Terry1954 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Now that ...... is neat! Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 10 hours ago, Terry1954 said: Now that ...... is neat! Terry And very tidy, fabulous work Crisp. Quite stunning to think it is microbe scale too, blimey! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 More very neat, tiny work - good job Crisp I wonder why they're called 'dodgers'? I spend some time on the 'net finding articles about sports teams, people who avoid things, dodging 'clickbait' and scrolling through annoying ads but no joy… Alexa was sorry, but not sure. Siri did the same search that I did (but with a nice soothing voice). Made me realise that the 'web isn't quite the great source of knowledge that Tim Berners-Lee hoped it would be. (Sorry, still a bit grumpy here in the mornings) 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 58 minutes ago, CedB said: I wonder why they're called 'dodgers'? Dodging wind and sea spray? Terry 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 2 hours ago, CedB said: I wonder why they're called 'dodgers'? To mislead hungry aliens of course! Starving of Mars 👽 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 Not entirely sure, but I think Terry’s is the most likely guess. It appears to be a term left over from the age of sail, and apply to a canvas structure designed to provide some shelter to a helmsman from weather and spray. It was still widely used in my era, and I expect still is; Naval terminology is not a rapid mover! Quite why dodgers were felt necessary 30’ up a mast that was itself a long way above the ogg-splash, who knows? My guess is that they were as much aesthetic as practical, though I suppose any shelter from the wind for any poor sod who had to work aloft would be welcone. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefy66 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Learning so much from this build and it all looks so neat with all the small bits beefy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) Both platforms now fixed in position, as are 2 ladders - one up to the Met platform and one between the two. Just about visible here. Can’t do anything quickly, but getting there! Crisp Edited April 27, 2020 by Ex-FAAWAFU 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Submariners were sometimes lovingly called 'sun dodgers', just sayin'. Stuart 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 16 minutes ago, Courageous said: Submariners were sometimes lovingly called 'sun dodgers', just sayin'. Stuart I think you have clearly spent too long under the surface. Terry 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 How many modela are into this model, anyway?? Outstanding job, Crisp! Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 Getting very close to finishing the mast now - at least until we get to rigging time, which a way off yet. Today’s episode of Optivisor Fun started with the fitting of this wee beast - important later on when we do get to rigging, but at this stage just a challenge to get level from all angles. Then it was onto the top platform, on which will sit the large bucket shape of the Type 72X aircraft homing beacon. Not for a while, though, since is actually (shock!) going to be a Merit part, and at the moment it is up in London. Anyway, slightly counter-intuitively the best way to build this is upside down, with the railings first. About 10 minutes of rolling around a piece of circular runner of about the right circumference gives you a set of railings that are close to circular; they look better to the naked eye! Then you turn it the other way up - the railings are pretty robust once fitted - and a) bend the loops of rigging through 90 degrees and b) fit the 4 cross-braces to the underside: And then turn the mast itself upside down and gently test to see if it fits... which it does! Hoorah! Bravo Tetra designers (& a sigh of relief that my multiple measurements for the home-brew brass mast were right! Pretty happy with that; the topmast platform is only dry fitted at present, cos there’s another ladder to go on yet. Then into very careful storage while I go back to working on the bridge area. The island is starting to come together now. More soon Crisp 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patmaquette Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Wow, that is looking superb, Crisp! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 You keep churning out impressive details, Crisp And the pics of the island laying on a transparent block are quite evocative - it looks like... an island in the middle of the sea! Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsticker Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Just catching up now Crisp and your attention to detail - and the detail itself - is very extraordinarily impressive! I can barely believe what I am seeing! Stay safe all Geoff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 15 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Pretty happy with that… And so you should be! Great work Crisp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbudde Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 That looks outstanding so far. Wow She will be a stunner at the end. Cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 (edited) Started tonight on the first (of eight) W/T aerial masts - the ones so characteristic of RN carriers in that era, that lowered to the horizontal during flying ops. You’re doubtless bored with hearing me say this, but Tetra have done a great job; things like the ladder and the visible gearing are lovely touches: More soon Crisp Edited April 29, 2020 by Ex-FAAWAFU 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneck Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Now this is the bit that interests me! I have four, possibly five, British carriers on the go and all need these types of outriggers, so I shall be watching intently from here on. Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 More tiny, lovely work Crisp. Your poor eyes… and, I wonder, what's happening to your sense of perspective? Do you take off the Optivisor and get scared by everyday 'full scale' objects? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 Full scale has always been over-rated, Ced! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Tetra HAVE done a great job as you say - but it would still be easy to wreck it without your determined eye and hand. Structural pleasures abound at each new update. (Even if somewhere in the Salibury area a model church is missing the lead from its roof....) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) Thanks, everyone. And then there were three... The masts are held into the brackets by a crude piece of bent 0.2mm rod just to keep it all safe. In due course the brackets will be fitted to the hull and painted, but I suspect the masts will be added very late indeed; sticky-out bits par excellence, just begging to be bashed, bent, damaged and knocked into oblivion! More soon Crisp Edited April 30, 2020 by Ex-FAAWAFU 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 (edited) ...then five Edited May 1, 2020 by Ex-FAAWAFU 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Do they breed? Seriously, excellent job Crisp Ciao 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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