Wardell Bridge

[papa 695]

Great work on the boat Peter.

[Mr Bowcat]

Just caught up with this thread, I am gobsmacked by the work you have done. Bloody good job.

[Peter]

Thank you @Snowman , @papa 695 , and @Mr Bowcat for your encouraging and kind words.
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Since the boat has two wheelhouses, it will need two sets of red-green nav lights. They need hoods to restrict their field of illumination.
Coffee tin lids come in handy.


The kit had winches without a drum or crank, so I supplied my own.
Painted a seated plastic figurine, and placed him on a wooden box.


Stained the doors, and later the cabin roofs, with coloured ink. Then coated with clear satin enamel paint.
Glued bits of copper wire to appear as door hinges. Painted spare life-savers to look like rubber tyre bumpers.
Gave the seated figure a piece of string to make him appear to be splicing a rope.


Used some wood putty on the hull. Sanded the hull smooth for painting.
used a paper clip to make some eyelets for rigging.

[papa 695]

That's some insane work Peter.

[Peter]

That's some insane work Peter.

;-)

[Peter]

Thanks papa 695 and johnm93 for your reaction. Much appreciated.
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I do not need to add lights, but I thought it would give extra education to the musuem visitors operating the bridge.
The boat requires a changeover in navigational lights each time it changes direction.
I used clear LEDs when they are OFF, so not to cause confusion over the red-green (port and starboard) lighting.

Made up the leads. marked one end with a black line so I would know which one is LED cathode (K)/(-).


Mast light.


Made a railing for the middle section.


Added port and starboard nav lights to cabin roofs.
The front wall of each wheelhouse was too thin to block the internal lighting.
Had to make a reflector to block the light and reflect it back into the cabin space.


Made stern nav light hoods and added all the hoods to the relevant nav light.
Made and added a radar antenna.
As you can see, along one side of the boat, depending on up or down-stream travel, the nav light changes.

[Richi72]

amazing build, full of information and ideas keep it up

[Peter]

Thank you papa 695 for your :thumb2:, and Richi72 for your compliment.
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Added air vents, winches, and two deckhands talking.


I am calling the boat BINGAL, which was the aboriginal name for Wardell, where the actual bridge is.
As a bit of a pun, I decided to create a bingle. Besides the boat's collision of two bows, there is the bingle of a deckhand tripping over the rope.

[papa 695]

Where there's blame, there's a claim Peter. You'll be hearing from that guys lawyer.:smiling3::smiling3:.

[Peter]

A slight side-track to an unfinished portion of the project. I had to stop to wait for ordered parts.
So, the unfinished bit is the boat vane. It has to hold the boat slightly above the water and move up and down stream. The gap in the table is 3mm. The aluminium vane is 2 mm. There is a printed circuit board (pcb) built into the vane. The pcb is 1.5 mm, leaving a 0.5 mm gap between the vane surface and the pcb tracks. These tracks are the electrical connections between boat and electronics under the table.

[Peter]

[Peter]

So much for the boat.
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[Guest]

Wow that is totally awesome.

[Peter]

Thank you @kpnuts for your kind words.
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To add more to the sparse area another boat would work well. It would be positioned behind the bridge ((back-left). To do this, I decided to use the left over bits from the two kits used to make the BINGAL. So, this will be a boat made from two stern sections.



For comparison.

[Peter]