Billy 1938 by Keith Black - 1:120 Scale - Homemade Sternwheeler

[Keith Black]

17 hours ago, Rick310 said:

Keith, well done as always!

Happy New Year!

 Thank you, Rick and a Happy New Year to you.

[KeithAug]

Nice progress Keith. The rails are a little small to prod anyone in the eye.

 

[Keith Black]

4 hours ago, KeithAug said:

Nice progress Keith.

 Thank you, Keith

 

4 hours ago, KeithAug said:

The rails are a little small to prod anyone in the eye.

 I do wish we could select two emojis in response to a post. 

[Keith Black]

 Thank you for the likes and for the comments.

 

 

 I'm calling the boxes that Capt. Engel built for the dummy stacks to sit inside, stack boxes. Pretty stinkin' original, huh? 

 

 

After a couple of months of trying to recreate Engel's work I have a pretty good feel why he did some of the crazy things he did but these stack boxes really puzzle me. The port side one looks unfinished and the starboard side one looks like Elgel ran into something. I'm going to build the starboard side box just like the port side with the dummy stack straight. 

 

The boxes are six sided measuring 0.30" x .030" x 0.50".  

 

 Sorry for the lousy photo. 

 

 It took 19 pieces to make the finished box not including the stack. With the stack and the three eye pins for the stays each box will consist of 23 pieces.in the assembly. That packing crate aft of the port side box will not be repeated on the starboard side. We'll see what interesting bits I can come up with to add aft of the starboard stack box.  

 

 I'm leaving railing 2.0 as is, the more I look at it the less it bothers me. 

 

 I was hoping this post would find me finished with the boiler deck, the next post for sure. That will leave adding three pieces of pipe and the paddle wheels. Billy is getting close to being finished. 

 

  Thank you for your support and for following along.

 

    Keith

  

[Knocklouder]

Happy New Year Keith,  hope you all had a great one. Billy is really looking fanatic,  just really enjoy your work.  

Bob  M.

Edited Saturday at 03:50 AM by Knocklouder

[Keith Black]

3 minutes ago, Knocklouder said:

Happy New Year Keith,  hope you all had a great one. Billy is really looking fanatic,  just really enjoy your work.

 Thank you very much, Bob. I hope your New Year was filled with promise. Bubba, would you please do me a favor and keep that dang cold and snowy weather of yours to yourself. 

[Jim Lad]

More lovely work, Keith.

You're really making us sweat on those paddle wheels! 😀

 

John

[Coyote_6]

"Just 23 parts each, another day on the river and all..."

 

Yeah, 23 parts that would fit on the head of a thumb tack!  EACH SIDE!

 

Thanks for the show.  Amazing.  Just wow!!!

 

"Now for my next trick - micro paddlewheels!  Ta daaaa!"

 

Great work Keith!

Edited Saturday at 02:48 PM by Coyote_6

[Keith Black]

11 hours ago, Jim Lad said:

More lovely work, Keith.

You're really making us sweat on those paddle wheels!

 Thank you, John. Delay allows me to make sure I've considered all the possibilities of potential failure and how to avoid failure and what options are available if I do fail. 

 

1 hour ago, Coyote_6 said:

"Just 23 parts each, another day on the river and all..."

 

Yeah, 23 parts that would fit on the head of a thumb tack!  EACH SIDE!

 

Thanks for the show.  Amazing.  Just wow!!!

 

"Now for my next trick - micro paddlewheels!  Ta daaaa!"

 

Great work Keith!

 Thank you, Steve. I'm pretty tired of looking at the whorls on my finger tips, once Billy is completed I'll be ready to move back to a larger subject.  

[clearway]

well done Keith and hope you had a good one.

 

Keith

[Keith Black]

57 minutes ago, clearway said:

well done Keith and hope you had a good one.

 Thank you and you as well, Keith.