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And also contemporary pictures of repairs in the 1:1 originals look quaite the same

Short interlude, "What if."

I wonder what the Constitution would look like with a 12 cylinder sports engine?



A contemporaneous anchor nozzle from HMS Royal George at Thorsminde actually still survives. A lead pipe with the ends flanged around.



So new hawse inlays printed, with 3 mm inside, 4 outside and the curves at the flang.



Hawse holes drilled out to the nea diameter, inlets pushed in ...



... and inside still another fake flange put on.



Now the whole area is also neatly wallpapered in one piece, the closed port is no longer visible, and the intersection of the plastic strips is in the middle of the port and will be covered by the gun

XXXDAn

A short excursus.

The printer has once again spit out something, a small collaborative work from http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com



A small iron swivel for older ships.

Faramir had built the original file of the barrel, with me making a few more adations.

Interesting are the dimensions of the trunnions with 0.3 mm and the matching eyebolt of the holder. This actually results in a fully movable gun even in this scale

All modern drawings known to me show the powder chamber handle always pointing upwards. After the first test prints I saw a Life-Fire video and realised that the handle was turned to the side and so the fuse hole was on top, otherwise the fuse would not have been able to reach it. So I turned the handle and inserted the fuse hole.

And there they were, the new prints. For painting, I put the barrels on a needle and noticed that the difference in diameter is not very big. With a very dry brush I brushed them with black paint, which doesn't put to much volume on and rubbed them carefully with graphite on a Q-tip.



I was most surprised that the firing hole is actually visible



And because it is so beautiful, different views.













There you go, the bad boys may finally come



XXXDAn

And now on to new adventures. After I was once again amazed by the print results of the iron swivel gun, I wanted to try out something I had been thinking about for a while.

One of the most time-consuming parts of the gun deck is the gun rigging, especially the side tackles. And you don't see much of it. Why not try something new there? A quick test shot ...



... which showed that in principle it fits

So I made it a bit more precise and quickly installed it.











Still a bit much spiral spring, but I think something is possible.


As a next step I made the ropes of the rigging a bit thinner, 0.3 mm instead of 0.4 mm diameter. I also broke up the uniformity a bit and added minimal variances. Old on the right, new on the left.



Then I swung the brush, added shading to each colour as usual, and added some ink to the whole thing.



This was the time for a little setting test. The inner planks were marked with a pencil, the knees were glued on and I noticed that the holes for the bolts were still missing...



... so I got out the shish kebab skewers with the incorporated drills and ...



... drilled all the way through the ship

Attached the side rigging to the gun and tested the position.



Fits, only the breech rope is missing.



The length is determined, all fittings are attached and ...



... wrapped the rope around the grape as in the Constitution.



Since the breech rope is longer than the rest, this could be glued in place without any finger knotting ...



... and then the gun is pushed towards the ship's side, the guide rails are guided into the glued holes and the gun is placed, a little glue with the toothpick under the wheels and done







XXXDAn

Wow, that looks fantastic Daniel!

Well, we are close to relegate our traditional tools to the back of the cupboard ...

Truly impressive work.

Jawdropping dafi! Simply outstanding

Thank you Sirs!

Somehow it was time to do something to this little USS chick again. The infamous gunnade in the bow was still missing.





Even if it has already been questioned, I decided in favour of the variant with the GRIII crest.

Then I prepared the space on deck for it, fitted the lower deck knees and printed the nailed interior bulkward ...



... and glued it in.



Then checked the size of the blocks. The 2.5 mm were too long after all.



So it became the 2 mm blocks



I now also have a technique that works quite well. You sharpen a toothpick well ...



... and clamp it in a vice.



Then put a piece of paper over it to make it easier to see, and press the block onto the tip.



First check which side you need to start on so that the rolls are on the right side. Then apply 2 mm of superglue to the yarn and press it onto the correct side, ...



... pull the ends forwards, tie a knot and secure with glue. Then knot the hook, secure it, cut it to length and the double block is finished.



For the single block, first knot in a hook, apply some superglue to the hook�s knot ...



... and as with the other one ...



... with a little superglue at the back and tighten the ends to the front.

Then tie a knot, secure and cut to length.

Now comes the most difficult part in my eyes: the correct run through the blocks so that nothing crosses over

And that's it.



It also looks good on the 24-pounder



And then it was time for the trial fitting.















XXXDAn

Great Progress dafi!

Something strange happened on the way to the shipyard ...





... no, it�s neither England 1940 HMS Wellesley against Luftwaffe nor Okinawa 1945 USS Bunker Hill and japanese kamikaze ...


...


XXXDAn


https://www.google.de/search?q=hms+well ... QINg&udm=2


HMS Wellesley Wikipedia uk

Recognizing the threat posed by Typhoons, Constitution's proposed 1944 upgrade included:
Possible damage to masts and rigging prevented the actual installation.

So the question is, were masts and rigging taken off before the attack by the crew or by the airdefense during the attack?

Questions over questions ...

XXXDAn

Sorry wrong thread ...

A while ago I was asked about the swivels in the Constitution's fighting tops. Since I liked the shown contemporary swivel, I programmed it, just to see what the printer would produce.

The result was 3 separate parts: Barrel, fork and holder, the rear support of the fork is 0.2 mm thick.



And you can see that it is actually fully movable, laterally and in height. Here the printing of the resin is no longer the threshold to the event horizon, but actually the pressure on the builder and his breathing to shear the 0.3 mm trunnions into the eyes of the fork.







And with a little color, it looks pretty good. If only I hadn't shot off the front two ones, bluntly glued on is actually always crooked in this scale ...

















XXXDAn

In the meantime, the swivels have also been finished.

Here is the status of the last pictures ...



... the one with the breathing problem

For a simpler assembly I have simply rethought. I already detached the trunnions from the barrel of the Constitution guns and printed them on the gun carriage. In this way I was able to represent the flaps at any elevation angle of the barrel and without the classic gap at the top. The tube then had the mount on the underside where the trunnions were: beautiful, practical and invisible

I used the same method here. The trunnions are integrated into the fork, stabalizing it while printing and especially during washing, and the mount was recessed under the tube. Now only 3 rounds of test prints were necessary until the necessary tolerance/clearance under the tube was found so that the mount works easily and yet with good guidance. Painting is done with the fork mounted, otherwise it will no longer fit. The test assembly was then possible without any losses within a few moments and, above all, in a very relaxed manner

And here's the whole kit: the printling in its housing, which ensures that no small parts get stuck to the base plate during printing, as the superstructure "collects" them. It also serves as protection during washing and shipping.
And on the left, the individual parts and the assembled piece. Visually, the assembled parts do not differ from the previous models, but they are much more precisely aligned and thus appear tidier.



Incidentally, I borrowed the large fingers from a Greek Cyclops. They are slightly smaller than the North African ones. But only a little.

Best regards, Daniel

Before I get to the current events, here is a brief summary of what else has been happening here.

At the beginning of last year, I started working on the hammock holders and channels. This is how Revell envisions it.



You can't even fit hammocks in there...

...

so I hijacked some of the holders from my Vic.





Still too small. So I drew new etched parts for the holders, and the nice thing is that you can try them out right away in print – and notice during assembly that print is too weak for such parts. But I was able to clarify that the parts really are the right size.



And this is what it looks like when installed. I had rolled lots of virtual hammocks to match, so I could estimate the result.





Here you can see that the mats have been given a good dose of unshipshapeness. This serves to prevent a sterile-looking impression. I had already used the wave effect, where gravity pulls between the holders on the mats, on my hand-rolled mats on the other models, and it made the result look much more realistic. But as perverse as it sounds, it is much easier to make hand-rolled mats look nice and uniform than to give virtually created mats a certain amount of unevenness
But judge for yourself.





The net is still missing here, as the printed supports are too fragile for it.

The curve at the bow has also been covered with hammocks ...



... and the aft deck as well. Here is a sequence from back to front.









I cannibalised the rigging irons from my Victory. Except for the lower preventer link, all the required lengths were in stock, but there was a lot of waste. But I was able to check the lengths using this test setup. The channel boards were also adapted anew.

Fore mast channels





Main mast channels





Mizzen mast channels



For being just a mere test, it was already an improvement. Enjoy


And then with a years distance of not having time, drawing the real parts and producing, the Christ Child (as it is this one that brings the X-Mess gifts in our area) was in a very good mood before Christmas and delivered the first samples of the channels and hammock holders for my Constitution *jumping for joy*





And finally, I had a little time to tinker with it


So, popcorn and beer at the ready, X-Files in the DVD player, and off to work with joy!




XXXDA

But first, it was time to tidy up. The kit had suffered greatly, having been assembled quickly under time pressure, pushed from one place to another, and generally not treated like a beloved model child. I'm sorry about that. Really. Reall-really …

First, the old copper test had to be removed. The stuff sticks like hell. Unfortunately, it had been primed underneath – something I don't normally do – and even a lot of isopropanol couldn't prevent the paint from coming off in places. But I was able to smooth it out inconspicuously. But that's part of the demolition process, which fits in with dafi's whole artistic concept



Then the self-printed hammock crane holder dummies flew through the workroom in a high arc and the lower links of the preventer chains that had been injection moulded onto the hull were scraped off with a scalpel and excess holes were closed with plugs.



For the huge gaps in the gangway in the kit forseen for the kit´s holders, there were matching polystyrene plugs, which were softened with plenty of styrene glue and then pressed into the gap with pliers.



The bitts on the side of the ship for the main tack were also sanded down, sawn with a fretsaw, fitted with a roller and shortened so that it would fit under the new channel boards.







The interior also needed a lot of work. Spray and glue the knees.



Where there are bulkheads, I cut off the arms for simplicity's sake.



Then, as usual, I used some diluted ink to emphasise the corners and screw heads.



And then it looked much more homely.











XXXDAn

I love how you solved the hammocks problem. So much better than what Revell had in mind. Looking forward to see the restyling completed. Careful with that acetone

Thank you SG: And if you look at the red marker, that was only Isopropanol, I just reused the tin



And now came the part I was most looking forward to: things immediately got exciting again, the old test channels had to come down!



And just like centuries ago, the fire separated the iron parts from the rest and cleaned them of adhesive residue. Me, lazy sod that I am, wanted to save the needle head bolts, which always takes a while to get done.


And there they were, ready and waiting, the new channel boards and irons







It took a lot of effort to clean up the glue residues on the slots for the channel boards, as the model had already had about five previous versions glued on, including the original kit´s channels :-O.



Once everything was clean and fitted, the new boards were put in place and a horizontal stop helped with the alignment ...



... and, although only minimally visible, the print-induced steps on the edge were sanded down...



... and the inner edges and connections were cleaned up ...



... and paint cleared from the holes for the irons with a fretsaw blade.



And then it was time to start cutting out the etched iron parts, bending the eyes, fitting the dead eyes, adjusting the length of the links and bolting them to the side wall. Just like in the big original.

The result was quite impressive; the new parts fit perfectly. In some places, I deliberately left the white stubs in place to show that the original holes in the kit were sometimes not ideally placed.



















It's quite pretty, here's a close-up, just because we can



And next up are the hammock net holders.

XXXDAn

At some point, I noticed on the model that the channel boards have no supports. The contemporary models of the constitution and the drawings also omit them, but could this have been one of the details that are not shown as they are too unimportant? Just as a point of discussion I retrofitted them.










Next, I put in some dummy hammock nets. Just to see how they look. The real ones will come once the weather deck is installed. They're just too delicate. But it was worth it, because the side view has changed again.