by Bill Livingston » Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:15 pm
Just a quick update on the crane supports on the aft deckhouse.
I spent ages looking for photo's of how this worked because I didnt think it likely that the ned of the crane boom would just rest on the deckhouse just behind the HACS director pylons... Too heavy and dangerous to be left loose! lol! Anyway, it was obviously it would be fixed somehow and the block and hook would need to be kept of the deck and probably within a guard. But could I find anything? Nope... Quick call to Jim B and he sent me some pictures of crane supports from QE in 1943. Not identical, but close enough. There appears to be a sort of open frame triangular support that the end of the boom and block fit inside. On some pictures it looks solid however, so I spent a few days trying to work out what to do. In the end I decided to make a tiny open frame support. It didnt have to be entirely accurate, just feasible... and something to look at if you follow the end of the crane down to the deck... Whatever I did it would be better than an obvious blob of glue!
Anyway, here is what it should look like... more or less...
Obviously, at 700 scale this is frame would be about 3 or 4mm long, far too small for me to make a lattice and custom PE is just not in my armoury at the moment... So, looking at some spare PE frets I found a spare crane jib...
There was obviously plenty of scope for some imaginative cutting, leaving me with something that was tiny, looked reasonably feasible as a support bracket and most importantly at this scale, complex and repeatable!
Final step...
A dab of CA and attached to the support platform and the HACS supports, it really looks the part. Very very small, but it all adds to the 'busyness' of the model and means it will stand a little bit of close inspection. The surface finish of the resin is pretty apparent in this photo though... especially the inside surfaces of the hangar deck walls... at this scale the magnification is so large its hard to do anything about it.. especially as the brass and cleaner mouldings look smooth and sharp due to the airbrushed finish. Ah well, nothing I can do about it and at normal size with mark 1 eyeball it looks absolutely fine
I want to rig the crane jibs properly (that is going to be a nightmare!), so I am not going to add them at this stage... the picture below is just them resting in place But comments welcome...
Just a quick update on the crane supports on the aft deckhouse.
I spent ages looking for photo's of how this worked because I didnt think it likely that the ned of the crane boom would just rest on the deckhouse just behind the HACS director pylons... Too heavy and dangerous to be left loose! lol! Anyway, it was obviously it would be fixed somehow and the block and hook would need to be kept of the deck and probably within a guard. But could I find anything? Nope... Quick call to Jim B and he sent me some pictures of crane supports from QE in 1943. Not identical, but close enough. There appears to be a sort of open frame triangular support that the end of the boom and block fit inside. On some pictures it looks solid however, so I spent a few days trying to work out what to do. In the end I decided to make a tiny open frame support. It didnt have to be entirely accurate, just feasible... and something to look at if you follow the end of the crane down to the deck... Whatever I did it would be better than an obvious blob of glue! :-)
Anyway, here is what it should look like... more or less...
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/Livingston/moz-screenshot-3530.jpg[/img]
Obviously, at 700 scale this is frame would be about 3 or 4mm long, far too small for me to make a lattice and custom PE is just not in my armoury at the moment... So, looking at some spare PE frets I found a spare crane jib...
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/Livingston/IMG_0340-1.jpg[/img]
There was obviously plenty of scope for some imaginative cutting, leaving me with something that was tiny, looked reasonably feasible as a support bracket and most importantly at this scale, complex and repeatable!
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/Livingston/IMG_0341-1.jpg[/img]
Final step...
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/Livingston/IMG_0342-1.jpg[/img]
A dab of CA and attached to the support platform and the HACS supports, it really looks the part. Very very small, but it all adds to the 'busyness' of the model and means it will stand a little bit of close inspection. The surface finish of the resin is pretty apparent in this photo though... especially the inside surfaces of the hangar deck walls... at this scale the magnification is so large its hard to do anything about it.. especially as the brass and cleaner mouldings look smooth and sharp due to the airbrushed finish. Ah well, nothing I can do about it and at normal size with mark 1 eyeball it looks absolutely fine :thumbs_up_1:
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/Livingston/IMG_0345.jpg[/img]
I want to rig the crane jibs properly (that is going to be a nightmare!), so I am not going to add them at this stage... the picture below is just them resting in place But comments welcome...
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/Livingston/IMG_0346.jpg[/img]