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Also managed to fit the boarding steps, just this side, other side shall have torpedo nets in place, did the same with this davit, replaced with brass tube, also added some rigging around boats, try some more photos. Final photo not related but very impressive, it’s kind of a ship.
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Also managed to fit the boarding steps, just this side, other side shall have torpedo nets in place, did the same with this davit, replaced with brass tube, also added some rigging around boats, try some more photos.
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You can make out the strapping tying back the boats in some of these pictures. I asked a member in the model club what l could use for making the straps, l thought some very fine lead foil might work, he said try tin foil and fold it over then cut a strip. Well raided Jacqueline’s kitchen and tried this, the bugger didn’t tell me this was some sort of modelling torture 😡 Can recommend this to anyone, think I’m now a masse-kissed 😂 Don’t know if this is quite correct, not enough info, so l did it in the Frank Sinatra style, l did it my way, so l hope you’ll not make a song and dance about it. I know, my humour is getting worse 😔
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Back again, found some early photos of Mikasa being built, so have tried to capture some details from these photos, note the bracing on bridge wings underneath at each side, copied this, maybe my styrene is a shade to heavy but still gives the effect, also the rail around the bridge superstructure looks like mahogany, so l did my best to paint this, easier done before waiting to this stage, that’s my faults, used to be indecisive now l just don’t know 😂 Also spotted a workman relaxing watching everything going on around him, think I’ll open the turret hatch for this and immortalise this guy forever 👍 some photos for you to ponder over.
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Shall try another update tomorrow guys, my eyes are starting to come together 😵💫 hope everyone is well 🤛
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When l did eventually get what l thought was ok l glued the boat to the boat pulley blocks and then to the supporting frame at side with a small touch of glue, next thing was to lift the whole assembly slightly on the 0.3 pins not yet glued, this let me ease out my plastic packing that was supporting the boat, once this was removed checked how it was looking then glued the davits in place. Easy 😂
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This all had to be set up by trial and error to get it all working, as you can see necessity is the mother of invention 🤞
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Was easier to do this before fitting the davits and boats 👍 Have only finished the Starboard side of ship so far, it’s a bit fiddly doing this, made more davits from 0.5od 0.3 I’d cut all the other details from the existing etch to switch it over. Used 0.3 brass wire slid inside davit at the bottom, about 4mm sticking out. Then carefully drilled the existing original plastic lower part of davit that was fitted to hull years ago 0.35 The reason l cut the plastic davit was thought it would just get broken during handling and l wanted to paint all the hull detail in one go. Worked in my favour though, it let me reduce the diameters of all the davits to make them less heavy looking. 👍
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So I decided to cut this deck again from the second set and fix this small detail. Had to break of the capstan, stain and paint the edge of the wood light grey then set into position with a little bit white glue, then reset the capstan. Cut a couple of small port holes from etch sheet that were for the fifty ft boats, seems ok to me.
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Hello guys, hope you’re New Year was gid and the rest of the year gidder. 🤛 I have been working at a steady snail’s pace and have progressed incredibly slowly 😂 been progressing with the ship's boats remaining on stern deck, Jacqueline said did it really have all those boats? Yip, sixteen, almost as many as the Titanic. 👀 Did decide to add a small part of deck that I did wrong at the start of build, misunderstanding the instructions and not knowing anything about Mikasa. I removed the main deck here to fit this part, ending up with a flush deck, common sense nobody will trip on this 🙄 photo I found ages later solved it.
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Evan, that’s a special build your doing there, can’t imagine where this is going and I have quite a good imagination 😂 see after looking at the start of your build log that you already have purchased the KA-Models upgrade set and have already purchased some of Woodys photo etch, have a strong suspicion you’ll be swayed into the fibre optics for interior, some of Woodys interior state room etch looks quite brilliant, hats of to that man indeed to all the aftermarket guys who persistently produce the goods that we all crave, indeed sometimes we buy the model because of them👍 The funnel set turned out to be from Model Monkey LLC bought about three years ago, again you are probably aware of these details. Funny that my daughter picked the same ship, unlike yourself she loved the film. Think I’ll be twisting her arm to buy some of those Woody sets when the time comes 🤞Jaqueline, my better half gave me the Titanic The Ship Magnificent books for my Xmas a few years back and they look quite comprehensive, it’ll still be a few year’s before I think will be starting this but definitely looking forward to it. Seems you’ll be helping me sort my mistakes before I make them, big thanks for that🤛 Definitely following this build, brilliant to see. Sorry for the long story Evan, just get carried away, happy modelling, think this shall keep you busy for a while. Some photos of my parts at hand so far.
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👍Cheers Evan
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Thanks very much Tim, I was enjoying watching your build then lost track of it, hope you completed it, some lovely bits I would have copied from you. I take my hat of to anyone who builds this model now because I know how difficult and the amount of work involved, not easy at all. 🤛
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Thanks Yves, kind as always 🤛 it wasn’t actually to difficult, just patience and time, the kit plastic davits just a tad to heavy and the Pontos etch davits just looked to spindly and slightly to big on size taking the boats to far inboard, so best option was to steal the details from these and add them to brass tubing, feel I could have went slightly thinner on the three sets remaining on boat deck which are the same diameter tube as the bigger ones used on open Steam Launch, the diameter I’m using on the after deck would have been better here and reduced the diameter again for the aft deck davits if you get my meaning, would make it all lighter and finer, to late now, that’s the way it goes with modelling, quite a few things I would have did differently on the ship, but still happy with how it’s going, can’t believe I’m about there with this now and still sort of enjoying it. Thanks for your encouragement throughout the build. 🤛
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Absolutely love your approach and quality of work, I can see we’re this is going so it’s right up my street for when I start my own Titanic build, which shall be for my daughter, downside of this is it’ll be a while down the slipway as I’m going to do the Bismarck for my youngest Son first. Don’t know if this will help you but have been looking at some really excellent photo etch made by Woodys Model Works, some of it for doing the interior state rooms, his research and the quality of his product think shall be right up your street. I also purchased a detail set for her that I thought was even better than the Pontos set, this set also had some brilliant resin detail for all around the ship, also bought some excellent resin funnels that were better than the rap around brass approach by Woody and Pontos, if your interested I shall get back to you on this as am on holiday just now but shall check out for you when I get back home. Titanic is a beautiful ship and think your model is going to be doing her justice, can’t give you a better compliment than that. Enjoy and take your time. 🤛
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At last, won’t do that again, to much to try and post at once, l was just trying to show that things had progressed, keep my posts shorter and more frequent from now on. 👍 Took some photos today, hopefully you can see a difference in her. The next part of build shall be finishing the details on aft deck area, that’ll be next year so you all have a great Xmas and an even better New Year. All the best. Regards Jeff. 🔔🍻🌨️
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That’s me up to speed now, bit of a mish mash, sorry for that. Shall try taking some photos of it all together and post tomorrow. 🤛
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Thought I had taken more photos of the small boat work, can’t seem to find them, only one photo of upturned boat with over heavy rope and keel in the process of being removed, once removed, the keel and stem posts were replaced with styrene stock that l thought more to scale, also contoured the hull a little bit, just scraping and sanding till l was happy. Used fine thread for ropes holding down canvas covers, then glued parts together then fitted Pontos etch rudder which l trimmed and filed to shape. Don’t know why this bit keeps reappearing, driving me nuts.
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Working on the remaining 12 pounder guns for boat decks and bridge super structures, eight in total, the four on the boat deck l used the metal etch gun shields from my second set here the remaining four l made the gun shields from paper, seemed to work quite well 👍 won’t dwell on this to much we have all seen these guns built now so shall just show photos of production 👍
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Decided to make the Davit from brass tubing so as to make it slightly lighter or finer in appearance, so the wire was pulled around a piece of welding equipment that lent it’s self to the cause, then just fine tune the result with forming pliers till it matched the plastic part curve then trimmed it to size, 0.3 wire was used for fixing it to the original plastic part that attaches to the ship, also used 0.3 to plug the top. The photo etch was then added to the brass wire. Wasn’t going to use the flat Davit arm replacement for the aft deck boats, liked the details but not the flat appearance, so l decided l was going to cut the bits l wanted from these details and fit to whatever l end up making. Also notice that the davit arms for the open steam launch are slightly larger than the other ones on boat deck, works out about 5mm longer, photos of ship back this up. 👍 worked the small handling davit at double side door the same way, making them from tube to make them slightly lighter 👍 As l said, the ones on the aft deck got same treatment, made them finer again and from brass tube, adding all the salvaged details to this, work in progress.🤛
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Hello again guys, shall try and show work done on davit arms and 12 pounder guns next.
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Thought I had taken more photos of the small boat work, can’t seem to find them, only one photo of upturned boat with over heavy rope and keel in the process of being removed, once removed, the keel and stem posts were replaced with styrene stock that l thought more to scale, also contoured the hull a little bit, just scraping and sanding till l was happy. Used fine thread for ropes holding down canvas covers, then glued parts together then fitted Pontos etch rudder which l trimmed and filed to shape.
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