Keith Black

Ras, congratulations, she's a beauty.

Good stuff, Roel. What do your shipmates think of your modeling?

Mike, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.

Ras, she looks great!

Lars, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.

Incredible detail at that small scale, Glen. Very nice work.

Thank you, Gary Thank you, Tom. Thank you, Rick.

Andrew, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.

Thank you, Eberhard.

Bob, you've got a regular ship building opera going on there. The served line looks the cats meow. Gabe is awfully good people.

Thank you, John.

Thank you, Bob. Ian, having a 3D printer would definitely make modeling life easier but alas..........

Thank you, Glen. Eric, I'm glad you were looking forward to it because I wasn't. Old stubby fingers gotta think outside the box.

Hoping all is well with you and yours.

A huge thank you to everyone for the likes and the support. John, thank you for your support. Thank you, Kurt. These vessels were crudely built, I need to learn to be less sandpaper happy. Thank you, Pat. It's going to be a fun exercise. Thank you, Gary. Keith, thank you. I was much more confident building the pile driver than Lula as sternwheeler information seems harder to come by. Seven years ago when I was trying to find wheels for the Tennessee's signal cannon and gatling gun carriages it became evident that wheels of any type close to 1:120 was almost impossible to find. Since then I'm always keeping an eye out for wheels in the 1:120 scale range. A couple of weeks ago when I was in the process of placing a fittings order from Cornwall Model Boats I came upon these 28mm Amati yacht wheels. I almost jumped out of my chair. I didn't see a yacht's wheel, what I saw was this! I think they're great framework on which to build Lula's paddlewheel and they're the perfect size, 1:102 inches in diameter. I had designed Lula's wheel to be 1.40 inches but i can and a tenth of an inch without ill effects. Unfortunately CMB was out of stock and mild panic set in but I came across ModelNet (I'd not know of them beforehand) who said they had stock. I thought maybe I only needed three but I ordered six of the little buggers just in case! They didn't have stock in the UK but they did have stock in their Australian facility, they arrived yesterday. The current setup is very temporary and it's more an exercise to insure the concept is feasible. I've also added templets on Lula's deck to establish that my layout plan is okay. The coal bunker templet is 16 feet in width, I debate with myself between 14 and 16 feet. Thank you to everyone for following along. Keith

Jcurtis, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.

john, I'm so sorry to hear about your wife's fall but glad to hear she's doing better. I have indeed missed looking over your shoulder and look forward to your return to work on the Klondike. Happy Holidays!

John, I miss seeing updates on the Klondike plus I could follow your lead with Lula.

The Panay (PR-5) was launched in 1927. Shouldn't this build be in the 1901 to Present Day build log group? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Panay_(PR-5)

She gets more beautiful with each new post.

That's amazing, Glen.

Thank you to everyone for the comments and the likes. Lula's deck is planked. The hull is painted. As I feared the planking doesn't show, oh well. I was in a quandary trying to determine the best approach for building the engine room due to the different elevations. The 1.6 inch piece of wood perpendicular to the deck is the engine room's stern wall's bottom plate. I ran the center decking against the bottom plate forward edge and made the two outside ends flush with the upsweep wheel support decking. There is so much that needs to be replicated in this tiny area, cylinder timbers and pitman arms running from the engine room, pillow blocks, blocks for making the wheel the correct height, rudder post and the wheel., all to be built within a 1.6 inch W x 1.5 inch L x 1.4 inch H space. I deviated from Lula's photo and ran all the decking lengthwise. I get a little more support for the plywood upsweep doing it this way. Thank you to all for following along. Keith

Wasn't that an old TV show?

Too Funny!..........stupid frog.