Schooner Germania (Nova) by KeithAug - FINISHED - Scale 1:36 - 1908 / 2011

[Keith Black]

One word, perfect. 

[Retired guy]

Isn't it great to let the imagination 🤔 work its magic to figure out how to build small parts, brilliantly done Keith 👍

 

Regards

Richard

[BANYAN]

Very nice work Keith, I very much enjoy seeing your updates simply to relish the craftsmanship.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Jim Lad]

More delights for the eye.  Thank you Keith.

 

John

[KeithAug]

On 4/28/2020 at 7:45 PM, wefalck said:

No screws in the hinges ?

Eberhard . I did actually think about it but I decided to take the slap dash approach.

 

Thank you Keith, Richard, Pat and John, and of course all my other visitors.

Edited April 29, 2020 by KeithAug

[wefalck]

I think the straps are only about 1 mm in my measures, so not a lot of room. However, I noticed that on well-made and installed hinged the most visible part would be the screw-slot (assuming that we are talking about countersunk screws). So I was thinking that one could make a minute chisel and simulate the screw-slot with a light tap of this chisel ...

 

Working in miniature, I always have this problem that features are really too small to reproduce, but one notices that they are not there, when left off ...

[Keith Black]

50 minutes ago, KeithAug said:

slap dash

Keith, would you please send me a can of that "slap dash" you got tucked away in your shop because I'm tired of results I'm getting with my can of "take a week"  

[KeithAug]

4 hours ago, wefalck said:

I think the straps are only about 1 mm in my measures, so not a lot of room. However, I noticed that on well-made and installed hinged the most visible part would be the screw-slot (assuming that we are talking about countersunk screws). So I was thinking that one could make a minute chisel and simulate the screw-slot with a light tap of this chisel ...

Eberhard - yes only 1mm wide and 1/2mm thick. I think any attempt to punch would inevitably bend the strip but a small scratch might work. I take your point about the slot being the most visually obvious feature.

 

4 hours ago, Keith Black said:

send me a can of that "slap dash"

Keith - sorry it went out of stock many years ago. No longer required as the younger generation in the main prefer computer games to model making.

[KeithAug]

I am still on deck houses but this one is a little different as the hatch / doors will be open giving a glimpse of the interior.

As usual I started with a sketch, again one square represent 0.1" x 0.1" at model scale.

This deckhouse is asymmetric and as before I will build the skylight version.

 

I don't have much detail of the interior but I will build what I think I see through the hatch. A little bit of photo editing gives more detail than is apparent on the photo.

 

I started by building the interior which consists of a floor, door and 4 walls.

The walls have a skirting board and a dado rail. The walls and the door are made from 1/32" ply.

 

I constructed the stairway sides on a template that facilitated cutting identical slots for the steps.

Using the same template I also cut slots to take the stair spindles.

The steps were cut and the stairs were assembled and glued. They are just over 2" long

The spindles were .08" diameter and were made by drawing mahogany through a draw plate -  they were then drilled and wire was inserted in each end to fix them in the pre-cut slots in the step sides.

The handrail was then shaped and attached.

 

 

Edited May 1, 2020 by KeithAug

[paulsutcliffe]

Nice job on the stairs, I will have to remember that template way of doing them next time I need some, in fact I need some now for the waist on the sirius, I will give it a go tomorrow

Thanks

Paul 

[BANYAN]

Now that is impressive Keith, very nice set of stairs.  Also, thank you again for laying out so clearly the process you take in producing these parts.

 

regards

 

Pat

[Retired guy]

Absolutely brilliant Keith looks like you got the run and rise on the ladder spot on 👍

 

Regards

Richard

Edited May 2, 2020 by Retired guy

[boris279]

Well done !! 
I see you have great skills with brass. 
but your skills with wood are also great!

 

Great job ! 
 

all the best.. 

Boris279. 

[mtaylor]

Keith, once again you prove that this log should be in every modelers hands as a  "how to".  Love that ladder.

[KeithAug]

Paul, Pat, Richard, Boris and Mark - thank you all for your appreciative comments, they are most welcome. Also thanks to everyone who visited or liked my work.

 

A bit more progress:-

 

I painted the interior walls but felt they needed a picture.

The walls were then assembled around the floor piece. The door got a brass knob.

The completed interior was then inserted into the hull.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 2, 2020 by KeithAug

[wefalck]

Very nice work, as usual !

 

Sometimes, I am kind of the devil's advocat or perhaps the devil himself: would there really be a banister with columns, when there is a partition right next to it ? I would have thought that the banister would be put onto consoles screwed to the partition ...

[KeithAug]

4 hours ago, wefalck said:

a banister with columns, when there is a partition right next to it

Eberhard you are quite correct - but in this instance the wall is the incorrect part. It's not terribly obvious from the photograph but I think there is a corridor on the starboard side of the stair. In any event very little of the interior will be visible through the hatch.

[Keith Black]

11 hours ago, KeithAug said:

felt they needed a picture.

I assume that's the grandchild, nice touch. 

[Retired guy]

Doorknob priceless way to go Keith 

 

Regards

Richard

[Mark Pearse]

Great tool skills Keith. The balusters are very unusual, I've never seen anything like them, but I suppose that I know more about balusters in buildings than in yachts. 

[KeithAug]

On 5/3/2020 at 3:54 AM, Keith Black said:

I assume that's the grandchild, nice touch. 

Yes Keith - that is Splodge (she is named after her first ultrasound image). Eventually the yacht will be hers so a bit of personalisation seemed appropriate.

 

Thank you Richard and Mark.

[Keith Black]

5 hours ago, KeithAug said:

that is Splodge

I can just see the look on your wife's face when you call her granddaughter, Splodge. 

[mtaylor]

3 hours ago, Keith Black said:

I can just see the look on your wife's face when you call her granddaughter, Splodge. 

I would hope he ducks when does that.

[KeithAug]

15 hours ago, Keith Black said:

I can just see the look on your wife's face when you call her granddaughter, Splodge. 

 

12 hours ago, mtaylor said:

I would hope he ducks when does that.

We all call her Splodge (or Splodgie) - her farther started it now all the family use it - mother, grandparents, aunts and uncles. I think it will stick.

[mtaylor]

4 hours ago, KeithAug said:

 

We all call her Splodge (or Splodgie) - her farther started it now all the family use it - mother, grandparents, aunts and uncles. I think it will stick.

That's good then.  We were worried about your health and safety. 

[KeithAug]

Over the last few days I have been progressing the deckhouse that sits above the stairway. In this instance I need to show some of the internal detail. The two side walls were built first before making the flag locker.

The flag locker was a bit of a fiddle - the petitions being .025" wide and the pigeon holes being .075" square. A grid was cut in an oak block and the partitions built into this grid.

This block was then used to join the two sides.

I needed to create the top from mahogany planks separated by caulking. I can't remember whether I saw the following idea in another post or whether something I saw prompted this but I have to say it was very successful. Rather than cut the planks and then insert the caulking I glued the caulking card on to the pre cut stock before slitting off the strips I needed. 

The strip were 0.1" wide by .06" thick with the .006" thick caulking card. The result was very neatly caulked planking strips.

The resulting top can be seen in the next photo.

I then went on to make the wings of the deckhouse - this time by building them up on shaped oak cores.

These were then clad with mahogany as previously.

And that is it for the moment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 6, 2020 by KeithAug

[Jim Lad]

I trust the flags in that flag locker will be proper code flags made to scale and then 'made up' to fit the locker. 

 

John

[KeithAug]

Just now, Jim Lad said:

I trust the flags in that flag locker will be proper code flags made to scale and then 'made up' to fit the locker. 

John ----- Hmmmmm! thereby lies a problem. I tried printing flags on paper and then rolling them up and putting them in the pigeon holes. They were so small they looked a mess - Not sure what to do.

[Jim Lad]

Keith, would tight rolls of different coloured paper in the different holes work? No design would be needed.

 

John

[KeithAug]

4 minutes ago, Jim Lad said:

Keith, would tight rolls of different coloured paper in the different holes work?

John - tried that and made a mess of it - probably need to give it another go. Thinking about it now I could make long rolls and then just cut off short lengths - will give it a try.