Sgt.Squarehead Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Win what? Is there a prize? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 Sargent, your out of order! Winning the world Cup. The prize is total world domination, don't you know. Right up the Germans alley... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 HEY ALL, A quick update today. The build is going slow the past week. We have had a new member, baby boy, join the family this week ( not mine). The tempiture outside has been nearly 100 degrees for days now, and I was at a critical junture on another build that I needed to get past. Just this one photo for today. These are the parts for three more Water Cooling Radiators. These parts are for the fan box's. I had to slow down my cutting technique somewhat, because the parts are very thin and delicate and I really wanted these to stay in one part. The parts are to be applied the same way as the first radiator build, so no difference there. Just a repeat pattern. More photos later, Thanks All. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roma847 Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Hi Rich, best health and good luck for the new earth-dweller. Hang in there my friend, step by step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 HEY ALL, A quick update today. The build is going slow the past week. We have had a new member, baby boy, join the family this week ( not mine). Probably just as well he isn't yours - he'd have been twice the size of any other babies around! (But with beautiful details...) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 Thanks Guys for the comments. HEY ALL, The Water Cooling Radiators are still under construction. The last two weeks have been a little wacky, life gets in the road sometimes. The first photo shows the fan bodies under construction. This next photo is of the completed fan box's This next photo are the parts for the three pullies and screen guards. Here are the three fan box's with the pullies and screen guards installed. The top right fan is the one I built realier in this chapter. Now I have to build the three electric motors. Another production line to build these, so I'll be back later. Thanks! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roma847 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Hi Rich, the Water Cooling Radiators are really interesting equipment and look cool, and the motors are also sweet details. Well done and keep it up, you'll make it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 MANFRED, Thanks for the sweet words, greatly appreciated. HEY ALL TOGETHER, The post for today is to wrap up the fan building chapter. The last round of fans are the Water Cooling Radiators. I had four of these to build and install. I'll wrap this chapter up thusly. This first photo today is of the three electric motors. These have been built but not painted and installed. This next photo is of the four radiators together. This photo is of the back side of the four radiators, with the electric motors installed and painted. two of the radiators installed into the crawler. And now, the completed fan chapter. A month and a half to build all the fans and radiators. It's at this point that the fan chapter is now finished. I have a few small items to catch up on. A few screens and blocks to install, I will photo these for the next posting. Then I get to do a mass production of fresh air vents. Thats all for today, and for this chapter. Next up...vents. Thanks all! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 People say I have a huge amount of patience to build bar armour but that pales into insignificance when we see the quantity (and quality!) of the construction work you are undertaking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roma847 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 (edited) Hi Rich, Wow I fully agree with Kallisti, you did a fantastic job with all the fans and radiators, for which you need lots of patience. You know, I love this tiny stuff, very impressive! Keep on scratching, but watch out, this makes addictive. Edited July 26, 2014 by roma847 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 KALLISTI, Thanks for the comments! I know just what you mean about bar armour. I have a IDF, D9r bulldozer with PE bar armour to build for it. Very small stuff to work with. But thats a ways down the road for me at this point. MANFRED, Thanks for the nice words!! You know me and the small details, I'm totaly addicted to working like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 HEY GUYS, So, OMG! I absolutly forgot to post some photos of the Water Cooling Radiators. I'll get better about posting photos of the actual crawler and the parts that I'm working on. Sorry these are late, next time I'll post reference photos first. Thanks all for understanding. The first photo is of the radiators from the model build. This view is looking down from the top side. This next photo is of the electric motor on the real crawler. The motor here has a few more cooling slats than I built, but sometimes things on the model are just to small to work with. This view is at floor level and looking to the inside of the radiator space. This next photo is of the radiator from the back side so you can see the safty screen for the pully. Also, another shot of the electric motor ans how thing look from the inside of the radiator space looking to the outside. So these photos should have been in the posting instead of a post posting. BTW, the vent build is going fine and I'll have some reference photos first instead of last. Thanks all for watching, tune in next time for some vents. Thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roma847 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Hey Rich, thanks for the great shots from the real crawler's radiators. Now I must say your radiators see the original deceptively similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 MANFRED, Thanks for the complements. Trying to find Apollo area photos is rather diffcult. Sometimes, like the radiator photos, are from the modern shuttle era. But as you can see, the equipment hasn't changed much over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 (edited) HEY EVERYBODY, Let me show you about the Fresh Air Vents. The Fresh Air Vents are a simple air exchange between the engine room and the outside air. As you can see in two photos, that the vents themselves are simply a hole in the floor that is covered by a safety screen so no one falls through. In these photos you can see that there are no filters or baffles to impede the air flow. Daylight can be seen easily through the screen to the outside. To begine construction is the gathering of all the parts. The parts for air vents and of the parts for just one vent. The vent with the install of directional fins. The construction continues. This is the space where the vent is to be located. I have applied the screen to the top side of it's location on the inside of the Engine Room. In this photo you can see that I have mounted the vent itself, to the uderside of the crawler. This will be painted when I get to building the bottom of the carwler. And now, a shot from the top side. This looks a lot like the original photos, where you can see through the vent to the outside. Simple! I now have eleven more to build. Twelve in all to build. Now that I have all the prep work done, the install shouldn't take to long. I'll be back later with final photos of the vent install. Thanks All for watching! Edited July 30, 2014 by RichO 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roma847 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Hey Rich, holy cow, that's amazing, what are you doing with all those tiny pieces. Where will it ever end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted July 31, 2014 Author Share Posted July 31, 2014 HI MANFRED, Your right, a lot of tiny pieces, and BTW... 'snever gona end. HI AGAIN ALL, The end of the vent chapter! In this photo are the last of the vent parts. All the parts, painted and the screens cut. A box 'o vents. The screens all secured into place. These are the vent viewed from the underside. And now, the vent chapter is done! These two photos are all the vents installed and finished. Now I have a few more screens to install into the Fire Supression Locker. These are simply floor screens, and I have eight of these to install, about half a days work. I'll do this next and take a photo or two to show and tell. After that is done, then it's time to once again, get down with the sickness. The details are only just begining. Tune in next time with the commission of the brand new Electrical Dept. and hard wiring of the Engineers Controll Office. Thanks All, bye for now! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 HI MANFRED, Your right, a lot of tiny pieces, and BTW... 'snever gona end. HI AGAIN ALL, The end of the vent chapter! Well, I'm glad everything vent according to plan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted July 31, 2014 Author Share Posted July 31, 2014 Good one Gordon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roma847 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Hello Rich, the vent chapter is really done, it is hard to believe. But I know the madness is going into the next round, therefore keep the calm and hang in there my friend! I stay tuned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 Thanks Manfred! Yes, you well know what madness is about to happen, you've seen it before!! The nerves are calm, and the plan is solidified. Now on with the construction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted August 2, 2014 Author Share Posted August 2, 2014 (edited) HEY GUYS, The first part of the hard wiring is done. I first had to build the Engineers Control Room "furnature". This consisted of various pieces of computer termanals, work stations, power bulkheads...ect. The first thing to do was to build these different pieces of furnature. Next I had to build the computer work stations. I built the computer work stations in three subassemblies. These were then blended together to fill one space, and has several work stations together in one location. A couple of days of building, and the finished computer control termanals. I then painted these a blue-green color ( that I might change to a more blue color later ), and then added graphics to sorta look like a work station. Also the non discript computer bank was painted and the interior was built then painted. I also build and painted the power bulkheads a charcol grey. I sprayed these, to give a contrast to the brush paint of the work stations and to add some different texture to the space. And these two shots are of the test fitting. Now that the primary build for this space is done and the test fit is good, I will start to add the lighting. This where the new Electrical Dept. comes in. Tune in next time for the light testing of the equipment and work stations. Thanks all for liking and good comments. Bye for now! Edited August 2, 2014 by RichO 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Like they used to say in the old TVTimes adverts - "I never knew there was so much in it!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roma847 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 (edited) Hi Rich, you really are an artist, now even as an interior designer and computer specialist. You did a very nice job with the interior decoration of the Engineers Control Room so far. Now only missing the guys who work at the computers ... On the lighting I'm curious, which will become certainly spectacular. Edited August 3, 2014 by roma847 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichO Posted August 3, 2014 Author Share Posted August 3, 2014 Thanks Gordon! MANFRED, apparently the work crew was out to lunch when I took the photos. I cought them hanging around playing on the computer when they should have been at their station! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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