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Re: MHB Boiler and Twin Herons
« Reply #25 on: April 01, 2010, 01:00:50 am »

this post was started a long time ago to show nice steam projects of your own or you had seen 

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3720.0

if it could be held at the top of the listing it could be used again..

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Re: MHB Boiler and Twin Herons
« Reply #26 on: April 01, 2010, 08:27:15 am »

If we had purpose made places for every individual suggestion on Mayhem we would have hundreds of them and it would be a nightmare trying to find what you wanted amongst the huge numbers of headings we would end up with.

Just to clarify a point here as well, no-one is ever shot down in a cloud of smoke, we welcome and evaluate all suggestions for the way Mayhem looks but we don't necessarily have to implement every suggestion.  We weigh it against the requirements of the other 4000 members to see if it is the right thing to do for everyone.  It is also interesting to note just how enthusiastically suggestions are made for new headings but how quickly that enthusiasm evaporates when the heading is added and people can't be bothered to add to it any more so it ends up becoming another dead heading cluttering up the rest of the board.

Don't forget we also have the masterclass section for models of an exceptional standard however these have to be supported by a particularly informative and instructive build thread as well.  Over the last couple of years the format we have seems to have worked particularly well and worked for most of the members most of the time.

As Peter quite rightly points out we could simply add some items to the thread we already have or even start a new similar one.
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Re: MHB Boiler and Twin Herons
« Reply #27 on: April 03, 2010, 01:50:52 am »

Sorry for the long overdue update regarding this post but here are some recent pictures of the ship model that this steam plant is going into. The ship is the S.S. Tahoe which was built at a local shipyard in the San Francisco bay area then completely disassembled and hauled in pieces by Mules 160 miles over the Sierra Mountain range, then reassembled to operate on Lake Tahoe. The models hull is built from copper sheet which was then riveted and soldered together. When I get the next batch of photos I'll post them here too.
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Re: MHB Boiler and Twin Herons
« Reply #28 on: April 03, 2010, 10:54:49 am »

Thats lovely Nick, a really nice model. I'm interested in the way you formed the copper plates as I would like to construct a model of SY Gondola using this method-one day!

By the way, I'm sure it's SS Tahoe that fellow mayhem member Oldiron works on.

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Re: MHB Boiler and Twin Herons
« Reply #29 on: April 05, 2010, 11:06:13 pm »

Hi Greg,

This model is actually being build by a customer of mine. I'm just posting pictures of his work since he's not a member on this forum.

I did sheet metal work for many years though, hand forming and building automobile car bodies from scratch. I would then metal finish the panels by hand so that no filler materials or very very little was needed before painting. I also used to hand form aluminum sheet metal panels for aircraft. It takes years to master the craft but I'd be happy to tell you what I know over the phone if you like?

Nick
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