TEV Wahine 1965 by Richard Dunn - scale 1:35 - RADIO

[KeithAug]

Good to see that she is back in build.

[yvesvidal]

Yes, very happy to see that giant model getting some attention again.

 

Yves

[Jim Lad]

Great to see the 'Wahine' on the move again, mate!

 

John

[Richard Dunn]

Yeah its been a busy year with two other commission models on the go and flat out at work as well as a new puppy to train.

Edited August 15 by Richard Dunn

[Ian_Grant]

Cute!

[KeithAug]

8 hours ago, Richard Dunn said:

as well as a new puppy to train.

The dog on floor training seems to be going badly! Poor doggy on right seems to have had surgery🙁.

[Richard Dunn]

5 hours ago, KeithAug said:

The dog on floor training seems to be going badly! Poor doggy on right seems to have had surgery🙁.

Yes she has, 4 weeks ago she started to lose weight and long story short she had a whole passionfruit that had been in her tummy for 2 years removed from her intestine, it had just tried to move from the tummy into the intestine and got  stuck, so yes she has had major surgery but is all good now and just needs to put on weight which will take 2-3 months.
The dogs are both Belgian Malinois and being trained for sport agility and scent work.
The dog on floor training seems to be going badly!...not sure what you mean by this? If you mean why are they on the couch ,this is their couch in the office, Jasmin on the right is highly trained, the puppy "Cato" to a lesser extent being only 4 months, but  they have boundries and  do not get on our furniture or the carpet but they have a couch they can curl up on.
We have a whole youtube channel on stuff these dogs can do and they are in the top 5% of trained dogs...hence why I dont do as much modelling as I did 2 years ago.

Edited August 15 by Richard Dunn

[Ian_Grant]

Those videos with Malinois dogs literally running up walls and trees to get the suspect are awesome!

[Richard Dunn]

5 hours ago, Ian_Grant said:

Those videos with Malinois dogs literally running up walls and trees to get the suspect are awesome!

Yep and they do that stuff for fun,Here is our pole for that sort of work.

 

And just for a laugh here is the expression when she realises she has to come down again.

 

 

Priceless

 

Edited August 16 by Richard Dunn

[Richard Dunn]

Some shots of plating and comparison images.
The ship in these images is Maersk Advancer
 

 

Edited August 16 by Richard Dunn

[Richard Dunn]

Some shots from this weekeneds run.
I also did a long tutorial on how that plating is done in the appropriate section.

[Jim Lad]

very neat looking plating, mate!

 

john

[Richard Dunn]

Thanks John, it looks better once weld beads are on.

[Richard Dunn]

The most difficult plate in the whole model is on on one side.

Deck removed to show mooring deck ready to be fitted with all the framing, the most complex bit of framing on the model, the rolled corner losses shape without the deck in lace, but will return once the framing is in place. there are 2 tranverse frames which I will fit but the longitudinals will be fitted to the deck so this can be framed out and painted before the deck gets glued down

That concludes the non glazed plating on the port side upper hull and all steel decks, once sanded I will prime and weld bead.

Edited August 25 by Richard Dunn

[Richard Dunn]

Has anyone used PVA as a glazing mask? on acrylic

 

Some framing started on Port aft mooring deck, these stringers above and below the openings were VERY hard to fit into place and keep flush with holes, I think I invented some new words during this.
Once the Bulwark stays go in this should be quite stiff.

A couple of renders of the framing in here as a whole.

And just for the few hard core people actually reading this. here is the actual plan to compare to  of the aft part of this, the forward part with stair well does not exist.

knock yourself out.

I know a lot of people are probably say " why are you going to all the trouble of framing all this up", well Its always been one of my life goals to have this on my model, it's very important to me, at at this scale I feel it's  a given.

 

Edited August 26 by Richard Dunn

[KeithAug]

Very crisp work Richard -  the plan looks a little daunting. 

[Richard Dunn]

9 hours ago, KeithAug said:

the plan looks a little daunting.

Haha.. well this model is built from 480 of those.  that is one of the more complex ones I admit

[Jim Lad]

That's a wonderfully complex piece of work, Richard. As for doing all the framing up - you could equally ask why people building period warships go to the trouble of all the faming detail that will be hidden! 😀

 

John

[Richard Dunn]

On 8/27/2024 at 8:22 AM, Jim Lad said:

you could equally ask why people building period warships go to the trouble of all the faming detail that will be hidden!

I had never thought of it like that,

I guess in a way it is the same thing

[Richard Dunn]

A slight delay in progress again, I have been asked to build another shell of this ship at same scale in a much simpler way so currenty framing that up while mine sits in our hallway in the house.
Thank gawd for wide hallways....

Edited Friday at 11:32 PM by Richard Dunn

[aliluke]

Great to see you back at TEV Wahine. I'll never forget the day when I saw this ship lying side down off of Fort Dorset. It terrified me. Then I'd steam past it on other inter-island ships as it crumbled. They took years to clear it. Terrific to see that it might float again!