texxn5

Thanks Popeye, the rest of the Hurricane House gets strted today.  I'm currently hinging the Rudder and soon to attach it to the Stern, attach the Tiller & Wheel, which I've already built, then it's off to the rest of the Hurricane House....

Yesterday was a strange day....however, I did manage to paint the rudder and copper plate it.  Today I'll build the tiller and wheel, and hoefully get started on the rest of the Hurricane House.  I do have to make the hinges and mount the rudder....probably first.

Hello Sjors, glad you like the pictures and a little history too.  It is an interesting layout.  I'm not sure I've ever seen a set up like this on a vintage ship before, but I guess I have mostly studied war ships.  The ship's wheel/tiller set up is very different too.....the wheel mounts directly on the tiller and moves port to starboard with the rudder....it's all attached.  On the real ship it was not reassembled yet, but they did have this drawing taped to the bulkhead to show the person building it how it was supposed to look.   Is your table crowded this morning?  Coffee time used to be a few moments of solitude in the morning......now it's chaos and sea stories....our condolences Sir....

Yesterday was a strange day....however, I did manage to paint the rudder and copper plate it.  Today I'll build the tiller and wheel, and hoefully get started on the rest of the Hurricane House.  I do have to make the hinges and mount the rudder....probably first.

Glad it helped.  Hope you enjoy that rigging book.  It truly does 'all fit together'.  You'll see that when you go to adjust the mizzen backstay and the spritsail yard pivots   :D  

Looking good Randy, I know how much work the rigging is. 
 
I'm not sure what you mean but I think you meant this, sorry but my english language is not great. See the picture. 
 

Very good Sjors, Augie must be acting civil, or you're keeping him in line.....excellent, enjoy the coffee klatch!......

very nice detail Piet , it looks so real

Can not wait to see those wheel rims painted!
 
Beautyful work Piet.
 
 
Daniel.

Sweet work on the tube doors.   I'll just admire them and let someone else ask if they actually lock.   ;)  

Thank you John, and it's also a pleasure when things go right.  
 
Cheers,

Delightful work, mate!
 
John

Hello every one.
 
Been busy making the torp loading tube door locking wheels.  I turned a wooden dowel to the correct diameter and then wound a .7 mm brass rod  around it to form a coil.  That way I could cut a pice that's circularly formed.  Okay, now I have the rim of 10.5 mm.  Next I cut a few small pieces of the same diameter rod for the spokes and soldered them into a cross.  I cut and filed the ends to fit inside the rim and soldered it all together.  Yes, I used the steel office clamp as a heat-sink.
Filed and scraped excess solder away but the photo tells me I need to do some cleaning up.
 
I also made the hinges for the read pressure door and now both tubes are ready for assembling and paint.
 
I also cut and installed the small pieces of wood for under the deck plates at the stern torp loading well for the hatch door hinges.  When that is all nicely trimmed both the bow and stern wells are ready for paint and installation of the tubes.  Then it's making busy with the hatch door hinges.
 
It's amazing how much time goes into making these small items.  Well, here are two pics of today's accomplishments.
 

Here we have both the bow and stern torpedo loading tube assemblies displayed on to of the deck.  In the meantime I have painted the inside of the tubes flat black  That penciled circle between the tubes is the future location for the deck gun. 
 

This shows the result of winding the brass rod to make the little wheel rims.
 
Cheers,

Thank you Daniel, John and Sjors for dropping in and your comments, I think 
 
@ John, no, I'm not psychic but I remembered you asking about it when you visited us   Well, right now I really don't know yet.  I have to figure out how they did it.  I can probably make some workable system that would suffice, but it would be great if I could find the real thing.  I know there are drawings in the Naval Archive but accessing them for this may be too much to wish for.  I'm sure I can figure something out.
 
@ Sjors, I have no problem finding the boat my friend.  She is pinned to my build dock, which I can move around and rotate.  All that "stuff" on the build board is what I use on a daily base and am just too lazy to put it away and then retrieving it again the next day.  I have more tools and "stuff" to the right of the dock that I also use often, it's handy.  There is "stuff" behind it against the wall but that's still from where I put things before the build.  Just too lazy to put it somewhere else.  At least I know where everything is     
Gwen, the Admiral, already told me, you used to be such a neat freak with your tools and work area, what happened????  I don't know - - - I guess I am slowly sliding into the slob abyss - - - oh noooooo - - -    

Nice Piet,
 
But one question......
How do you find that sub on that worktable????????
There are so many stuff on it         
 

Hello Paul and John,  sorry, almost overlooked yuns, you were on the next page, fooled me.
 
@ John (texxn5), well yes, these doors needed to close all openings to the pressure hull and to withstand the pressure they needed be convex to the outside.  the same applies to the escape tubes and the AA gun mount supports.  The AA guns on the O 19 retract inside a watertight tube with a pressure lid to close it.  Pretty clever.  Next you are going to ask me if I'm going to make that workable.  Go ahead and ask - - - well, I was thinking about it but right now I'm not so sure.
 
@ Paul, thanks for dropping my friend and your kind and supporting words. Yes, I'm well pleased with how she is coming along.  Still a lot of time consuming detail work ahead though.
 
Cheers, 

Hello everyone, and thanks to Yambo,John (texxxn5) and Sjors for dropping in.
 
Well, today I made the brass rails and support pieces for over the launcher deck area.  I also completed the mounting block for the stern torpedo loading tube and installed same.  I'm now ready to finish the well opening and add a few strips of wood for the hatch door hinges and paint the inside of the forward and rear well areas.  Hope I have enough paint.  
Then I cut three small pieces of tubing for the pressure door and soldered the one to the tube.
 
Next I tried to make the door locking wheel but had some problems with it.  Very small to work with but I'm not giving up.  I need to have them finished before I can solder the hinges to the door.
 
I'm still waiting on the 17 mm brass tubes for the escape hatch tubes.  I like to have them before I can definitely know where the deck rails go.  This too will be a tedious job to cement them to the deck.  But there is still a lot of work to do before I can do that.
 
Here are two pics of some of the things I did today.
 

These are the brass real and deck support beams/rails over the launcher deck area.  The two forward ones are for the deck support, the four behind them are for deck support on the outboard side and hatch covers between the rails..  Then I cut 4 pieces of N scale flex track for the rails on the existing deck.  These rails actually are the tops of the torpedo tube alley structure for loading the deck torpedo launcher.  They used a small four wheel trolly to bring the torpedoes forward to the loading gantry.
If you squint real good you may be able to see the four hatch doors for the loading tube well next to the well opening.
 

This shows the mounting block for the stern loading tube.  
 
Cheers,
 
 

Morning John,
 
The table is not that crowd but nice 
Now in can have a talk....
 

Very nice John !
 
And thanks for the pictures and the explanation about the hurricane house.
Learn something again   
 

Hi Dave, thanks for the comments......The Hurricane House consisted of 2 structures, the one I have built so far, is the crew's galley, and a store room. If you notice it has a wide hinged door pointed forward to be able to pass food to the crew. The next structure is a crew's head, and more storage, and contains the ladder to go below into the captain, and first mate's quarters. There is the tiller, and a steering box, which covers the mechanism for the ship's wheel and rudder mechanism pulleys. All of this is covered with a roof, which also stores a couple of whaleboats on top. It is called a Hurricane House because it offers the Helmsman a sort of protected area to steer the ship in heavy seas and or a storm. Next I'll build the tiller and wheel mechanism and copper plate and attach the rudder, then buld the head and stowage structure.
 
Here are pictures of the real ship Hurricane House and Tiller/wheel mechanism..

Some more so that anyone constructing this in the future can see how this was constructed....

Good point about the sticky outy thingy. Does make ya wonder some.....still looks good Sjors, glad to see you can get some things done instead of work work work....

Hi Dave, thanks for the comments......The Hurricane House consisted of 2 structures, the one I have built so far, is the crew's galley, and a store room. If you notice it has a wide hinged door pointed forward to be able to pass food to the crew. The next structure is a crew's head, and more storage, and contains the ladder to go below into the captain, and first mate's quarters. There is the tiller, and a steering box, which covers the mechanism for the ship's wheel and rudder mechanism pulleys. All of this is covered with a roof, which also stores a couple of whaleboats on top. It is called a Hurricane House because it offers the Helmsman a sort of protected area to steer the ship in heavy seas and or a storm. Next I'll build the tiller and wheel mechanism and copper plate and attach the rudder, then buld the head and stowage structure.
 
Here are pictures of the real ship Hurricane House and Tiller/wheel mechanism..

a couple of more

Some more so that anyone constructing this in the future can see how this was constructed....