Mirabell61
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Hi Ilhan, on heritage steam merchant steamers and other early ships, later also motorships, there used to be an emergency steering device, that operates directly to the Rudder, by coupling out the the chain that drives the large horizontal chainwheel. When the ship is steered from the bridge the kinematic devices are coupled out As a steam cargo ship would immediately become unmanouverable if the steering chain breaks, and that happens "favorably" at night and in high going sea, it can be dangerous to man the emergency rudder stand at aft, and not being washed overboard. The telemotor at the bridge controlled the auxilliary steam engine winding drums that spooled up resp. spooled down the rudderchain ends for stb / port pull. Under such circumstances (broken rudder chain) my grandfathers ship the "Heinrich Kayser" foundered and went down in a North Atlantic storm with all that were on her in Dec. 1922 Nils Emergency rudder stand port rudderchain spool drum both spool drums, with the superstructure containment which bears the steam operated ruder "servo" engine, operated from the telemotor at the bridge and controlled steam valves
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congrats to your beautiful workshop Antony, love that long window front with view in the garden ? , and the simultanious lighting rows over the benches when daylight is fading Nils
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Nice and interesting build Antony, will it remain as an open built half ship, exposing the interior ?.... Nils
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fantastic little model Javier, love the details and your excellent skill in this scale !! Nils
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15' Dinghy by Bedford - FINISHED - 1:1 scale
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Good progress Dan, she`s coming on very well indeed..... Nils
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Hi Doris, incredible work, as Amalio already has said, and you certainly have set the benchmark to the lonely high side of card ship modeling. When looking at your superb photos I am in awe every time of your skills. Next to your ornamentation and sculpturing techniques, also in finding the wonderful warm and right wooden tone for those planks above the wales (in card material ! ) is more than perfect.... Nils
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Hi Kortes, beautiful build, nice and clean planking job. I like the way you tacked the planks down (next to the planks themselves), so there remain no holes in the planks, Thanks for sharing.... Nils
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Hi Reci, super planking job for hull and deck, she looks great... Nils
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Beautiful and very inspiring work dave, Nils
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filed surface.... Greg, I can remember my days as an apprentance, when the master was teaching the young guys to file a flat surface to a steel chunk, which also had to be perpendicular to the sides..... most of us had produced (common) a slight convex surface, whereby the master meant that a real good job would produce a slight koncave surface , because it was possible due to the files shape, wow !!! Nils
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Hi Wefalk and Denis, just a thought, could be that the outer propcircles (diameters) were overlapping a bit, like for instance the typical prop-arrangement for the KWdG, therefore the outcut window before the rudder heel. In that case there even had to be a staggered propshaft lengths, so that the circles did not foul each other within the "overlapping" area. It did not seem to be a handicap (Turbolences), because we know that the KWdG was the world fastest liner of around year 1900.... Here the scetch of prop arrangement... Nils note the different propshaft lengths, the prop circles are a bit overlapping within the centre window outcut area at the stern heel
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Hi Steve, thats a nice project, and I wish you all the best with your preparation planing and keel-laying soon... The Fra Berlanga reminds me a bit of the beautiful fast, slim and legendary white refridgerator cool ships of the Hamburg-Süd line, nicknamed "white swans of the South Atlantic". Perhaps you would like to google " Cap San Diego". Suggestion: If I were to do such a model in scale 1:96, without available plans, I would probably buy a card set in scale 1:250, that also includes the underwater lines, and transfer these from 1:250 to scale 1:96 onto ply-bulkheads. The hull is not so very different from The Fra Berlanga, and for the superstructures you have your pictures and access to the 20` foot model anyhow.... Cheers, Nils
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Very nice planking job Denis, your skill is great and better from model to model.... Nils
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clean and neat rigging Bob, its fun to watch this build.... Nils
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Wonderful work Tony, many thanks for sharing that great tutorial together with those excellent pictures..... She`ll be a beauty, when complete, the state already looks very promissing... Nils
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Hi Alex, your furniture is looking great, shall we see figurines in period uniforms later on as well ? Nils
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Thanks Valeriy. good idea with with a sharp edged tube....., I tried it once by using injection needles (due to the mini diameter) for this purpose, but the application worked out too messy... Nils
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Thanks for explaining Valeriy, yes, it makes sence with Option "C" type used on Varyag and rivet-heads sunk and flush with plates and overpainted anyhow.... Nils
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Thanks for your feedback comment Valeriy, is there perhaps a way of resembling rivet heads and vertical joints on the model, and in combination with that method, if the belt strakes were not welded ? I trust in your case scale 1:75 may allow visible (flattened) rivets, they would not be too dominant in that case. Nils
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Hi Valeriy, I was already wondering if you would bring metal plating on to the hull. Now the surprise with liquid putty and masking tape. The result is fantastic, well done, thanks for sharing your methode here.... Nils
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