I was going to add doors on the port and starboard walls but I need wall space plus the single aft door keeps the original Lula look intact. Thank you for your support and for following along. Keith
  7. Keith Black
    It'd hold a tenth of an inch worth.
  8. Keith Black
    The water turned out great, Bob.
  9. Keith Black
    Compared to the amount of time I spent trying to make one it's dirt cheap. At a tenth of an inch I'd do better trying to shape the solder blob with a jewelers file. As long as a turning is simple or an object is straight lines I can get objects made that measure between .03 and .04 with moderate success. I've had enough time in the saddle in the 1:120 world to know that a tenth of an inch object is beyond my meager skills.
  10. Keith Black
    I agree, thank you, John. Thank you, Lynn. Lynn and Tom, a coffee pot to scale would be about 0.10 inches. I don't have the equipment to make things that small. Thank you, Pat
  11. Keith Black
    John, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  12. Keith Black
    Nice!
  13. Keith Black
    After a day's effort of trying to make a potbelly stove I've raised the white flag. I take defeat hard but I need to move forward with positive progress. I've ordered a potbelly stove from All Scale Miniatures., see the link below. https://www.allscaleminiatures.com/miniature-gallery/stove-potbelly-w-chimney-single
  14. Keith Black
    John, welcome to MSW. Congratulations on completing your model, so many come excited to start and never finish which is so sad. I look at making mistakes as a learning experience. Learning what not to do next time, learning how to make it better in the future, and most importantly, learning how to have more fun. Glad to have you aboard.
  15. Keith Black
    Wolle, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  16. Keith Black
    Each new post is a delight, Ilhan.
  17. Keith Black
    Thank you, Keith, you are most kind. The difficulty in turning a potbelly stove is the size, 0.30 H X 0.21 W at the base and trying to show detail. I may waste some time in the effort but in material, not so much. John, I absolutely agree.
  18. Keith Black
    Keith, add them to the hull and if you absolutely despise the look of them, build the stand in such a way that they are hidden.
  19. Keith Black
    Thank you for your input, Bob. Thank you, LJP Thank you, Keith. Thank you, Eric. You're correct, there wouldn't have been any smoke or fumes coming up from the engine room. And you're also correct for the need to turn it off come summer. I'm of two minds, floor registers or potbelly stove. Floor registers keeps the look of the original Lula but a potbelly stove is traditional. Plus, where the heck would the crew have put on a pot of coffee? Without a stove in the pilothouse there wouldn't be one. With a stove in the pilothouse, one could argue that was where the coffee was made. I'm going to get out my 1/2 inch cordless lathe and see if I can successfully turn a potbelly stove. If I'm able to, Lula gets a stove, if not, then I'm going with floor registers though neither registers nor radiated heat plumbing would hardly be seen at this scale. No real progress to note in the below photo, it's just a fun photo of Lula and the pile driver. Thank you to everyone for your comments, likes, and for being part of the journey. Keith
  20. Keith Black
    So we come to the final chapter of a wonderfully beautiful story. Thank you for showing us your rigging tools, Johann.
  21. Keith Black
    Mark, on each ship some rake added per the captains wishes. From what I've read and seen discussed most are between 3 and 5 degrees main and fore and no more than 7 degrees on the mizzen. If you search "mast rake" I beat you find several discussions on the topic.
  22. Keith Black
    In the original photo of Lula, a pilothouse stove is not shown. On most if not all steamboats a pilothouse stove was a necessity "the stove was placed close enough to the wheel to singe the pilot's coattails" I'm starting to lay out the pilothouse and I have a question, with Lula's pilothouse directly above the engine room, was there enough waste heat from below that with gratings, would there have been enough heat to warm the pilothouse? TYIA.
  23. Keith Black
    I think you succeeded, Glen. The look better than mine.
  24. Keith Black
    Thank you, Keith. Beginners luck me thinks. Thank you, Lynn. You gave me a smile, TY.
  25. Keith Black
    Those are some peachy yards, Glen. The foot ropes turned out really well.

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