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  1. Mirabell61
    congrats Kevin, your Hercules is a very fine tugboat, well done, also thanks for your conclusion notice Nils
  2. Mirabell61
    Thank you Phil, for your input, I took a look at the Columbia WLV604 lightship per WW-web. A nice Vessel, perhaps we shall see a model of her here at MSW someday. Nils
  3. Mirabell61
    many thanks for your words Andy, you`re right, I also sometimes make a decision on a certain build sequence and start preparing to the intended thing, but after thinking it over twice I recognize that if I would do so, there is no more access to an item that lays behind or under the section I`m planing to do. So foot on the brake before continuing. For example, before the boatsdeck is placed, I have to make sure that the ship`s bollards are near to the appropriate fairleads and the footpoint-fastening positions of the lighttower stays are placed so that they do`nt interfere with other items, and that the stairs to the boats deck are clear form what is to be mounted items above later on. For mounting the boatsdeck to the long deckhouse and to install a number of supports along the length, I decided to make a bunsh of wooden supports which have slight overhight so that the can be tuned to precise fit when mounting. In this case I refraigned from making a brass framework to mount on. Nils these are the 20 wooden supports for the boatsdeck. 2mm pine squarebars with ply-knees a template for the boatsdeck, for evaluating positions etc. the boatsdeck has a shere and a longitudinal curving. The standovers (port and starboard side ) need to be supported and fastened to bulwarks below and deck above. Before that the 0,8 mm ply deck needs to be planked, like the main deck below. All must be in accordance in what I wrote in the beginning of this post
  4. Mirabell61
    Thank you John, I`m evaluating the boats deck and how it can be mounted with all those side supports to be fitted in .... Nils
  5. Mirabell61
    Wonderful work Marsalv, it is a pleasure to watch your work Nils
  6. Mirabell61
    very nice painting Valeriy, it looks great BTW. those are the colors of the Laeisz flying P-liners Nils
  7. Mirabell61
    thank you Rick, Nils
  8. Mirabell61
    Hi Hermann, I found 8 line fairleads, like the silver one shown in the last pics. They are brass pessed and nickel plated. So I merely had to determin the length and cut off the surplus materil. Painting in hull color. The two aft brass roller fairleads were more tricky due to the small dimensions, but it worked out OK. They are full workable and can handle a at maximum) a 2mm polyester mooring rope. They were mounted in square cut outs in the bulwark Nils made from 8 mm brass squaretube, each with 4 rollers working on soldered in 0,8mm axiles in two separated layers behind each other
  9. Mirabell61
    Hi John, I think its always a task to find a solution in model ship building, that makes out the "spice" of this hobby. You will find a good solution that gives you satisfaction on restoration of this beautiful model. The long poop-deck is also shown on the "Padua" fourmaster, flying P-liner, (now still sailing as Krusenshtern, Russian cadett training ship ) Nils
  10. Mirabell61
    thanks John, I hope I`ll get the other one done as well as the prototyp, hopefully it will not take so long .... Nils
  11. Mirabell61
    Update made the six line-fairleads and the shutter flaps of the freeing ports. Quater- both sides aft there will be a crossed-rolls fairllead, I`m working on the prototyp out of 8mm square brass tube and fitted with 4 crossed rolls. This little bugger has taken me a few hours to make and to put together (soldering in the rolls axises) the freeing port shutter flaps and the line-fairleads. The pressed brass nickel plated fairleads are shortened so that they come flush at the inner side of bulwarks the workable rolls are from small brass tube, the axis are from 0,8mm brass wire I refrained from cutting break through openings into the bulwark (for stability reason ) the hinged shutters Nils
  12. Mirabell61
    thanks Vezett, Keith, Jack and John, You all are right, I was expecting comments on that, but the answer is simple: I only had one white capital letter "F" so that went to the wallbox at the rear bulkhead, I still had enough small white letters to spell "fire" on the other boxes. Also the would not have been enough space on the boxes to spell the appropriate German word. In german maritme fitting out the engl. language is international and quite common anyhow. I am OK with that. Nils
  13. Mirabell61
    Eberhard, I found some 1:160 "shapeways" figurines, they are more expensive than Preiser though ... perhaps some surgery necessary Hope the link works https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace/miniatures/figurines?q=&sort=popularity&facet[pdcId][]=141&facet[pdcId][]=342&facet[price][min]=1&facet[price][max]=2500&facet[price][from]=1&facet[price][to]=2500 Nils
  14. Mirabell61
    good job on the figures Eberhard, I suppose that you did`nt find suitable ones in Scale "N" 1:160 Nils
  15. Mirabell61
    Thanks John, so far so good, now comes the fitting out part and the boatsdeck. The lighttower mast is basicly done already but not painted yet. The soldering of the fragile frontmast in brass will probably be the most difficult thing on this ship, as well as the two ships work / lifeboats. I think I`ll make the boats with silicone mold and raisin cast ( I did`nt see these for purchase anywhwere) One problem I have, is that all has to be addopted from pics and the web, because I did not buy the buildplan in the beginning, and the plan with side view and frameplan out of Helmut Thomas`s publication is missing all the details, also in bird`s view, on the boats deck, and of course the dimensions in order to scale them down to 1:87 Nils
  16. Mirabell61
    Update all portholes with glassings, all doors with doorknobs and wall boxes for rolled up fire hoses are mounted to the deck housing Nils
  17. Mirabell61
    many thanks Michel and Rick, Nils
  18. Mirabell61
    Update made the removeable deck-house together with hand rails and lightshafts with seatight hinged covers. After primering painting the deckhouse portholes were inserted. Also the aft bulkhead was fitted out with two doors and portholes therein .... Slowly its getting shape Nils the making of the deckhouse the handrails are from brass wire. There are 5 screws that position and hold down the deckhouse to the deck Dechhouse with portholes there are 10 lightshafts around the deckhouse, The doors will be next
  19. Mirabell61
    Hi Keith, right keith, I have a whole bunch of the clamps in that size and they look weard, I have built many ships with them already .... The portholes will be of pushed-in rounded face brass tube-rivets. The size and "glassing" will be a number smaller that the other side hull ones Nils
  20. Mirabell61
    thank you very much Rick and Michel, Nils
  21. Mirabell61
    thanks Michel, I`ve started with the long deck house today with 16 positions for portholes on each side Nils
  22. Mirabell61
    Hello Ralf, welcome to MSW and I wish you a pleassant stay with our comunity Greetings from Glinde (Schleswig-Holstein) Nils
  23. Mirabell61
    beautiful jobstart on the planking Keith, I like thr lines of your yacht nicely done Nils
  24. Mirabell61
    Thats a beautiful model John, I wish you all the patience and success to get her "afloat" again Nils
  25. Mirabell61
    Update made the updated forecastle bulkhead and support for the front mast, also the seawater tight access doors. The mushroom-anchor chain end will be connected to the ringspring buffer element on deck Nils

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