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Wow. You are really flying right along John. Looking nice.

And again, thank you everyone for dropping in and your like votes.
 
Hello Boris, thanks for your comment on the "pom pom's,"  That made me smile      Yes, the AA gun tubes are clearly meant in some of the pics I have shown and they are directly in front and aft of the center conning tower command center.  The access tubes to each AA gun is aft of the AA gun at the aft AA gun deck and between the AA gun and the open portion of the conning tower, this open portion is called "de badkuip" in Dutch or "bathtub" in English.  However, there is a distinct difference between the AA gun tubes and the crew escape tubes.  The AA gun tubes are slightly larger in diameter and they are straight tubes whereas the escape tubes are a little smaller and tapered.  This is only true for the three escape or access tubes and AA gun tubes in the conning tower.  The three escape tubes in the rest of the hull, those coming through the deck structure, are also straight tubes.
 
There is also a difference between the O 16 you have shown and the O 19 and O 20 class boats.  The coning towers are different with different arrangements of these tubes.  The two access tubes to the AA gun deck portions of the O 19 and O 20 have a domed lid / door on the top side as well as a domed lid / door on the pressure hull.  
The reason for having straight tubes for the AA guns is to be able to raise and lower the AA guns that are mounted on a platform for a proper guide and to provide a stable platform to fire them.  
 
My description may be confusing but the working drawings for the O 19 from the Navy Archive should clear it up.  Send me your mailing address again and I'll make copies of what Remco send me, including the propellers   
 
You cannot compare the O 16 with the O 19 and O 20 class boats, they are two different animals 
 
I tried to scan a few drawings Remco send me to show you but they are too light for the scanner to make a decent copy.  However, Remco also send me a jpg of these pics and I'll try to attach it below.
 
Okay, the last few days I was still puttering with the escape tubes on the hull.  I also changed the position of the ladders to make them at 90 degrees to the boat's axis as seems to be indicated on a few photos.  In looking at the drawings, again, they do have a pressure lid / door on the pressure hull as well as one at deck level.  I'll add the handles to the domed lids that are visible but will cement them on.
 
I have also made the telephone buoy and the forward ventilation exhaust tube.  The telephone buoy has a cord attached to it so it can be deployed in case of an emergency.  Pics will be coming
 
Well, again not much to show for two days of work but what yuns don't see is that I'm still working at the drafting table to draw up the plans for the conning tower.
 
Okay, enough of my jabbering, here are a few pics.
 

This is part of the JPG pic Remco send me.  It shows the details of the aft AA gun deck with the tubes.
 

Here we see the aft torpedo room escape hatch.  It is now cemented in.  Just forward of it is the emergency telephone with buoy.  I'll have the Admiral assist in making a picture with it deployed.
 

This is looking forward with the forward torpedo room escape hatch and the ventilation exhaust pipe.  Sorry, I made it static, no fancy stuff with this thing 
 
Cheers, 

These also show overall views of the entire deck.

This will pretty much bring this log up to date as to where I am.  The tops of the braces are not painted to allow for a good glue joint when the roof is applied.  Now I have the Main Hatch, and then some details for underneath the roof to do.

Now for the third stanchion and the bracing for the roof which will come after some more detailing underneath and prior to the attachment of the roof top.  

There is a third stanchion, but first I had to build the Vegetable Bin which is on deck and under the structure.

Here is the progression of stanchions...they have to be cut into the rails or notched as required, then painted into the sidelines of the hull both black and white striped.

Should anyone need pictures from other views just let me know and I'll post them.  After the Deck House was added it is now time to move to the Shelter/Boat Bearer structure, which is a covered area covering the Boat House, and the Steerage Companionway as well as having storage on top for two small whaleboats, secured upside down, so there won't be any details inside.  The first pictures are of the Steerage Companionway....

At this point the Skylight has been rebuilt and the Deck House & Berth have been constructed and glued to the deck.

The next several posts that I'm going to make will mainly be a series of photos mainly for the benefit of future builders of this ship as it really isn't documented very well in the instructions and to the best of my knowledge no one else is building it on this Forum.  So, bear with me as I can only post 3 pictures at a time and I have several.  I'll try to leave out the multiple views, but will try to show enough details for someone to see what it is supposed to look like.  As far as documentation goes, ME provides good blueprint/plans, but one needs to understand how to read them, and realize that there are mutiple views on several different sheets to give you the correct 3 dimensional picture.  

Hello Guys, I am happy to be back in the shipyards again.  I know many of you have missed me, and I greatly appreciate that.  In the jest of this Forum, I please ask you to refrain from the "welcome backs"  and the yada yada that could go with it.  I know many of you know what I'm talking about.  I will be posting photo's shortly of the progress that has been made during my absence from the yard.  Please PM or email me at: email address removed by moderator to prevent spamming should any one need to discuss something out of the build logs, since we are trying to keep the build logs primarily  ship related.  Let's liven this place up some and get to posting update pictures and discussions and quit looking over our shoulders--- we Are among friends here. We should police ourselves if you know what I mean.  More to come a little later, now let's start livening this "morgue" up again and keep up the good work all of you are doing......

The problem with the skylight is corrected.  The Deck House & Berth are also finished.  Both are attached to the ship now, and it is time to move on.  I'll leave my comments or descriptions at that.

This plans...

Thanks everyone for visiting and your like votes.
 
@ Daniel, negative on the locking wheel.  They had a locking device on the inside with a "strong arm" like handle.  There was no need to close and lock these doors or lids from the outside.  The entire tube is part of the pressure hull as the pics below show and most of the time these boats cruised on the surface and when possible they were kept open for fresh air 
What we see in the movies with someone turning a wheel to close these doors did not happen on these Dutch subs.  It's like what you see on quick change lenses on cameras but instead of rotating the lens you rotate a handle to slide the "bayonet" like gismos into place.  They do have a handle on the outside though to lift them up when topside.
I don't know if I have a close-up pic of that or not, all I wanted to do this evening is find a few pics of the actual escape tubes to show all yuns.
The escape tubes you see on my model are the top ends that are flush with the deck.  The domed door is the only part that sticks outside the deck.  Everything between the pressure hull and the deck is unpressurized and flooded when submerged.  That's a lot of dead water to drag along when submerged.
 

This pic shows a bunch of the escape tubes laying on the ground ready to be lifted up to be installed.  
 

This is a shot from the interior of the boat looking forward to the bow torpedo room and the crew quarters in the foreground. You can see the bottom end of the escape tube with a ladder. I believe it slides up into the tube and latched here to keep it out of the way.
 

This shows the command center being made. This is a part of the pressure hull and inside the lower center part of the conning tower.  This is all sheeted with light steel on the outside for hydrodynamic flow.  In front and behind it is more light structure for the AA gun placements.  I thought i throw this in as well 
 

Here is another shot of an escape tube seen from the inside.
 

This shows the command center installed with an escape tube behind it.
 

Another shot with two escape tubes and the command center in between.
 

Another shot with escape tubes and the command center.
 

 
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An aerial shot of the same things as shown above.  The deck structure is yet to be installed.
 
Cheers,
 
 

That's a single flue harpoon Salty has modeled there.  Knowing you, John, you might want to go with the double flue design (even though actually less effective).  Some nice photos in this link:
 
http://www.harpoons.us/

Thanks guys.  Piet see post #1081 above for the discription of the rebuild on the Skylight.  Yes Popeye, there is a roof over this which holds 2 whaleboats on top for storage.  Also some harpoons and things under the roof in racks which is next.  I am currently building the Main Hatch and then will build the Fife Rail and Bilge Pumps, then to some Harpoons, barrels and some other things which go under the roof.  Then it'll probably take a month build theTryworks....it's a major focal point on this ship.  Kind of dreading it and that is why I moved aft first so that I could see progress along the way to keep me going.  More pictures tomorrow.

Ahoy John
 
Sorry about the typo. Billy boy took away my paste function with his last IE upgrade. I really don't understand that guy and his company. Google will never need to advertise as long as MS keeps sending customers their way. "lol"
 
Click on Augie's link and then page over to post #90. Buck has an excellent pic of his CW Morgan harpoon. Actually his whole build should be good reference material when you do your whaleboats. Buck is very easy going and friendly. I am sure he would not mind a PM

WOW!!!   very nice.........your moving right along!  so,  there is to be a roof over all that...huh   very  well done!

Hey John- The more I see - the more I like. Keep it up and keep the pictures coming.
 
Charley

This will pretty much bring this log up to date as to where I am.  The tops of the braces are not painted to allow for a good glue joint when the roof is applied.  Now I have the Main Hatch, and then some details for underneath the roof to do.

Now for the third stanchion and the bracing for the roof which will come after some more detailing underneath and prior to the attachment of the roof top.  

There is a third stanchion, but first I had to build the Vegetable Bin which is on deck and under the structure.

Here is the progression of stanchions...they have to be cut into the rails or notched as required, then painted into the sidelines of the hull both black and white striped.

At this point the Skylight has been rebuilt and the Deck House & Berth have been constructed and glued to the deck.

The next several posts that I'm going to make will mainly be a series of photos mainly for the benefit of future builders of this ship as it really isn't documented very well in the instructions and to the best of my knowledge no one else is building it on this Forum.  So, bear with me as I can only post 3 pictures at a time and I have several.  I'll try to leave out the multiple views, but will try to show enough details for someone to see what it is supposed to look like.  As far as documentation goes, ME provides good blueprint/plans, but one needs to understand how to read them, and realize that there are mutiple views on several different sheets to give you the correct 3 dimensional picture.