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Congratulations Denis This ship looks MUCH better than it would have if I had built it.- 171 replies
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That's funny, While I was looking at my hull after placing the last planks and looking it all over and deciding if it was Viking funeral time or not, (Now with a full hull she can be floated) I thought that if nothing else she was solid and now has a little heft.
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You are right I can see them now. Great work on your swivel cannon mounts. Looks like you are making great progress!
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There is always the first time. I'll be back Friday so I should be able to get drunk enough to post pictures by Saturday. Thanks Al I am going camping so I hope the rain holds off for a few more days but I agree. I am beginning to feel like I am living in LA.
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Congratulations Al NOW you have a ship model rather than a turtle! Must be nice to be able to pick her up and look at your work rather than having to hunch over the table and guess.
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Thank you Sam I didn't even think anyone was looking in here anymore as it has been so long since I posted anything. I have been working on her believe it or not. I have been averaging about one or two planks a day and yesterday I finished the last plank and did a little design work on the keel and stem. I didn't make any updates as it really is pretty boring stuff and as this is my first attempt at "Proper" planking I thought I would just wait to post pictures until I have it done. That way I will just have to put up with being laughed at once rather than several times over the planking process. I will be gone over the next couple of days but when I get back I will post pictures of my meager efforts, and give all interested a chance to have a good laugh, or a chance to loose their lunch! Consider this fair warning.
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You still may want to be a little careful even there CDW. The Japanese were, (and are) noted for keeping very clean ships. As you intend to add people actually working at loading coal you could probably get away with it. But as soon as coaling was done I am almost certain that here would be crewmen with high pressure steam hoses and brooms cleaning everything in sight! Holy stoning the decks was also still quite common on these ships and would eliminate much of the staining that would otherwise possibly be present. Super great Looking build!
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You also have to use inside planks. Outside planks will never work!
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They are if you shave them! Welcome to the madhouse Bare_Koala.
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Others may have better ideas, but with my model of the Union I secured the wales to the hull with very thin CA applied carefully and allowed to soak under the wale before moving on to the next section. CA is not the preferred glue here on MSW but it worked pretty well for me
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Glad you worked it out. I had the same problems when I first started. Now if I could only do a descent build and take reasonable pictures I would have it together.
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It sounds like I don't have the right pipe in my mental image. looking forward to the pictures.
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It may be different on an Ipad but on my computer I write all the text I want to use then upload all the pictures I want to include. They end up as thumbnails at the bottom of the page. Then I place the cursor where I want the picture to be inserted and hit the '+' button on the bottom left of the thumbnail. That picture appears in the main text where I indicated and I move the cursor to the next location in the text and do the same for the next picture. Rinse and repeat until done. I suppose you could also type your text, hit 'enter,' click the plus symbol on the thumbnail, hit 'enter' again and continue with more text. So forth and so on. Hope that is understandable.
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You made me remember Alan. I think I dimly remember using a slingshot with pebbles once. I wonder if all this model destruction had anything to do with the average quality of the models? To do the same thing to some of the models posted here would be sacrilege to say the least!
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Yipee! A drive in build! At last someone with good taste! Hot dogs are not even good dog food and chilly dogs are just hot dogs covered up with spicy beans so you don't notice what you are eating. Carl I always thought those "H" shaped pipes were something to do with the galley stove or something like a wardroom heater, as there always seems to be only one on British ships. Are there more than one on the H class?
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Cherry Bombs!! What were you simulating? The Bikini Island tests? As I didn't own a gun that would really shoot I was partial to lighter fluid and a match. The huge clouds of black smoke were very realistic I thought.
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Hi OC I have had to do similar painting things on models in years past and as I didn't even own an airbrush had to brush paint just as you do. I found that if you pour a small puddle of paint onto a flat surface you can dip the item into the paint and then brush OFF the excess with a dry brush rather than paint it on. smaller stuff you can just dip into the jar. Sounds odd but it worked for me back in my younger days.
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I would not be surprised that if you had the plans available the coal chutes below those holes would be rather narrow, almost like a somewhat thick double hull. they were built that way to act as a kind of armor plating of sorts with the idea that the coal would absorb some of the impact of a round. It is certain though that coaling was probably the least favorite activity of crews around the world at that time. As for the people who shoveled it into the fireboxes? There was a reason they were called the black gang! Nothing racial about it at all. Just think how it must have been for the Russian crews who as the bunkers were used up had to refill them at sea from the extra coal that was stored on deck! They had to do this for months on their way to getting sunk at the battle of Tsushima!
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Ken beat me to it. They are coal shuttles and the ship needed a lot of them in order to get refueling done in a timely manner. These ships were not noted as high millage vessels.
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You need to be a little more careful OC in what you say around us more base people who have minds that never get too far above gutter level! Bringing your "Barbie" and having having plenty to go around in the same sentence can conger all kinds of lewd visions in the wrong people.
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Must have been a very poor day for posting as well. Even the picture didn't work for me!
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How you built her is your choice. You built what made her came alive for you. Just being able to see her after reading about her so many times in books through the years was a reward enough for me. There are far too many ships like this that deserve to be remembered but are never manufactured or built for some reason.
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It is interesting to see something about the size of a truck in real life be reduced to having to use a macro lens to even see the details! Nice work and interesting presentation OC
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I have two lined up. The Minicraft Titanic, that will be lit, for the Admiral, and the Heavy cruiser Houston as a special for me. A ship that I have read about and loved since my teen years. But I need to get further along on the Providence first. And I thought I was the only one who did that! A light fishing line and pole and hours would go by of imaginary voyages!
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