Picket Boat #1 by RVB (Rick) - Model Shipways - Scale 1/24

[RVB]

Storm has stopped sun is out and our Howitzer is coming along. 
 

[Rick310]

This is great build!!

I’m also a retired dentist.

Rick

[RVB]

1 hour ago, Rick310 said:

This is great build!!

I’m also a retired dentist.

Rick

We not only have being a dentist in common and being retired we both have the name Rick. People ask me how I can sit for hours and build little things I tell them this is a piece of cake compared to dentistry. I tell them in my profession I would sit for hours with a drill going 400,000 rpms working in a couple mm hole upside down and backwards (mirror image) with a spray hindering my vision. Dentists also spend their whole working life carving that’s why dentists are good modelers. 
It’s nice to meet another dentist on MSW and I am sure there are many of us. Hope you join my journey. 
Best Rick

 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 05:43 PM by RVB

[RVB]

Armed and ready for the Pirates. Only need a torpedo for close engagement. 

[TerryPat]

49 minutes ago, RVB said:

We not only have being a dentist in common and being retired we both have the name Rick. People ask me how I can sit for hours and build little things I tell them this is a piece of cake compared to dentistry. I tell them in my profession I would sit for hours with a drill going 400,000 rpms working in a couple mm hole upside down and backwards (mirror image) with a spray hindering my vision. Dentists also spend their whole working life carving that’s why dentists are good modelers. 
It’s nice to meet another dentist on MSW and I am sure there are many of us. Hope you join my journey. 
Best Rick

 

 

 

 

And you probably have a nice collection of dental tools and space age epoxies that the rest of us can't get. I hate that hight speed drill sound btw.. They need to make some kind of muffler!! Lol

[RVB]

Just now, TerryPat said:

 

And you probably have a nice collection of dental tools and space age epoxies that the rest of us can't get. I hate that hight speed drill sound btw.. They need to make some kind of muffler!! Lol

Pat the best part of being a dentist is that I could make big macho men cry. Not many men can say that. 

[RVB]

[Rick310]

Rick, all true words!

generally the model doesn’t move and never complains!  It also doesn’t ask how long it will take and I suspect, it is always glad to see me!!

Nice to meet a fellow dentist on MSW.

The model looks great!!

Rick

[RVB]

3 minutes ago, Rick310 said:

Rick, all true words!

generally the model doesn’t move and never complains!  It also doesn’t ask how long it will take and I suspect, it is always glad to see me!!

Nice to meet a fellow dentist on MSW.

The model looks great!!

Rick

Rick just like you said about modeling and patients is absolutely true. My dog and building models never ask anything of me but give me great pleasure. That’s the reason I spent  around 2000 hours and 2 years of my life building the Model Shipways USS Niagara. 

[RVB]

The howitzer is finally finished. All loggers  welcome aboard. The time has come to take on the PIRATES. Too too bad for them!

[RVB]

After stepping down from the howitzer I realized the Pirates may have steel protected runabouts forcing me to start work on the Torpedo. Needing to attach it to the gunnels I needed to fabricate holding brackets. ( words of advice. The instructions as earlier in my adventure call for making rivets which I attempted unsuccessfully and after an hour I used drops of CA on the back of the copper nails. In the case of the torpedo holders chose to solder the parts together. Easy quick and successful. Then blackened the brass with JAX. Better than painting with no covering of detail.) Getting into endangering waters so back to work. 
 

Best Rick

Edited 9 hours ago by RVB

[RVB]

Advised my granddaughter while we armed and assembled the torpedo please be careful for her own and my health while painting the torpedo head. She is not only lazy but clumsy and all I can see is KABOOM. If I am still around tomorrow I will post in my log. 

God Speed and Good Night Best Rick 

Edited 4 hours ago by RVB

[tmj]

Does anyone make any small steam engines that would be appropriate for this model, at this model's scale? Don't tell me that you didn't look into this! I'll bet you did! 🤔

Very nice job! 

[RVB]

25 minutes ago, tmj said:

Does anyone make any small steam engines that would be appropriate for this model, at this model's scale? Don't tell me that you didn't look into this! I'll bet you did! 🤔

Very nice job! 

Midwest made a steam engine for their kits Fantail  Launch11. I’m sure Picket could be easily adapted to live steam.  MSW member Terrypat built that model and turned me on to it. I ended up finding one on EBay for $60 (a really great price or the vintage kit)  Al I need now is to find the engine kit that was sold separately. 

Also thanks so much for the complement!

Best Rick