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mandolinut
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Taking a break from the safety lines and stanchions and decided to work on the small outboard runabout. The Billing runabout comes in two parts, upper and lower. The apparent flat floor surface is too near the top. I plan on adding two wooden seats and want to have leg room. Today I cut out the floor from the upper half and after sanding, glued the removed part to the bottom of the hull for a flat surface. I feel it looks more like a boat now and less like a jet ski. I have been looking for an "O" gauge outboard motor without much luck. That will make a nice touch and could be either stowed away in the boat or hung off the transom ready to go. I will probably have to fabricate one from wood. Makes me wish I had a laser printer.
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Hello all. I have drilled and temporarily placed the rails in position and am at the point of running wire through the stanchion safety rails. I see this rail feature is common to a number of Billing ships. Question to those who have done this....are there any do's and don'ts? How do you deal with a joint if the supplied wire is not long enough for a run? Thanks in advance. Patrick
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I drilled 34 more holes on the perimeter of the upper deck today for more safety rail stanchions. Added to the 21 holes drilled yesterday for upper safety rail stanchions, Calypso has more piercings than a rock star :0) I also wrapped the mini sub with bumper material I found at Michael's Hobby. It is a 2mm very flexible black rubber / wire found in the bead department. Seems to be a good scale. For some reason the packaging says leather. Go figure. I see I need to add some touch up glue to the front.
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I had fun today working on what will become fenders for Calypso. I began by adding wood glue to the tops to fill in the gaps from the cotter pin. Then hand painted some black on top. The fun part was then dipping them in some white paint to create an even coating at the top. I will do the same thing to some of the other floats with orange paint for dive floats. Began drilling pilot holes using calipers and the life size plans for the safety rail stanchions on the upper deck and pilot house.
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Thank you again.
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I added the upper deck trim above the edge trim previously done so the upper deck to hull joint is completely gone. Still needs more sanding and paint. I now have a surface to attach the safety rails. Once the safety rails are complete on the upper deck and around the pilot house roof, I can finally glue the components down. Meanwhile, I am enjoying dry fitting all of the parts at the end of the day just to look at everything together. I wanted more than the three fender / dive floats supplied with the model, so bought a necklace from Michael's Hobby and Craft store made of 10mm wood beads that match the three supplied with the kit. I added small cotter pins that I shortened through the top and wood putty on the bottom to remove the holes. Some will get painted white and hang down the side of the ship for fenders and others will be painted yellow and red for dive floats.
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I am moving right along with Calypso. Another question please. For detail, I want to build scuba tanks and larger cylinders with compressed gases. Any advice on how you made yours would be helpful. Thankyou.
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The African Queen. My First Listing and First build here.
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The African Queen. My First Listing and First build here.
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Making a little more progress today. Added the headlights to the minisub. They consist of the helicopter wheels from the aftermarket model I used for the cockpit. Bent a small copper wire 90 degrees and glued it into the axle hole and built up the back hemisphere with drops of paint. This little feature adds a lot to the overall look of the minisub. Now that the upper deck has been glued down and faired, I added the wood strips on the edge to hide the upper deck to hull joint. Next step will be to add the wood strips on top of the upper deck that rest on top of these edge strips.
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I finally made the decision not to go with interior led lighting. At the ripe young age of 76, this Calypso will most likely end up in my local yacht club and the lighting feature would never be used or seen. With that said, the upper deck was glued down to the hull today. A big moment for me. I can now fair the edges of the deck to match the hull lines (there is a slight overlap of the deck) and add the upper and outer trim pieces to hide the joint. Also beginning the mini sub. Creating some headlights to go above the port holes as seen in the photo. Also added some port and starboard thrusters as seen in Calypso photos along with a few other features. I'll eventually add a robotic arm. Planning to strip a section of black copper wire and split it down the center for the black bumper trim to go around the edges. Enjoying the journey.
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Thankyou Alan and Don. Don, your helicopter was my inspiration! Thanks for sharing. Also, your idea of Krystal Klear for the port holes on the chamber, ship's bulb nose and mini sub. Patrick
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More work on the helicopter. The rear section and pontoons and rotor blades are all Billing. The highly detailed Cockpit and engine are from an OH-13 Sioux (same scale) by Italeri. Quite happy with the look so far. Will only get better with more paint and decals. So not 100% accurate but darn close :0)
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I placed many already built parts together today for this photo, but at this point, nothing is glued down or attached, all dry fit. I painted some of the brass hardware which really hurt, because I really liked the look of the brass, but it did not work for "the Calypso look". I am sure my fellow Calypso builders felt the same when painting over their brass parts.. Still working on the helicopter. I have put off gluing the upper deck down trying to decide if I should add LED lighting. My wife has already determined that this size model will not end up or fit in our home, but end up in my other house, which is my art/painting studio. She said "what are you going to do? Go over to your studio at night to look at Calypso with the lights on?" We had a good laugh over that.
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Nice to hear from you yvesidal and mtdoramike. I have looked at and learned from both of your Calypso builds. The Calypso holds many memories for me growing up watching the Undersea World of Jaques Cousteau. Today I was able to do a few fun mini projects. Built the ladder for the ship's chimney, constructed the satellite dome, built the legs for the helicopter landing platform, and drilled openings in the foredeck for the anchor chain and towers. I decided to back up the underdeck for the towers to create a stronger attachment point.
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Adding plastic filler to the tops of helicopter pontoons to hide the seams and make them flat and flush. Also began the helicopter landing structure. Taking my time and enjoying the journey.
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I did some initial painting of the helicopter today. When dry, the fuselage will need sanding before the next coat of yellow paint is applied. Dry fitted the basic tail section. More to come. The second photo is to show scale. The forward curves of the landing gear will be clipped, and the pontoons will be added to the bottom.
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