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Made some progress today on the QG install but still working through some bugs, lots of parts in the trash! And I don’t like the color so I’m going to redo the paint work. More on these next week. But I did have a success with the lower counter frieze and the boxwood molding. After some manipulation and multiple prints I think I have it where I want it and it fits pretty good. Some minor trimming required but nothing serious.
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Thank you Greg. I’m currently putting one together and have it installed, however I don’t like the blue so I’m going to take it off and start over. so far the only cedar on the QG’s is the laser etched flooring that fits into the printed floors of the QG’s. Everything you are seeing so far is boxwood.
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Thanks guys. I’m very pleased with how the carvings have turned out. The painting was quite useful and easy to interpret into a 3D model. More to come soon!
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Some small progress on the QG today. Spent most time designing parts and printing trial and error. Oh and whatever this resin is, it’s absolutely best friends with CA and believe it or not… Tightbond. There will be zero issues attaching things to these and then to the hull.
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Lookin good, you’re moving right along. getting to the fun stuff now.
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I’m not quite sure I understand what you are asking. Are you referring to where the planks meet the lower counter?
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Thanks guys. Still a ways to go. Will be making some more revisions to the 3D model today and hopefully print another one this evening. I’m hoping to have the QG design and laser cut parts sorted by early next week.
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Some very preliminary QG work done tonight. Lots of boxwood had to die for this to happen. New revised windows on an old prototype QG, some messed up columns and oversized moldings. But you get the idea. There’s still much more to these things but this is the basic idea.
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Timing is everything. Im still working on it one chapter at a time. You build reasonably quick. May be better to wait so I have some chapters in stock anyway!!
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Nice work!
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Thank you Glenn! Would love to see you build one!
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I start with one of these wonderful dremel tools (everyone should have one) and then move on to a series of thin little block s that I make. And I finish out the gun deck level with this wide foam block that I used on the hull. The little thin sheet blocks are wide enough to span three bulkheads so they keep things even but they are flexible enough to not dig holes. The curved one helps with getting down to the bottom of the extensions, the little pad with lighter sandpaper helps you keep a grip on it.
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The end of chapter 2 or the beginning of chapter 3, however you want to look at it…is just a bunch of sanding. So that’s what I’ve been doing the last couple days. A little paintwork at the bow and some playing around with the beak head parts. In the meantime I’m printing a revised QG prototype and hope to have a set of them bolted on later this week, installing and outfitting the QG’s will be the bulk of chapter 3, along with some other exterior details. More to come soon.
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Nicely done Steve! Those look good.
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Lovely display! That will make a great little project. Enjoy Canada!
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Adding the fixed blocks today, it’s pretty simple actually except for the aft one, there’s no covering up boo boo’s with a frieze on this one. lets start with assembling the fixed blocks. The fixed blocks come in two halves, you just need to select the one that faces out and assemble the roller and the axle to that half. From there I sanded the out side down until it almost hits the roller The idea here is that once we fair the inside of the hull and add the spirketting panels then we can install the other half of the block and fair it down to the spirketting. When faired properly we should be able to see the roller from the inside as well. I’ll cover this more when we get to this stage. Now onto installing the fixed block half, I started by marking where it goes, it’s important that we place it in the corner of all the structure, it will help in the future when the laser cut panels go in on the inside I then traced it with a pencil so I could see where to make Some small holes from there I just opened up the hole very slowly and tested the block over and over again until it had a tight fit. here you can see it from the inside with the roller in place, this will also help you when fairing the inside, once you get close to the roller you’ll know you’re done sanding! once it fit well I glued it in place and then carefully flush sanded it to match the hull then covered it up in some wop so it matches the rest of the planking. the rest of the fixed blocks are pretty easy, they just need to be fitted into laser cut holes in the frieze panels. i carefully cut the frieze piece free from the hole and glued it down to the top of the fixed block and then opened it up with a #11
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Thanks guys.
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Interesting. Im Curious now on this. I was interested in printing my QG’s to look like wood even though they will be mostly painted and covered with real wood. I will be following if you do this course.
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An online course sounds fun, I would be interested as I’m just getting into 3D printing. Although I thought you were blending or pigmenting your resins to look like wood?
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