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Yes, these are HO scale figures, or 1:87. They work well, especially the sitting figures on the benches.

Secret Service agents work closely with local law enforcement to ensure that the the visit of so-and-so with such-and-such on board the riverboat (use your imagination) goes according to plan. Once underway, passengers may find themselves in the presence of a known personality and have the chance at a selfie. But engineering has found a minor problem with propulsion (maybe torquing a couple critical nuts) which may delay the departure by a half hour. Meanwhile, the bridge crew just watches the show…

Anyone know if there is an alternative material for Silkspan? I can’t seem to find it over here, will keep searching but I haven’t found an EU vendor yet.

On 11/14/2023 at 7:19 AM, Richard44 said:

Thanks Steven.

 

Another trick is to disassemble the pegs and reassemble them so that you get a much larger flat, and tapered,  surface that will help with the clamping. 

Cheers

 

PS Those pegs have seen a lot of models. 🙂

Great idea!!

Personally, and not to be rude, no matter how good the Byrnes saw is, I find it hard to throw down well over 800€ to ship one here.

Present saw price + overseas shipping = x€

customs filing fee + customs tax on x€ = y€

20% France VAT taxes on total (x€ + y€) = z€

Saw = x€ + y€ + z€.

Just for mental comparison, 750€ just paid for four new 215/60R17 100H Michelin 4-Season tires on my 4x4 with mounting and full 4 wheel alignment.

So I understand and research the replies here offering up other saw options, they’re people like me who search for cheaper alternatives. We all know the short answer is Byrnes is best, but some of us can’t have a Byrnes (or just don’t think it’s worth the total cost).

More passengers on the dock and maybe a VIP somewhere.

Speaking of passengers, starting to add more before oiling the decks to be sure the glue is dry. Pains me to show this now, and kind of a spoiler, but it has to be done. 
 

Spirits stowed = Happy passengers.

28 minutes ago, Bob Fraser said:

Nicely done!

Noticed the pins in the bottom of the uprights - they helped me a lot in keeping stuff fixed in place 😃

Cheers,

 

Thank you.

Yeah, I wanted to lash the barrels down vs. gluing them to the rack.

I’m not so great at painting consistent thin lines, so to simulate the barrel irons, I used a Sharpie to blacken some thick paper and used that.

Not what you expected. Get out a little…

BTW, for the keen eyes out there, I’m passing oil drain time. More to life than technology.

 

Might need to talk to you off-line about that. Maybe your club can answer an expat’s questions.

Welcome! You’ll fit right in.

I need to come hang with you. Looking to build a L1 rocket here soon. I also still build the little ones although we’re limited to 500 ft AGL in France. Booooooooo……

Not enough time in the day. Would love to have done more, but today was just some lower railings.

18 hours ago, Cleat said:

Nice pictures.  You get a pretty good depth of field. 

Thank you. I try to focus somewhere in the rear-foreground to capture as much as possible. My quick imaging device isn’t the greatest but it gets me by. I also try to always upload images between 400k and 500k to save MSW some server space/money.

Most of the railing posts have been completed and a little rigging as well. Stormy day today so I just holed-up in the workroom.

The tedious task of installing the upper railing posts has begun. Funny how our camera lenses make everything look crooked sometimes. I just ran downstairs to be sure of something before the glue set. Nope, it was perfectly fine. 🙄

26 minutes ago, Cathead said:

In terms of historical accuracy, the structural part this kit represents with rope was actually solid iron rods, so it's modeler's license as to whatever knot looks good to the builder!

Good to know! So why not this knot? 😁

But now you’ve got my mind going. Maybe some shackles instead? 🤔
ok…. Next one.

Nice work with the eyebolts. 

2 hours ago, Cleat said:

I noticed the knot you tied in the picture showing the side railings and I'm wondering how you tied that, what kind of knot is it.  Your anchor looks like it is two knots (dark & light rope).  I had strung the rope on my build last spring before my build went on hiatus, I'm not sure what type of knot to tie.  (I hope to get back to my build in a couple weeks). 

Not sure if it’s historically accurate for the application, but I thought it looked nice. There are tons of videos and images here on MSW on how to tie these. I struggle and waste a lot of rope in the process, but some of the older guys are masters. No idea how you all do it so well.

A little more work this evening:

7 minutes ago, Cathead said:

Gotcha, thanks. When you said "support beam closest to the paddle wheel", I thought you were referring to the angled brace coming down from the superstructure, and I couldn't see anything wrong there. It's interesting that the rope there still seems taut; I guess it's just the last bit that warped.

I just recently added the rope so it’s fresh. 🙂