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L'Orenoque Mamoli 1:100 scale

What ho, shipmates!

I am sorry for the long delays between posts and leaving your kind comments hanging out there without a proper response. Please know that I will send you each the individual response you deserve. In the end, I never fail to meet kindness with kindness.

So, as I warned you, the new academic year with a reborn Professor Henson has been a terrific distraction from my hobbies. AND THEN THE ADMIRAL SAID: "Honey, please make me a desk." So I made the desk and a book case inspiried by Mondiran.

Desk 1.jpgDesk 2.jpgDesk 3.jpgBookcase 1.jpgBookcase 2.jpg
 
Those projects ate up a lot of time - a month of weekends to be precise. But I'm back in the shipyard! I cannot tell you how much I missed being there:p

Just a quickie - I have a class in 15 minutes - Here's where L'Oreneoque stands as of the last picture I took - the wheelhouses are actually almost finished;):
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The Gavel said:
What ho, shipmates!

I am sorry for the long delays between posts and leaving your kind comments hanging out there without a proper response. Please know that I will send you each the individual response you deserve. In the end, I never fail to meet kindness with kindness.

So, as I warned you, the new academic year with a reborn Professor Henson has been a terrific distraction from my hobbies. AND THEN THE ADMIRAL SAID: "Honey, please make me a desk." So I made the desk and a book case inspiried by Mondiran.

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That's a great desk, Chuck. And Mondriaan would love that book case.:)
Regards, Peter
 
The Gavel said:
Those projects ate up a lot of time - a month of weekends to be precise. But I'm back in the shipyard! I cannot tell you how much I missed being there:p

Just a quickie - I have a class in 15 minutes - Here's where L'Oreneoque stands as of the last picture I took - the wheelhouses are actually almost finished;):
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Even a small step is a step forwards, Chuck. Nice work!
Regards, Peter
 
The Gavel said:
What ho, shipmates!

I am sorry for the long delays between posts and leaving your kind comments hanging out there without a proper response. Please know that I will send you each the individual response you deserve. In the end, I never fail to meet kindness with kindness.

So, as I warned you, the new academic year with a reborn Professor Henson has been a terrific distraction from my hobbies. AND THEN THE ADMIRAL SAID: "Honey, please make me a desk." So I made the desk and a book case inspiried by Mondiran.

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You have skills Chuck. Cheers Grant
 
Peter Voogt said:
That's a great desk, Chuck. And Mondriaan would love that book case.:)
Regards, Peter
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Thank you, Peter! Funny how the idea came to me. We've all seen his later work which was the inspiration for the bookcase. But in order to see more than the internet provided in a quick search, I bought a book. Wow, his early landscapes are luminous. Also, I had no idea about the last works. The deconstruction leading to an almost complete void. One can see the evolution. I wonder, however, whether, as a comment on life, what message Mondrian intended to send to posterity. To each his own, I suppose. I mainly see the whiteness with one black line as an inviting landscape - build something here.

Blessings. Peace. Gratitude.
Chuck
 
What ho, shipmates!

First, thank you Gunther @GIG1810, Pete @Peter Gutterman, Peter @PeterVoogt, Martin @Martin By Eye, Tony @TONY Romano, Jeff @Corsair, Dean @Dean62 @Namabiiru, Paul @dockattner, Grant @GrantTyler and my other shipmates for the generous compliments and wonderful support! AND for being patient with the progress reports on my L'Orenoque.

As to the coppering of the hull: A few weeks back our friends at Blue Jacket Shipyards sent the tape order I made. Now I will be able to finish the starboard side aft I spend several hours cutting the tape into 1/2" plates:rolleyes:. While waiting for the copper tape, as you know, I began work on the wheelhousing complexes. I am positive that wheelhouse is not the correct term. I should be using sponson, sponson decking, lower sponson planking and other terms of art. Too many words. You all know that I am talking about the assembly out-board that encloses the paddlewheels, water closets and gangways or entry points, depending on the ship. In my case, the complex also includes a metal boat as a roof to the structure covering the paddlewheels. All that to say, "wheelhouse" is my way to signify this major structure. [PLEASE READ THE NEXT TWO POSTS BEFORE PASSING JUDGMENT ROTF ]

A while back, Martin and I engaged in discussion of how to build and attach the wheel houses - see Post #195 I pretty much followed that plan, but I based it on the plans for L'Orenoque rather than the plan I showed in the post which was for Panama one of L'Orenoque's sister ships. Happily, I was insprired to have the L'Orenoque plans printed to match the scale of the kit plans. So, I wound up taking the measurements for the wheelhouse complex from those plans, having abandoned the kit plans and instructions and almost all of the parts ROTF.

As a refresher, here are the relevant plans, including the details of the boat-roofs from Panama and Le Veloce. Quick note on the impact of raising the bulwark height: There has been an impact. I think the final result will be fine, but the hull is a tad less elegant and the measured dimensions of the wheel houses have them sitting just that much higher so that the wheels sit without much of their tops being exposed. In my initial design and construction of the paddlewheel cover frames, I designed it so that the wheels stuck out to match the plans. This made the latticed opening very narrow. I scrapped that and made the structre match the plan dimensions.LO Plan Wheelhouses 1.jpgLO Plan Wheelhouses 2.jpgLO Wheelhouse boat Panama.jpgLO Wheelhouse boat Veloce.jpg

More to come. Soon. In the mean time, shipmates, contemplate how I make the boats so that I can do something really cool like showing one of the boats hoisted for lowering. As you contemplate this project, keep in mind that I have nothing but stone-age tools and am a complete novice working with metal. Meaning - think wood and Dremel rather than solderong brass or vacuum forming styrene:cool:

Blessings. Peace. Gratitude.

Thank you for checking in!
Chuck
 
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I think "wheelhouse" generally refers to a structure to house the ship's steering wheel. I believe "sponson" refers to the paddle wheel housings. I think "paddle wheel housing" (or housings) would work for your purposes of identification as you discuss them without confusing the terms of art, of which, in the nautical sense, there are more than even the most experienced of old salts could hope to keep track of.;)
I'm over the moon for the desk!Thumbsup:p (And the L'Orenoque thus far.)
 
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Peter Gutterman said:
I think "wheelhouse" generally refers to a structure to house the ship's steering wheel. I believe "sponson" refers to the paddle wheel housings. I think "paddle wheel housing" (or housings) would work for your purposes of identification as you discuss them without confusing the terms of art, of which, in the nautical sense, there are more than even the most experienced of old salts could hope keep track of.;)
I'm over the moon for the desk!Thumbsup:p (And the L'Orenoque thus far.)
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God bless you, Pete!

I knew I was out somewhere ROTF That's what happens when I get distracted by teaching legal ethics (no, really, they exist) and professional identity formation - I forget the important stuff. ROTF As I was writing I knew I was wrong - and I did it anyway. Sponson! Duh:rolleyes: Lets go with sponson. Thanks for the gentle nudge back on course my friend!

Blessings.
Chuck
 
Peter Gutterman said:
I think "wheelhouse" generally refers to a structure to house the ship's steering wheel. I believe "sponson" refers to the paddle wheel housings. I think "paddle wheel housing" (or housings) would work for your purposes of identification as you discuss them without confusing the terms of art, of which, in the nautical sense, there are more than even the most experienced of old salts could hope to keep track of.;)
I'm over the moon for the desk!Thumbsup:p (And the L'Orenoque thus far.)
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Also, I'm making decent headway on the SPONSONS. I've got the port one planked and the lattice work aboard. I'm using the finest screen-door screen available from Home Depot for the lattice. The scale is off - openings are too wide. I hope that patient lawyering of matte acrylic medium and black paint will shrink the openings enough. We'll see.

Blessings.
Chuck
 
Seriously Chuck, you're asking model shipwrights how to make boats ??C'mon, you make best furniture and all ! ROTF I don't have a clue, i've been waiting for your brilliant solution forever ! Oh and by the way , i thought legal ethics was a dead subject in post truth modern America ?
 
The Gavel said:
Also, I'm making decent headway on the SPONSONS. I've got the port one planked and the lattice work aboard. I'm using the finest screen-door screen available from Home Depot for the lattice. The scale is off - openings are too wide. I hope that patient lawyering of matte acrylic medium and black paint will shrink the openings enough. We'll see.

Blessings.
Chuck
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Chuck, I continue to be amazed by your work and you ability to reinterpret multiple sets of plans. I have in the stash some very fine brass mesh which might suit for the sponsons. Say the word, and it’s in the mail.
 
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