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Hi Hande


I have used bathroom [/size]silicon to make gaskets and using grease proof paper on the lid section so it does not stick.
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[/size]Trim over the edges after it cures.
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[/size]On the forward section I am filling in the deck under the lift off section back to the straight piece under the wheelhouse.
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[/size]Then adding the foam strip.
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[/size]I will add some pics when I have it done.
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[/size]Canabus

[Hande]

This is a live message.
I am working on the wheelhouse, the stacks and miscellaneous in parallel, and I thought I'll report on their progress, when I get some results. So, I will return to this blog some time soon enough.


The wheelhouse (without the top) and the stacks dry-fitted and the build looks a little like a vessel 

Sorry about the stretched pic (at least to me it shows horizontally stretched) - it's a bother.

[Hande]

This is a resend from an entirely different computer.
Does it stretch?
Yes it does...

[Hande]

In the "misc" department, I put some reflector foil into the deck lights-to-come.

alas - not stretched.
Now I'm suspecting vertical pics become stretched and horizontally oriented - as is the case with this one - do not?

[Hande]

Encouraged by my theory-of-horizontal-pics-preferred,


I share the story of my life again:
I had made a decent job in painting the separate components of the wheel house,
but when I put them together, turned out the whole thing has to be repainted because of mismatching components and slipping tools etc...


Now, this looks scary - what if my masking doesn't hold!? 

[Hande]

Something wrong with upload.
here’s the tool again

This is to test my theory-of-horizontal-pics-preferred.
I forced the once vertical pic into the horizontal orientation.


VOILA! - theory confirmed at least for me.

[Hande]

I found that Billings plan deviates from the real vessel in the mast:
In the plan, the lowest horizontal-light-stage (what is THAT called?) is too high up above the top of the stacks.


I want to figure out, if the whole mast is depicted too high.


Does anyone know, how high the mast should be? It's difficult to see from the pics.

[Martin (Admin)]

 
 The stern shot appears a little stretched but all the others seem OK..... 

Interestingly, if you click on your picture, it opens on another tab, and linking directly to that image, it posts OK???!

[Hande]

this pic, recycled by Martin (thank you very much!) has correct proportions.


I don't understand. The same issue is present in Mat_B's Smit Rotterdam thread, so it's not just me.

[RST]

It's a forum or compatability glitch. The same was happening to me a little while back and I've seen a few other where it happened also. The pics are usually fine when viewed individually in a new window / tab.

[Hande]

To be on the safe side, I try to post only horizontal pics from now on.

[Martin (Admin)]

To be on the safe side, I try to post only horizontal pics from now on.

Post as many pictures you want Hande, if they come out weird, just let me know and I'll fix them!   
 
 

 
 

[Hande]

I added a picture to my profile. Sometimes model building feels like tieing the Matthew Walker knot
Like the wheelhouse and the stacks - no straight angles!

[Hande]

I realize that the avatar picture doesn't show very well
Here's the larger copy

[Hande]

the pic

[Hande]

To feel being on the right side of law for the above, I offer you these credentials and permission to use an excerpt from an amazing book that is placed into the public domain by the Gutenberg project:


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“The Project Gutenberg eBook, Knots, Splices and Rope Work, by A. Hyatt Verrill”
“llustrated with 156 Original Cuts Showing How
Each Knot, Tie or Splice is Formed and Its
Appearance When Complete.”

"Matthew Walker"

Excerpt From
Knots, Splices and Rope Work
A. Hyatt Verrill

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[Hande]

This is how the stacks are coming up.


Inside, there're the shelves for the funneltops.
Sanding, masking and painting got me here. I couldn't resist painting the signal colours of the lower lids according to the side of the vessel they are at. The lids are painted with metal gun colour that makes them really look like sea water proof steel.


You may wonder about the colour scheme, but this is rather accurately true to present-day's DELFI.
I got their logo from the RaumaCata marketing and wonder now how to print two of them so that they stick on the stacks.


 

[Hande]

This is how the mast is coming about - slowly, to be sure. But I'm surprised how well the horizontal branches are aligned after all the setbacks that are involved.


I use a hybrid method of soldering and Zap epoxy. Epoxy, whenever I feel that soldering would be too close to a previous soldered joint.


I think I got the mast too high after all - despite my conviction that in the plan the guidance was taking too high. The problem is at the bottom of the mast. So, there's no way to correct the situation without breaking what has already been accomplished.


I am working towards a construct whereby I can take the mast down backwards like in DELFI. Therefore, I made the stand one degree heavier than the weak-looking one that is suggested by Billings.


After quite a lot of work I realised that in my solution the horizontal bar that goes into the stacks - as per Billings plan - is not necessary at all. Then I rechecked the photos of DELFI and found out what the construct really is between the stacks. Now it's too late to change my solution to be true to reality and I'm left somewhere between reality and Billings imagination. After all the rod through the stacks adds to sturdiness.


The little horizontal slots are for aft deck light assemblies. The extra hole is for wiring of the lamps.

[Hande]

The wheel house is becoming a nightmare...


I was smart enough to be able to see, where a straight 90 degree angle is - and that made me turn the build upside-down to work from there.
But since there are no straight angles anywhere else and in particular between the various pieces, the inevitable was bound to happen. They didn't match-up in the end both front side and back side. Even the sizes of the pieces where wrong. Either they are wrong or - more likely - I have worked them too hard.


I guess, I have to stuff the gaps with a ton of putty... May be in some cases a strip of timber.

[kevin547n]

very nice indeed

[Hande]

Thanks, Kevin!

[Hande]

The mast  got this antenna

[Hande]

Some heavy lifting in the attempt to fix the mismatching pieces of the wheelhouse roof - lol

[Hande]

And this is about where I'm at.


Notice the bulwark cappings. They are strips of timber. When disguising the seams, I'm going to try to simulate welds - we'll see...


Now I thank myself for having made all those fittings in the course of my slow progress. It's only a matter of putting them in place, now.
In afterthought - I guess I have spent my time in making fittings in periods of non-decisiveness or sheer ignorance about how to proceed. My subconsience has worked on some phases sometimes for months - and then all of the sudden, I just _knew_ - for good and for worse    - what I'm going to do.

[jsdcs07]

WOW, great work!!! looking really good and a super finish...