Omega1234

Thank you Patrick for suggesting the Annie Paker build log.
Both models so look similar!
Different colours in some detail show that is difficult to interpretate the source books.
For example, I wonder if the Ingomar gunwale (top of bulwark) is really white or brown as per Annie Parker.
What do you think?
 
Ciao,
Giorgio

Nice work Georgio!
 
You know, your ship reminds me of Lawrence's model which you can see here: http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/9268-annie-m-parker-by-canoe21-fishing-schooner-by-lawrence-scratch-build-scale-150/?hl=%2Bannie+%2Bparker, if you're interested. Both your models are impressive, to say the least.
 
All the best!
 
Patrick

finally getting a chance to check your progress.........fantastic!    the hull plating looks great!   coal doors and detail is awesome 
 
 
have a great B- day!

Happy Birthday Nils another day older and another masterpiece in the works.
David B

Hi Mark - 
 
Looking good.  That stack of lifts for the longboat should work out well.  Looking forward to your progress.
 
For carving those really small letters, I have had some good success by using micro-bitts for the Dremel that I have accumulated over the years.  Here is a photo of some of the smaller ones.  The last on the right is from my dentist, who is a great source of tiny tools.
 
Dan
 

I thought that was a prerequisite for ship building?
 
I think you're on to the solution with V5.0 Mark. Will be watching closely, I would like to add a ships boat or 3 to my next build.
Sam

Hi Dan
 
Wow! What an amazing amount of detail you're adding. It's almost as if you were on the real thing.
 
Love the check chair, although I guess you're not putting it on? Or are you?
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Your 'bread 'n' butter' longboat be coming along nicely there, Mark.
 
 
Ah yes ... the wailing and gnashing of teeth, as well as ample usage of ye olde sailing language, wouldst be a staple in my build room.

Hi Mike
 
Yep, can't argue with Hartmut! Your work's spot on, as always.
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Hi Daniel,
 
Thanks for visiting the KWdG log, and many thanks for your kind words...
 
Nils

Dimitris and Patrick,
 
thanks very much for your birthday greetings, much appreciated...
 
Nils

A real joy to catch up :-)
 
XXXDan

Dan,
 
shaping arranging and mounting of those rails and railings are fantastic (wow in that scale !)
very well done..
 
Nils

Absolutely fantastic detail work, both on the railings, and the pool.  Thank you for sharing your techniques with the photo-etch railings too, I see a lot of use of photo-etch in modeling, but rarely see anyone show exactly how they handle, form, and attach it.  Great stuff!

Dan, excellent primer on working with photo-etch.Thanks for the great photos.

Great save! Another idea for that bag of "tricks".

Hi Dan
 
Wow! What an amazing amount of detail you're adding. It's almost as if you were on the real thing.
 
Love the check chair, although I guess you're not putting it on? Or are you?
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

A very happy 50th Nils!!!
 
All the very best for a great day!
 
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Hi Dan
 
Wow! What an amazing amount of detail you're adding. It's almost as if you were on the real thing.
 
Love the check chair, although I guess you're not putting it on? Or are you?
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Hi Mark
 
Sometimes it's amazing how much good fortune can come out of a simple mistake.
 
Good turn around, for sure!
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Hi Mark
 
Sometimes it's amazing how much good fortune can come out of a simple mistake.
 
Good turn around, for sure!
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Hi the Wattle was re floated on 31st September 2015 and is expected to be running again mid 2016, after a substantial rebuild. It should run for the next 80 years plus on it's original steam engines as a day tourist boat around Port Philip Bay.
I have made a scratch build model of the Wattle that I finished mid 2015, I have both an electric motor drive and I also run it with a drop in live steam plant.
The build took me over 12 months of continuous work. She is currently berthed near the Bolty Bridge in the Yarra River in Melbourne and has a woeking bee of around 20 enthusiasts working on it that meet every Saturday.
Greg H

Something to consider for keeping carving tools sharp:
 
Get some pieces of scrap leather from a local shop that works leather.
Coat the smooth side with Flexcut Gold Polishing compd. 
 
It comes as a stick - use like a crayon to coat the leather.
 
 
Strop the edge frequently - pull the blade.
I must sometimes move the blade slightly in the cutting direction when I place it on the leather - I can tell because it messes up the surface of the leather.  Several back up pieces of leather is useful to have.
 
Unless you mar the edge of the tool by hitting steel or something, you should not need to use a sharpening stone ever again.  Stropping should be enough.

Hi Dan
 
Wow! What an amazing amount of detail you're adding. It's almost as if you were on the real thing.
 
Love the check chair, although I guess you're not putting it on? Or are you?
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Build Log 11 - the 3rd Class pool
 
Since you are reading this, the posting went through, which tells me that I can't put more than about 25 photos in any one post.  So here is the rest of what would have been Log 10.  It is heavy on photos and light on text, but short enough not to run up against any limits within the programming.   
 
In some of the photos in the last segment you can see the rough empty hole in the Promenade Deck which was carved to hold the 3rd class pool.  This was the simplest of the three pools on the ship, and on the lowest deck, so it was the one I started with.  
 
Some deduction as to its appearance was required, as with many of the final details of the ship.  Here is all that the plans provided.
 

 
And here is the best of the overall photographs. No color photograph was located with enough detail to conclusively tell me what color the circular surround was.  The best I could infer was a uniform grey/brown.
 

 
I did locate a nice detail shot of the pool, which was my main guide for the construction.  Note the stylish Italian design of the handrails of the ladders and around the diving platform.  The lip of the pool and the surround seem to be made of small flat tiles, but I couldn’t be sure.  In any event, I worked to get as close to this look as possible.
 

 
All three pools began with the pool tub, made up from plastic.  The base of the pool was cut according to the plans, but reduced by the thickness of the four sides.  A strip of 0.020” styrene was cut from a sheet of stock that was long enough to make up all four sides and high enough to make a reasonably deep pool.  Four lengths were cut, each one longer than the side of the pool that it would become.
 
As should be clear by now, I don’t really follow the old rule about measuring and cutting.  I find it better to work out a procedure so there is no measuring at all.  Here is how it worked for the pool tubs:
 
The first side was held against the base using a piece of scrapwood with square sides.  One end of the side was carefully aligned with one end of the base, leaving the extra length of the side to go past the other end.  Cyano was fed along the seam and allowed to dry.  A piece of waxed paper was used to keep the piece from being glued to the work surface.
 

 
The second side was held against the next edge of the base and against the first side using the same scrapwood to align it vertically.  This was glued to the base and to the first side.
 

 
The third side and the fourth sides were done in the same manner.
 

 
With all four sides glued in place the extra tabs were cut off flush with the tub sides.
 

 
And here is the completed tub.
 

 
A thin strip was glued to the inner faces of the sides to represent the drain gutter seen in the photo.  Another strip was added to the outside perimeter, set flush with the top of the sides.  Its height set the distance that the pool sticks up above the tile surround.
 

 
The circle of the surround was cut from thin sheet and a lip was glued to the perimeter.  The hole for the pool tub was cut to fit snugly around the tub, so the thickness of the perimeter strip would keep the tub from sliding through.  The strip also hid any tiny gaps.
 

 
The tub was dropped into the surround and secured.  A top lip was added and the surround and lip painted grey.  The bottom of the pool was painted a Carribean light blue before a first layer of clear epoxy was poured for the water.
 
The handrails for the ladders were bent up from wire, as was the railing around the diving platform.  The platform and benches were given ‘wooden’ slats before the final epoxy pour locked the ladders in place.  I tried to add metal rungs to the ladders, but that proved to be above and beyond my limits.
 

 
The finished pool was loosely test fit in place in the deck to check its appearance.  Once I was happy it was removed for safekeeping and was not secured until much later in the build. 
 

 
Here it is at that later stage.  I took the photo from much the same angle as the initial photo that I relied on.
 

 
I leave it to you to decide how close to an accurate representation I managed to come.
 

 
Next time I continue with the larger and more complicated assemblies for the 2nd and 1st Class pools.
 
Dan