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  1. Keith Black
    Thank you, Ken. When I built the engine room I splashed a bit of weathering about and was going to 'weather as you go' on the remainder of construction but thought better of it and decided to wait till all the construction was done before weathering. Thank you, John. Yes, thankfully we have MSW mates who are much better versed on the technical aspects than I. Thank you, Glen. It's a pink flamingo or nada. Thank you, Phil. Eberhard and Tillsbury, thank you. I messed up when I installed the stairways. I knew I wasn't going to route the cylinder timber supports as was seen in Lula the car ferry when I built the engine room. To account for the cylinder timber supports anchored end, I was going to run the chains underneath the stairways from the top to bottom edges. But I had a moment of unchecked exuberance when I installed the stairways and forgot about running the anchoring chains first. Once the stairs were glued in place there was/isn't anyway to run the chains. 😦 Soooo, we gotta pretend a bit. We gotta pretend there's ample metal structure in the port and starboard engine room walls to carry the load and act as anchor points for the cylinder timber chains attached at the top of the engine room's stern wall. Are you wid me or again me? I do apologize for waiting till now to bring clarity to the situation but I thought, "well, maybe they won't notice"...........yeah right, LOL.
  2. Keith Black
    Thank you to everyone for the comments and the likes. Thank you to all those that joined in on the Google AI discussion. Think I'm gonna go the old/new school route. https://www.britannica.com Scarier than the thoughts of AI dominating the world wide web was how easy the cylinder timber chain installation went, I expect that at any moment Lula is gonna completely unravel. I've never had chain go on this effortlessly, I am amazed! The list is down to handrails and weathering. Thank you to everyone for the support and for following along. Keith
  3. Keith Black
    Good on ya, Ferrus.
  4. Keith Black
    I like the stand for the dinghy, Ferrus. How does the sternwheeler look amongst the rest of your navy?
  5. Keith Black
    Thank you, Eric. This AI business is relatively new. Before, when I used Google search, I could trust the answers I received or at least I thought I could. Should one no longer use Google when doing research? If the answer is 'yes' I'm in serious trouble, all kidding aside.
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    Well, great googly moogly! Mr Google has lost all respect. I figured 1950 couldn't be right but when I tried going deeper into broom history, push broom specifically, I couldn't make headway and Google kept coming back to the 1950 date so I accepted AI's 1950 date as gospel. My apologies to everyone! Thank you Ian and Eberhard. @mcb STOP!
  7. Keith Black
    Ian, nice score on the semaphores research. 👍 Here's a bit more. https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-91000/NH-91482.html https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/363606/view/naval-semaphore-signalling
  8. Keith Black
    Thank you, mcb. The push broom is such a simple idea and it fills a large need, I can't help but believe someone hadn't made a rudimentary push broom long before 1950. They had to have.
  9. Keith Black
    Congratulations, Greg! Well deserved.
  10. Keith Black
    Patent Attorneys gotta eat too. Thank you, Paul. It's hard to believe that push brooms predate the first artificial earth orbiting satellite by only seven years. That's just mind blowing crazy. Thank you, Kurt. Thank you, Keith. For me, doing chain work is like stabbing myself repeatedly with a sharp needle. Okay, a little over the top... a dull needle. Thanks. Phil. Speaking of chain work, I'm off to upstairs to blacken me some chain.
  11. Keith Black
    Thank you, Paul. I was going to add a figure using a push broom and I thought I better check Google and check when the push broom was invented. I'm certainly glad I did because the push broom patent was applied for in 1950. How bizarre is that!
  12. Keith Black
    Thank you, LJP
  13. Keith Black
    Thank you, Rick.
  14. Keith Black
    Thank you, Phil. Thank you, Roel. I hope and pray your life is not at risk because of shortsightedness and greed by those that have authority over you. Companies would be run much differently if the director's children worked in those high risk areas. Thank you to everyone for the comments and the likes. Lula has her crew. There are eight crew members including Captain Bill. The boilerman can be seen at the front of the boiler and the lead deckhand is the person walking toward the bow on the starboard side. The deckhand hanging on the grab handle is the youngest member of the crew. A lot of his foolishness is overlooked and forgiven because he is also the strongest and least fearful of any man onboard. The engineer and his assistant are replacing one of the seals on the hand pump that went wobbly. There are four deckhands including the lead deckhand. Next on the list are the chain supports for the cylinder timbers. What jolly good fun awaits. Thank you to each of you for your support and for following along. Keith
  15. Keith Black
    Isaac and Brian, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you both aboard.
  16. Keith Black
    The hull looks really spiffy, Paul. Very impressive.
  17. Keith Black
    I lived there from 1947 to 1952 when my daddy coal mined and then from 1974 to 1979 when I was old enough to chase memories. The Brick was my second home.
  18. Keith Black
    Ever been to Roslyn?
  19. Keith Black
    I agree with Eberhard. Ferrus, I think everyone likes to think they're going home when their shift is over. IMHO safety is always a concern on any vessel unless it's a fishing boat owned by two young men out to test the patience of God. Lula and the pile driver will be displayed together with the pile driver in tow. I've tried very hard to replicate and capture the spirit of Lula as seen below. If you'll note, there's no clutter. There's no pop bottles scattered about, no tools casually cast aside, and no empty sacks. There's a thick layer of dirt everywhere but there's no "clutter". I want to give Lula as many legitimate details as I can that make sense. The pile driver is cluttered and dangerous, not Lula. This is as good a time as any..... if God grants me a couple more years I'm going to try replicating the below sternwheeler that was part of the 'hard coal navy', it's extreme filth and clutter. https://unchartedlancaster.com/2023/06/17/scraping-the-bottom-dredging-for-coal-on-the-susquehanna/ https://susquehannagreenway.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Danville_Hard_Coal_Navy_Sign-for-web.pdf
  20. Keith Black
    Thank you, Eberhard. I checked again and no luck finding 1:120 scale cats or dogs. TT scale here in the sates is a very unpopular scale. Thank you, Ken. I did find a source with 1: 87 scale cats. According to the measurements they might just work, three are in route. For me, clutter is a hard thing to model and I'm not sure why that is. A pink flamingo!
  21. Keith Black
    I wanted to add a ship's cat but the only supplier I found dealing in 3d printed cats was out of stock. I'd try carving one but I'm afraid that's above my skill level.
  22. Keith Black
    Siggi, a clever solution and the lids look fantastic!
  23. Keith Black
    Very true, Eberhard. John, please banish any thoughts that you might clutter this log. I've seen ship's cats and dogs but never a ship's goat. How bizarre. Siggi, that's a bit of unexpected disorder around a gun unless it was decommissioned? Thank you, Ferrus. The last of the 'to do' list includes the crew, the hog chains for the cylinder timbers, and given time, handrails up the stairs and around the pilothouse. Thanks for the laugh, Tom. Thank you, mcb.
  24. Keith Black
    Arnall, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  25. Keith Black
    Greg, congratulations on completing a very unique and beautiful model.

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