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battleshipbuff Gunner
Posts : 174 Join date : 2012-03-16 Age : 78 Location : Cornwall
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun Apr 28, 2019 7:10 pm | |
| As if you could forget to make a part for me,feeling upset now.Love the idea of the pill cover for the blue light cover! Just had a thought seeing you drilled your finger,please dont take up piercing or tatooing,I dont think customers will want your version of a teabag piercing with all the perforations lol What with the wonderful work on the models(not fingers) being done ,by both yourself and Stav,AND hearing the good news about Mick in Canada,and the wonderful day out I had yesterday exhibiting my HMS RAMILLIES model,it has really cheered me up this weekend. Thanks guys,I can never repay your kindness Mick F | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun Apr 28, 2019 11:15 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri May 03, 2019 1:46 pm | |
| so the boats have been sprayed so superbly by Stavros for mick and myself it is now ready for me to start adding all the parts that I have been feverishly making for micks boat behind the scenes and painting both sets ready for just adding...…. but not until I have made the wiring looms for the deck lights on both vessels and installed them tidily...…..once these have been done I shall just follow my nose and add the fittings in a sequence that saves me damaging others that have been added before the next batch...….a tall order. |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun May 05, 2019 4:21 am | |
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Posts : 174 Join date : 2012-03-16 Age : 78 Location : Cornwall
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun May 05, 2019 9:43 pm | |
| Well obviously I haven't seen the paint job in the flesh, but can see from the photos what an outstanding job, Dave Stavros Jones has done on both of our Shannon models.I have met so many people on my travels, and feel very privileged to be able to have some of them as friends. Stav, thank you matey, for being so good to me. Mick F | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Tue May 07, 2019 2:45 pm | |
| MORE...……..OF THE JOB I'VE BEEN DREADING!!!...………… wiring up all of the lights on our boats...…..mick talked me into reluctantly wiring all of the lights into the two boats...…...he says they look better in the dark with lights on...…… I DON'T SAIL IN THE DARK MATEY...…….PERHAPS I SHOULD......to relieve the stress of arguing daughters, lol. anyway.....thought i'd start at the stern and do it like a ring maid, as each LED is fitted with a resistor to take 12v... but there in lay a problem,,,,,the two most aft were inaccessible because of the superstructure, and so I used micks as a Guiney pig and drilled where I could to make the last holes just assessible……...think I have it cracked...………….and so, I glued the led's into the predrilled holes from the inside with supaglue, after testing each one before fitting....once they have set, i'll trim the wiring and solder each to the next in line so that at the end, i'll just have the two wires to attach to a plug that will go into a switch that mick has bought for the purpose. |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Tue May 07, 2019 9:00 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed May 08, 2019 12:44 am | |
| Looking great Neil if the LED's seem too bright you could increase the resistor value this will reduce light output. |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed May 08, 2019 9:59 am | |
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| | | battleshipbuff Gunner
Posts : 174 Join date : 2012-03-16 Age : 78 Location : Cornwall
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed May 08, 2019 12:41 pm | |
| Hope you learned how to knit with all those wires Knit one purl one. Damien, the resistors were pre wired, and if too bright at the set 12v,would reducing the voltage supply lessen the brightness? Mick F | |
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Posts : 2631 Join date : 2011-11-26 Age : 84 Location : Thaxted, Essex
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed May 08, 2019 12:45 pm | |
| - battleshipbuff wrote:
- Hope you learned how to knit with all those wires
Knit one purl one. Damien, the resistors were pre wired, and if too bright at the set 12v,would reducing the voltage supply lessen the brightness? Mick F YES Barrie | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed May 08, 2019 12:51 pm | |
| no point having lights on yer boat matey if they are dim...……..how will you see it in the dark...……..lol. |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed May 08, 2019 5:28 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed May 08, 2019 5:49 pm | |
| I shall leave my boat to fit the LED's for a day now, help my stress level diminish before I stack it up to feaver point again doing mine, lol...……… and so I started looking at the belting around my Shannon...…...I am in a bit of a quandary!!! when Mick in Canada bought my boat for me as a present and ordered it in the early month of 2016 Adrian had made the belting out of hard resin. However within a few sets of mouldings, he had found that the mouldings became very hot during curing and this process was having a profound effect upon the moulds...…..creating heat and expanding the moulds, so that with every casting of the hard resin the moulds were expanding because of the heat and the belting mouldings were coming out bigger and bigger. so he stopped using the moulds, and resin, remade the masters and started moulding in a rubber resin...…… he didn't realise this until after I had taken the model home, and he got in touch to tell me the new rubber mouldings were on their way to me and once I had received them to through the hard resin ones away...….. but being the hoarder I am I kept the hard ones. I checked them some time ago, and being one of the first sets out of the moulds they had not expanded and are actually exactly the same as the rubber resin ones...… so! the quandary is, do I use the soft rubber ones or the harder resin ones...……….TBH the harder resin ones actually look more like the real thing. |
| | | battleshipbuff Gunner
Posts : 174 Join date : 2012-03-16 Age : 78 Location : Cornwall
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu May 09, 2019 2:19 pm | |
| If it were my choice Neil, it would be the rubber one every time, if only for the cushioning effect when coming alongside. Or of course if you are like me, hitting other boats lol Mick F | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu May 09, 2019 7:29 pm | |
| - battleshipbuff wrote:
- If it were my choice Neil, it would be the rubber one every time, if only for the cushioning effect when coming alongside. Or of course if you are like me, hitting other boats lol
Mick F make a good weapon against all those you don't like at the lakeside, lol. I really am undecided though...……...the hard resin fenders look nicer. |
| | | davidjt Forum Sponsor
Posts : 534 Join date : 2013-01-08 Age : 72 Location : n wales coast
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu May 09, 2019 8:36 pm | |
| hi neil I find that rubber tends to leave indentations on it if you happen to store it next to a sharp or blunt edge or against something over a long period, while in storage. so my reply is the hard resin. davidjt | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu May 09, 2019 9:10 pm | |
| BUILDING CAME TO AN ABRUPT STOP TODAY.....WHY!!!? you ask...…
there I was happily gluing the LED'S into my cabin...…..and whilst holding one until the superglue set, I looked up out of the window to the nesting box sat on the window sill of the garage and to a blue tit sat on the washing line with a beak full of worms and grubs......shaking its bloody head at me, and refusing to go into the box to feed its chirruping fledglings...……
so I got up and removed myself from its line of sight and it flew into the box...…….
so I returned to my seat and carried on...….next minute the bloody thing was sat on the window sill again with a beak full of tasty morsels…...tapping its bloody beak on the window glass...…..
it's MY workshop I said, but it wouldn't go until I left the garage and back into the house.....
poor little sods will starve if I go back in, so for peace and quiet all work has stopped until they have flown the coup......turfed out my own workshop by a clutch of little birds.…..hope the little fluffy things realise the bovver they have caused me. |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu May 09, 2019 9:13 pm | |
| Put some cardboard on the window to cover it and carry on |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu May 09, 2019 11:27 pm | |
| - stavros wrote:
- Put some cardboard on the window to cover it and carry on
you know the state of my workshop mate...……..I wouldn't be able to see anything then lol...……..anyway...……...i'll start early and wake those little sods up, lol. / |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri May 10, 2019 5:45 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed May 22, 2019 2:44 pm | |
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| Subject: quality control!!! Thu May 23, 2019 1:12 am | |
| in general, the quality of the parts in this "super kit" is superb, but there are so many frustrating little things that have actually made me sad at times, and angry at others...…. tonight I set about putting the sticky black precut tape around the window "glass" before inserting into the window frames of the cabin, on the Speedline model....…… imagine my frustration when, after putting the black vinyl onto the two shaped forward windows, and then progressing from the front 3 windows to the four oblong windows, I find a miss print of the wider vinyl black frames...……….there are 4 of the thinner framing pieces, fine...…….right number, and then going on to find that ONLY THREE of the wider framing transfers have been printed...…………..ITS NOT BLOODY ROCKET SCIENCE to draw 4 transfers on the sheet for 4 windows, instead to leaving the builder just 3 to play with...………. luckily I have plenty of black vinyl stick on sheeting and have solved the problem by starting to make a frame from my supplies...…………………..but this omission SHOULD NOT HAPPEN...…….not at the price of this kit...………….and how long would it take to get one replacement frame...…....god only knows...…………..I really will be glad when this build is finished. the width has been marked on the frame, and the centre will be cut out tomorrow, once it has had time to stick, as the adhesive isn't nearly as strong as those supplied in the kit...……….but it is far better than waiting for a single replacement. |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu May 23, 2019 2:13 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu May 23, 2019 5:03 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun May 26, 2019 4:38 pm | |
| working to a time scale now...…..a pre destined date set from circumstances I can no longer escape from, and so have been working today, not normal for a grand prix day, lol...………...even though I refuse to pay those robbing bar stewards sky for the privilege of watching it live, it is still a day of rest lol. but today, I noticed that I hadn't painted the separation strip between the rubber belting on micks boat as I had promised Stav……….so masked that off and hand painted with Humbrol enamel. then it was on to the array of buttons and dials for the flying bridge...….there is method in my madness as these are just small parts. but if I don't do them now, it will be more difficult to apply once the main mast is set in place, as my fingers are just not that nimble any more...…...later, once the paint has dried I'll stick them on both boats...………. I also, with agreement with mick, used a waterproof fabric pen to apply rivets [ to replace the nickel silver ones that are printed on the Speedline model] on the engine access plates on the top of the superstructure roof...….using a guide I did as best as my shaky hands would allow. onward and inexorably, I march for a definite delivery date of July 2nd 2030...……………...nah, I don't mean it mick...……..will 2019 do you...…..that's 5 weeks this coming Tuesday!!! Tomorrow I pick up a glue called CT1 from a company near me, which is both waterproof and super strength, that I am going to add the belting with...……….close your ears and prepare for foul language emanating from upt norf. |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun May 26, 2019 5:16 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri May 31, 2019 2:59 pm | |
| a little titivating up of the satin black to the interior of the Speedline cabin was needed where I couldn't get the spray can in to cover...………….but how. a normal brush was too long to get into the corners and upper frames,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,a rag with paint on it...…….perhaps...……...and then...…. problem solved. as I moved my chare back I ran over a paint brush and snapped the end off about 40mm long including the brush itself...……...perfect, and even more perfect the bristles were an angled head.....sheer fluke. the problem I had been contemplating had been solved purely by accident. |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri May 31, 2019 3:33 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri May 31, 2019 11:09 pm | |
| both sides of fendering now glued on to both boats. now that this is on, I think we'll se a rapid change in them as we steam towards the end of the build lat er in june. |
| | | battleshipbuff Gunner
Posts : 174 Join date : 2012-03-16 Age : 78 Location : Cornwall
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:50 am | |
| Things are getting very close to the end of the build now,and Im getting more exited with each photo added. I have to pinch myself sometimes,to see if all this is real,and that I do have such friends who would build models of this quality just for me. Both my new models will be shown very regularly,this year especially,to raise as much as I possibly can for the RNLI, which is the main purpose of my models. But I am wanting to get this one on the water and have some fun with it also.As that wonderful peŗsona Geraldine Aka Peter Kaye,sings THANK YOU OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN Mick F. | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sat Jun 01, 2019 5:28 am | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sat Jun 01, 2019 9:44 pm | |
| once the adhesive had set on the belting, I knew just how short they were at the bow on Micks boat.....and one side[starboard] was actually about 6mm shorter than the port side, but both left a gap between them and the bow fairlead and roller. I pondered all morning and some of the afternoon as to how to fill the gaps...……...perhaps building layers of the CT1 adhesive, wooden blocks cut and sanded to shape...……...but the answer was staring me in the face...………...trusty old milliput. and so I mixed some milliput white and placing a spacer of plasticard and taping it both sides to the bow fairlead, I pressed the milliput into the spaces and shaped initially to fit...…...once set, and sanded to full shape tomorrow they will be painted satin black. after that, the whole belting will be given a coat of black shoe polish. |
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Posts : 174 Join date : 2012-03-16 Age : 78 Location : Cornwall
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Tue Jun 04, 2019 12:49 pm | |
| You DAMAGED my PAINTWORK how dare you .....KEELHAULING springs to mind |
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