An American Spy Ship?

[boatman]

Hi Christopher, you'll see it in the second picture just behind the huge mast on top of the rear deckhouse. Its facing up pointing to the moon.

Cheers,
Richard

yea gottcha now Richard i spy it :smiling:
chris

[Wouter]

wow, that is impressive scratchbuilding again Richard. And 9 kittycats...my dear, that's some number you got there ^^

Cheers

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
That satellite dish is amazing.
Jim

[JR]

Thanks Christopher, it takes two hands to clap and I just agreed. He is quite lovable and behaves just like an ordinary cat except for the single vision.
Talking about vision...I had my two eyes nearly converging adding more gyzmos to the satellite dish...

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I think its done. Now on to the third mast.

Cheers,
Richard

Bit like me then when I'm at the bench Richard:smiling3:

[JR]

Think the satellite dish is exceptional.

[rtfoe]

Thanks Guys, Chris, Wouter, Jim and John.
Yeah in that scale I can get away with not over detailing and basically just getting the rough shapes to look the part.
Anyway it was a holiday today and SWMBO decided to spring clean but I managed half an hour bench time so here's the third mast...I've given the second mast a rest for a while.


I'll be using fine nylon for the 12 stretched antenna wire.

Cheers,
Richard

[Steve Jones]

Great scratchery Richard. Luvin what your doing. :thumb2:

[Wouter]

This must be nervewrecking to continue ey Richard? :smiling: Looking forward to see how the antenna wire will turn out.

Cheers

[rtfoe]

Thanks Steve and Wouter, I restarted on another nerve wreaking thingy...the second mast antennas. I keep making things difficult for myself. I should have drilled and attached the antennas before attaching the platform to the mast. So there were some mishaps along the way. I spent hours drilling and aligning the antennas only to yank the platform from the mast when I tried to trim the antennas. So now they look a bit wonky but will try straightening them later.



Doesn't look too bad from a distance but will still make the correction.



The third mast will be the next.



The satellite after priming...not too bad too.


The rear deckhouse looks bare without detail...that would be coming up next once I've cut all the little pieces.

Cheers,
Richard

[JR]

Damn that's good !

[rtfoe]

Thanks John, this gives me encouragement to do the correction and work on the fourth mast. Its got christmas tree antennas and at least five teers of yard arms with two having railings to reach the antenna mounts.
The hard part are the four cable supports holding the mast up as I haven't figured out what to use as the anti conductor balls that run the length of each cable.

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
This gets better and better. Real painstaking skills.
Jim

[boatman]

Thanks John, this gives me encouragement to do the correction and work on the fourth mast. Its got christmas tree antennas and at least five teers of yard arms with two having railings to reach the antenna mounts.
The hard part are the four cable supports holding the mast up as I haven't figured out what to use as the anti conductor balls that run the length of each cable.

Cheers,
Richard

FANTASTIC Richard lovin it an i cant see anything wrong on them anntenas
chris

[Neil Merryweather]

Thanks John, this gives me encouragement to do the correction and work on the fourth mast. Its got christmas tree antennas and at least five teers of yard arms with two having railings to reach the antenna mounts.
The hard part are the four cable supports holding the mast up as I haven't figured out what to use as the anti conductor balls that run the length of each cable.

Cheers,
Richard

I don't know how small they need to be,Richard, but what about something like fishing line sinkers?

[rtfoe]

Thanks Jim, Christopher and Neil,

On close inspection guys it looks quite crude and will need clean up. The lead sinkers are a good idea but I need them at least a quarter the size of the smallest in your picture Neil. It has given me an idea to use two part putty rolled to a ball and slicing them in the middle to take the filament.

Latest that I've done today is to add the ladders and steps here...



The ladders aren't supposed to have handrails but I couldn't simulate that.



Remind me not to use the Eduard PE railings as they are very soft and bend very easily making the rails look wobbly.



That all for now. Stay safe.

Cheers,
Richard