boatman's 1/72 HMS Tiger C20 build

[boatman]

Morning Chris, just sitting here smiling at your post.:smiling2:

HI John glad you are smileing an not ranting lol an hope you an christine are well an you enjoyed your corn flakes this morn
chris

[boatman]

HI ALL well the postie dropped off yesterday some bits that ive been waiting for as i could not carry on the build untill these come an firstly the funnel tube that will carry the steam OR :thinking: ( smoke to make J/R HAPPY LOL:rolling::upside::smiling: ) an now ive got to work out how to fit this so it connects to the smoke SORRY steam unit but it must be able to lift off the unit so i can lift the main batt in an out an then fit back on again an still work so a lot of thought required here

[boatman]

AN next the fans that will be reqiured as one of these will be needed to suck air into a down take to the steam unit to give it some air to push out the steam out of the funnel as this SUPER STRUCTURE is a tight fit to the hull an big an i may have to fit in the top bridge S/S a ventilation grill both sides to get this all to work as i have just fitted on plastic grill to give that look but that may have to go for the real vent grill as this was not apperent at the time of fitting

[boatman]

AN the reason i bought 4 fans is that in the rear section two fans will be fitted into the S/S just behind the rear funnel as on the real ship it has two ventilation fans fitted in to suck in air to force the air down into the hull as again the S/S is a tight fit to cool the engines or motors but this will be seen an understood when built an right under the hangar bay there will be another bigger fan that will take over the cooling job from the smaller fans top side hope this makes sence an a couple of pics of the bigger fan an this is a 6v job to give plenty of air circulation

[boatman]

[boatman]

an more here 90 mini magnets to be fitted into the deck to hold down the decks shant use them all but its gonna take quite a few as the decks may warp when in the summer sun heat

[boatman]

an here 100 ft of brass wire rail bought from John at scale model shop for all the safetey railins on the ship as ive bought 400 brass stanchions i think i should have enough
chris

[boatman]

AN this morn postie bought this an thats 50ft of plastic square 1mm x 1mm strips to glue on to that big P/E radar edges so it will build easy hopefully an it will also have other uses so now i have a big box full of stuff that has got to be fitted on this ship i think i'll have a long white berd by the time i finish this build lol
chris

[monica]

all very interesting bits hear will wait and see the build,to understand it all,

[boatman]

all very interesting bits hear will wait and see the build,to understand it all,

HI Monica yea this some interesting bits as ive got so much to fit in this ship i only hope it will float lol but no doubt tryin to fit this all in will give me some interesting problems lol
thanks for lookin in monica
all best chris

[BattleshipBob]

You are keeping your postie fit Chris. Big haul of goodies !!

[boatman]

You are keeping your postie fit Chris. Big haul of goodies !!

YEA Bob he will be fit for a marathon haha yes im gettin all the goodies while i can as i know i will need these but what elese i'll need will only be apperant when i need it an thank for lookin in boyo
chris

[Tim Marlow]

Mate, that’s a lot of railings.....do you have the uprights as well? Great planning in this though.

[boatman]

Mate, that’s a lot of railings.....do you have the uprights as well? Great planning in this though.

HI TIM yea i have the stanchions or uprights as you call them all 400 of them in brass they are fairly easy to bend as brass is a soft metal but once the uprights are fitted into the deck an the railings wires fitted through them an soldered they should be fairly strong
cheers for your qeustion Tim as its nice to see some are intrested in the build an below all 400 of them an they have predrilled holes for the railings to go through them
chris

[Tim Marlow]

That’s pretty cool as well Chris. A whole lot of soldering there.....I haven’t done any real soldering for many years....not volunteering to do this lot for you though LOL.....