Jim Lad

That's a cunning way to check the alignment, Mark.
 
John

Nothing like an old table for modelling timber!  The spars of all my models to date come from an antique pine table top that had seen better days.
 
John

Potholes are never finished Keith - they just get deeper!  (sorry)
 
Looking good, Nils.
 
John

Hello Brent, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'.
 
John

Delightful work, Mark.
 
John

Thanks, Nils. I think she'll certainly use up all my patience! 
 
Phil, the ship was 102 meters long and the model is at a scale of 1:100, so the hull of the model is 1.062 meters. The double spanker rig was quite common on German ships of the period. I think it looks good and adds extra interest on an otherwise fairly bare jigger mast.
 
John

Hello Brent, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'.
 
John

Nothing like an old table for modelling timber!  The spars of all my models to date come from an antique pine table top that had seen better days.
 
John

Hello Brent, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'.
 
John

Been a while again, but there's no messing with the 2-piece quotum. 
 
Although it doesn't look like much, I'm busy with a critical pipe. One that scared me a bit (= stopped at that point in the past) due to its complex shape. 
It's the bunker manifolds. 2 pipes are there, an HFO (Heavy Fuel Oil) system and a Diesel Oil system. They are shaped very strangely, but I assume they did it that way to make sure that the line can be drained properly to the tank, so in case of a leak on the manifold, there would only be a limited amount of oil that could possibly leak to the flange side (that is at least my theory for this odd shape). 
 
A long while back I made preparations for this system since I put a 1.5mm rod with a 90° bend already in that manifold. I would not be able to place such a pipe afterwards. I was a bit obsessed with having as little joints in those pipes as possible and always tried to make things from 1 piece. In the end, the installed pipe didn't have a good 90° bend and didn't want to go in place, so I clipped it near the bend. Made a proper 90° bend. I also could remove both pieces of the pipe that way and adjust their lengths properly without risk of damage to the rest of the construction. 
Having decided to do this, it allowed me to take the next step more easily. 
As you can see, it goes over the edge of the hatch, complicating things a bit more, as the pipe has to be properly sized and fitted, there's no way I could bend and glue the aft piece to the drip tray. 
Flanges and valves were dry fitted for testing. 

 

 
Here, handwheels are already fitted to the valves. I used 0.3mm thick styrene discs which I drilled out in the center and later on in the 4 corners.  This pipe had to be painted and fixed in order to proceed with the transverse beams above them. 

 
Here it is painted and fixed in place. The forward transverse beams are in place, since the DO system only goes to the aft drip tray. DO system (Smaller capacity and diameter of pipe) is dry fitted here. The whole process involves a lot of bending, fitting, bending, mounting the hatch back on the ship to see for the drip trays, then removing it again to work on the piping etc. 

 
Once the DO system is in place, I'm ready to continue with the transverse beams and then I can proceed 1 level up with the actual transverse cargo pipes. 

Nothing like an old table for modelling timber!  The spars of all my models to date come from an antique pine table top that had seen better days.
 
John

Potholes are never finished Keith - they just get deeper!  (sorry)
 
Looking good, Nils.
 
John

Potholes are never finished Keith - they just get deeper!  (sorry)
 
Looking good, Nils.
 
John

An excellent first model, Chris!
 
John

Potholes are never finished Keith - they just get deeper!  (sorry)
 
Looking good, Nils.
 
John

Potholes are never finished Keith - they just get deeper!  (sorry)
 
Looking good, Nils.
 
John

Hello Ralf, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'.
 
John

That's a cunning way to check the alignment, Mark.
 
John

Potholes are never finished Keith - they just get deeper!  (sorry)
 
Looking good, Nils.
 
John

That's a cunning way to check the alignment, Mark.
 
John

An excellent first model, Chris!
 
John

That looks a good, sturdy boat. It will be interesting to watch her grow.
 
John

Hello Ralf, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'.
 
John

Welcome back, Scott!
 
John

Looks great, Greg.
 
John