King of the Mississippi by Adrieke - FINISHED - Artesania Latina - Scale 1:80 - with LED lighting

[Adrieke]

thanks for the vote of confidence David . it has helpded

 

i tried the overlapping John suggested and knew straight away it didnt look right to me

 

after measuring the shutters grinding the beveled edges off on both sides still would not have been enough and as Josh siad i would end up with a long shutter between windows

 

the only option left was the one i rejected at first because too much hasle/work

 

i had to reposition some of the windows. after careful observation the best way was to reposition the windows next to each door and move them closer to the door.

 

first i had to remove the already installed windows. luckily except for one i had only pushed them in as they fit snugly so that didnt take too long

 

i also had to remove some of the planks and add a 1.5 mm thick strip of wood on the side furthest away from the door

 

i tried to work too quickly and ended up with too much gaps between planks and window so i removed it all and started again

 

and here is the end result :

 

i noticed on the pic i had scraped of some of the brown paint on one of the shutters so i ll need to do a bit of retouch there

 

i have now installed al the strips so i could paint them white on the inside.

 

tomorrow i can work further on filing the repositioned holes to the right sizes, reinsert the windows and replank

Edited April 8, 2013 by Adrieke

[Tophog]

Looking good.

[john46]

Adrieke, well done.

 

Regards,

John

[DCIronfist]

Wow those do look great and I bet you are happier with them

 

David

[Adrieke]

thanks for the comments geoffrey,John and David

 

i am pleased with the result  

 

in the mean time i have also worked on a way to get the stairs finished. i love basswood so flexible

 

thats my goal for the next weekend then finish and install the stairs

[wthilgen]

Found this old link, thought of you.

http://steamboats.com/museum/modelplans.html & this one http://steamboats.com/museum/woodenmodelboat.html

Edited April 9, 2013 by Billl

[Adrieke]

thanks for the links Bill

[Adrieke]

slowly getting there

 

all the windows on one side are now repositioned . i will wait to add the shutters till i have installed the doors and added the holes for the railing construction

 

 

[john46]

Looks nice Adrieke, indeed step by step is the way to do it.

 

Regards,

John

[wim500]

Very nice job, Adrieke.

[Adrieke]

thanks for the commetns John and WIm

 

today more of the same . i am running out of windows so i ll finaly have to finish them

 

[Adrieke]

the planking is mostly done except above the windows.

 

no more excuses now i ll have to make the windows

[john46]

With the windows in, it will look so different. Those holes always look awful like a wreckage.

 

Regards,

John

[Adrieke]

you are right John. i l be glad to have them fitted its been a very long way to get here

[Adrieke]

not much done this week. after cleaning up my workbench i had a lot of issues with my allergies this weekend.

 

i did finish 8 of 10 last windows  i ll be fitting them in tonight hopefuly

[john46]

Sorry to hear Adrieke, hay fever in the autumn I supppose

 

Regards,

John

[Adrieke]

HI John

 

no i am alergic to dust, cats dogs and anything that has sharp smells.

in this case i think its the ca+ glue as i had been using it a fair bit . so from now on i am using a mask to prevent this again

 

i finished all the windows on the 2nd deck state room

 

next the doors. from earlier trials just plain veneering the metal parts was not enough. so i am going to try to recreate how the metal door looks but then in wood. i will need to slice 1x1 mm sapelli strips from the 1x3 ones to get the fine detail so thats going to be a lot of fun. atleast there are only 6 of these doors

 

 

[john46]

Good work Adrieke, curious how you will end up with the doors. Is that your brother-in-law- staring at the KoM  ?

 

Regards,

John

[Adrieke]

lol

 

nah thats my new workbench supervisor to make sure i keep it clean

 

although he is a bit weird keeps asking : do you know the definition of insanity ?

[Sjors]

Nice work Adrieke,

 

And if that supervisor give you a hard time, tell me…...

 

[Adrieke]

thank you Sjors

 

so far he has just been doign his work . but i did tell him to put away that ukelele

 

finished the first door. not sure if its a success or not

 

 

also had a look at markign where the railing posts shoudl go so i can start making the holes.

 

I hope John can figure it out because i cant. first there are suposed to be 4 preformed curved parts for the railing aft acording to partslist. however there are 8 acording to the drawing of the preformed part sheets. but they are actualy 2 different lengths

with fitting them and using the plans it seems like they are not long enough. looking at the building fotos it could be that the aft middle railing is wider then the 35mm its supposed to be.

 

 

 

 

[Script]

Hi Adrieke, 

 

Don't know how I missed your build....guess I should start browsing the forums instead of just the 'my content' section.  Sure like the scale much better than the 1/160 I'm currently dealing with.  :mellow:   But my bride seems to think there is no room for models much larger than the one I'm currently working on....Oh well, as long as magnifiers are available I guess it's okay.

 

Your build is looking great!

 

Too bad about the allergies but I will tell you that mine were miserable in my 20's and 30's and have now just about disappeared.  May be one of the few benefits of aging.

 

Cheers

 

Jim

 

 

 

[Adrieke]

thanks for the comments Jim

 

i have seen your build and its looking really good dont know how you do it i alreayd have trouble on my scale

 

unfortunately for me my alergies are still the same. but now that i figured out what is causing the issue (the CA+ glue) i am wearing a mask when using itand so far i have had no issues again

 

oh i noticed that the link to your robert E lee in your signature is not working

[john46]

Hi Adrieke, the door looks good on the picture. Are you using coloured acetaat for the door-windows ?

 

Regards,

John

[Adrieke]

hi John

 

no i decided to not put windows in the doors

[Script]

Adrieke, 

 

Thanks for the heads up.  I think the broken link to my build is now fixed.

 

Keep up the good work!

 

Cheers,

 

Jim

 

[Adrieke]

hello Jim

 

yup its working now

[rebekb]

I'm allergic to everything - so I sympathize - the reason I've avoided CA thus far, afraid it will trigger an asthma attack. The various wood glues (titebond/gorilla) have no odor and have found both a fast set and a slow set. Plus there are no odor craft glues that will work on most other parts.

 

Good luck! Rebecca

[Adrieke]

thank you Rebecca i wil check out these other glues. i sympathize with you as for me its mostly just sneezing runny nose headaches and a bit of wheezing which is already bad enough but so far i have had no asthma attacks.

 

today i am certain that i am not happy with the door. have to think about it thats why i worked mostly on sanding the burnmarks of the curved railing parts

 

also i cut a bunch of the straight railing parts and together with the curved one did a measure on how the 2nd dack railing should go.

 

surprise surprise the ful scale plans are wrong. they show that the aft straight railing should be 35mm long

 

but if you look at picture 70 in the instructions and count the railing vertical poles of that piece you come to 21 while the normal 35mmm piece only has 17 . that would mnake this aft part about 43mm and with the measuring i came to 44mm . close enought to be right

 

also the two differnet sizes of part 186 are correct (why not number them differedntly AL) the longer ones are for deck 2 the shorter ones for deck 3

the last picture shows that way the railing vertical bar line sup perfectly

 

[john46]

Adrieke, thanks for checking. Once I start with these railings, I will recall.

 

Regards,

John