Germania Nova 1911 by KeithAug - FINISHED - Scale 1:36 - replica of schooner Germania 1908

[Vladimir_Wairoa]

On 6/19/2020 at 8:00 PM, KeithAug said:

Eberhard, Keith, Michael, John, Richard, Steve, Vaddoc, Rob, Dale, Druey. Thank you all for taking an interest and commenting. Also thanks to everyone who has looked in.

Ah, Pat you have caught me out taking short cuts. Thank you for commenting.

 

Tom, it is just a bit of card. It is placed a few millimetres below the perspex of the window. 

Hat off sir  i keep going to watch nd learn here just fabulous ! thank you for sharing it Vlad. 

[KeithAug]

Hmmmm,--------- just catching up on my log after a few days off. You have been having fun. You are of course all welcome and I will get the wife on with the fruit scones, jam and clotted cream. I assume your bus has a decontamination bay and that you all have your PPE in good order.

 

By the way I still have my hair, but in these times it is a bit of a double edged sword. The barbers have closed down and 4 months without a haircut has left me looking a bit like an inverted floor mop.

[Keith Black]

1 hour ago, KeithAug said:

just catching up on my log after a few days off. You have been having fun

Sorry, Keith, we got bored waiting for you. 

[Retired guy]

13 hours ago, mtaylor said:

 

A bit????  LOL........

 

13 hours ago, mtaylor said:

 

A bit????  LOL........

 

Its only 997 Km or 11 hrs 27 mins that's  a bit an't it  that would be a lovely motorbike ride.

 

3 hours ago, KeithAug said:

Hmmmm,--------- just catching up on my log after a few days off. You have been having fun. You are of course all welcome and I will get the wife on with the fruit scones, jam and clotted cream. I assume your bus has a decontamination bay and that you all have your PPE in good order.

 

By the way I still have my hair, but in these times it is a bit of a double edged sword. The barbers have closed down and 4 months without a haircut has left me looking a bit like an inverted floor mop.

 

Home made fruit scones jam and clotted cream yummy 🍺 and lucky for us on the Island we have only had approx 150 cases of the virus 😷

1 hour ago, Keith Black said:

Sorry, Keith, we got bored waiting for you. 

😄

 

Regards

Richard

[KeithAug]

I had a bit of a slow time last week, distracted by the lawn tractor passing away at the age of 22 and an even older central heating zone valve going the same way. Anyway that is my excuse for not making better progress.

 

To port of wheel is a pedestal mounted hinge topped and fronted box which houses the GPS screen, it is .62" square by .35" high. A simple item to make. Particularly as i had turned the stem some time back.

 

 

I took a few shots with it temporarily in place.

I also put the engine telegraph pedestal temporarily in place.

 

 

 

I then moved on to start the main deck house and the below deck corridor below it.

 

The floor of the deckhouse is .250" below deck level so I started by creating the support for this floor.

This floor was cut from 3/8" ply cut to a square "U" shape. The cut out is sized to take the below deck corridor.

 

 

The floor is constructed on a 1/16" sheet of ply which will be mahogany planked to create the finished floor surface.

 

 

 

Not much to show for a week - but sometimes life is like that.

 

 

 

 

[michael mott]

Nice crisp woodwork there Keith.

 

Michael

[wefalck]

"I had a bit of a slow time last week, distracted by the lawn tractor passing away at the age of 22 ..." - as my father said, when his cousin told him that he had 90.000 DM tax debts to pay: "I would be glad to have such a problem ..." - lawn tractor problems mean that you have a lawn big enough to need a tractor

 

The pedestals under the gratings look rather masssive. Is that also on the prototype ?

[Keith Black]

Keith, the engine telegraph is especially superb! And the second picture down, if one didn't know better........

"The lawn tractor passing away at the age of 22" How many hours were on the clock? Mine has 370 and I'm kinda wishing it would go to tractor heaven. 

[KeithAug]

2 hours ago, wefalck said:

lawn tractor problems mean that you have a lawn big enough to need a tractor

 

The pedestals under the gratings look rather masssive. Is that also on the prototype ?

Eberhard

Re lawn tractor, it is a sit and ride mower - its just called a lawn tractor.

 

The pedestals are 3/32 diameter. At full size they would be 3.375". I scaled them off a photo at about 3". On the original they are made of wood. I tried wood but they were very weak so I made them in brass.

 

 

[KeithAug]

1 hour ago, Keith Black said:

"The lawn tractor passing away at the age of 22" How many hours were on the clock? Mine has 370 and I'm kinda wishing it would go to tractor heaven. 

Keith

 

Clock?????? It predates clocks - but it does have a sundial. My estimated run hour is 330 so you may be lucky soon.

[wefalck]

Of course, I know that it's a sit-on lawn-mower ... no lawn here, only window-boxes

 

[Keith Black]

58 minutes ago, wefalck said:

no lawn here, only window-boxes

The older I get the more appealing that sounds. 

[Retired guy]

Very nice engine telegraph pedestal and GPS box and stand 

Do you have a 1/35 figure and take a picture of it standing on your brilliant stand by the wheel.

 

Regards

Richard

 

 

[KeithAug]

On 6/29/2020 at 10:55 PM, wefalck said:

no lawn here, only window-boxes

Eberhard - that must have been tough during lockdown.

 

Richard - thank you.

[wefalck]

Not so bad, we have two balconies, where can have the meals - weather permitting. In fact, I had not been physically out of the apartment for two months, but it didn't really bother me too much.

[KeithAug]

I am now setting off on a flight of fancy - building the below deck corridor that no one will ever see.

The problem is I have detail which I am finding it impossible to ignore.

I have a plan view of the area together with a good photo.

 

 

The key feature of the area is the staircase so I started with that.

 

It is 2.2" high and has a tread depth of .2".

 

I cut the steps on the mill from a piece of pine and then clad the pine.

 

Sides were made and drilled to tale the spindles. You can just about see the holes in the next photo.

 

 

I cut the stairs off the block I had used for machining the steps and then milled the back of the stairs flat. 

 

I then clad the back of the stairs with mahogany planks (an exceptionally silly step because it is impossible to see this area even without the deck house in place).

 

I then turned the bottom stair post and made the .060" spindles using a draw plate.

 

 

The spindles were drilled either end to take the wire mounting spigots and the spindles were cut to length and installed together with the handrail.

 

 

I then made a start on the corridor floor and walls.

 

 

While I was at it I also made the floor for the deckhouse.

 

 

[wefalck]

We are kind of crazy, arent't we ? Making things that no one ever (except perhaps a restorer in a 100 years time) will see. But it gives you a good feeling that it is there and the satisfaction that you could do it ...

 

[Jim Lad]

What do you mean, no one will ever see it? YOU know it's there!

 

John

[wefalck]

Actually, the (ModelShip)World knows, at least those, who follow the project

[BANYAN]

Very nice stairs Kieth.  Are you going to glue the companion etc down?  If not, furture owners/hiolders of the model could lift it and see the lovely workmanship?

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Retired guy]

That's a nice picture you have of the corridor and stairs Keith, and they look very fancy and elegant, your stairs are looking brilliant too 👍.

But if you did as per Pat and leave the above deck companion loose you could lift and show someone if interested 🤔.

Have been playing in the main cabin myself, but only have a sketch from LB Jenson which is not of the Bluenose, but I assume it would have been very similar for a Fishing Schooner of the period, will be leaving the Companion Way loose. 

 

REgards

Richard

[KeithAug]

11 hours ago, BANYAN said:

Are you going to glue the companion etc down?  If not, furture owners/hiolders of the model could lift it and see the lovely workmanship?

 

9 hours ago, Retired guy said:

But if you did as per Pat and leave the above deck companion loose

Pat / Richard

 

I won't glue the deckhouse down as it fits tightly in the well in the deck, however this is only a partial benefit as the main boom will sit above it and sheeting the boom down will prevent it being lifted out. Removal will be possible by releasing the boom sheets but not something I will want to do ofter. 

 

Thank you for your kind comments.

16 hours ago, Jim Lad said:

YOU know it's there!

 

16 hours ago, wefalck said:

Actually, the (ModelShip)World knows

Good points but somewhat time limited. My plan is to tell the Granddaughter and leave it to her in my will.

[KeithAug]

Summer distractions are impeding progress, the new mower was delivered so I had to play with that, the balcony railing needed a coat of paint and other small jobs needed attending to. At least that is my excuse.

 

Below deck work continued. The walls were made from 1/16" ply and the door detail and architrave was cut from 1/32" ply. The panelling edge strips were cut as .025" square strips on the Byrnes saw before being glued in place. The top left panel in the next photo has had a coat of primer.

 

 

The paint was enamel and I kept it thin to avoid brush marks - it took 6 coats. I then made the hand rail and skirting board from mahogany and gave them a coat of Poly before attaching them. The door knobs were turned from brass.

 

 

The walls adjacent to the stairs were then attached to the mahogany planked floor and the stairs were glued in place.

 

 

Then the two remaining walls were then installed.

 

 

The assembly was then slotted into the well in the deck and a couple of poor photos taken.

 

 

 

Finally the cabin floor was put in place hiding virtually everything.

 

 

So all in all a somewhat pointless week.

 

 

[druxey]

Not entirely pointless, Keith. Someone, a century or so from now, will discover the hidden 'portrait'. I hope you identified the subject!

[wefalck]

You are now sufficiently practiced for the grandchildrens' doll-house

 

The only attention our balcony required was the daily sun-downer ...

[Keith Black]

Keith, that's so cool. Did you leave a note?

[KeithAug]

2 hours ago, druxey said:

Someone, a century or so from now, will discover the hidden 'portrait

Druexy - yes I will have to leave clues,

 

2 hours ago, wefalck said:

You are now sufficiently practiced for the grandchildrens' doll-house

Eberhard - The advent calendar is first - then the dolls house.

 

2 hours ago, Keith Black said:

Did you leave a note?

Keith - Not yet, the final job before I finish.

 

[BANYAN]

Very nice work Keith and I love that extra detail even if it will not be seen.  If you decide to sell you can ask extra for the artwork

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Roger Pellett]

By the time that your grand daughter is a young adult and able to fully appreciate this beautiful model, who knows what technology will be available to let her see below decks.  A very inexpensive endoscope?

 

Roger

[michael mott]

Keith your work on the interior reminds me of what DeWitt H. Parker said in The Principles of Aesthetics In Thinking of the beauty of architecture, we are all to apt to consider the exterior exclusively, forgetting that the inside of a building , where we live, is even more important practically, and is capable of at least as great an aesthetic effect"

 

Wonderful work on the cameo of the insides!

 

Michael