Good to see you here Richard, welcome aboard!
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I’m going away for a few days so I want to post something so you don’t forget me...
I’m still mulling over the various options for rivets but in the meantime I have created the upstand walls of this deck, which I am calling the Main Deck. There is actually a break between the main hull sides and these - they are not just a continuation of the hull.
That’s not me ,by the way.
As with the hull sides I had originally expected to make them out of plastic sheet, but these files were created at the same time as the files for the hull side experiment, and happily I DID manage to 3D print these smaller pieces of flat section in resin successfully, complete with their rivets. The handrails were not so successful as they warped like crazy, so rather than persevere with the resin I did them on the FDM printer ,which is why they are blue.
The handrails did have their rivets included but they looked awful so as there was only about 100 I decided to do sand them off and do them by hand.
You may wonder why I didn’t include every bit of detail and print each piece complete - well the answer is it‘s a question of minimising the amount of supports to remove; it's the equivalent in aggro of removing mould lines and sprue gates on an injection moulded model. So as I am master of my own destiny this is the way I do it - in this case more bits mean less work - call me ICM if you like!
There are still vertical fins to add to the inside, they are printed but they will have to wait
That's it for now, thanks for watching and see you next week!
Cheers
Neil
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Neil great work keep it coming mate.Comment
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super work Neil just found this thread. Will be following
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Right, Christmas is over and I’ve done all I am obliged to do for SWMBO and others (well,mostly...) the family have dispersed around the country and now I can knuckle down and report on the progress of SS Jeremiah O’Brien.
Some of this work was done a while ago but I just didn’t have time to write it up. Anyway,I finally decided what to use for rivets for the vertical ribs, and it is these bad boys.
I have chosen pins because I can just poke them into the plastic and the foamboard behind without any unsightly glue marks. The heads are 0.99mm diameter which by my rudimentary maths makes them the scale equivalent of an inch and a half, which I think is about right ,looking at the pics I have. They weren't cheap but I think they are the least painful method.
In the absence of any more considered research I have decided that they were probably spaced 6 inches apart, and that the ribs would probably be 3 feet apart,which would be 26mm at 1-35 scale.
So if I use strips of 25mm masking tape as my spacer that will be close enough for me
Continuing my laissez-faire approach to accuracy I marked the vertical spacing at quarter-inch intervals, which at scale is 6mm-ish. By my previous logic at 6 inches or 150mm it ought to be 4.2mm, but I didn’t care.
I then spent 4 hours drilling 1034 holes (OMG that makes me literally a rivet-counter!) with a 0.35mm drill bit (or five...). During this operation my minidrill (not a Dremel) decided to malfunction, requiring dismantling and re-soldering a loose connection to the switch. I have an alternative but the chuck doesn’t accept a 0.35mm drill!!
So that’s where the hull is at the moment- you will see that I have added a couple of dents, but not to the extreme state of the present-day ship.
There's a bit more done but I thought I would post this for now.
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Been impressed all the way through Neil. even more so now!
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That is excellent Neil. Your approach and patience is really paying off.Comment
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That's quite insane Neil, great result so far ? have funComment
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Wow Neil that is some serious work mate, nicely done.Comment
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Glad you like it everyone
I've added the vertical fins/stanchions to the inside of the upstand walls (gunwhales...?)
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I’ve now fitted the sloping deck , which just fits around the superstructure. That will sit on the foamboard base level so it’s easy to keep everything square.
While I was dithering about rivets I got on with some of the other deck details, namely these two ventilators
I had already printed the basic forms at work back in the day (from files found for free on the internet)but they need a bit more detail.
The funnel-shaped tops are separate and can be swivelled to face the prevailing wind (I assume, not being a mariner),so I want to represent that. I started with a collar of pewter sheet but I want to show the seam lines in the construction of the funnel - some I have seen are quite battered and the pewter helps with that effect. So I drew lines on the funnel and used tracing paper to make templates and cut pieces of pewter for each segment.
I finished it off with a rim and handles from copper wire
But I can’t figure out an easy way to get the seam lines on the inside surface, so I think I will have to cover this one with a mesh grill. There are others further up the ship and maybe I will figure it out by the time I get to them.
I wimped out of doing all this on the smaller one ,so I just used wires glued in place
I need them to stay upright relative to the superstructure, and not perpendicular to the sloped deck, so rather than cut them at a dodgy angle I have created a substantial stem for them which will poke through corresponding holes already in the deck . It also means I can orient them towards the prevailing wind.....
So we’re getting there, only a couple more stages to do before I’ll be able to get some primer on it and see what it really looks like.
Thanks, as always, for following along with the madness
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Nice work on those funnels Neil, comming along nicely ?Comment
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That's a great piece of work mate.Comment
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DAAAAMN Neil this is a stunning idea...sorry l missed this..
chair pulled... popcorn and coke ready..Comment
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Cheers Greg, I hoped you would be interested.
A quick update.
I thought of a way to get the seams on the inside of the funnel.
I made templates of the outside segments using masking tape, and cut them out of the pewter sheet (wine bottle foil, actually ).
Then I stuck them (and my fingers) on the inside of the funnel using a wooden clay-sculpting tool to burnish them into place
It doesn’t match up precisely but you can’t see both sides at the same time so who cares? I prefer it to having a grill on it.
That's all for now
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