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PostPosted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:37 am 
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William at Cottage Industry Models has fabric sails and the like, so he could probably be of help.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:13 am 
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Good point Devin! I had talked to her about doing them, say, THREE years ago??? Since then I have been building nothing but drones for work to hang in the lobbies. I need to check in with them both.
Thanks and Happy New Year!


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:51 pm 
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Glen,
It's good to see you back.

Add a few more pictures of your model if you can. I'm sure there are dozens of folks who will get interested in this New Year.

Your last Picture of the Keokuk's upper works showed the Deck and confirmed my belief that it was Iron plate. That old Flagship1/192 kit shows what appears to be wooden beams for the deck.
I am following this Build closely to hopefully make as many corrections to my Verlinden 1/200 Keokuk as is possible.

Thanks. Terrific work and excellent Research!
Nino


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Glen the Rotorhead wrote:
Happy to report that I am now retired and plan to have Keokuk finished in time for the 2018 Weak Signals show. I could use some help with somebody sewing the canvas turret awnings for me. Anyone know of a source? Basically a couple canvas circles made of pie slices sewn together.


I have no source for cloth Awnings but have you thought of using paper? I guess it should be thin enough to show "Light" thru it. Some builders swear by Silk span. I like the light tan paper that comes in shoe boxes. At this scale I suppose you could fold over an edge to look like a seam. Although sewing these together, especially the seam on the curved side, is problematic,
Nino

P.S. Happy New Year Glen.


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:07 pm 
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Thanks Nino. I thought about paper but I think the weave would be obvious in 1/32 scale, so maybe a very light doped linen. Also since this is going to get wet a lot, paper would probably not be durable enough.

Happy New Year to you too!
Glen


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Hi Glen-- Jim B 'ere...

from my small scale ship model world....

( who also has a business that makes marine canvas canopies and covers for a living )

Any fabric would have too coarse a weave--and any sewing would be way to coarse / overscale - in my view

Now then... paper will work well-- But I it must be waterproofed

I waterproof paper for all sorts of model applications by infusing with very runny CA
this makes it strong and light-- holds its hgape perfectly but importantly is impervious to moisture

have a look here at dafi's sail-panel making in linen colours

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99050&start=600#p710940


and my small scale 1/400 result's on a sailing ship

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... /index.htm


HTH

JIM B

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Hi Glen,

Just wanted to say how happy I am that there is still life in this topic and work being done on the model. I've followed it from the beginning and was a bit sad to see it end as one of those never-to-be-finished models.
Hope to see some progress soon! Good luck with the canvas selection. :woo_hoo:

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Thanks Neptune, encouragement is a big help!


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JIM BAUMANN wrote:
Hi Glen-- Jim B 'ere...

from my small scale ship model world....

( who also has a business that makes marine canvas canopies and covers for a living )

Any fabric would have too coarse a weave--and any sewing would be way to coarse / overscale - in my view

Now then... paper will work well-- But I it must be waterproofed

I waterproof paper for all sorts of model applications by infusing with very runny CA
this makes it strong and light-- holds its hgape perfectly but importantly is impervious to moisture

have a look here at dafi's sail-panel making in linen colours

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99050&start=600#p710940


and my small scale 1/400 result's on a sailing ship

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... /index.htm


HTH

JIM B


That's beautiful work, Jim! I will no doubt fall short of your results but it's worth a try. I was going to make some practice sets out of paper anyhow.
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Glen


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This is an impressive project! Love the engine works! You seem to be able to build anything out of magic! :thumbs_up_1:

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Thanks Aop.


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