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same thing happened with vista & w/7.........everyone had to scramble to do the drivers for their products.   my admiral was having fits!
 
I'm still hunkered down with XP...........I won't give up without a fight! 

H Popeye, looking great man.....3 at a time....fun fun fun.    To add to the Hobby Lobby thing, if you just go to their website you can get the 40% off a single item coupon anytime you need one or if you have a smart phone you can get one sent to your phone as you stand in line.  It's especially great for expensive items, but I use one every time I go....sometimes twice in one day if I have something I really need or the Admiral will get 1, and I'll follow her through the line and use one too.  They don't discriminate....they will use the coupon on your most expensive item.  

Love that you also frequent the "Households" doll house section of Hobby Lobby!  They have great stuff there if you can match the scale.
 
- Bug

Thank you everyone for dropping in and your like votes.
 
First thing this morning was checking again how my test piece is working out.  I had enough time for the glue to cure and it seems to be holding just fine.  I didn't really pry to hard, there was no need for that but did use some firm pressure with my fingers and it didn't budge.
 
I found a 00005 sable brush in my collection of good artist brushes and decided to try to paint between the slats on the bridge.  That worked like a charm, still have a steady hand 
I also decided to keep the slats on and mixed some Minwax oak with maple dye that came pretty close to the color I ordered from Fiebing, thanks to Remco for the URL.  
 
I also painted both the front and read gun decks and the aft part of the bridge inner liner.  I still need to add a lot of stuff in the front part before I can finish painting the bridge.  I'll have to wait for the dye to arrive before I can put the deck slats on the gun decks.  But that's okay, I have plenty other things to do to keep me occupied. 
 
I primed and painted the periscope housing and when the paint had dried I glued it to the con as well as the chart locker to the front of the cockpit.
 
Next I cut a few small pieces of copper tube for the center hinges on the crew hatches and soldered them on.  
 
The last thing I did was to trim the aft outer plates to the correct shape for the bridge, painted them on the inside and glued them on. 
 
Well, that was all for today and again a few pics of today's efforts.
 

This shows a close-up of the cockpit with the deck painted grey, the slats dyed with my mixture to simulate teak and the periscope housing glued to the con structure.
 

This is another view a little further aft for an overall shot of the bridge.  The flash of the camera kinda washed out the grey paint but it really looks nice, much better then the dark grey I had.
 

The aft outboard side panels glued on.  I had to use gel CA glue for the aft joint, no way to clamp it there.  
 
Cheers,

Hi guys, thanks for all the likes and such.  Grant, I just never have cared for Apple computers....old IBM guy and never switched.  I emailed SONY last night, and got a reply from them today.  The guy actually had an immediate fix which he instructed me through and it worked the first time I tried it.  Wow, I think I might even be impressed.......My camera is a SONY DSC-R1 which they quit making in 2006.  It was a very expensive DSLR camera at the time but I am amazed that they still supported it this long.  Good for SONY, I'm happy.....well, perhaps now I can get back to the shipyard.....

wow Piet you have been busy , looking really great

Hi guys, thanks for all the likes and such.  Grant, I just never have cared for Apple computers....old IBM guy and never switched.  I emailed SONY last night, and got a reply from them today.  The guy actually had an immediate fix which he instructed me through and it worked the first time I tried it.  Wow, I think I might even be impressed.......My camera is a SONY DSC-R1 which they quit making in 2006.  It was a very expensive DSLR camera at the time but I am amazed that they still supported it this long.  Good for SONY, I'm happy.....well, perhaps now I can get back to the shipyard.....

Fantastic work, John.  Loving the small details that really make a difference!

is not the real thing,  the look your going for?   your doing fine 

Thanks Popeye and Wayne, details are still in the works.  Yesterday and today were real life chores.  I had to build a double hinged gate to close in our RV from view frome the street, so shipyard was closed.  After finishing, I have managed to get in a few minutes though.  So here is today's progress.....1 deadeye and chain plate....starboard foremast .....tomorrow is another day....

Looks nice Jason.  I'll be doing the same very shortly.....

Cheers Mobbsie and all the 'likes'.
 
Think I'm officially into the rigging stage.  Mizzen mast stepped and the shrouds in installed.  I'm going to wait to finish 'tightening' these until later.  Found the method of getting the 3.5mm deadeyes into the shrouds at the correct height very fiddly, after many choice words found that using 2 pieces of wire in the holes worked better for me (rather than a single one as called out in the instructions) as this provided some more stability.  Hopefully the 5mm deadeyes will be a little easier.
 
Theres quite a stack of shrouds around the mast which is quite pleasing, glad that these were served.  Following Andy's advice the Burton pendants were 'painted' with quite a bit of dilute PVA and then weighted so that they followed a more natural, less gravity defying line.
 
A belated Happy New Year to everyone!!
 

Looks nice Augie.....Happy New Year to you also......I like the lines....

Thanks Popeye and Wayne, details are still in the works.  Yesterday and today were real life chores.  I had to build a double hinged gate to close in our RV from view frome the street, so shipyard was closed.  After finishing, I have managed to get in a few minutes though.  So here is today's progress.....1 deadeye and chain plate....starboard foremast .....tomorrow is another day....

Okay, it's New Year's eve and this'll be my last post in 2013, here's to all y'all   
 
Now that the bridge is planked I decided to go ahead with gluing the side panels on.  It'll be a little difficult painting and staining the deck but I'll use a small brush 
 
I was busy ripping the 1 X 1 mm strips of poplar and sanding them.  I only want enough to do the AA gun decks.
Bothe the forward and rear decks are now glued on and we can proceed with installing the slats.  But first I'll check to see how the glue will hold on paint with some small voids in the paint for the glue to hold to wood.
In the meantime I can make the other stuff that goes into the cockpit like the chart locker, the helm, power telegraph, antenna bridge, three doors, hinges for the crew hatch lids and the AA gun bun lids,  etc. etc.
I can also fiddle with the gun pedestals to add some "stuff" to them.  And make more slats for the main deck.
 
So I have plenty of little things to do before getting back to the deck slats.
 
Well, here are a few pics of the progress this day.
 

The front part of the bridge and the forward and rear gun decks are being glued on.  I used my riveting bucking bars as hold-down weights.  These are still left over from my aircraft sheet metal days in a previous life  .
 

After the glue had cured sufficiently I could remove the weights and clamps and just wanted to see how the next side plates would look.  Not too bad   
 

These are the 1 X 1 mm slats ready for use on the gun decks.  
 
Cheers, 

Making a few of us happy as well. 
 
If you do need to resort to gluing the slats on the painted deck, you could try pricking some very small holes through the paint so the glue can penetrate.  This should hold the slats well as there are really no stresses on them.  I know ---- more tedium.  But it does work reasonably well.

And why shouldn't you be?
 
John

Thank you all for visiting and like what I'm doing!  It's really encouraging to me.
 
Today I made some saw dust.  I started to rip 1mm planks out of some discarded pieces of poplar.  Waste now want not, right?  Must be the frugal Dutchman in me 
I guess that for the main deck I'll need to buy a new ¼ inch board or two from the Home Depot.
 
I'm aiming right now to get the entire conning tower put together so I can concentrate on the deck details.  Lots of work there.
 
Yeah, it's a little labor intensive work to make a gezillion slats but right now I have no other choice.  I cleaned up the slats in the cockpit and they came out rather nice.  I made the slats for the aft end of the bridge planning to install the sides but I'll have to hold off doing that till I have pre-made some of the detail stuff in the front.
 
Next on the agenda is to finish the aft and forward AA gun decks so I can put the deck slats on them.  I made the forward AA gun deck plate and cemented the AA gun buns to the frame.  I could glue all the deck pieces to the lower con frame but before I do that I must remember to paint the white styrene AA gun buns gray and trim the deck plates.  That'll be a chore for tomorrow.
 
It's better to glue the slats to the decks when on the model because then I have the gun buns and the crew hatches as a guide to where to glue these slats.  I'm following the deck layout drawing that shows the location of the teak deck slats.
 

This shows all deck pieces fitted but not yet trimmed to their final shape.  I'll wait with that till they are glued on.  It's perhaps a little hard to see but I have glued a few slats to the deck between the cockpit and the periscope housing.  That area will fall inside the bridge side panels.  I just stuck the Vickers AA guns in for the heck of it   And that reminds me of making a slight mod to the pedestals so I can add some details to them, they kinda look naked    
 

This is a better view to see the slats I glued on this afternoon, yup, tedious work alright but it's quite satisfactory to me.  Hmmmm, been thinking how to paint the deck and not the slats - - - I would like to stain the slats    Gluing them to a painted surface is not a good idea.
 

Here is another view looking forward.  You can see a faint outline in pencil where the bridge side panel will come.
 

This is the original deck layout that I'm trying to follow as best as I can.  The quality is not the greatest but we'll muddle through it.  Right now I'm not that anal about getting the precise number of deck slats  correct.  So far though it seems to be working out just as the drawing show.  It should, because 1 mm is in scale for 5 cm, which is my guess they may have been originally.
 

This is just a profile shot as the con looked at the time I closed the shipyard at 17:30.  I'm pretty happy with how it's looking   
 
Cheers,
 
 

Well, as I started checking things, I realized I hadn't built the Breasthook earlier as I was waiting till the opportune time, well, today was opportune if it was going to get done, so I worked on the foremast and the breasthook today.....

and the grinding wheel around the workbench

Looking good my friend, The Con is shaping up very nicely.  2014 will be interesting for all of us....Happy New Year to you and Gwen.....

Thanks Popeye and Wayne, details are still in the works.  Yesterday and today were real life chores.  I had to build a double hinged gate to close in our RV from view frome the street, so shipyard was closed.  After finishing, I have managed to get in a few minutes though.  So here is today's progress.....1 deadeye and chain plate....starboard foremast .....tomorrow is another day....

Looking good my friend, The Con is shaping up very nicely.  2014 will be interesting for all of us....Happy New Year to you and Gwen.....

Thanks Popeye and Wayne, details are still in the works.  Yesterday and today were real life chores.  I had to build a double hinged gate to close in our RV from view frome the street, so shipyard was closed.  After finishing, I have managed to get in a few minutes though.  So here is today's progress.....1 deadeye and chain plate....starboard foremast .....tomorrow is another day....

I ask for a little slack from the mods on this one..(Dont reply to this...just hit the like button).....I couldn't pass this up....   On behalf of Diane, "Cosmo" and myself may all of you have a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year......