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Well done! I really love the contrast between the beams and the deck planking (and everything else looks wonderful, too)! Keep up the great work!  -Chad

Well done! I really love the contrast between the beams and the deck planking (and everything else looks wonderful, too)! Keep up the great work!  -Chad

Well done! I really love the contrast between the beams and the deck planking (and everything else looks wonderful, too)! Keep up the great work!  -Chad

...and with that it was done. I then ventured into my first somewhat -bigger woodworking foray and making a case. I was surprised (and have continually been) at how robust the Byrnes table saw is at cutting bigger stock. I made the case out of Peruvian Walnut which is a fairly soft for a hardwood (and very porous) and finished it with a french polish which is a total pain in the *** but looks beautiful. The base is curly maple with an ebony and rosewood inlay, and the model was mounted on two turned brass pedestals. As i just mentioned in my comment to Derek I really wish I had the forethought like him to install mounting hardware way back in the beginning, the problem being that my cross section kept listing because of the cannons on one side. It ended up taking epoxy to get it to sit right and now the Triton will never be leaving it's stand!



 
And that's that! It was a fun (and glacially slow) build, but I couldn't be happier with the final product. Every day for the last couple years my wife and kids walk by my Triton cross section, stop, stare in awe, and never fail to exclaim something like "Wow, Dad- that is amazing!"  Just kidding- none of them care and the only time they mention it is when we need to move it to put up the Christmas Tree.... but to me it was the journey. Everyone is going to have their own outlook on modeling, but I hope if you are starting this project that you don't take the mindset of this being a throwaway project that leads to something bigger- enjoy the ride and do the best you can. Personally, when I'm old and my hands don't work anymore I'd like to look back on this hobby and have built maybe a handful of incredible models that I know I put all my effort into and will be kept in the family than a houseful of models that I blew through and my kids toss in the trash the day after I die. Enjoy the ride and make sawdust!   -Chad

Awesome job so far!! Everything looks tight and clean so far- looking forward to following along!   -Chad

Awesome job so far!! Everything looks tight and clean so far- looking forward to following along!   -Chad

Awesome job so far!! Everything looks tight and clean so far- looking forward to following along!   -Chad

Thanks for the welcome folks , i realise i,m a late comer and have all u to thank for your build logs which i have relied on . I,m not one for measuring to the last 0.5 so am inclined to make things fit as i go along , and cut a few corners so i hope u won,t be dissapointed .  Basically i want to find out if i,m up to the full Triton build , time will tell ???

Beautiful work, Johann! Your metal work is top notch!  -Chad

Beautiful! Those railings look like they were a real pain to install but they look great!

Beautiful! Those railings look like they were a real pain to install but they look great!

Haha, well apparently the DDG's have changed somewhat since my day! The lack of a forward CIWS sent me down the internet rabbithole of trying to figure out when/why they were removed and what they were replaced with.

Greg, your model is fantastic and took me down memory lane! I was a SPY radar tech on the USS Barry (DDG52), so many of your photos bring back lots of memories. Fun fact- those SPY arrays are made up of a thousand or so small porcelain windows that are covered in RTV. When you go through a hail storm lots of them break and you get to spend a day in port on a ladder replacing them!  -Chad

Beautiful! Those railings look like they were a real pain to install but they look great!

Beautiful! Those railings look like they were a real pain to install but they look great!

Beautiful! Those railings look like they were a real pain to install but they look great!

Haha, well apparently the DDG's have changed somewhat since my day! The lack of a forward CIWS sent me down the internet rabbithole of trying to figure out when/why they were removed and what they were replaced with.

Haha, well apparently the DDG's have changed somewhat since my day! The lack of a forward CIWS sent me down the internet rabbithole of trying to figure out when/why they were removed and what they were replaced with.

I Started this build 15 years ago thinking it would be easy to make a fully framed model like you see in museums, how wrong was I, unfortunately then life, moving house etc, took over and the centre part of the hull sat in the garage for 14 years get more broken up and generally ruined, in march last year I thought it was time to resurrect the build and it took me two months to work out the puzzle of broken pieces, straighten them out and get to a place where I could start building again, now nearly a year later this is the current state of the HMS Syrius.

Started on the railings 

Haha, well apparently the DDG's have changed somewhat since my day! The lack of a forward CIWS sent me down the internet rabbithole of trying to figure out when/why they were removed and what they were replaced with.

Greg, your model is fantastic and took me down memory lane! I was a SPY radar tech on the USS Barry (DDG52), so many of your photos bring back lots of memories. Fun fact- those SPY arrays are made up of a thousand or so small porcelain windows that are covered in RTV. When you go through a hail storm lots of them break and you get to spend a day in port on a ladder replacing them!  -Chad

A little late to the party but caught up on your log and wanted to say congrats on finishing and well done! Time to hop over to your new log!  -Chad

Greg, your model is fantastic and took me down memory lane! I was a SPY radar tech on the USS Barry (DDG52), so many of your photos bring back lots of memories. Fun fact- those SPY arrays are made up of a thousand or so small porcelain windows that are covered in RTV. When you go through a hail storm lots of them break and you get to spend a day in port on a ladder replacing them!  -Chad

A little late to the party but caught up on your log and wanted to say congrats on finishing and well done! Time to hop over to your new log!  -Chad