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    Thank you very much Ed, for your nice compliment..... Also thanks to all the "likes" here is an Update : I was busy and I`m beginning with the 4 stacks, they will be made from 26 x 1,5 mm alumimium tube. But first the rings for taking up the upper funnel stay fastening points have to be made. They will slip on, 3 per stack, and secured with low viscosity CA (aluminium / Brass connection), hopefuly not generated electro chemical corrusion afterwards... The rings are made from 2 x 1 mm half-round brass profile, guess the included pics are self explaining...... Nils the profile is heated and quick-quenched under cold water, to get that anealed condition frozen in to compensate that remaining spring-back effect, the coiling is rolled with a thinner dummy tube the loop is cut to overlap for about 4 mm (canfer and bevel ends of soldering area) the ring is soldered together and slipped on to the original funnel tube for drilling the "stay pass through" holes. The holes arrangement is per pattern (8 holes per ring) the final ring drilling is done on a dummy wooden dowel just ran out of half-round brass profile.... a bit tricky to drill that half-round profile from the convex side, lucky, no scap so far... status overview...., upper bridge wheelhouse with nav- and charts room is on...
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    Thank you very much Denis, Nils
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    beautiful build Piter, Nils
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    Thanks Greg, I know a picture is saying more than many words, and here is still a lot to do to get the model look this way.... Nils
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    Good clean work Michael, the ship will look like new again after that excellent restoration of yours... Nils
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    I`m very pleased that you like the progress Bob, Thanks for your compliment... Nils
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    nice looking sail making Peter, Nils
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    Thanks very much Carl, I`m glad you like it.. Nils
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    Update.... little cabin structure beneath the bridge, and preliminary set up to try position of the first stb. boat (dummy boats cradle only), There is still so much to do... as mentioned earlier in this log, some of the upper structures will be of wood, as for the actual ship way back in 1897. I still did`nt get the ordered "stack- brass tubes", so I chose an alternative material, now its aluminium tube with slightly thicker wall thickness, found at Ebay- Austria, but that should do as well. Expecting this by end this week. Nils the structure is only 16,5 mm high. Could be that this is the captain`s quarters... the crew figurine is "railroad N gauge" scale 1:160 it must have been about nearly 1000 or more "caulked" planks to lay over all decks, and still not finished..... trust that the boats will go on last, when all the upper structures and the four stacks are done
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    very nice work Bob, I like those lines and loops belayed to the bow timbers.... Nils
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    Hi Johann, its fun to bing in the details, at least those I find its worth to model them......, there certainly should be much more, but those have to be ignored... Nils
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    Thank you Patrick, I think one day I`ll get myself one of those digital endoscope cameras with flexible support to make some "under deck" photographs... Nils
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    Thank you very much Albert, a kind compliment of yours... Nils
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    Many thanks Joel - John - Greg - Carl - Grant, for your nice compliments, much appreciated .... I was about to start with the funnels, this weekend, but the supplier of the ordered brass tube let me down now for several weeks already with no delivery Nils
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    Thank you very much Christian, for your kind appreciation... Nils
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    Thanks a lot Bob, Nils
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    Hi Joel, welcome on board and thanks for looking in. I had a good look inside, but there were only some tiny cut off plank bits and some wood chips that vanished in the vacuum cleaner nozzle. Nils
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    Hi Michael, thats a very fine silver soldering equipment. Do you use thin soldering rods with extra soldering paste ? Nils
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    Update..... Build log part 52 today is the day where the forward boats deck will be permanently glued on. Between brass frame and deck I use CA and white wood glue between the lower deckhousings and the boatsdeck. On this part I did not forget to place the connection holding points for the funnel stays. On the lower bridge its a bit tricky to get the convex deck curvature correct and adjusted to the forseen places of the nav light towers, here also used CA, hope its strong enough... Also today a last chance to have a look into the inside of this liner, as it is now closed for ever after. Like on all my ships I put a short note (description, year of build, etc . ) into the hull before closing the last opening. Nils little red tags mark the places for putting the clamps on (whist glueing) last look at the inside of the hull below the deck to go on.... the nav light towers are the forward "anchoring points" for the boats deck forecastle deck aft deck deck glued on and clamped down the boss with the screw is just to curve down the lower bridge wings during glue curing
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    Hi Kees, yes, I`m very happy with that wood strip source I found at a web shop. The strips are so precise cut and straight and in tight toleraces that it is a pleasure to do planking even with only 2mm wide strips Nils
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    Hi Greg and Bob, Thanks for your nice comments, much appreciated.... Greg, the credit for the staircase goes to the producer of the etched brass pattern, I only needed to fold it and angle out the steps at appropriate rake, but you`re right, the pattern is a fine thing, complete without soldering, in opposite to the longer forward staircases at the bridge area Bob, I`m trying to keep the thoughts in line with the progress Thanks also to all the "likes" for clicking in Nils
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    good progress Tim, and beautiful details.... Nils
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    Pretty good rigging Bob, she surely is coming along realistic looking, a beautiful model..... Nils
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    Thank you very much John, there are so many points to continue with the ships fitting out in the moment, I realy have to try and get them done one by one, although there are so many ideas (thinking ahead in my mind), that I would like to proceed in many different positions at the same time, just to see if the thoughts would work out.... Nils

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