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more as I progress in the construction

Today's progress has been to work on the details for the Hurricane House, fit, assemble and paint it.  Bear in mind there is another structure on the port side, that has a head, and a ladder to go below on, but each has a door (or hatchway) depending on how Naval you want to go, that still remains to be built, as well as the tiller and ship's wheel structure which will be built before final attachment to the ship is done.  Then there is a roof that goes over both structures to complete it.  I still have some touch up painting to do yet on the sides as well.  It is currently only sitting on the deck, and is not glued. 

Ooooooh, that looks really nice John!  Great progress you are making and nice colors too, matches the real ship.
And I just had a glass of wine before going to bed.  had a beer before dinner though 
 
Cheers,

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

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....

more as I progress in the construction

Today's progress has been to work on the details for the Hurricane House, fit, assemble and paint it.  Bear in mind there is another structure on the port side, that has a head, and a ladder to go below on, but each has a door (or hatchway) depending on how Naval you want to go, that still remains to be built, as well as the tiller and ship's wheel structure which will be built before final attachment to the ship is done.  Then there is a roof that goes over both structures to complete it.  I still have some touch up painting to do yet on the sides as well.  It is currently only sitting on the deck, and is not glued. 

Hello John, progress looking real good.  Having a beer "CHEERS" keep up the good work,nice pictures. Edwin

Hi guys, since I am new at this I hope that it has been set up properly, and I don't get Capn's Mast before I get started. I'll be trying to post some pictures later today as I get started. This will be a slow progress as I am in no hurry, I am also completing a Revell Constitution, I'm retired - and I do have a life besides model ship building...cooking and good cold beer do come first...life does have priorities you know. I'm not sure if shipbuilding causes me to drink my beer or drinking beer causes me to build ships....that one is still being investigated, but so far no results...gotta have my Grog....not much of a Rum drinker, so daily Rations won't help much, however a good Malt Whiskey never hurt....
 
Anyway, back to ships. This kit has been of interest for many years, and I now have the opportunity to do my first wood ship. I have scratch built models of oilfield production equipment from wood and have enjoyed doing that for many years, so the wood, being intimidating but not overwhelming should be fun - but slow, so bear with me guys, and I'll try to keep current.
 
Let the voyage begin....Bon Voyage and if I can get the pictures downloaded, I should be posting them soon....
 
Hello interested individuals, an update for this build log is that as of 10-10-2014 I have transferred my interest in building this log to my own website. If you are interested in following this please click on the link below to go to the website. There are quite a few pages of pictures in this log (MSW)that are missing due to a glitch that occurred earlier in the year. Therefore, I have committed my time to my own log, which has a lot of information for building this model in it. Sorry for any inconvenience, however, I think you'll like it better than this log. My site has a complete Build Log in it up to the point that I currently am at in the build. MSW is a wonderful site, and one can learn much from it. Please follow your friends and their logs here it will be rewarding.
 
the link is: http://www.charleswmorganmodel.com
 
Thanks,
John

Hi Dave, thanks for your input. I'll be getting some blocks from Chuck soon.

I had a little progress this weekend.  Yesterday was time to clean the dust dirt and lizard s@#$ off my two classic cars.  That took all day, but the end result was sure worth it.  Also took them out for a short drive since they hadn't been out in 3 months.....was nice and about 75 degrees out.  So this morning I got the Fluke Chain Bit, and the Forehatch built and mounted on board.  Not much, but as Sjors and Augie say, any progress is .... progress.  I'm going to bypass building the Tryworks for now, hoping for some more pictures before tackling it.  I will now move aft and build the rudder, tiller, wheel, and hurricane house next.  Not sure the order of those yet, but they are all related back there.  So here we are now, and I'm working on the hurricane house first.  More pictures later.

Looking good Randy, glad to see you're getting it figured out....

Augie, 
I really like how you think through everything you do. What a great group of contributors. I really like the simplicity of the plank bending jig. I'm taking notes all the way!
 
 
Bill

MARK -  I'm planning on treenails (simulated) above the wales.  But first I have to find the mettle to lay that first plank.

Excellent start on the planking, Augie.  Will she be treenailed?  Enquiring minds and all that....

Thanks for all the interest and advice.  This is just a great place.
 
OK........  First checked the laser cut transom against the stern light framing.  The openings look to be the right height.  Chuck had a sharp eye though as the lower frames needed to be leveled just a tad.
 
Then checked the cutout of the stern lights against the frames.  Very, very close.  The actual window frames fit ---- may need a last minute tweak .  I'll hold on that for now but wont forget.
 
Ben - I'm all out of film for today

great start on the planking Augie.  I'm sure you'll be able to square away the small counter problem.........you've done very well so far 

Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by and clicking "like."  I like likes 
 
@ John (Lad), thank you John.
 
@ Boris, thank you and I have not forgotten you, hope you are oaky.
 
@ Remco, how did you figure I was pondering on making the closing and locking thingy?  Yes, and I should have made and installed that before I put the hinges on.  Hmmm, now I have to see of my heat-sink will work, again.  The scale is still pretty small for that kind of detailing, even at 1:50.
Did you know that on the USS Cod there was a bunk below the loading tube?  I guess there was an incentive to make sure it didn't leak 
@ Daniel, you are welcome.  It's my tool and die maker certification from eons ago that surfaces so now and then.  If you have to make a lot of parts it's best to use steel.  For my purposes hard oak with brass or copper will work just fine.  It has a tendency for some waste though but being a cheep Dutchman I found a way around that, I hammered the edges into shape before trimming   
 
Well, today produced little progress.  Most of my time was spend figuring out how to install the "rails" for the torpedo tunnels and those going over the deck launcher.  I had to move the escape hatch tunnel just aft of the launcher a little more aft because it interfered with the run of the "rails".  So I had to plug the hole I already made, which was a little challenge but came out just fine due to lack of access.  It'll be hardly noticeable or not at all when the mahogany deck slats are in place.
 
This was not the only destruction I had to do.  i also had to remove the center of the deck"bulkhead" where the aft torpedo loading tube will be.  That area is exposed for view with the doors open and the space below the deck is pretty empty.
Then I made a block to rest the tube on which is still not finished.  
Note to self, make the closing and locking thingy for the pressure lid at the same time I'm soldering the hinges.
I also made the four little doors that close off the forward loading tube well but they too are not finished.  Some small details on the bottom side and the hinges.
 
What else, oh yea, I have not found any picture yet how that side bow anchor looks like.  It could very well be a small mushroom anchor with a swivel stock.  I also have no idea if there is a door to enclose the anchor or that the convex side of the anchor kinda kinda closes it's well.  If there is a door it would most likely be hydraulically operated.  I think I have seen a very poor picture of the door and kinda know how it looks like.
The easy way out is to just make the door shape from a piece of bass wood and glue it in place    That way I can paint the boat.  I have purchased the paint      The red I planned to use is too red.  According to a color photo of a model made by the boot builder shows it to be more like "red lead."  It's an orangy rusty color.  I found a nice compromise paint, very close.  I also got a good match for the green and the light gray for the top works.   I'm a happy camper, baby     
 
I was going to order a ¾ inch brass tube for the AA gun placement but they wanted $25 for shipping for a #10 tube.  I told them to shove it.  So, I picked up a small sheet of 1.5 mm brass and I'm going to make my own tube, so there  - - - grumble grumble   
 
There is nothing like scratch building eh?
 
Okay, that's it for today.  Tomorrow is rear torp loading tube time.  More "priegel werk" as the Dutch would say.   Hmmmm, my Dutch English dictionary doesn't have an English word for that, could be minute / tedious work.  
 
All y'all have a great day and please come and visit anytime, beer and popcorn is always ready     
 
Cheers, 
 
 

Today was nice and sunny and planned to mow the front lawn after it had dried.  This gave me some time to do some more tedious work on the sub.  I decided to make the pressure door for the forward torpedo loading tube and hopefully install the door on it.
 
I cut the 10 mm brass tube to size and cleaned it.  Then cut 3 each 3 mm pieces of 1.5 mm brass tubing for the hinge of the pressure door.
In order to make the door concave/convex I made a forming die from an oak dowel.  Made one end hollow and an other piece rounded to fit inside the hollowed out one.  Then put a .3 mm thick piece of brass sheet stock in between and put this all in my bench vice and squeezed the living daylights out of it.  It worked great!   
 
Next I had to cut some .15 brass shim stock into 2.5 mm wide strips for the door hinge pieces. They were soldered to the outside of the door leaving a gap for the center hinge piece on the tube.  I clamped these with a small wooden clothes pin.  Then bend the ends 90 degrees backwards and soldered the small pieces of tubing to it.  I used a steel office clamp as a heat sink so as not to desolder the strips from the door.  A little fine-tuning with a small drill bit and the door swings open and closed.
 
I'm now ready to clean and paint this little bugger and cement it in place.  But first I have to glue a few small strips of wood to the underside of the deck for the hinges of the hinged access doors.   Hmmmm, maybe I'll make them also from brass tubing and shim stock.  I'll decrease the wall thickness of the brass tube a little as I did for the torpedo tube then it's not too bulky.
Still a lot of work ahead with all this small work but this way it'll look better and realistic.  It's now just a matter how small can I make these things without tearing my hair out, the little I still have 
 
Well, that's about all I did today and not to forget, mowing the front lawn !!
 

These are oak dowels, the tall one is concave and the short one is convex.  It's difficult to see here.
 

Here I and posing the process, when I'm actually doing the pressing it'll be better positioned. 
 

After a lot of filing to make a good fit I am posing the finished door.  I did use a small hammer to form finish the edges.   It's now ready to receive the hinges.
 

The loading tube is cut to size and the completed pressure door is placed on the deck.
 

I used a small wooden clothes pin to hold the small hinge tube in place.
 

The door hinge tubes are soldered to the brass shim stock.  The steel office clamp acts as a heat sink.
 

The completed assembly posing with the door closed.
 

The completed assembly posing with the door open.
 

Here I just stuck the completed loading tube into it's location to check for fit. I had to remove it for the additional work to the opening.  Yes, it needs to be cleaned and all the dust removed and then painted.  i had to some more grinding to position the tube better.
 
Cheers,

Hello Piet,
 
Every piece added to this beauty is resulting in an astonishing finish.
 
Well done.

Hi Andy,
 
This is what they say on the drawings....
I was looking at myself and found it a little bit strange but ok.
If they want it that way, there gonna get it that way 
 

Pictures!! Woo Hoo!
 
Although... your Lion figurehead seems a little sticky-outy.... should he not be resting against the bracket behind him? 
 
 
(Or is he just sitting there for looks?)
 
 
 
Andy

Here are the promise pictures....