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Well mates, for those that have been following along as I have been looking for an image of the side marker lights on the AV…I have good news. Below is the very best image I have found including a blown up version with some photo enhancements. I don’t think I’ll find anything better. Now if I could only find some images of the bow bridge,
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Mike, some of the wires can be visible, they are on the real AV. Just look at the aft marker light for one example. While I’ll do my best to hide as much of the wires as possible, I’m not worried about the ones close the the fixtures them selves. I’m also planning on the green/white/red night lighting the AV is famous for, those lights are strung together in series with the wires just laying on the deck surface. Let me see if I can find that image…
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Here is the latest in my research on the AV side marker lights. It’s the clearest image to date I’ve found.
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Mike, the daunting task of hiding the wires…I feel your pain. While we now have the location for the side marker lights, I see that it needs to hang off the side to allow room for the shrouds. Hard to see in this image, but it’s the best I’ve found so far. Mike, do you have a build log for your AV?
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Mike, now that I know where to look and what to look for, I have been finding the side marker lights in a lot of images. The main problem is that, unlike the image above by Mantua, the housing in all the pictures I have seen is black. This has a very profound effect of making it nearly invisible. And since it’s black, the details are obscured in all of the images. This is a close up zoom of an image I found, the best one that I’ve found, but still hard to make out what the housing looks like or how it’s attached to the ship. I believe it is similar to what Mantua has designed but painted in all black except for the lens when the light is on.
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Good evening mates, this weekend I started the planning of the aft deck. I drew the AV inspired pattern on the sub-deck and started planking. A long way to go, but it’s a start.
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The last image in this thread is of the starboard side of the ship from just outside the door of the chart room. On the right is the navigation station and on the left a chest like looking storage bin. Just behind that chest, from our point of view, is where I believe the navigation light is installed. Hope this helps.
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Mike, now that I look at the night images above, I’m certain the lights are installed behind the bins. In the images, the compass stations are visible and the marker lights are forward of that…
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Mike, the problem I’m facing now is where to install the red/green marker lights. I haven’t been able to find any close up shots, and when I look on the wonderful virtual tour, I don’t see them where I think they should be. So options not visible are 1) under the compass station or 2) closer to the front of the chart room behind some storage bins???
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Mike and Keith, this might help. The AV is of course a training ship and there are four of the stations on board to help train in navigation.
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Mike, I have searched for weeks to answer this very question. I am pleased to say that I now have the answer. The stern (white light) was easy to find in the virtual tour, link above somewhere in this log. There are actually 3 white and one amber light just above the small deck at the stern of the ship. Then there is also a lantern on the boom of the mizzenmast. Finally, there is a red (port) and green (starboard) light that is on the fore deck, just to the side of the chart room. To avoid copyright issues, I have only included a small section of the images, just enough to show what I found.
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Good evening everyone. I’ve been working on the starboard lower deck hallway with a couple of doors and other details. These pictures make everything look so big when actually we are talking about 35mm wide hallway so all these details are very small. The LEDs I’m using are just 3mm! Also for scale, the deck planks are 3mm wide.
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Hello all, I spent today finishing up the fire house holders on the lower deck, and installing some railings. Here are a few updated pictures of the progress, some with lights on.
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Good evening everyone, I’ve been working on miniature fire hose holders and I’ve discovered that, well…my fingers are just too big. 😳 After about 6 or 7 iterations, I think I finally have one I like. Now only about 5 more like this to make.
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Good evening mates, yesterday we experienced a massive surprise snowstorm here in the Pacific Northwest. I went to work yesterday with a forecast of a few flurries that would be gone by noon. By three in the afternoon we were shutting down operations and sending everyone home. I left at 4pm for my drive home that usually takes about 30 minutes. This day was very special as it took me over 10 hours to get home battling ice, snow, other drivers, and hours of boredom in stand still traffic, arriving after 2am. Needless to say, today was a snow day, which worked out well for modeling. As I’ve been installing more lights, the wire mess has become burden. So I spent the day tidying things up and building my temporary control panel. With this panel, I can turn on/off each feature on the model and combine lighting to create many effects. Eventually this panel will be part of the stand with all the electronics hidden. For now, I need access to adjust voltage settings to get the lighting effect in looking for. In this panel, lighted toggle push button switches and voltage regulators, all running off a single 9v battery. Eventually, I’ll run this off a 12v plug in power supply, but for now, the 9v will work nicely. Oh, the missing switch was supposed to arrive today via amazon. Sadly, my order has been delayed due to weather.
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I think you are talking about the interior lighting I have in the fire control/boiler room and the aft wall on the lower deck. I’ll take a picture tomorrow and post, but yes, light seeping under the walls was an issue and probably along the top of the walls too, but I’ve not addressed that yet. I used some scrap or spare 2mm x 4mm stock and glued it to the deck just inside the walls. I made it a tight fit so that my wall sections butted up against the added lumber, and when it’s time to permanently glue the walls in place, I’ll glue to these strips as well as the deck, or maybe just to the added lumber so no extra glue seeps out under the walls to become visible. By doing this, I created an overlapping hard barrier inside the walls, no light or at least very little will seep through. I think a picture will clear up what I’m trying to put into words. Update: images added. 1st image displays the extra 2mm x 4mm lumber I added to make a light barrier that meets up with the interior of the building. 2nd image is the fire control room with all the lighting and 3rd shows how it all fits together. Since light travels in a straight line, it will be unavailable to seep under the walls when installed. I hope this helps…
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Good evening Mike, the images you posted are of the main bridge, which is housed in the building on the aft deck. 1st and 2nd images below. The area/room I have found little about is the top of the third image. The “slanted” window area, which lies above the chart room on the fore deck. It also appears to have a glass roof, similar to what OcCre has in its AV plans. But what does the inside of this space look like? An alternate wheel house? A lookout bridge? A captains lounge? What is this space used for? I have searched high and low for images of this area, but found none. When the ship is open for visitors, this area is off limits so few if any armature pictures exist of this area. It’s also not included on the virtual tour that I like so well. Maybe someone who has served on the AV can shed some light?
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Ahoy mates, tonight I added some more detail to the fire control room that will be difficult to add once fully assembled. Also, I noticed when I had the lights on that the alcove was dim, and sure enough, I missed a light that exists on the real AV. So a quick add and I think looks much better. I also added the black detail on the lights to make them look more realistic. Thanks again for stopping by.
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Mike, take a look at this… https://www.tourmake.it/amerigovespucci it’s a virtual tour of nearly the entire ship, inside and out. The only bad thing about this tour is that it is wonderful for what’s on or in the ship, but does not do justice for the hull/outside and, one room I’m still looking for pictures of is the inside of the “bridge” that is above the chart room, the one with the slanted windows. If you ever see any images of the inside of this area, please share.
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Good morning Mike, the LEDs vary in voltage between 2.2 and 3.2 volts depending on the color. I’m adding a 480 ohm resister to each LED so that I can run between 6 and 12 volts without issues, I.e. a 9 volt battery. Additionally, I’m using a variable voltage regulator for each channel so that I can control the brightness of the LEDs. For example, the down lighting you see in the above images, I’m running very dim because running them at normal voltage is just way too bright, I think just 3 volts. I have planned 5 channels of lighting for this model. 2 separate warm white channels for under deck lighting so that I can have 4 settings, all off/ 1 or 2 on/both on, so that I can achieve a more realistic look of lights coming out of the port holes and there are a ton of them on the AV. Using a red and a flashing red LED for the emergency lighting, warm white down lighting, red and green side markers, an amber LED for the aft marker, and very bright red, white and green for the night up lighting that is characteristic of the docked Amerigo. Well, I think that’s it but I might have missed something. All of this is easily available from Amazon for less $40 USD.
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Good evening mates, this weeks post is a big one for me and a lot of work. I have”nearly” finished the basic fire control room on the lower deck. Ended up building my own doors as the ones supplied in the OcCre kit are completely incorrect. Also, added lighting inside as well as outside the control room and added the emergency lights. I will have a control panel that I can selectively turn on/off lighting on this model so not all of it will be running all at once, but all on for ease of construction. All the lights are on in these images. Thanks a lot for stopping by.
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Good evening everyone, I think this was a successful weekend. The images below are of the back wall on the lower deck. I’m fairly happy with the outcome and it’s the first of many lights to be installed.
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Good afternoon mates, it’s been awhile since my last post, but I’ve been busy. Nearly finished with the lower deck with the Vespucci like detailing. A few more things to do then it’s time to seal the deck and get ready for lighting.
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Good afternoon mates. Started working on my lower deck plan. I hope to be able to create some of the deck detail that exists on the real ship. One great thing about building a ship still in use and traveling the seven seas, is that there are a plethora of images online! This first image is a shot of the real AV, notice the deck detail circled in red. I’m planning on building as much of this detail as possible; however, I’ll be using 3 and 6mm planks to design the deck…still way out of scale, but any smaller would be too hard to work with and too small of detail. The next image is my drawing of what I plan to build, followed by my subfloor, or would that be subdeck, with my ideas transferred in pencil. The last images are a sample of what the decking will look like with the structures in place. Time to start building.
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Good evening and thanks for stopping by. I’m working out some details I want to add to the decking design which requires me to at least rough build some of the structures on the lower deck. One of the changes I’m making is along the rear wall of the lower deck by creating a small alcove for the doors that leads to offices and conference rooms. The first image shows what is included in the OcCre plan. Next is an image of the actual ship in the same area, notice the alcove just to the right of the massive staircase. The last image is the start of this alteration for my Amerigo Vespucci. Another change I’m considering is to cut the doors provided in the kit in half. This would allow me to present a single panel door similar to the real ship…hmmmm
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