Hello Forum,
limited in place, budget, tooling and viewingskills (pair of thick glasses) I want to escape he planing of a model and coming to the dockyard to built. So I decided to start with a simpler prototype: A Great Lakes Channel steampowered Frighter
Chicago Tribune.
She was built for the Quebec & Ontario Line as a steam screw frighter with the official Canada No. 146589. She was of 1689 gross tons and built Wallsend-on-Tyne, England, in 1922 measured 250.0 x 43.1 x 16.9. In 1/75 she'll be a little bit more than one yard or 762mm in 1/100. Here a lovely picture of her:
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/paper/big/big_10_chicago_tribune.aspxWhy her?
She is designed with an easy to built hull and added with a fine carpentered pilots house and flying bridge. My main anxiety is to overuse my skills and budget. Also her funnel seems to be not to complex and the superstructure is not too sophisticated.
To me, myself & I:
I'm a salesman and since 12 years I search for the right shipprototype to built. I've invested 12 years in a fivefunneled express-steamer a project of 25.5kn of 1902 designed by the North German Lloyd but never realised. So I went to less extensive ships... and allways got entangled in too much details or problems I didn't had any idea what will happen when I got to this parcticular point of translate this detail to the model.
Living in a small flat my space to built is limited, too.
Yours Gorgy
