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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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Most of the work on this is guesswork and artistic licence, started by marking the hull with a black marker pen so I could get an eye on the shape I was getting, then slowly cut this away, right away I could see results starting to happen, also used sanding sticks and my trusty knife to contour the hull, almost sanding through the lower hull on bow, you can gauge how close you are to going too far by holding it in front of your light to see how thin the plastic is getting, just take it slow like Tina Turner - slow and easy 😂Still was too square at transom end, best I could do was drill a line of holes down port and starboard sides at rear transom just inside thickness of hull plastic, drill about 2 to 3 mm down each side with 0.3 drill then clean out the fine slot, the gap left was then gently squeezed together in vice then glued. Once dry again attacked with sanding sticks and knife, the whole purpose was to try and get a nicer shape to the stern, you just have to keep looking at it and keep trying🤛Won’t keep going on, or I will end up with a book and publishing rights 😂 The hull is the important bit though, this is where all the shape kicks in.👍 The rest is straightforward insanity, looking at the actual boat I counted out 18 ribs inside the hull, simulated these by using original handrail etch from my Trumpeter 1/200 Arizona cutting ribs out of top rail, see, nothing goes to waste😂The funnel I made from brass tube, drilling out the top 2 to 3 mm to thin it out so I could try to flare the end out, partially successful here, didn’t think that tapered funnel from the kit or Pontos looked right, the one on the real boat and illustration of engine proves I was right to question tapered funnel. The rest of the boat was scratch built from anything at hand, so will put some photos up in sort of order, bear in mind this took me 3 weeks, the end result turned out better than I hoped for, doesn’t look too bad against the Micromaster boats, happy chappy. 😄
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At this stage I’m wondering if l can make this look better 😢 next post will show me cutting it to pieces 😂
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Can see the hulls are basically same grey as the ships themselves with some crafts painted out in dark blue or black. Next photos are of the shapeless kit boat which matched the shapeless fifty foot Steam Pinnaces.
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As you can see it’s a rather lovely little steam launch with plenty curves, now you can understand why l wanted Micro Master to make it 👀 but alas the answer was no, said they don’t do Japanese boats. Guessing they don’t realise the MIKASA is actually a British built Battleship supplied to the Japanese under contract, fact is there are lots of these Battleships look very similar at this period in time, was like a production line rolling these ships out, shall put another photo up showing HMS Prince Of Wales built 1903 this photo was her in 1908, you can see the similarities, this photo also swayed me into how I’d paint this small boat.
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Shall put some photos up of the Open Steam Launch and it’s boiler, engine layout that l think is the boat require, well it goes up to 36ft and the layout looks right 👍
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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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The last photo shows them complete, I sprayed them with light gull grey, then painted the inside lens area black, once dry I applied Micro Kristal Klear, gradually filling it out till flush, they are still drying out at this point, also original kit part sitting here, so the size is in the ball park. Next part to get built was another five 3 pounder hotchkiss guns same as previous fab, also scratch built two Semaphore masts one for each bridge wing, port and starboard, just used small brass tubing here and small pieces of etch, scaled it from photos of ship with dividers on photo, kind of worked 👍 Next quest was finishing of ships boats on boat deck, had been waiting on 0.3 soft solder coming from China to complete the oars, now have plenty. One issue I had was Micro Master don’t do the 25ft boats needed or the 37ft open steam boat so l was stuck with the kit boats, joy 🙄 the best option for me was use canvas covers for 25 footers, no way on earth l was getting the open boats to compete with those Micro Master ones 😂 l remove all the plastic simulated tie ropes and the over heavy keel and stem post, replacing the latter with finer styrene stock, then painted the hulls and canvas covers. Before gluing these together l fitted fine thread for tie down ropes like l did on my first boat a good while back. The open steam pinace was a different thing all together, this took me three weeks to complete, shall post some photos tomorrow of boats and make a start going through the build on the steam boat. That’s me for now guys 🤛
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