Subject exclusively concerning the assembly of this 71-metre ferry.
The subject of the design of the model is here:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=311395&p=922249#p922249I can start the assembly even if the upper deck that we could call the walkway bridge is not designed yet, which would not be long in coming.
The goal of the project is to moor the Nomadic to the Titanic, as it did in Cherbourg before it left for Ireland, in order to transship passengers.
Part of the assembly of the accessories must be done before the gluing of the half shells, afterwards it will be impossible to come back to it.
The Nomadic will be held to the Titanic by two piano ropes inserted in each ship. Everything will be dismountable. The Nomadic or the Titanic can be exposed alone as needed. The piano ropes will have another function, that of driving the 12 v continuous from ship to ship for lighting the Nomadic, the more on one rope the less on the other. No unsightly wires therefore.
Once the piano strings are removed, the holes will be two of the many cooling water or sewage outlets on both ships.
So I cut two brass tubes to insert them into the hull, they will serve as guide bearings for the piano strings.
I soldered well for the front tube a very thin transformer copper wire, this wire is very thin and very good conductor at least for the milliamps consumed by the two leds that will be used to simulate a main deck lighting. No need for more in my opinion, it must be low in intensity, hot leds (yellow) of course.
For the stern as I have a central bulkhead at this level I had to solder the wire after gluing it inside, then I soldered by putting the iron in the hull, a bit sporty...
The tubes:
A little coating remains to be applied to integrate the tube to the hull, we will see that fire after painting.
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Both wires, the + at the front, the less at the back.
SE also poses the problem of glass in the end ports of the main deck. So I thought of Rhodoïd packing material to design them. It's port is not very accessible, it's impossible to glue directly a plate. The idea came to me to make a frame in Rhodoïd, which thanks to its flexibility will come to stick two of these faces on the ports giving the illusion of a glass.
It will first have to paint at least the surrounds of the ports in white, because it would otherwise be impossible to paint with aerosol without putting some on the glass once the half-shells are glued. Once painted, I could mask the openings with either tape to paint the rest, in two steps.
For the ports more in the center, it's the same, but there I have access to glue the transparent...
The parts are starting to pile up, I printed sometimes 4 copies, to have spare parts in case of breakage and for several copies.
The last parts like the mast and its scales were well printed, the bar a little less because it is very thin, the compass is really beautiful. The gratings are also well done, we can see the micro-holes that should not be filled with paint...
Navigation light lantern
Compass.
Grating.
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