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[Tug-Kenny RIP]

I have made the circles for the flight deck by cutting them from half mm plastic card.  I used a very sharp blade and a bit of patience and it came out well.





As the workshop was nice and warm I decided to try some winter 'spraying' .  It's a good job I had the appropriate face mask as the smell was quite something. 

The next little job     was to add some red to the crane.  This took a bit of masking up for the red bits.





Another colour added to the funnels.





Just the black tops to finish them off.


Work had to stop for the rest of the day and the door left open to warm the surrounding countryside.     





 

[ballastanksian]

As long as you are alright ken, that is the main thing.

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

The funnels are now painted along with the bow deck.

You will notice the lifeboat and stand have been finished but it still needs some little pulleys.






Moving on to the back end.

We have painted the fire hose support frame all ready for some water pipes to be fitted.

I have made some containers and just placed them in position.

[Netleyned]

Great Work Ken
You turn out some amazing scratch
built models in a shorter time than
it takes to build a kit


Ned

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Thanks Ned. I do like scratch building as it can't be compared to commercial stuff.   

The wiring up of the crane is the next section.  I had such a nightmare on the last one that I will have to re-design things a bit better this time.

Cheers

ken

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Still thinking about the crane's motors. I have the miniature motors but what I need is two bobbins to act as winder drums. I've tried two disks glued to a small tube but this proved a tad flimsy.

As a break from this area, I have moved over to the safety net around the heli-pad.  My wife came up with some 'starchy' netting which seems to do the job nicely. Here is all super-glued into place.

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Onwards to the railings .......

I have decided I didn't like the multi strand wire and have changed it to 0.9mm single strand tinned copper.   This has come out much neater and was easy to solder into the stanchions.

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Finally onto the crane ....

I have fitted tiny capstan drums to the miniature motors and glued them to the crane.  The control wires go up inside the crane and down through the shaft into the boat.

As a tester, I can connect 12 volts to the wires and the motors activate the Boom and the hook.  You may have noticed that the drums are affixed on the ends, rather than central.      

This does present a problem with lining up the threads but it's too late now to rectify !

My next task is to work out the swivel mechanism of the whole crane. 


 

[ballastanksian]

Hi Ken,

I saw your pulley quandry and thought of sewing machine bobbins. You can get them in craft shops and haberdashers assuming they are more or less the right size.

She's looking 'Seabexcellent' 

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

That's a good thought and along the lines of what was done in end.  I made my own bobbins on a drill fixed in the vice.

I couldn't use sewing thread bobbins you suggest because the centre hole was too large for the motor shaft. I ended up gluing them on. The bobbins are now off centre for the crane ropes which drives the thread to the sides.  It's not a major problem as the side walls guide them into place.

I am working on the column drive system at present to rotate the crane.

ken

[Brian60]

Ken you could have used a piece of dowel through the centre of one of these bobbins and then drilled to suit whatever spindle you had... These are what Ian was mentioning and are cheap as chips to buy. They come plastic as well

[ballastanksian]

I appreciate this is academic now chaps, but I saw some plastic ones in Squires that needed assembly. I don't know why they were so but there they were!