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good evening everyone

thank you for comments and likes

 

its been a strange couple of weeks, with real life getting in the way, only doing a bit here and there, but it all kind of fell into place today, here she is as off tonight

 

after welldeck made stronger

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upper structures glued to the hull and wiring extended to light then

 

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quite a lot of work is required aft, extra cabins scratched for use by the medical staff

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after plank sheet on, primer used to stop light bleeding

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waterways, metal work and railings

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after raised deck with also raises the after steering position

 

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good evening everyone

 

Thank you for comments and likes

 

its nice to get back into the swing of things, and so I have another update

 

pretty well everything on the after deck is scratched, but i did take the two lifeboats of the kit as i need to purchase or obtain more

the supports for the after steering positions is 2mm evergreen rod, other plastic mouldings are available, the white box on the stern is the morgue still very much wip

 

 

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Looving your updates  Kevin  - really nice  work,    so much  fine detail  my friend.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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3 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

Looving your updates  Kevin  - really nice  work,    so much  fine detail  my friend.

 

OC.

Thank you OC

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Good morning everyone

 

Thank you for comments and likes

 

after decks continued

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light bleed, is more of a major hemorrhage 

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she's coming along splendidly Kevin..........some very nice work!  :) 

I yam wot I yam!

finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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23 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

she's coming along splendidly Kevin..........some very nice work!  :) 

Thank you

are you ready for another update?

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good evening, everyone

thank you for comments and likes

 

After lifeboat rack

 

well i am having to use the grey matter now, and possibly failing miserably

without any plans, only a walkthrough i am having to interpret what i see, (not necessarily what there is to see, i have taken as few shots of the programme, and the 7 boats on each rack seem to be on at least 4 levels, mine are on three (please dont tell anyone)

the racks are still slightly oversized, but too fragile to make them in scale, this has taken me two days and about 7 different versions, but for now they will do, if however the next set is better then i will come back to this for the redo

 

shots from the walkthrough

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first failed version

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version 8 i think

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Hi Kev! Looks great. I had to look online, but yeah, that looks basically like how they were stowed. Have you thought of sourcing some Evergreen “I” beam or “C” channel? 
 

If you can find a small enough size, it might give you that fine profile of the racks. Going by this photo here: Lifeboats_of_HMHS_Britannic.jpg 

 

Otherwise, looks great!

 

Andy

Quando Omni Flunkus, Moritati


Current Build:

USF Confederacy

 

 

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11 minutes ago, realworkingsailor said:

Hi Kev! Looks great. I had to look online, but yeah, that looks basically like how they were stowed. Have you thought of sourcing some Evergreen “I” beam or “C” channel? 
 

If you can find a small enough size, it might give you that fine profile of the racks. Going by this photo here: Lifeboats_of_HMHS_Britannic.jpg 

 

Otherwise, looks great!

 

Andy

i may have to Andy as it dont look right

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Kevin,

 

You’ve probably seen it but somewhere on the web, I believe with Titanic info, there is an interesting animation of Britannic sinking.  It includes launching of her lifeboats.

 

If you have a modelmaker’s table saw and fine toothed blade, you can purchase small brass tubing and rip it into angles to be soldered into more scale like racks.

 

Roger

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Good evening everyone

thank you so much for comments and likes

 

as @realworkingsailor suggested i went and ordered some more suitable I frame (3 different sizes) and today made another attempt at the after Boat rack (Evergreen 272 and 1mm brass wire, i am real pleasd with the result

whilst waiting for the strips i also did other bits like detailing the after stack

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Very nice Kevin, those frames look SOOOO much better!

Cheers,
 
Jason


"Which it will be ready when it is ready!"
 
In the shipyard:

HMS Jason (c.1794: Artois Class 38 gun frigate)

Queen Anne Royal Barge (c.1700)

Finished:

HMS Snake (c.1797: Cruizer Class, ship rigged sloop)

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Awsome work  Kevin.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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2 hours ago, Ian_Grant said:

Impressive work with the i-beams and brass!  But tell me (maybe I missed this earlier in your log?) why did they pile the lifeboats up like this? And how would they sway them out if needed? Thanks.

On my tablet at present, britannic was a much modded Titanic and to allow for the right amount of lifeboats 8 sets of massive davits were to be fitted, the war got in the way, and she became a hospital ship, 5 sets were still only fitted at the time she was sunk by a mine, will post a photo later

As a post war liner it was intended for more of the racks to be fitted, and none down the sides

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Nice work on the boat racks. And your aft stack is looking good also, 👍

Ken

Started: MS Bounty Longboat,

On Hold:  Heinkel USS Choctaw paper

Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1

Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section

 

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good evening, everyone

 

Thank you for comments and likes

 

been a busy couple of weeks, and i have not been doing as much on the forums as normal, like many others, we have been making life easier for ourselves and finding ways to keep ourselves warm but at the same time not restrict what we do

we made the decision that during the day if possible, we would both work from my mancave, keeping that warm and comfortable would mean not having to keep the temperature up in other rooms, that has worked very well so far, however the mild weather here in the SW has helped a lot

 

2nd set of boat racks has been made up today, i ran out of 1mm straight brass rod and substituted it for .8 wire, which is ok but seams a lot flimsier, getting it straight was harder than thought, but once painted and in its place, it should be ok

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11 hours ago, yvesvidal said:

With so many life boats, they seem to have learned their lessons, after the Titanic fiasco.

 

Britannic had plus boats stored on those racks, because it converted to a hospital ship. After the Titanic tragedy the outdated BRT/boat rules was changed to 'boat for everyone' rule, but Britannic had extra boats too, more than needed. Check out the Olympic refit: she sailed without those extra boats from 1913 until she scrapped. (1922 pic below)
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Too bad that Britannic's boat racks would be useless in case of emergency (no time to move the boats from lower positions) and fortunately the ship was empty when sank.

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this is how she would have looked as  RMS Britannic with 4 sets of the double gantrys and no boats on the upper decks

this is a screenshot from the Britannic Patroness of the Mediterranean programme 

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12 minutes ago, Veszett Roka said:

Kev,

 

i'm afraid the aft staircase skylight is 90degrees rotated. The dome should be parallel to the center axis.

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well spotted, lol thankfully it's not fixed yet

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Kevin,

 

First of all, your model is beautiful and your doing a great job turning Titanic into  Britannic.

 

I have one quibble!  Like Titanic, I assume that Britannic’s fourth stack was a dummy.  If so, would the dummy stack still have the relief valve piping running up its forward side?

 

Roger

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5 hours ago, Roger Pellett said:

Kevin,

 

First of all, your model is beautiful and your doing a great job turning Titanic into  Britannic.

 

I have one quibble!  Like Titanic, I assume that Britannic’s fourth stack was a dummy.  If so, would the dummy stack still have the relief valve piping running up its forward side?

 

Roger

good question, i will check, however Trumpetr and KAMK1 add detail to that stack

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