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Gene Bodnar

Thu Jan 03 2013, 10:18am

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Arthur,

You're probably correct. I suspect that much of the infirmary (or sick bay) that I've modeled is wholly imaginary. The plans provide no details for this area of the ship, so my client has asked that I build this room to look much like a hospital room. His father was a doctor aboard this ship during WWI. In fact, my client brought the actual antique microscope and its case for me to see, and asked that it be included in the model.

Gene

aew

Fri Jan 04 2013, 09:15am

Arthur

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Imaginary or not, it looks great!

Gene Bodnar

Fri Jan 11 2013, 05:12pm

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LOWER DECK AT STERN: This area consists of three rooms: Naphtha tank storage room, munitions room, and a stockroom. The three rooms are separated by partitions.

NAPHTHA TANK ROOM: I installed two naphtha tanks in this room. They are made from blocks of basswood and are encircled with bands of masking tape to suggest the tanks’ seams. They are painted with silver acrylic paint and secured in place with Elmer’s glue.

MUNITIONS ROOM: Like the munitions room at the bow, this one also contains numerous storage boxes for munitions that are simply small blocks of basswood that have been stained with various shades of Minwax Stain. A ladder appears in this room and is secured to the hatch in the hallway of the upper deck. The upper deck is made exactly like other interior decks.

STOCKROOM: Apparently, this room was used for storage for everything that wasn’t stored elsewhere. I installed a few boxes, a cabinet, a stack of fabric, and a few masts.

UPPER DECK AT STERN: This area consists of bathroom, a water closet, the officers’ mess, two officers’ cabins, a food storage area, and the bos’n’s storage area. These are all found on the starboard side of the ship. The port side of this deck has been merely suggested by a bulkhead and a few doors, which can be just barely viewed through the open doors on the starboard side.

BULKHEADS: All bulkheads are made of basswood, with several being double-walls to indicate their rigid construction. The officers’ mess and the two officers’ cabins contain paneled walls. The paneling has been suggested by small cutouts of various size card, which has been glued onto the basswood. All bulkheads were painted with white acrylic paint and installed with Elmer’s Carpenter’s Glue.

BATHROOM: The bathroom contains a bathtub and a wash basin. The bathtub is made from a solid piece of basswood that has been hollowed out with a Dremel tool, with the outside shaped with sanding sticks. The wash basin is a block of basswood, with the basin itself shaped with a Dremel tool. The faucet is suggested by a piece of wire. Both items are painted acrylic white and installed with Elmer’s Carpenter’s Glue.
WATER CLOSET: This item is simply a box made of 1/16” basswood, with its top drilled with a 3/16” hole, and the item is painted with brown acrylic paint. The closet door is made like all other doors on the vessel.

THE OFFICERS’ MESS: The dining room table, chairs, cabinet, and bench are all made of basswood, with all legs made of bamboo dowels. All items are painted acrylic brown.

OFFICERS’ QUARTERS: These two rooms each contain a desk and two chairs, along with other appropriate items shown on the plans. They are painted similar to all other furniture.

FOOD STORAGE ROOM: This room contains shelving for some canned goods and boxes. Other cans are shown stacked or left loose. Some items were painted with silver acrylic paint and others were painted a different color. A flour barrel is also included.

BOS’UN’S LOCKER: Included are a table and several storage cabinets. All are painted burnt umber. A stack of papers are shown on the table.

Mike 41

Sat Jan 12 2013, 12:55pm

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Gene,

Your detailing on the furniture is excellent! Do you use jigs when you make tables and chairs? The angle of the chair legs look too uniform to be done by eye.

Thanks,

Mike

Gene Bodnar

Sat Jan 12 2013, 05:42pm

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Mike,

Thanks. Yes, once I glue the legs in place, I set the chair or table in a piece of basswood with a square cut out the for legs.

Gene

Gene Bodnar

Tue Jan 22 2013, 05:49pm

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THE FOC’S’CLE DECK

The foc’s’cle deck contains the bridge and its deck house, an L/50 gun, the anchor chain and hawse holes, 2 bollards, 2 chocks, 4 ventilators, a winch, a hatch, all of which are surrounded by a railing.

THE DECK: The deck itself is made of 1/16” sheet basswood, which was painted light gray, sanded lightly, and painted with another coat of light gray.

THE BRIDGE: The main body of the bridge was made of 1/16” basswood, with the deck being shaped as originally shown on the 1910 plans. The deck here is made of 1/32” strips basswood stained Golden Pecan Stain. The sides of the bridge were painted light gray. The very high railing posts are constructed of bamboo dowels, with their tips broken for form the shown angle, which was the coated with CA glue to preserve the shape. The two lower railings surrounding the bamboo posts are made of glue-coated #10 DMC cotton thread, which has been painted light gray. The upper railing is simply of length of beeswaxed black DMC cotton thread that has been super-glued to the tips of the bamboo posts and touched-up with black acrylic paint.

The enclosure on the bridge contains a large search light on a railed platform, a compass, and a steering wheel. The search light and its platform was made from poplar doweling, strips of card, pieces of basswood, with the railing made of bamboo and string painted light gray. The search light opening was filled with jigsaw puzzle glue to simulate glass. The compass consists of bamboo legs and a hollowed-out dowel that has been filled with jigsaw puzzle glue, with the assembling being painted light gray. The steering wheel is made from basswood, bamboo, and wooden toothpicks, all of which was painted burnt umber.

The L/50 gun: This item was built and described earlier in this log.

The Anchor Chain and Hawse Holes: The chain was a length of chain I already had on hand. The hawse holes were bored into the deck, and card was used to surround the raised part of the hawse holes.
BOLLARDS: These were made of poplar dowels and card, then painted light gray.

CHOCKS: The two chocks were made from a basswood based, with two arms made of carved basswood, which was painted light gray.

VENTILATORS: The 4 ventilators were made of two different size dowels – ¼” for the bottom and 5/16” for the top. Both were cut at a 45-degree angle, glued together, and left to dry. Later, the top hole was hollowed out with a Dremel bitt. The vents are painted light gray, with the hollowed-out part painted white.

WINCH: The winch was made of a central ¼” dowel, with the sides made of basswood. The winch was painted black.

HATCH: The hatch was made like other hatches already described.

THE RAILING: The posts consist of bamboo dowels made by pulling strips through a drawplate until the proper size is reached. The rails are made of glue-covered #10 DMC cotton thread that has been painted light gray.

Gene Bodnar

Mon Jan 28 2013, 05:41pm

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THE MAIN DECK

The main deck consists of sheets of 1/16” basswood cut out to fit the shape of the outside hull and at the same time cut with openings for the three boiler rooms and the turbine rooms. The entire deck is scored to simulate the steel plates that comprise the entire main deck (note that the scoring is not visible in the photos but is quite clear in person). The main deck also contains numerous portholes for light, onto which I applied jigsaw puzzle glue to represent the glass windows. The entire main deck was given two coats of light gray acrylic paint, with a light sanding between coats.

The long raised structure on the main deck consists of 1/16” basswood, with the pieces glued together while being held in a jig to ensure proper shaping. Various holes were cut into the structure for the four funnels, 6 boiler room ventilators, many hatches, and small portholes above the two turbine rooms.

BOILER ROOM VENTILATORS: These items were made of two different size poplar dowels, ½” and 5/16”, with the larger on the top part, and with the two cut at a 45-degrees angle and glued together with CA glue. The large openings in the vents were bored out with various Dremel bitts and a drum sander. Masking tape was used to simulate the ribbing on the vents. The openings were painted white and the outsides were painted light gray.

BOLLARDS: There are six bollards on the main deck. They are made of ¼” poplar dowels, cardboard punched out with 5/16” punches, and a 1/16” piece of basswood for the base. They were painted light gray.

GUNS: The six guns were constructed earlier in this log. They were glued in place with Elmer’s Carpenter’s Glue.

aew

Tue Jan 29 2013, 10:56am

Arthur

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Hi Gene. For some reason I missed your previous post, but judging by the lack of any responses, I wasn't the only one.
You've made a lot of progress in those two posts and if you hadn't described the methods of construction, I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell. I was almost tempted to ask if the searchlight worked!

Gene Bodnar

Mon Feb 04 2013, 06:58pm

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LADDERS IN BOILER ROOMS AND TURBINE ROOMS: Two ladders appear in each of these rooms. They extend from the hatches located on the raised platform of the main deck down to the floor of the boiler rooms and turbine rooms. Their sides are made of 1/16” basswood, with their steps made of 1/32” basswood. All were painted with flat white spray enamel.

GRATING AT STERN: The grating consists of individual slats glued to a 1/16” piece of basswood, which are sliced off with a mini circular saw and then glued to form gratings. The structure is painted light gray and glued to the deck with Elmer’s Carpenter’s Glue.

FUNNELS: There are 4 funnels on the Csepel, with funnels #1 and #4 being oblong shaped, and funnels #2 and #3 being round. A sort of skeleton form was made for each of the funnels, and a 1/32” piece of sheet basswood was wrapped around and glued to the form. The oblong shaped funnels required that the basswood be dampened in order to be bent, but the round funnels did not require this treatment.
Wood putty was applied to each funnel area where there was a raised portion of the basswood. After it dried, this was sanded smooth to correspond to the shape of the funnel. The top and bottom lips on each funnel were cut out from 1/8” basswood and shaped with a Dremel sanding drum and various mini files. Once the lips were glued in place on the funnels, they were further shaped with a sanding stick.
The three ridges on the body of each of the funnels were made from strips of masking tape glued around the funnels.
The wire baskets atop each of the funnels were made from 19-gauge black annealed wire glued into pre-drilled holes in the top edge of each of the funnels. The top round length was made from a piece of heavy carpet warp thread that was saturated with CA glue and left in place on the wires already in place. After the CA glue dried, addition glue was applied to simulate the welded points on the baskets. The baskets and the tops of each funnel were painted with flat black acrylic paint. The rest of each funnel was painted light gray.

MAIN MAST: This item consists of a 12-inch length of ¼” poplar dowel that has been tapered toward its upper end. The mast bands, which contain wire eyes, are made of masking tape strips glued around the dowel. The entire structure was painted light gray.