Little progress made lately, partly due to the looming festive season and the impending arrival of friends of France, and partly due to the nippy weather which has made the shed a rather uninviting prospect.
I've had one or two minor glitches, not least of which was knocking the model off the workbench, and damaging the rudder. Fortunately I had no faith in my soldering ability, and had araldited the assembly, so I was able to strip it back and rebuild it.
I struggled somewhat with the winch layout - couldn't work out the drawings re the steam pipework. I eventually downloaded model photographs from the internet, which gave me a better idea of what was happening. I also wanted to 'lag' the pipework, and tried a number of solutions which didn't work, including pipe cleaners, which seemed like a stroke of brilliance when the idea came to be at two in the morning, but were way over scale.
I ended up simply winding thread round metal rod, which seems to have done the trick.
All the sub-assemblies are done, but I'm building another ship's boat, as the first effort wasn't really satisfactory.
So far, so good.............
