Good evening all gents ! ( and any ladies...)
Well-- the weather in the UK is now cold
so the hull and its promenade deck overlays are experiencing the full gamut of
( very !) warm central heated evenings , pleasant daytime heating
and stone cold nights ( heating goes off at 11:30 pm and comes on at 8am)
modelroom has large windows and is
not well insulated-
-so when heating goes off temperature falls drops very effectively to around 10 -12 deg C deg
I have studied the hull when cold at night ( with some trepidation in case of ' snaking')
and in the very warm evenings in the modelroom et al
amd I can report no sign of differential movement that is visible.
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In the meantime I have been busy preparing the lifeboats; the kit items being rather undersized
and not completely correct in shape-
but the biggest issue was that the kit lifeboats are single boats--whereas the real ship has smaller boats nested inside the larger boats
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and in the early version--at all times the boats had a cover that went over both boats
( light grey canvas for the pre-rebuild-- and a rather lurid orange for the second half of her career )
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the launching methodology for the nested boats is illustrated here
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I am fortunate in actually having a ( dog-eared!)
copy of the 'SHIPBUILDER Magazine of 1935 )
so was able to see how the real boats should look...
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Now I was also fortunate in having a " friend " who drew and 3-D printed the required boats ,
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in fact more than double the number required were printed.
just as well-- !!! as despite effective packing from France-- the combined postal carriers of France and the UK had contrived
to drop something heavy on my boats-
- the result being a pretty spectacular rate of breakage of rudders and screws.==> requiring careful, finicky repairs
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simply finding and keeping the broken parts-( On the sticky part of a post it note! )
-and identifying which boat had which rudder ( almost forensic examination of break patterns...!)
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the boats were attached to the printing runner at the bows
which was a tricky bit of cleaning without loosing the contours of the bow and hull
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handling the detached boats was another challenge
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after clean up they were impaled on pushpins red and green...
The pin hole will not be visible ( on the
inboard under side ) on the installed boat in the davits ( at least not without and endoscope and a mirror!!¬)
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I prepared double the required number so as to be able to pick and choose the best ones
( some of them had small printing defects which needed filling )
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the airbrush was unable to shift the 3-D print material waste from paring,
sticky>?)
so resorted to self help tack sticks !!
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They have had a coat of light grey as a guide coats which highlighted where more work was needed...
2 x white coats and the canvas next
will update.
in the meantime some other progress...
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