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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #100 on: April 13, 2019, 08:24:54 pm »

2.13 amps in the water at 7.2v. That is causing me to rethink a few things. It is fitted with a 6V 10 Amp Gel battery at the moment, but I could easily get a 2 hour run, and a bit more speed from a 7.2V 5300mAh NiMh...we shall see.


Anyway, final little gift today....RE380 motor under a Tufnol deck, I will let you work that one out for now!
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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #101 on: May 15, 2019, 09:57:28 am »

Work has continued apace, just photos have been a bit lacking.
Railings and signal lamps now fitted to the charthouse deck. Much respect to stanchion installers the world over, I got into a right sweary mess with these! However, once painted, most of the sins are obscured..
Funnel is now fitted as are some of the deck details. Primer has revealed one or two areas which will need a little fettling with filler, but nothing serious. My crooked port fwd gun tub is now levelled up. I try not to worry how easily I was able to remove it though.. Brass mast also now assembled, with the crowsnest fashioned from a bit of 22mm copper pipe.
And the rear motor device..not working yet..curses.
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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #102 on: June 01, 2019, 02:09:39 pm »


That is a huge amount of work you have been doing there UBN! I recall when you were hacking stuff off to rebuild it.


Looking great  :-))
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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #103 on: June 01, 2019, 07:30:18 pm »

Never one to rush a project :}
Rebuilt the tanker for this season as well, it's a wonder anything gets finished really!
Anyway, Snowflake had a day out last weekend at Bucklers Hard as part of the D-Day 75 events. Much Blutac was in use for this outing!! Also in attendance, U-37, lurking up the Beaulieu River...must put a new pump in it and get it back under the water %)
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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #104 on: May 10, 2022, 10:43:48 am »

Its been a while but the project is back on.
I have cleared the baffles of almost every other job that I seem to keep volunteering for, finished a couple of other projects, and now have an impossible deadline to complete by!
When this project defeated me more than a couple of years ago, I had a number of complex constructions blocking me. Therefore it made sense to hit those first. The superstructure blocks required painting before assembly, inter-deck struts fitted after assembling, glazing before painting and assembling and so on. Plus multiple support struts fitted for the 20mm gun platforms.
So I started by removing two and a half years of dust followed by a coat of my chosen deck colour, Humbrol RAF Blue. Then masking and bonding of the three decks to one another.
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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #105 on: May 10, 2022, 10:52:56 am »

Some of my support struts had departed from the vertical of the last couple of years. These were plastic 'l' section Evergreen plastic strips with a re-enforced square section bonded out of site at the back of the 'L'. It looks like these had expanded slightly, forcing the strut out of shape. Initially I was going to replace with more plastic section, but against my better judgement I opted for brass 'L' section from Albion Alloys. This being bonded to the plasticard bulkhead with either epoxy or cyano. I was less than confident with the cyano option but if offered the tidier option, so I risked it.
No need to worry about a weak bond as I managed to glue one on slightly out of position, then spent five minutes trying to remove it again! Faith is restored in cyano/plastic joints.

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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #106 on: May 10, 2022, 10:59:51 am »

The interconnector struts between the bridge deck and the deck below were making me nervous. I was not sure how to line them all up neatly. In the end I decided to fit inverted 'U' section plastic profile under the bridge deck. This would act as a easy bonding receiver for the 4mm square struts. Then all I needed to do was sort out the bottom angle and employ my newly purchased Amati Master Cut mitre cutter. This bit of kit is worth its weight in gold with this type of repeating structures.
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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #107 on: May 10, 2022, 11:07:04 am »

The 20mm gun platforms each had sis support struts. Due to the shape of the hull, the aft ones would have to be bespoke cut one after the other, to take into account the curve of the bulwarks. Another job that stalled the build. As it turned out, not a major job with the use of the mitre cutter.
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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #108 on: May 10, 2022, 11:11:45 am »

I have now been able to add the cast flak padding around the bridge wings. Turns out I may have misread the plans and assumed the bridge wings were thin steel plate. Turns out they were actually stanchion rails. Too late to fix that little issue, but I might have a way to partially represent railings, we shall see.
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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #109 on: May 10, 2022, 11:15:45 am »

So that is me all caught up today. The impossible deadline, June 5th, D-Day event at Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard. The chances of being ready in time.. no idea.
It's starting to look good though!
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« Reply #110 on: May 10, 2022, 11:59:33 am »

You should get the Commander to dismiss the Crew, or congratulate them  :-))  ...super job on the hull weathering so far  O0 ...... Derek
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Re: One Corvette,. A sequel to Two Corvettes.
« Reply #111 on: May 10, 2022, 03:46:37 pm »

You should get the Commander to dismiss the Crew, or congratulate them  :-))  ...super job on the hull weathering so far  O0 ...... Derek


It has been in reserve for two and a half years, they do get tatty over that time!

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