1/100 HMS Renown (1942)

[Joachim]

Hi!
Thank you for your kind comments!
I guess on the water she will look even nicer with a big bow wave an the low freeboard astern....
Hope I can post such pictures soon!

Best regards
Joachim

[Joachim]

Hello, dear friends!

Today�s post is sent not from the shipyard in the basement, but from Mom�s pond - to see whether Renown is waterproof - and how much ballast to be added. At first, she is dry, even with no grease in the shafts. But she is a lightweight... I had to drop two of Grandpa�s lead-bars inside, so that the total weight will be approx. 42 Kilogrammes.
Porpulsion is working very effectively - sorry to the fish!!! So now almost everything is prepared for the trials...

Best regards from sunny Dortmund!

Joachim

[JIM BAUMANN]

TOP TOP !!!

Now that IS real progress!

Jim Baumann

[Joachim]

Dear friends,

excuse my little time of silence here, at the end of October I wanted to post a reason�s pictute here but couldn�t manage...
Now I try to do it with two: the reason and the consequence - marriage and honeymoon in Zuidafrika.

Now, back in the job, works at Renown are continuing, p.ex. planking, thoughts on a smoke-generator and a turning-mechanism for A and B turrets... Hope I can post some pics of progress soon!

Best regards

Joachim

[JIM BAUMANN]

Congratulations!

Was the classic Dark Blue Citroen DS your wedding car...?

Regards

JB

[NorthSea]

Hi Joachim, many congratulations and best wishes for your future happiness.

[ARH]

Dear friends,

excuse my little time of silence here, at the end of October I wanted to post a reason�s pictute here but couldn�t manage...
Now I try to do it with two: the reason and the consequence - marriage and honeymoon in Zuidafrik

Joachim

You have no time for those sort of things, get back to the building, congratulations by the way.

[russclark]

well done joachim,congreds.Looking forward to progress on renown.

[Joachim]

Hello!

Many thanks for your kind words!

Admiral: Yes, Sir! Started to prepare next decks for planking

Jim: Yes, Sir! That�s the small advantage working for a Citro�n-dealer My boss even played Miss Daisy�s chauffeur. Got some more pictures, if you like!

Now, a bit of work for my boss, tonight a bit of work for Renown...

Best regards!

Joachim

[Richard J OMalley]

Hi Jaochim
She is beautiful ( Your wife ) but I see a major distraction from Renown .But we will allow it !

[109]

Hi Joachim,

all the best for your future!

When will we see the little new captain of your RENOWN??

[Joachim]

Hello from cold Dortmund! Winter is coming
Thanks to a hard and long working wife, work at the shipyard has started again, a very time consuming sort of - planking...
Additionally, I start thinking and working on the smoke-system: A little pc-ventilator, leading air to the both stacks with a smoke-generator under each and a brass tank for the liquid on the same level, placed inside the hangar.
I also try an upgrade of the turret mechanism. The up to now trials have ended disappointing: a littel gearbox with chaintransmission from B to A turned much too fast, ignoring the switches. A geared servo linked with chaintransmission caused the typical servo-tics and much to high speed. Now I am going to try the gearbox of the first attempt, attached onto an axle leading to the turrets and there working on snail gears - with end switches. Let�s see whether it�s going to work properly.

[okram12]

Good job. Super you all go. I peered and cheered.

[Dave Wooley]

Hi Jochim catching up on your build. With your turret training mechanism have you thought of using servo gearing? It can be made to give the right training speed and has plenty of power to move the turret.
Dave Wooley: thumbs_up_1:

[destroyerman]

Joachim, allow me to congratulate you on your fine build of HMS RENOWN.

This comes from an old Kaapstadter, Claremont and Rondebosch 1942.

A model boat club colleague and myself are converting his current 1:72 scale HMS BARHAM (hull too long) into a 1942 1:72 (nominal) HMS RENOWN.

He built BARHAM over 20 years ago and feels that she is in need of upgrading, hence the decision to convert.

Many congratulations on your wedding as well, nice to see that you both chose the "old country" for your honeymoon.

Also nice to see is that your new bride permits you to continue your hobby, at which you achieve excellent results.

Good luck in the future!

Sandy.

[Joachim]

Dear friends,
many thanks for your dear wishes and replies - speciaal van die Kaap

Due to high season in organtuning, works on Renown are proceeding slowly only. The basics of the turrets turning mechanics are done, at the lower end of the rear axis the cam for the switches is still missing. Once linked with all the cables ans switches, it won�t be looking that orderly any more, as I fear

Meanwhile, I�ve made two trunks for the smoke gas. They reach down to the deck and shall end on the upper cover of the windtunnel, where the two smoke generators will be placed. Here you find some pics of this preliminary state - later invisible being all internal....

Best regards and happy modelling!

Joachim

[Joachim]

Hello, dear friends!

A little progress can be announced: I�ve started planking the fo�c�sle... Shame, the prepared plankes will not be enough, so some more hours of cutting are already booked for next year.

Meanwhile, a miracle has happened: My next attempt to create a turning-mechanism for turrets A and B is working! The speed is almost realistic, only the noise is not. But I guess, later on the water it won�t be that bad

Today my Conrad-order has arrived, so in the much too short chrismas-holidays the funnels are intended to smoke for the first time. This is linked with a further experiment: I�d like to vary the cloud of smoke from small to full spead, so I�m going to try to control the both smoke generators with a simple controller for electric rc-planes (does only have to go stop and forward). So if xmas starts to become boring - up and away to the yard...

Have wonderful chrismas days and a good start into 2012!

Best regards from Dortmund!

Joachim

[Richard J OMalley]

Joachim
Meanwhile, a miracle has happened: I thought you ment something else ,the miracle of life . That would be a major distraction from Renown.

[Joachim]

Hi Richard!

Nooo, sorry for that misunderstanding! We are in no hurry, because that sort of distraction would be a major one from my wife�s PHD, too...

Best regards

Joachim

[destroyerman]

Thank you Joachim for posting your blog on your HMS RENOWN build.

This is just to wish you and your new bride a wonderful Christmas and a happy and successful New year.

I'm sure we all look forward to seeing more descriptions and images of progress.

Are you using the Pc heat sink to boost the volume of funnel smoke?

Sandy.