Kevin

lol i wonder what im doing on this site sometimes, i am full of ideas, just dont have what it takes to bring them to life

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day 22

over the weekend i did some photo etch and made up some of the winches and pumps

then i revisited the preverbial pain, that being the after welll deck. i was getting lots of light bleed so it was all ripped out and resorted

its better now, and the bulkheads dont glow anymore

4 hours ago, Bill Morrison said:

I remember back in the late 1980s that Model Expo ran a special to get people to build wooden ship models. Their deal was that they would buy back completed models of their Phantom kit if the builder bought from them.  Mine is still sitting in the box as it is a boring kit for me. But, I have completed and sold models of HMS Bellona (Corel), USS Constitution (Blue Jacket), Half Moon (Blue Jacket), among others.  It is up to you.

 

Bill Morrison

i dont think they would honeor that deal now

the Caldercraft 1/72 Victory was my first ever tall ship, and at the time about the 3rd build under my belt, on and off the table she did take me 7 years, i fully inderstand now why so many are never completed

9 hours ago, hof00 said:

 

(NZ is mostly Hydro.)

 

Cheers and Regards,

 

Harry.

i never knew that

1 hour ago, hof00 said:

My God!!

Where in the world are you and more importantly, who does that to consumers?

 

300% increase is insane!

 

Harry.

the UK like many euro countries are struggling to meet fuel demands, the Putin war, post pandemic, even brexit have had an effect, energy companies keep raising the price cap set for energy, even ours has gone up 100% and we are using about 1/2 of what was used last year. the nicer weather has helped keep the costs down, it will level off sometime next year, 

however some customers are facing higher bills depanding on how they pay for it, like pre-payment

the government are helping out, but for some it is not enough to keep up with the extra problems we are facing with inflation/cost of living

What is the energy price cap and how high could bills go? - BBC News

2 hours ago, Blue Ensign said:

An interesting project and conversion Kevin, she's going to look magnificent when completed, the lighting will make her very special.

 

B.E.

loads more lighting to go in,  the kit comes with a 5vt lighting set, which on recommendation is discarded, however the power supply is a 12vt sytem with dimmer, i may obtain anr one which will give me the option to fully light her up like a christmas tree, but tone it down so it looks like the tree was still up in March

today i found out that she also had as well as the green hull line but green lighting along the upper deck

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DAY 18

revisited the enclosed after deck and sorted the hatch truckways and the new 2nd class gymnasium

also on the top deck is a childrens play room this still needs work, im not happy with it at all

i think some primer is required

the primer has stopped the lightbleed

both sides of the hull are now with topcoats, been deliberatly left looking pants to ease the weathering (which is the same as i hate airbrushing)

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day 16 

i not going to go on about airbrushing, other than i remember why i dont do it

preshading, well thats enouth of that

deck work continues, yet again KA dont put in where everything goes, and hence i missed some of trhe stain glass window detals, to late now

lighting conrinues, i will most likely be running three feeds 

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day 14

lots of little projects going on

Portholes, i dont want to spend several hundred pounds sorting out the rivets and portholes, but i can make a couple of changes so some of the kit widows are being filled in to make her look a bit like the Britannic

internal decks are haing PE windows fitted

lighting is ongoing

filling windows

Very nice indeed, 

very nice indeed, i also found her hard to photo, there is so much detail for the camera to focus on, i will not build another Bismack, but sometimes look at mine and see things i could have done better

the wall/bulhead looks brilliant

out in the sunshine, im still messing about with the scratch built after deck, the size is about right now

good morning Tom, i will tag along with your build progress, i wont be in a hurry to drill those portholes again

On 9/12/2022 at 7:07 AM, RGL said:

So some more alge (I’ve read accounts of these first war German subs, they’d park on shallow sea floors, so I reckon they’d pick up some

we did that even in the 80's with RN diesel boats, just to listen and wait,

Nuclear boats are unable to do so due to contast requirement of cooling water

Sorted it was a trunkway, i will attampt to put two in

Roger good evening

in the link  it shows the covered over well deck, as part of the walkthrough experience of the Britannic, it however does not show any hatches or trunks,

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=100002107592434&attachment_id=799897851150443&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAHArC6CJRTLo72DE-0-c14sj

the photo here however does show the hatches on the deck above 

22 hours ago, Kevin said:

there is notning at all in that area to suggest the hataches are there, here is a tour guide of the after well deck 

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=100002107592434&attachment_id=799897851150443&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAHArC6CJRTLo72DE-0-c14sj

the hatches on the above deck

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curtosy of the rattle can we have the Britannic in colour

5 minutes ago, realworkingsailor said:

Seems as likely as not, they would have simply extended the hatch coamings up through, unless they had no intention of using the after hold (which seems weird to me).

 

Andy

there is notning at all in that area to suggest the hataches are there, here is a tour guide of the after well deck 

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=100002107592434&attachment_id=799897851150443&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAHArC6CJRTLo72DE-0-c14sj

stunning work, the PE justs sets it off to another level

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day 9 after well deck

Britannic had lots of changes made to her, as a result of the titanic loss,, the after well deck was one of them

it was decided that 3rd class passengers needed somewhere to smoke and protected from the elements

to achieve this they removed the hatched to the after cargo holds (but at present i dont know where to)

lovely

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day 8

after completing the portholes, i then redid them from the other side to clear the swarf, and then reprimed

a cheap shelf unit, will be the main stand,

holes drilled in the keel and base to keep her in place, and power outlet,  the nuts inside the hull are permanently  fixed with two part expoy

the main deck is now also inits final position and fixed

the forcastle will be the next part, after i have sorted the power run