Brannaren by drobinson02199 - Caldercraft - Scale 1:48

[drobinson02199]

I've installed the first lifeboat.  There are three options:  upright (then you have to fit out the interior with wood seats), covered (you need to find some covering material and somehow color it), or inverted, the way I've done it, which also seems to me the most logical way to store a boat to keep the inside dry.

 

The boats are molded styrene, and when you paint them, the paint mars REALLY easily, so after multiple touch-ups I varnished it to protect the paint job.

 

The davit rigging assumes that the falls are attached inside the boats, and that on launching the boat would be flipped over so the falls could then be used to lower it.  

 

Finally, the manual calls for double block rigging, but I got lazy and used a single.  

 

Regards,

David

 

[drobinson02199]

I've finished the stern structures, with the exception of one fitting (see below).  Since my last post, added the rear railing, plus wire winders, life rings, chocks and fairleads, as well as the second boat with davits and rigging.  Also added tall vents and the mast.

 

The one fitting I haven't added goes in front of the capstan housing at the rear.  The problem is that I can't figure out which of the cast parts to use based on the plans, and the instructions (which just have a numbered part listing).  My pictures from the internet shed partial light.  So I'm going to wait to the end and see what cast parts are left over, and see if that sheds light on what to install.  🙃  This one of the continuing challenges of working with the instructions for this ship -- but it's still an interesting build.

 

Regards,

David

Edited August 2 by drobinson02199

[drobinson02199]

Water tanks installed under the stern balcony.

 

Regards,

David

[drobinson02199]

Aft oil tank top installed.

 

Regards,

David

[drobinson02199]

Pump house built and installed.

 

Regards,

David

[drobinson02199]

Built the forward tank top and the main mast and installed the mast.  The bottom of the mast is imbedded into a wood block that sits on the inside bottom of the hull, so I glued in one half of the tank top, then used a spirit level to get the mast properly aligned, and then dripped glue onto the block followed by instant set.  

 

Now from the drawings and all of my photos I'm puzzled again by what goes between this structure and the hatch (or I should say HOW the next fittings go, coupled with the oil piping), so I think I'll build the cargo winch and then see how that dovetails with the piping.  

 

Regards,

David

[drobinson02199]

I want to get the pipework done before putting on the forward hatch (which I have built and painted).

 

This is the start of that process.  I first scanned and copied the "to scale" pipework diagram so that I could cut and lay down the original as a template.  It's not quite a clean fit, so I had to enlarge the openings and cut it into several segments, but got it to work.  I also had to considerably shorten the pipes that go into the deck on the left, as the length of the ones on the drawings wouldn't fit.

 

Then drill all the marked spots for pipe brackets and push (not glue yet) those into the holes at the bottom.  One good thing about how they did this is that I could cut one single length of the copper-colored rod and slide all the fittings onto it.

 

I turned the corner on the right to stabilize the rod so that I could fix the four valves aligned in the upright position.  Now I'll start creating the three side branches that go off this section.  None of it is glued down yet, so once those branch sections are done and fixed, I'll remove it and paint it, then remove that part of the drawing and glue everything down.

 

The instructions say to do this for the entire outer ring in one section before removing and painting, but because of structure top overlaps that won't work.

 

More to come.

 

Regards,

David

[drobinson02199]

Now I've fixed all of the fittings on the section shown above, painted it, and glued it down in place with the paper template removed.

 

Regards,

David

[drobinson02199]

Finished the piping.  As I noted above, I didn't follow the instructions and instead built it in sections, dry-fitting as I went along, and I woiuld strongly recommend that approach.  The long sections are made of steel rod that is copper-colored, so I used silver metallic paint.

 

The part where one pipe passes under the other takes some trial and error dry-fitting to get right.

 

Regards,

David

 

 

[ccoyle]

I'm super-impressed by your pipe work, David!

[king derelict]

The pipe work adds lots of visual interest and looks really good 

alan