SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 1897 by Mirabell61 - FINISHED - scale 1:144 - POF - first German four stacker of the Norddeutscher Lloyd line

[popeye the sailor]

looking good Nils...nice start on the winches and boats  

[overdale]

 Great work on the winch Nils, it is a tiny triumph..!

 

Dan.

[Piet]

Yes, that's it Nils, at that small scale we must by necessity "fool the viewer's eye."  In art that is called "trompe l'oeil."  We can go batty reducing reality to the scale of 1:144.  It was a different story with my father's submarine, the O19, at a scale of 1:50.  There I managed with some difficulty to make the deck torpedo launcher doors operable.  

IF by chance you can file a few very small grooves into the edge of the discs for the toothed wheels that are visible you may still get away with it.  Let the viewer's brain complete the picture.

If they are guarded like Steve's photos show then mimicking the gears becomes a moot point.

 

Nice work on the winch prototype Nils. 

 

Cheers,

[Mirabell61]

many thanks to - Grant - Steve - Kees - Greg - Dan - Denis,

and all the "likes"

 

Grant,

nice compliment, much appreciated...

 

Steve,

lovely pics I like, nice sturdy nostalgic equipment, there surely are some details to study, for example the crosshead slide guide only on the underside. I also found  some inspirating pics on the web.....

 

Kees,

special thanks to your comment relating to the lifeboat cover , will keep that in mind....

 

Greg,

appreciate and thank you for your kind remark for the strake width, I was already thinking of taking the momentary aluminium "clinker strips" down from the small boats hull and doing them over again, we`ll see (at least for a "fair compromise" to visual aspect)

 

Denis,

these are always the little things that go around in my mind, and I do some trials now and then for to determine the final version to be built...

 

Dan,

the idea was to use some suitable brass stock that could possibly do for the machine framing in one piece, the last winch-frames I made in scale 1:96 had to be soldered together from several bits, and the fixing in position for soldering was quite some fiddeling work

 

Piet,

many thanks for your comment to resembling the wheel-Teeth per file in the visible portions. The wheel transmission guard on one of Steve`s pics was also first thing that my eye caught when looking at that related pic (having same thoughts as yours...)

 

Nils

[Omega1234]

Hi Nils

 

Your winch. What can I say other than...Truly marvellous!

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[michael mott]

Nice work on the winch Nils.

 

Michael

[Mirabell61]

Thanks for your compliments on the winch Patrick and Michael,

 

that tooth-wheel question did`nt leave my mind cool all the time, here`s what I did with some odd polycarbonate wheels out of my "leftovers" box. Think its better than to quit the toothwheels not showing up....

Further there is a bracket mounted which takes up the two cylinders, one side already bears a piston rod (to be shortend)

I`ll try to chemically blacken the winch framework, when the appropriate parts are ready. Up to this stage every part is repeatable

 

Nils

 

 

the crankshaft is not mounted yet. It will all be a quite compact design....

 

 

 

size relation to the pin

 

 

 

shafts and wheels dismounted for soldering the cylinder carrying bracket

 

 

 

[dgbot]

I wish I could be at your workshop when you are making that thing Nils.  I could learn many things.

David B

Edited March 2, 2016 by dgbot

[mtaylor]

The first picture of the winch looked great... and now it appears to actually work?  Gears with teeth at that scale.  Wow....  talk about inspirational work.

[Piet]

Nice going Nils!  Looks like you are applying the KISS principle

 

Cheers,

[michael mott]

 

here`s what I did with some odd polycarbonate wheels out of my "leftovers" box.

They look a bit like old printer gears.

 

Michael

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Nils

 

Looks good with the gearwheels. Much better than before, more realistic.

 

Regards

Gerhard

[Mirabell61]

Thank you very much - David - Mark -  Piet - Michael - Gerhard,

for your kind remarks....

And all the "likes"...

 

David,

as I posess neigther lathe nor milling machine it is all designed and made with and for my regulary house tooling..., for lathing I use my drilling machine and a sawblade as chissel, nothing special, "K.I.S.S principle" as Piet says

 

Mark,

sorry it wo`nt work, but probably it looks as if it could..., the two top shafts bear gear-wheels, but the crankshaft wont, because they would`nt be seen anyhow and I ran out of gear-wheels for to cover those as well 

 

Piet,

K.I.S.S, yes, that`s the right obligation, there often come some thoughts for improvement while I`m doing it

 

Michael,

lucky for me I still had a limited amount of spare gear wheels ( they are usualy used for variating the gear reduction on mini RC servos, ruddermachines), but the Austrian source does not distribute these priceworthy gear-sets any more, and I have`nt found them anywhere else on the web...since

 

Gerhard,

thanks, nice compliment, I think I`ll change the shaft from brass to steel, they do`nt bend / distort so easy

 

Nils

[NenadM]

What kind of magic you use Nils? I stayed voiceless and breathless. Really really great work

[popeye the sailor]

looking really good Nils  

[Mirabell61]

Thank you very much Nenad and Denis,

for your kind comments

 

Nils

[Mirabell61]

Update

 

Prototyp winch is now complete (requires a few paint touch ups)

 

Two of these winches go on the forecastle deck and one on the forward waist deck, behind the foremast

 

Two reciprocating steam drives mounted, also outer winding drums and brake. The framework was chemically blackend.

 

2 of these winches go on the forecastle deck and one on the forward waist deck, behind the foremast

 

Nils

 

 

 

[steamschooner]

Nils, The winch is looking great!  It's a good thing there are fewer of them than cowl vents

[Jim Lad]

Very nice looking winch, Nils!  Good thing it's not so realistic that you can hear the noise!!

 

John

[Omega1234]

Hi Nils. Marvellous workmanship! They look great.

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

G'day Nils

Ditto to all the above! They look so real, I can hear them working hear!

Goodonyamate

Greg

[Mirabell61]

Thank you very much Steve, John and Patrick,

for your appreciations....

 

Steve,

yes now that I know it can be done, it`s a bit more relaxing to do the other 5 winches

 

John,

Thanks, I`m glad you like it

 

Patrick,

Thanks, I`m satisfied myself with the result, glad you like it too

 

Nils

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi nils

 

Well made, how did you colour the gear wheels? I`v tried several tims to paint that Plastic wheels, nothing worked out well.

 

Regards

Gerhard

[Mirabell61]

Thank you Gerhard,

 

for the wheels I applied Humbrol enamel #16 Met, bronze color (metallic, small 14 ml can)

 

Nils

[Gerhardvienna]

So the Humbrol seems to be better for that than the Revell coluors I always use. I must try them on my next winch. Thank you for advise!

 

Regards

Gerhard

[pete48]

Simply Amazing Nils, Beautiful work

 

Best Regards,

Pete

[Mirabell61]

Thanks very much Pete,

 

Nils

[Piet]

Yup, very convincing looking winches Nils, great job.

 

Cheers,

[Mirabell61]

thanks very much Piet,

 

once the prototype is made, the learning curve sets in and the remaining 5 winches ca`nt go wrong any more. One needs to be mirrored.

 

Nils

 

 

The horizontal holes for the 3 axis are drilled by means of a template, taken from the prototype

The upper side contours still to be filed into shape. For the large gear wheel it requires a little freecut in the front side. I`m so happy that it worked out like it was intended

[captainbob]

Ah yes, the assembly line is up and running. 

 

Bob