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54 minutes ago, RichO said:

This is so fun!

Agreed! The thread is the perfect mix of great modelling (don't let Longshanks know I said that) and banter which makes it everything a good thread should be.

 

An anonymous alien who wishes to remain anonymous.

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I wondered when this was going to kick off again.

 

 

On 2/7/2017 at 10:55 AM, longshanks said:

I knew there would be one and that you would be that one :fight:

 

Nope, there's two

 

On 2/7/2017 at 10:24 AM, Gremlin56 said:

I was afraid I would be seeing a photo of all the finger tops lying on the bench and blood everywhere but luckily you seem to have everything under control Kev.

 

yup, two

 

 

 

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Thanks Guys for the kind comments, you are all inspirational modellers but don't tell the alien it will only go to some body part or other......

 

5 hours ago, hendie said:

I wondered when this was going to kick off again.

 

Hendie you've been toooo busy with your domestic issues (you have been reported). You even missed the Mk V completion.

 

Off to the new Bovington Show in the morning to get supplies and inspiration

 

Cheers Kev

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:hmmm:Seems I went wondering in the wrong field picking mushrooms :banghead:

 

The vents I have depicted earlier were on later boats. Why do you always find the pic you don't want after you finished?

 

The good thing is I've found a new technique. I wasn't really happy with the thickness of the deck plates before but I'd run out of skin on my fingertips. Been playing around today and came up with this

 

Drill a hole to suit your rod in a sheet material the thickness you want. In this case 2mm rod into 0.2mm brass.

Check the end of your rod is square and hold in hole

 

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I found the best/cleanest cut  saw was the PE jobby in pic. You need to hold the brass sheet down on a hard flat surface and cut whilst pressing the blade on to the flat surface. Couple of passes with the sanding stick and I finished up with this. 0.25mm thick and parallel. 
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Here is one I made earlier and the new one.

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Couple of minutes tops when you've sorted your gear. It's that easy/quick that when the carpet monster came out I didn't even bother to look.

 

Then of course we needed the mushroom so...

The rod was placed in the micro drill, brought roughly to shape and finished with free floating 1000 wet n dry.

Now needed a gap, the top of these vents screws out to form an air gap.....

I found a pin the correct diameter and held it in a pin vice. Ground and edge and applied to my home made lathe

 

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Good enough for me. By the way I normally use drill bits to form chisels, lot cheaper than those you buy.

 

My new farm, if only I could add the 'Magic' I'd be on a winner :wicked:

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Hope this will help someone

 

Kev

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They do look like little magic mushrooms ;) I remember going and picking them in the New Forest (had a book), bloody good they were in a jam sandwich:rofl:

 

Regards

Richard

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Lots of little bits going on but I thought I'd show you the latest madness .............. Tyres for fenders

 

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Fairleads re done so that the throat is deeper, orig in white

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Large cowl vents made, the original resin ones the round water boxes were oval. It was easier to make completely new than muck about

 

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and positioned on the engine room coach roof

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That's it, thanks for looking in

 

Kev

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You know - IF you have any of those......

Tyres

Fairleads 

Bollards

Vents 

..........going then I can always find a warm and sympathetic home for themB).  I'm feeling guilty about the HDML:think:

Cracking work - especially for the tyres.  I've looked for 1/72 "empty" tyres on t'internt previously, (as fenders) as so many of the original pics depict them.  

Cunning work;)

Build looks great

Rob

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