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  Registered Member #1923 Joined: Mon Nov 28 2011, 06:07pmPosts: 1005 | Everything is in those details Just superb  | ||
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| Jonathan G |
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 Registered Member #4155 Joined: Thu Mar 14 2013, 09:01pmPosts: 1052 | Thanks guys for the compliments. They were fun to do, but I'm glad they're done. | ||
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| Jonathan G |
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| Registered Member #4155 Joined: Thu Mar 14 2013, 09:01pmPosts: 1052 | In my last post I mentioned that I made some brass discs to represent the gun ammo scuttle. Here is what I based that on. Below is the US Navy plan for the scuttle with my scale dimensions in red as well as the actual scuttle images. In the end I did glue them into place.    | ||
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| Jonathan G |
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| Registered Member #4155 Joined: Thu Mar 14 2013, 09:01pmPosts: 1052 | Chain and Rope Pots (Pipes) There wasn’t much that I could find in the US Navy plans about these chain pots or pipes. This where the anchor chains and ropes are funneled through the gun deck to their storage areas. The arrangement plans call them “pots” but the labels on the actual item on the ship call them “pipes”. I did find a rudimentary drawing which I believe is for the forward chain pot (labeled Hawse Pipe on the ship). The scale dimensions were determined by actual dimensions on other parts of the drawing (not shown). They appear to be the same size as the aft pots which to be used for the anchor hemp rope, but don’t have the extra shoulder.    | ||
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| Jonathan G |
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| Registered Member #4155 Joined: Thu Mar 14 2013, 09:01pmPosts: 1052 | The pots which made from discs I carved out of basswood and 1/32” plywood. One rope pot has a cap on it and the remaining pots were left open to receive either rope or chain. 3/16” holes were drilled very carefully into the discs and the gun deck.    | ||
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| Jonathan G |
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| Registered Member #4155 Joined: Thu Mar 14 2013, 09:01pmPosts: 1052 | Gun Deck Sea Chests This next gun deck item I will call “Sea Chests” for lack of a more accurate term, I couldn’t find any plans or diagrams, so size and shape are my best guess; there are two of them as far as I know. One is near the stove and the other is near the capstan. They appear to be built as part of the ship because at least one of them appears to have vertical structure going through it.   | ||
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| Jonathan G |
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| Registered Member #4155 Joined: Thu Mar 14 2013, 09:01pmPosts: 1052 | My basic plan was as follows: | ||
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| Jonathan G |
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| Registered Member #4155 Joined: Thu Mar 14 2013, 09:01pmPosts: 1052 | Because the sea chests have a natural wood finish, they were made from boxwood. Below is an image of my starting materials.   | ||
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| Jonathan G |
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| Registered Member #4155 Joined: Thu Mar 14 2013, 09:01pmPosts: 1052 | They were relatively easy to make due to their simply construction. The hardest part were the baseboards and the handles due to their delicateness and tiny size. The handles consisted of a vertical arced shape piece of wood with a loop of rope passing through its center. Those pieces of wood worked out to be about 5/32” long, 1/32” wide at its widest point, and 3/64” thick. I could barely hold them, let alone shape them. I had two choices for materials to use as the handle rope, left-over twisted brass wire I used for the construction of the bilge pump handles or thread. The thread at these short lengths and scale, is very stiff and does not hang naturally. The twisted wire on the other hand looks like rope and can be shaped to drape properly with little effort. So, twisted wire it was. The completed sea chests:     | ||
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| Registered Member #4155 Joined: Thu Mar 14 2013, 09:01pmPosts: 1052 | Gun Deck Eye Bolts and Rings Eye bolts and rings for the gun train tackle (pulls the gun back from gun port) and the messenger and anchor lines were added to the gun deck.   | ||
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