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  1. On 25/03/2024 at 20:56, FlatlandFox said:

    An excellent rendering of a historic vessel. Sad it was scrapped. Naval train ships are the Cinderellas of every navy, even though many of them have got incredible memories to tell.

    Excellent model, sir.

     

    Yes but Hoga is still alive:

     

    USS Hoga (YT-146) is best known for her actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. 

     

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    USS Hoga (YT-146)

    Class: Woban-class district harbour tug

    Builder Consolidated Shipbuilding Corporation, Morris Heights, New York

    Keel laid : 25 July 1940

    Launched : 31 December 1940

    Commissioned : 22 May 1941

    Decommissioned : 1 July 1996

    Crew : 10 officers and enlisted men

    Displacement : 218 tonnes

    Length : 100 feet

    Beam : 25 feet

    Draft : 9 feet, 7 inches

    Propulsion : One propeller Two diesel engines

    Speed : 12 knots

     

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    Getting underway less than 10 minutes after the first Japanese bombs exploded, she set to work rescuing sailors from the water, fighting fires and pulling ships out of harm's way. 

     

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    The Hoga moved the repair ship USS Vestal away from the burning hull of the USS Arizona, assisted the damaged minesweeper USS Oglala and the battleship USS Nevada. 

     

    She fought fires on the Nevada as well as on the battleships USS Maryland, USS Tennessee and USS Arizona. In total, the Hoga spent 72 hours continuously fighting fires. 

     

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    The Hoga is best known for pushing the sinking USS Nevada to safety and preventing it from blocking the narrow channel.

     

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    The Hoga is currently undergoing a major restoration to its Second World War configuration. It served as a fireboat for the Port of Oakland for four decades, even carrying President Carter on a visit to the Bay, before being decommissioned and transferred to North Little Rock AR.

     

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  2. Tks Gruntpa, Steve. 

     

    Thank you for following and encouraging me to all followers !

     

    Iceman 29 wrote 7 November 2023 - "This project should be completed very quickly, a "Flash" project."


    It was, completed in about 4 months and 7 days. 

     

    The fact that I had to make 3 examples, one of which wasn't built, for 'stock', delayed me a bit, but I've learned quite a lot so that I can improve the next projects and better finish the current ones, particularly the 'SS Delphine', while the battleship Bretagne is also at the finalisation stage.

     

    Other projects are at the documentation stage, such as the 1:100 scale Shell Welder, for which I'm waiting for plans from the shipyard.

     

    The Rouen pilot boat "Le Mascaret" is a special project for 2 reasons, it was built at the same Duchesne et Bossière yard in Le Havre ( Harfleur ) as the Blythe Star ( Ex Tandik ) build number 101, 1955, I was surprised to realise this after the Blythe Star project started.

     

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    The Mascaret has build number 154, Plan 1960-61. 

     

    Picture from a friend : ©Alain Mingam Photographe : https://evene-lefigaro-fr.translate.goog/celebre/biographie/alain-mingam-16969.php?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp
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    The second is that my father, who is now deceased (2014), was chief engineer on board. He first sailed on her in Oct 1966 until she was sold and replaced by cheaper and more efficient pilot boats. 

     

    I spent a lot of time on board during my childhood, sometimes doing 'the tide' as we used to say, spending the day on the roadstead, in the bay of the Seine, when the boat served the pilot ships going up or down the Seine towards Rouen. A bygone era.

     

     

     

    I've got a nice bundle of original plans to scan that my father picked up when he sold the boat. 

     

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    It's all very exciting, of course, and layout is a great passion, but it's also time-consuming. I'm never bored, and that's the main thing! :)

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  3. The two examples of this pretty coaster are now finished.

     

    All that's left to do are the plaques, the supports and the display cases to protect them quickly from dust.

     

    I'll take better photos later.

     

    It's been a great adventure and a challenge for me! Thanks to Roland and Nick (  )  for your help and to all those who have provided exceptional, often personal, documents (I haven't published everything, because of the families involved). 

     

    Thanks to Jim Baumann for his advice. And to the others who have encouraged me in this project by following the subject.

     

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  4. The latest design and 3D printing for this ship. The bridge "spotlight", which is also used to illuminate the bridge, can be rotated. It is also used to launch the lifeboat at night. This type of lamp operates on 24 volts or 48 volts DC from the emergency lighting battery circuit in the event of a blackout.

     

    We'll still have to design and print the plaques describing the name of the ship and the plaque commemorating the shipwreck for the display case.  

     

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    The two copies of the ship are almost finished now, it's just a matter of an hour or two's work to put the finishing touches to them.

     

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  5. Tks Bill !  :yes:

     

    I've put this project on hold for the moment because it seems that the original plans for the Shell Welder exist in the archives, along with many photos of the construction.

     

    Thanks to Beefy ( beefy66 ) who got involved and took the time to contact the archive centre. All that remains now is to finalise a purchase of the 5 plans and photos available in order to relaunch the 3D design and 1/100 reconstruction of this coaster with as much detail and accuracy as possible and with as few compromises as possible.

     

    The good link to do some research: https://calmview.twmuseums.org.uk/calmview/

     

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    The list of plans available from the shipyard William Cleland & Co. Ltd, shipbuilders, Willington ( ACC1615 ) :

     

    https://calmview.twmuseums.org.uk/calmview/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=Acc1615%2f116%2f1-22

     

    https://calmview.twmuseums.org.uk/calmview/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=Acc1615%2f2

     

     

     

     

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  6. The 200-litre drum used as a rubbish bin at the time.

     

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    Fitting of the home-made national flag on copy No. 2.

     

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    Jim Baumann had advised me to approach the wires with a lit incense stick or a soldering iron, I chose the iron, I have an adjustable one more. 

     

    It works pretty well, but you have to be careful. I heated it directly on site, once it was glued to the model, that worked too, because here I really wanted the strands stretched identically without sagging. 

     

    I'll have to try for the other type ("saggy"), but I'm afraid that my resin template isn't strong enough, it might bend...

     

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  7. It's often like that in real life on board. Long cables always sag due to their own weight, even with good tension applied, specially when they are horizontal..


    For railing, it's also important to do this when the stanchions are removable and it's chain or nylon that is used as a guard rail. For example, on the Bismarck, where there were a lot of removable stanchions, the railing was removed in bad weather, mainly at the front of the ship, to prevent it being damaged by heavy seas. But there were also some around the turrets, so as not to interfere with the movement of the guns.
    I don't do model contests but I know that these details are noted during competitions.  

     

    The same goes for the flag halyards. It's rare that there's no wind, and I think that adds to the dynamic of the model's presentation. 

     

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    All this adds to the credibility of the model and makes it less 'schooly'.  

     

    Railing:

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  8. You have to take your time when drawing the shapes, even if it means going back and erasing what took you a few hours to draw. You can't let anything slip through the cracks.

     

    I'm working on the rear section. 

     

    I've stopped taking measurements on the model; everything is wrong, even the length, the scale isn't 1/130 (on average maybe...). 

     

    The ship is supposed to be 52 meters long, which at 1/130 would be 40 cm, but the model is 44 cm, which is a scale of 1/118 in length. 

     

    Ditto for this: if we transfer the draught of 3.20 meters, it should give 24.6 mm, we find by measuring: 22 mm or 1/145 in height! 

     

    The FROG model is therefore largely flattened, and the length/height ratio is not good at all.

     

    Using various photos and taking into account the perspective of the shots, we were able to find the proportions of the whole ship. It's not perfect, of course, but we're getting close. 

     

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    An interesting photo I just discovered. 

     

    The Steel Welder (sand dredger) is probably being decommissioned for scrap, beached at low tide on a bed of mud, you can see one of her whaleboats on pallets in the background on the quay, perhaps to avoid any looting:

     

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    I haven't been able to find the Australian Merchant Navy flag, which is red, as opposed to the national flag which is blue.

     

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    So I'm going to do it myself, as well as the red flag indicating that the ship is carrying dangerous goods. 

     

     

     

     

    It's in progress, it's small but it's acceptable. It's rolled cigarette paper covering a sheet of chocolate bar aluminium (thin aluminium).

     

    Everything will be covered with a matt varnish later.

     

    I continue to fit the rigging.

     

    I still have to make the hoists for the cargo masts. 

     

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  10. Quite a career! :)

     

    The Peresvet (Russian: Пересвет) is a Peresvet-class battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy built in 1898.

     

    She was assigned to the 1st Squadron of the Pacific Fleet and took part in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). 

     

    She was scuttled at the end of the conflict at Port Arthur, then refloated by the Japanese, who integrated her into their naval forces under the name Sagami.

     

    In 1916, during the First World War, she was bought by Russia and reverted to the name Peresvet. 

     

    She was blown up by a German mine in 1917 and sank in the Mediterranean.

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