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Charles

Fri Mar 15 2019, 05:47pm

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In the previous post I had shown a lack of wood at the stern.
When the keel and the mount where the propeller will be install the vacuum becomes obvious (1)

Photo (2) shows a shield to be put on the edge of the hull the instructions say of simulated with a strip of paper I made this with wood 4mm x 1.5mm (3)

The hull must be painted his so no problem but it is not a steel hull so before putting the side shielding I sand the entire hull of an additional 0.5mm and made a plating with 5mm x 0.5 ( 4) and this resulted in me being able to easily fill the void shown in the photo (1)

Charles

Fri Mar 15 2019, 06:00pm

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Tanks friend
1 mount premature was a touch an go but everything is ok
Got everything plan (grand daughter 2.5y old and now grand son)lots of modelling in their future

Tim C

Fri Mar 15 2019, 11:08pm

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Charles
Modeling for the grandkids check out the paint and build line of ugears stuff. Looks like you did a great job with the hull so far.

Later Tim

[ Edited Tue Mar 19 2019, 01:44pm ]

Charles

Tue Mar 19 2019, 01:22pm

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The structure!
The kit should be made smooth without shielding just painted.

My little research shows that 3 types of armor could have been applied on the hull. No period documents are specific about this. Railroad rail, iron plate and iron bar.
Rail: The railroad was vital for communication I doubt very much that it has removed miles of rail to do the shielding.
Iron Plate: Find an article that states that it was impossible to deliver the necessary plates being impossible to route them by river.
Iron Bar: There is a note that 8 '' (208mm) iron bars have been routed by rail.
So I decided to take the iron bar theory which I think is the most plausible.

The scale of the kit is 1/16 '' at the feet or 1/192 so the bars should be + - 1.08mm
So to simulate the bars on the scale would have to make them to 1.1mm which visually considering the size of the model would not be visible so I made them a 2mm

Thinned structure like the shell of an additional 0.5mm
Made me 2 jig cutting
1) cut boards of 0.5x5mm in length of 45mm
2) a second template to obtain 2 lengths of 2x45mm
3) here are 2 lengths + - 750 to do

Test to see if visually it's good 4

At every 10mm makes a vertical line to make sure the vertical is constant and not to arrive at the end with an error 5

Here is a little sanding and rendering is not so bad 6

[ Edited Tue Mar 19 2019, 01:23pm ]

Tim C

Tue Mar 19 2019, 01:48pm

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Interesting thoughts on the armor. Looks like your Grandkids are off and you are back on the model. My Grandkids will be over tomorrow. Going to try to give them some small ugears models on paint and put together and then send them home.

Thanks for sharing.

Later Tim

Charles

Thu Mar 21 2019, 02:06pm

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Instructions say to simulate some parts using paper 6-1 A and B
C It is 2 channels that must be done in the bridge to let past the rudder chains.

6-2-A
From my previous construction PE left over build the 3 chains support bar

6-3
Install the 3 bars A and B build the hinges of the rudder also from my falls of PE

6-4
Finish painted still small touch of paint to do

6-5 Place the strips on the chimney replace the paper with PE

6-6, 6-7 the 2 channels for the chains that will be placed when the painting will be finished

6-8 remains the painting

Charles

Mon Mar 25 2019, 01:26pm

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With the template make in step 1 trace the location of the guns
Photo 1 and 2

A friend in another forum point a potential problem with the drilling of the ports and he was right was in the obligation to repair 2 vertical battens on the first piercing, the others were well p3