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Looks like a mooring boom.

Looks like .... a rotatory torpedo tube ?

jim,

I always enjoy reading thru Your building reports - what a great selection of weird subjects!...once more this time as I started my own Gangut only on Oct. 19th, with the small difference that my whole model measures the length of a 12" barrell in 1/700th scale...



You did a stunning job on her - can't wait to see more!
Bye + keep it up!

Christian.

Well Jim... I have this:

but I doubt if it will be of much help Have you tried web search in Russian?

From the photo it indeed appears that the forward skids are squared to allow davit to project outboard. No idea about "vaulted structures" and the mysterious thingy aft.... could it be as simple as that?


Looks like Royaloakmin gets a cigar

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As always I follow your thread with attention and also with enjoyment...

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...in my shipyard...

Too much Business , some rather unusually fine weather and classic cars conspired to keep me away from the modelbench quite a lot of the time this year...

so much so that ... for the first time in 15 years I did not have a new model finished in time for the Telford Model competition ...

so I will endeavour to remedy my shortcomings and try and up my modelship production so that normal service resumes!

Onwards...

Having pulled off all the kit supplied rendition of the boat deck.. and spending a while studying plans and glimpses of photos--kindly supplied by Peppe and Darius

I have been quite busy rebuilding all the boatskids entirely from scratch... using in part relief etched coupling rods from a model railway locomotive fret ( dated 1976 (!!)
chunk stuff but suitable for my purposes.



The gantry and its legs for operating the midships davits-hard to figure from both plans ( side elevation and overhead elevation do not make these clear
and in the photos as they are almost invisible...- though there is a sectional drawing--which does not quite correspond to the relative heights vis-a-vis the funnel...







The skids on this vessel in particular were in pairs --so that the davits could swing and articulate through the slots-- ==> double the amount of work...








The resin Davits supplied by Combrig -while having a fair shape--were rather too low when attached and deployed

I made some longer replacements adapted from some Norths Star davits



The pilot house |I had previously made did not have sufficient "eyebrow" for my liking..

I remedied this by wrapping some copper wire around its lower perimeter--and then infilling the gap with white glue -this gave a better overhang



The first small version of aft skylight- was removed --

and the larger version ( which was obscured in the overhead view by boats and virtually invisible in the initial low-res plans I had-)

was re-made and installed






so now just to push on ....

Jim Baumann

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Great work, Jim.

The clamp you use to hold the model, do you leave the model on their the whole time you are building, or take it off at the end of each work session?

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Hi Martin!

thank you for looking in!


The clamp is fixed to the screw in the base of the hull

I the have another clamp which I clip onto the ' vertical' clamp--that way I can place down the model if I need both hands free



I leave the clamp on until I am ready to mount the model in water( but the model on its the clamps stay under a glass case twixt sessions)





The manufacturing of the aft boatskids-at least my rendition thereof- is now almost completed...

there are still vertical supports and gussets to be made and fitted,,,

progress so far

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What a great build, Jim. Just lovely.

Thanks Jim. Was wondering how you did that. Great work - love the way the ship looks with the revisions.

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Hello Jim

always a work of surgical precision a delight to follow
cheers
Nicolas

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Many thanks for this detailed step-by-step build log Jim!
It is a pleasure to see a great model of a most interesting ship come alive.

Cheers,

Marijn

As always, a great job, Jim.

I was wondering if you can reduce yourself to model in the way you do .

Regards,

Santi

still actually making progress--albeit at a snails pace--I

spend 75% looking at photos--20% of the time thinking about it and 5% actually making the bits!

This time it was the turn of the fwd davits--again using the chunky etched railway connecting rods



I surprisingly had to bend quite a few sets to get four that were almost identical!!!!



between the mast and the pilot-house there was another skylight to be made and installed



At last I was able to make of brass strip and add the small flying bridge from the conning-tower to pilothouse roof as well as the footway 'twixt the aft davit's operating gantry.



after this was all done I noticed 2 x missing cable reels-these were made of fine PE ( North star PE )

-these were fiddly to place accurately underneath the spider web of boat skid structure !


I am hoping to start installing some of the handrails on conning tower, pilot house and gangways

thereafter a few struts, vents and boats and some yard arms... and voila...(!!?) hehehehh!

famous last words !!

lot more torture to come

Jim Baumann

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Again, an awesome work, Jim.

You keep mu eyes glued to PC screen.

Regards,

Santi

This boat shot (semi-geek) to get on the boat.

back again at the bench at last-- Christmas abroad, New Year and family et al notwithstanding!

thank you Alexey--that helps!

meanwhile...

the seemingly endless boat skids and their vertical supports are now pretty much completed...

at last it was time to start adding some railings-- pleasurable ..(?!_)

I used the WEM ultrafine--and they are....

not as easy or as quick as I anticipated--requiring lots of snipping and cut-and-shut to get stanchions in corners and feasible locations





small platforms in the corners for Q/F guns were added of PE scraps

and in-filled with white glue to make level





The fwd bridge wings were made of brass strip--and had the cut outs for the fwd vents cut in with a drill bit, and the extension circular walkways (to clear the vents)
added with brass circles





the under-deck bracing for the bridge wings




was adapted from some lattice work PE ( Combrig Henri IV ) and had the not-required-gaps filled with white glue

( since the pics were taken its had a second layer and is now level)







Thereafter the very delicate and thin railings were made -- again by joining many small parts so as to get stanchions symmetrical and on the apex of the corners.





the large blister like hawse-pipe openings were enhanced with a raised ring and drilled out.

later on the anchor chain will exit from here and the hawse-pipe lids left partially open




lots of time-- not much tangible progress but

overall its looking quite attractive







the bridge areas will next get chart table, stowage lockers etc etc to assist in breaking up the lino area...

adding the various davist and boats will give more vertical accented interest to the model as well!!


I am hoping to mount the ship to her waterline base next week--that will make it less vulnerable to potential damage threats when handling !

more soon

Jim Baumann

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Seems to me you made LOTS of progress, and yes, she is very attractive and eye catching. Great work, Jim.

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Martin

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Woohoo Jim !
In seeing your hands next to your model , we realize the prowess that you perform to add details on this boat
just perfect
cheers
Nicolas

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More progress--albeit slow....

I needed to make some small mooring bits( bollards) for mid-ships and aft

I made these using chunky old PE ladderstock and some small black tape...

with paint they are quite effective and delicate



The large ( huge!) bow scrolls ( imperial eagles it seems - twice )

were cobbled together out of a variety of PE scraps..
looks a bit like scrambled egge but quite effective at 1/1 real life viewing distances
still needs be made subtler -- washing down with black and edging and re-colouring with some darker gold






BREAKTHROUGH !!




at last ............

I have mounted the ship--this makes it easier to handle and less vulnerable...



(I made the boot-top/ underwater using a "TL-decal " stripe )


I added some reinforced apertures I could identify on photos




and mounted the ship to my usual watercolour paper method as described here

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37223
( smooth Baltic sea with little wind ! )


now the processing of acres of small boats begins to start covering up all the boat-racks...



ship is looking rather more attractive now she is mounted





Cheers

JIM B

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