Thanks for your comments. The build slowed down a bit but I did manage to do some work over the past few weeks. Cedar had some very prominent catwalks which I tried - and failed- to make in styrene. So I ordered the IJN oiler catwalks set from L'Arsenal and have used these.
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The front masts/derrick posts have been added with their very visible 'bridge' in between which will support some of the ships' lights.
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And I'm on the home stretch with the bridge superstructure. The only major thing left to do on this side of the ship is to build (...raid the spares box for) the boats and their davits.
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And the rest of the project. The current plan is still to have two tugs supporting her on the Nieuwe Waterweg for unloading in either Eemhaven or Maashaven while meeting a typical inland barge, a 'kempenaar'.
One of the tugs, Apollo, has now been skinned in styrene and has had its various bollards added. Like Jim's Schelde she has the extra bollard posts to prevent the superstructure being struck by a runaway towing cable but unlike Schelde Apollo will also have a towing hook.
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Most of my work recently has been put into the kempenaar. I wanted to get a convincing inverted 'V' hatch coaming ('luikenkap') on a hull with substantial sheer. After a number of failures I managed to get something looking right by having a very light razor saw run on the back (plain) side of a strip of Evergreen 2025, folding the strip and glueing it down on a flat strip of .5 mm styrene.
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The kempenaar also needed some bollards and like those on Apollo they were made from . 5 mm styrene rod.
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And as i was finishing my photo session someone came 'round to have look.
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