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Thanks Alan! Yes, it is supposed to be a smaller incision and more precise placement of the prosthetic... they do expect me to be up and moving as soon as I'm fully awake! -
George, glad you found a method that works for you! Probably find plenty more parrels at the bottom of every water hazard! Regards, Bruce
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Thanks Keith... they tell me I'll be taking first steps as soon as the anesthetic wears off! The water would freeze pretty fast in an Arctic winter, -40 highs are common. I'm thinking they likely drained it and manually flushed from a pail??
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The deck house structures are complete... here is the lobby, head, and wireless office before attaching to the ship. The unit on top of the head is marked as "sanitary service tank" on the plans, and photos confirm it is there... not sure what was in the tank. If it was water for flushing how would the crew keep it from freezing? Another conundrum to add to the list! I used glass beads from the craft store to make the aerial insulators. The aerials are only attached when the main sail is down, and when the ship is getting ready for a scheduled contact, there was no power for the radio unless the auxiliary engine was running. In the 1930s she carried a low frequency morse code (wireless telegraphy) transmitter and receiver. The original insulators had to have passed through the main deck, which made them prone to damage, and would be a shock hazard. This may be the reason the office was moved to the upper deck. There are differences in the doors, explained by the fact the wheelhouse and wireless office are new structures. Plans and photos show portholes only in the lobby and head doors. Here's what it looks like when it is all put together. I have started work on the steering linkage to the rudder, but I may re-make my pulleys as they look a bit out of scale, we'll see how they clean up... Thanks again one and all for looking in and for your comments. This will be my last posting for a while as we are visiting family, then I am getting a new knee next week! The surgeon is one of the few in Alberta to use the Cori-robotic system and I am really looking forward to the procedure! Happy Easter! Bruce
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The rear structure framing is complete... behind the lobby and head is the wireless office relocated from the lower deck. The ventilators and galley stack are installed... leaving room for the main boom that passes across the top of the deckhouse. The aft structure is painted and the roof set on to check fit. The lobby and head are original and retained the 1928 stained and varnished finish, The rest of the new deckhouse is white. Here is the ship sitting on the display base, just seeing how it looks for now. I'm making the doors and windows for the aft structure, then time for some paint touch up and a few more small parts then the hull is basically complete! Next up will be the rudder and steering gear, followed by the boat platforms and davits. Thanks for looking in! Bruce
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Well, if it was me, I know I could not replicate the scroll work with any hope of fidelity to the original. I would take a picture straight on, or manipulate one with photo shop to appear straight on, then size it to model scale. Then I would make a negative of the picture and send it to a shop that does electronic circuit boards or brass photo etching. You will end up with accurate scrollwork in copper or brass on a substrate. The substrate can be painted and become part of your head timbers. Best of luck! Regards, Bruce
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I have achieved Deckhouse! Before fastening the roof I placed the builder's plaque... made from a picture of the original. My historic photos are in black and white, and show a greyish roof. St. Roch had a limited colour palette so I mixed a bit of green into the grey, as if this surface was canvas covered and sealed like the hatch covers and companion roof. Moving right along... I started framing the structure behind the deckhouse. This is original to the ship and was not replaced when the deckhouse was enlarged in 1930. To the left is the lobby leading to the lower deck. To the right is the head. It is 2 feet lower because there is no clerestory underneath. Once this is finished there are some ventilators and gew-gaws (a nautical term for fiddly bits, eh) to put on, then I will move on to the wireless office and steering gear. I hope you like my ship so far! Bruce
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The deckhouse is getting close now... The bay window is installed... The wheelhouse roof frame is installed... Here is the roof roughed in to check the fit... While paint and glue were drying I made the rest of the fiddly bits for the poop... Once the goosenecks and ring bolts are installed there will be some paint touch up on the hull, then finally the deckhouse gets installed! I am thinking good thoughts about installing the ship on the display base at that point... but I may wait... The rudder and quadrant mechanisms can go on any time, and the structures behind the deckhouse can be built. After that the lifeboat platforms and davits can be built, the spare rudder and steering cables installed, and the masts stepped! Woot! Love it when a plan comes together! Thanks for checking in! Bruce
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We will be in Paris for a brief time in August... a Viking river cruise. not a lot of free time, but if you are available perhaps we could meet?
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Feeling ambitious, so I got the lower frame of the bay window together... it is test fit in place so the corners will be accurate once the glue dries. O yeah... I made and installed the ship's clock... It is from a picture I took of St. Roch's clock, that I reduced to 3/16" (9 scale inches). Our printer does a very good job of retaining details, even at that size. The face is glued to a short piece of styrene tube that I coloured with a Sharpie (no drying time required)! Here is the picture of the actual clock... The compass card was an on line photo that reduced to 1/8", and I was surprised the details of the rose remained! Good night all!
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Well, the binnacle is completed and installed... The picture is my lathe setup to slice the groove for the lantern's chimney. I set the binnacle into the tool post and mounted that on my vertical slide. This lets me adjust the position of the binnacle in three axes so the groove goes straight down the side of the dome. I used the same setup to drill the recess for the compass card, but offset the binnacle. The next picture is the top view of the wheelhouse with the binnacle installed. Note the chimney and the compass card. I did not want just a brass recess, even though details on the card will not be visible your eyes will see something in there, and "fill in the blanks". Here's what it looks like through the side window... Next I have to make the bay window across the front. From photos this appears to be one window with three panes, rather than three windows. I have roughed out the roof so fitting the window should be a bit easier... I hope! Thanks for looking in! Bruce
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So far, so good... now to finish shaping the pedestal portion, then I can cut in the viewing glass and lantern chimney...
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Here is the binnacle being roughed out on my Taig lathe... I'm taking it slow and easy, lots of checking with the micrometer to make sure it will be good for size and still fit the model! I only get one shot, if I screw up then I have to go get more brass rod! This is the ship's binnacle today... note the tight fit between the wheel and the wall... also the windows in this 1944 wheelhouse are smaller than the ones in the 1930 house that I am modelling. Also the gyro and voice pipe were not present in 1930. Thanks for looking in!
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Good morning! Thank you for your interest in my St. Roch build, hope you are enjoying it!
Regards,
Bruce
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More progress on the deckhouse... the wheel is complete and installed, the grey covers are over the chains leading out to the rudder. The side walls are finished and glazed. I used plastic sheet cut from clamshell food containers, free and no hardship to provide for! I will install the front windows after I make the binnacle. I did measure twice, but fingers crossed that I left enough room for it between the wheel and front wall! Turning to the two cabins behind the wheelhouse, I glazed the windows and decided to finish them with pull down blinds. I did try several tricks using sea cabin pictures to give more of an idea of the interiors, but I was not happy with the results. I would also have had to install a floor to keep from looking through the windows down to the clerestory. The window blinds are left over from a Walthers model storefront kit that I built for my model railroad. Setting them a bit behind the glazing gives a decent 3 dimension effect. I have also started roughing out the roof, so once the wheelhouse front is finished I can put that on and attach the deckhouse to the ship!
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Good question... Captain Larsen refers to a system of bells used to signal the engine room... presumably this was either magneto operated like an old telephone ringer (because St. Roch had no electric power unless the auxiliary engine was running), or pull cord operated like Edwardian era stately homes, used for summoning servants. Either way, or if a third system was used, Captain Larsen reported the bell system was unsuitable because the engine commands came in quick succession as the ship maneuvered through the pack ice, and the engineer at the throttle often got confused as to what was required from the engine! A telegraph was fitted in 1940, also a voice pipe, although I believe this led up to the open pilotage above the wheelhouse. Unfortunately the historic record is silent, or unclear, on many of these details. Thanks for your interest!
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Thank you very much... I wanted to put realism into this space since you'll be able to see into the front windows. I used St. Roch's chart table and flag cuddies as they appear today. I am thinking they are original and were re-used during the various deckhouse rebuilds. The chart is Queen Maud Gulf, waters that St. Roch sailed during her Arctic voyages.
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