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Tinkering with the bits.All vents now fitted with deck collars. Hatches fixed on boiler housing all else still loose

Fresh water tank and fwd stove pipe

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Steam pipe and whistle fitted to funnel. Main cowl vents in position

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Topside starting to fill up

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:hmmm:   Need to make some lifebuoys next  :banghead:

 

Thanks for stopping by . . .

 

Kev

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Fender Puddings

 

Been playing with ideas as to how to portray . . . .

This seems to work. Using Green Stuff epoxy putty I roughed out a fore and aft sausage

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Once dry the sausages were sanded to shape. For someone used to Milliput it's strange how soft and flexible the Green Stuff is 

 

When I'd got the shape sorted I wound 0.25mm thread around

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Et voila

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The puddings have yet to be shaped in properly and secured but good enough for government work. Need some washes/highlights and ragging but good enough for proof of concept

 

Thanks for looking in

 

Kev

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To the best of my knowledge tugs of this period mainly used old rope bundled up and held in shape with further rope binding or net. They were tied to the bulwarks at the ends and perhaps centre. The ropes were tied off on ring bolts or cleats welded to either the inside or outside of the bulwarks.

 

HTH

 

Kev

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I have a wee scratchbuild project coming up, I'm absolutely pooing myself over it as I've only "dabbled" in scratchbuilding ships (or anything) a little bit in the past. I will no doubt be looking for lots of advice and as much copying and plagiarism as possible as it will be something along the lines of what you're doing here but a wee bit bigger, probably 1:144.    

 

Where do you buy your styrene sheet from?

 

What thicknesses do you use?

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2 hours ago, Murdo said:

I'm absolutely pooing myself over it as I've only "dabbled" in scratchbuilding

I too was a bit daunted with the scratchbuilding but don't be. I also have a tug build here but I've other stuff in front of it at the mo. You'll be quite surprised on how therapeutic it is and their is a good crowd on here to guide you through.

As for plastic supplies, I use my LMS but others will know cheaper places. Thicknesses, all sorts, depends on what you're doing.

 

Stuart

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4 hours ago, Murdo said:

I'm absolutely pooing myself over it

 

Why?

If you muck the part up you just make another one. I'm currently trying to make a tow hook, lost count of the failures but I'm making progress. It's all part of the fun of scratch building. With scratch building sit back look at the part and see how you can break it down into components. If you try and it didn't work, why didn't work. What can you do different.

 

As Stuart said you'll get plenty of help if you ask. No such thing as a stupid question. If you're embarrassed you can always PM.

 

As said above the sizes you're looking at LHS is good

I've used https://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/plasticard-sheet.html

 

for large sheets

http://www.shgmodels.com/acatalog/  Page 31.

 

Thickness I would suggest a good start would be 0.25, 0.38, 0.5, 0.75 & 1mm.

The other way to look at card thickness is in relation to scale i.e. @1/144

0.1 = 14.4mm @1:1   .25 = 36mm @1:1   .38 = 55mm @1:1 etc

If you can find it grab some 0.1mm. Anyone out there know where its available at the moment??

 

Welcome to the mad house :hypnotised:

 

Kev

 

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15 minutes ago, longshanks said:

Anyone out there know where its available at the moment??

I've seen some 1/700 Detroyer builds that use paper that's re-enforced with CA, might be worth a try when you need to.

 

Stuart

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4 hours ago, longshanks said:

If you can find it grab some 0.1mm. Anyone out there know where its available at the moment??

Kev what does that work out in old money is 10 THOU anywhere near this I don't have enough fingers or tentacles like  to@Martian Hale to count this out and hopeless at math

 

beefy

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24 minutes ago, beefy66 said:

Kev what does that work out in old money is 10 THOU anywhere near this I don't have enough fingers or tentacles like  to@Martian Hale to count this out and hopeless at math

 

beefy

Thats .00393701" Beefy 

 

Regards

Richard

 

 

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4 hours ago, Courageous said:

might be worth a try when you need to.

Thanks Stuart. Only problem I'm then stuck with CA as an adhesive

 

2 hours ago, beefy66 said:

what does that work out in old money is 10 THOU anywhere near this

 

As Richard said I'm looking for 0.1mm or 4 thou or 0.004"

 

Kev

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54 minutes ago, longshanks said:

Thanks Stuart. Only problem I'm then stuck with CA as an adhesive

 

 

As Richard said I'm looking for 0.1mm or 4 thou or 0.004"

 

Kev

I can buy .005" here in Canada but never heard of .004" or .1mm 

 

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Richard

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Well I'm still struggling with the quick release tow hook :banghead:

 

In the mean time I've managed to form the tow bows (not fixed yet)

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and stop post at the rear of the boiler casing

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Here you can see the formers I used to make the bows

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The holes on the left of the card are for the main part of the hook, give you an idea of how many attempts so far . . .

1/32 scale next I think . . . .

 

Thanks for stopping by

 

Kev

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