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...leaning over the rails feeding the fishes?

All those umbrellas! It would be nice to add some on your passengers, a bit challenging, but something different..

......seasick passengers leaning over the rail... I shall add at least one or two --- for a laugh.

@ Dino- in the picture you saw, it was bright sun-light on the south coast of the UK

ergo the umbrellas--- sun-shades for delicate Victorian Ladies facial complexions.
In a boisterous Irish sea with 25 knots of wind I think Umbrellas may be superfluous...

I am a bit tired already of painting and creating figures--there are now almost 200 on board
every day I add some more.....

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but maybe on my next Paddler.....

How could one NOT love this?
but if I think I am tired of making passengers.....
I think I would baulk at adding 3400 or so passengers !!!!!!!
--they might look like an army of invading ants devouring my 1/700 model of Tashmoo

But I have a cunning plan-that ship Tashmoo ran aground on a sand bank....
--and was pulled off by a small plucky Tug-boat
Bingo--the model would pure in outline, no passengers--just a few desultory crew--
and I get to build a Tug boat again

waddyaythink?

"In a boisterous Irish sea with 25 knots of wind I think Umbrellas ..." would turn those ladies into Mary Poppins'

Finally new software on the board, we can freely post again

Great job on this project Jim! Interesting (but not truly unexpected ) choice of subject.

Hello Jim. All these details are incredibly realistic. I don't know how you manage to work on such a small scale. You must have very good eyesight or glasses...

Look what I found!

An aft deckview of S/S Mosel of NdL, built at Caird & Co. / Greenock in 1872, thus in a similar time and area and with maybe similar installations regarding the benches.
Good luck with Your build, I greatly enjoy it! May You never choose a subject past 1905!

Ahoy 1/6000

Good find --for future reference !

yes--that is exactly the the kind of thing
--though both the the clerestory and consequently the seating in BmC was rather higher


meanwhile progress is afoot!
more passengers -now fwd of the bridge with the odd crew-member amongst them



with the davits now installed , and seated and standing passengers installed below the boat deck--
it was time to create said boatdeck

from the few images I have I could ascertain that there were longitudinal members and athwarships intermittent ' gapped' planking
where the boat chocks were--thereby allowing light, drainage and access to boast below--without an enclosed deck

These decks had a slight camber athwartships --- and interestingly the longitudinal members had a slight deflection
I implied/ modelled the former camber and ignored the latter sag!!

Using assorted elderly ' scrap' PE from my boxes

I was able to construct something in the 'spirit of...'

at laaast... I could install the funnels that I made months ago !
however... interestingly the funnels an masts do not have the same rake
--I noticed that before when I built the Normandie--the funnels and masts had disparate rakes !

so I double-checked side elevation images
getting the funnels to align was tricky!
meanwhile-after endless eyeballing the funnels-and double checking the model in a mirror
( a sure-fire way of dispelling any doubts about alinement's!) an awaiting the slow set glue to set...

as the custom 3-D printed boats had arrived
need 2 x 29 ft whalers and 4 x pulling lifeboats ( and a skiff--I am carving that at the moment!)

said boats were painted
and installation could begin
The time had come to install the- previously custom made paddle box decals

for that I needed the paddle boxes to be near horizontal-- and steady

a hand holding the baseplate would not do!


Phew !!!
it all came out well!

now for final installation of bridge furniture, additional crew, additional small bollards,
stowed gangways, making anchors , chains fairleads and many many more small parts !
before the more interesting parts of the build; the rigging and finally sea colouring!

More soon

Jim Baumann

Incredible progress and most inspiring scratchbuilding. What i admire most is your ability to add-on structures and details over a pre-painted and
very fragile model, crowded with tiny figures, without wrecking havoc on the already assembled and finished areas. Like building a house of cards. it requires a careful planning and an incredible steady hand. The most difficult part of small scale modelling in my opinion. Great solution for the funnels. The decal-effect is superlative. Looking forward to the rigging phase.

here is a small self-explanatory image based update !

The only clear image of the anchors is this one; I cropped and zoomed in on the image and lighted it brutally
in order to discern the size and layout


The 2 x anchors were cut out of 1/350 handrail fro the stock and cross-bar,the curved base was thin curved PE strip
and paper flukes

chain was made by twisting wire
anchors installed

Jim, this is an inspiring build, like all of your work. Those details...

Jim, congrats on this little gem! Your build reports are always entertaining and educational.
The ingenious use of PE is so characteristic of your builds.
Your ability to find a suitable PE part for every little detail seems supernatural!

Awesome doesn´t halfway begin to cover it ...

Hello Gentlemen ( and anay Ladies ?)

so with some long evenings at the bench the model is essentially completed

herewith 4 x " work-bench-snapshots "

formal proper SLR photos
( without the distortions of the point and shoot and with depth if field ! )
will be taken in near future
Hull length is 135mm ( 5 1/2 inches)
Humbrol pint tinlet gives a scale

herewith

Kind regards
JIM B

One feels the breeze in the hair (though at that time gentlemen certainly would have worn a hat ...).

What always amazes me is, how long paddle-wheels were used in the waters around the British Isles. In continental Europe most seagoing vessels had screw-propulsion at that time. Mentally, I associate paddle-wheels mainly with rivers and lakes.

She is magnificent. Well done.

Beyond beautiful! Congratulations on completing another amazing project. now, what's next?

Beautiful little steamer. I'm looking forward to seeing the SLR pictures.

I've reached the end of my list of superlatives...

So, simply: Bravo maestro!

Another gem - absolutely stunning in the workmanship and atmosphere conveyed!