Hi John, many thanks, yeah sure lucky to in contact with the master of the ship I am modelling, haven't updated my build for a while,the hull is nearly finished.
Tony
Ozdell's 1/87 scale Ro, Ro ship Coroan Sea build
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Tony , I have to admire to sheer determination to build something like this from scratch. I'm confused enough with a kit and vague instructions !
HI Tony im a bit confused about which part of the ship that you have shown there ?
chris
chris
Hi John, sorry about not explaining enough those card cutouts sitting on top of the ruler are the very last two bulkheads all up 30 of them, if you think the ship is mind blowing check out my Bridge build, will blow you away, all goes well should finely finish the bridge construction, going back since 2014.
Tony
Hi Chris, yeah didn't explain what the card cutouts were , which are the very two last bulkheads making that 30 bulkheads later, I being doing a few changes to the layout track plan tonight, what have you being up to .
Tony
HI Tony well apart from building an paint spraying the masts now done ive had to put finishing off the masts till later as while its warm wheather ive had to go back to finishing off the hulls so ive been paint spraying both the hulls in their top coats paint so it give a nice hard finish of top grey an top red . Now this saterday ive got to fit in the hulls about nr about 70 port holes as the rest will go in the super struckture so a bit of a nerve rackin time comin on sat
chris
Hi Chris, breaking news I glued in place last night the 30th bulkhead , dating back to the beginning 2nd September 2017, I thought it was earlier than that , very happy to it in place, the big ceremony will be today gluing the last hull panel in, then the fun begins with the final 2 mm thick side panels, will be cut to the length of each section.
Thank goodness my ship doesn't have any port holes as such only rope windows, I will look at the bow and try to fit it getting it right , now I know the height measurements of the white and blue lines meet be interesting if it lines up with the port side.
I have a couple of update pics of the progress of the joining of the the large curve at the end of the layout, will be painting the approach module will be accessing the terminus station station platforms, 5 platforms all up.
On a high Tony from cloudy down under.
I have progressed more , the second stern section hull is finely finished at long last after 3 years, I have being working on the funnel deck and funnel, is finished , still more detail and smoke stacks to glue in place.
Have now moved onto the the bridge and accommodation decks, I have made a start a year back and now glued the whole top deck and bridge deck together, will start finishing of the bow sides this weekend , wont be working on layout for a few days to I get over the skin cancer bioscopy on side of my heard .
Pic one the funnel deck only enough room for one trailer lane and containers.
Pic two the funnel end will have louvers .
Pic three the finished funnel , front join needs to be filled in.
Pic four the funnel end with the louvers hand rails and piping
Pic five the rounded funnel and funnel deck, lots of detail ahead
Pic six with blue colour hull line , pretty happy has worked out well give and take a mm
Last pic of the real ship , I plan to cut 3 mm ply for under the hull for the ship to sit on.
I am now more pic updates on the bridge progress.
Tony from down under.
Have now moved onto the the bridge and accommodation decks, I have made a start a year back and now glued the whole top deck and bridge deck together, will start finishing of the bow sides this weekend , wont be working on layout for a few days to I get over the skin cancer bioscopy on side of my heard .
Pic one the funnel deck only enough room for one trailer lane and containers.
Pic two the funnel end will have louvers .
Pic three the finished funnel , front join needs to be filled in.
Pic four the funnel end with the louvers hand rails and piping
Pic five the rounded funnel and funnel deck, lots of detail ahead
Pic six with blue colour hull line , pretty happy has worked out well give and take a mm
Last pic of the real ship , I plan to cut 3 mm ply for under the hull for the ship to sit on.
I am now more pic updates on the bridge progress.
Tony from down under.
HI Tony lookin good an now you have the funnel in place an the cutouts at the rear end im begining to understand which part of the hull im lookin at the rear end impressive work boyo are you still gonna have the ramps go up an down ?
chris
Hi Chris ,many thanks yes and still planning to have works stern ramps, will be a pulley system, should be able to hide them and the hydraulic rams as show, I have louvers I have to tackle, used for fan room, probably be big fans on both sides
I will start filling in the side panels next job, will in next posting.
Tony
Now working on the bridge and accommodation deck , the orange life boat be another new possible.
Going to be a challenge to build the bridge will have clear bridge windows, the only wall to work on is the bridge stair case and rear bridge windows.
The last one is a good pic of the front bridge windows all glass windows, I plan to buy clear plastic storage boxes and hope they don't shatter when cutting .
Tony from down under
Going to be a challenge to build the bridge will have clear bridge windows, the only wall to work on is the bridge stair case and rear bridge windows.
The last one is a good pic of the front bridge windows all glass windows, I plan to buy clear plastic storage boxes and hope they don't shatter when cutting .
Tony from down under
Being a couple of months since last update, working on the bridge deck now, glad I have a big photo collection now on the ship comes in handy , looking back at the last post pics of the bridge back windows where the wheel house door is and steps up to the com deck going to be fun . The ships accommodation decks and bridge was prefabbed, I have still lots of detail with added walk way around the bridge side windows, must be for cleaning the windows .
THird pic is the stair case access to lower decks and toilet.
Last pic detail pic of one of the desks and the square post I be making tomorrow night, going to have to make a start on the bridge back windows, they are on an angle , have to guess that, wish I had the full plans, stuck with what I have, going to get then reprinted again to one scale not two .
Pretty happy, going to take a while to shish the bridge not in hurry, we are having more hotter days now, nice day tomorrow, see if I can do some work on the layout after I get the yard work done.
Tony from down under.
THird pic is the stair case access to lower decks and toilet.
Last pic detail pic of one of the desks and the square post I be making tomorrow night, going to have to make a start on the bridge back windows, they are on an angle , have to guess that, wish I had the full plans, stuck with what I have, going to get then reprinted again to one scale not two .
Pretty happy, going to take a while to shish the bridge not in hurry, we are having more hotter days now, nice day tomorrow, see if I can do some work on the layout after I get the yard work done.
Tony from down under.
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Certainly moving in the right direction Tony, enjoying seeing this progress.
Tony hopefully a little help to you from me when you come to fit on the angled bridge windows make up a pattern to give you the right leaning angle for the windows thats how i did my tiger bridge windows an they came out ok
chris
chris
Thanks John, more work on the ship's bridge tonight cutting out the card for the bridge windows wasn't easy to fit, I hope the angle is right, I measured the com deck and worked out the length, the com deck over lapped the bridge by 22 mm's , divided by two , looks ok will ask the captain if I am on track , pics to follow.
Hi Chris, many thanks , here are a pic of the bridge rear windows , the com deck is 22 mm's longer than the bridge deck so I divided by two.
First and second pic of what I come up with , very hard guessing, going to ask the captain to measure the windows and the height from the floor, very important to get right,, not in a big hurry want to get it right.
Last pic with the D for door, be one of those water tight doors like on out Tiger., didn't do any work on the layout will tomorrow, nailing the track down on the bridge completing the bridge other than the bus wiring.
Tony from down under.
Have progressed more since last update, I have cut out and glued in place two rear bridge window panels, it has being hard to get the angles right, so I did a mock-up first , the last window panel port side going to a challenge , luck there is a window sill on the inside to help with gluing the panel in place.
HO scale figures are a bit small I may use 00 scale instead will look at that when I go to the hospital on the north side of Brisbane on the 4th of Jan next year, there is a hobby shop on the way home I will check out.
Fist pic the real ship's rear bridge windows, be easier if I had proper detailed scale drawing
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Last two of the window panels in place, was had, the last panel even harder I have a piece cut out as a mock-up, can see where the window sill ends, I am using clear plastic sheeting for the windows and will use the angle line cut from a clear biscuit box .
Tony from wet down under
HO scale figures are a bit small I may use 00 scale instead will look at that when I go to the hospital on the north side of Brisbane on the 4th of Jan next year, there is a hobby shop on the way home I will check out.
Fist pic the real ship's rear bridge windows, be easier if I had proper detailed scale drawing
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Last two of the window panels in place, was had, the last panel even harder I have a piece cut out as a mock-up, can see where the window sill ends, I am using clear plastic sheeting for the windows and will use the angle line cut from a clear biscuit box .
Tony from wet down under
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Not an easy thing to replicate those angles Tony with out any plans, think your doing a sterling job .
Tony about window angles i made my self a template to use against the bridge then put the window frame to that way you get them all at the correct angle an yes i know i have plans but as you hav'nt you will have to guess the angle an then make a template as thats how i did on my tiger an they came out ok to me thats the easy soluition
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