Steam powered wooden Drifter trawler, Formidable LT100, 1/20 scale by neptune

All this work I did approx just over a week ago, last Monday evening I thought I had a bout of Flu starting but by Wednesday morning I was taken into hospital with Covid, and released a day later, its been a bl--dy horrible week, I'm starting to come good and should be out of quarantine by Thursday, hopefully,


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finishing off the window framing, the two corner windows where fixed in place and most of the others were opened and closed with a sash,

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attaching the top frame timbers,

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I had a spare wheel from my Imarra tug which is near enough to the right size, I mounted it on a support and glued it to the front of the wheel house,

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couple of pics of the wheel in place, I have to make the binoculars and the box that holds them and also the Voice pipe and the Telegraph yet,

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Three more pics of the wheel house,

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The wheel house looks out of square but its just the phone camera,

thanks for looking in, catch up soon,

best regards John
 
neptune said:
All this work I did approx just over a week ago, last Monday evening I thought I had a bout of Flu starting but by Wednesday morning I was taken into hospital with Covid, and released a day later, its been a bl--dy horrible week, I'm starting to come good and should be out of quarantine by Thursday, hopefully,


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finishing off the window framing, the two corner windows where fixed in place and most of the others were opened and closed with a sash,

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attaching the top frame timbers,

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I had a spare wheel from my Imarra tug which is near enough to the right size, I mounted it on a support and glued it to the front of the wheel house,

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couple of pics of the wheel in place, I have to make the binoculars and the box that holds them and also the Voice pipe and the Telegraph yet,

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Three more pics of the wheel house,

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The wheel house looks out of square but its just the phone camera,

thanks for looking in, catch up soon,

best regards John
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Great progress John,

Sorry to hear you have been crook, good to hear you are on the mend, take care of yourself.

Cheers,
Stephen.
 
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Making the telegraph, just sitting in place at the moment,

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and with the top attached, i just used some scrap brass pieces for these parts,

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and another view, its not glued in place yet, I turned a pin on the bottom of the stand so as to be able to glue it through the deck later,

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and with the voice pipe fixed in place, I still have to finish detailing the telegraph yet,

thanks for looking in,

best regards john,
 
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drawing of the top of the wheel house, I have to make the crutch for the mast to lie back in and also what appears to be two vents behind the mast crutch,

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G'day Paul, this is just a couple of my junk boxes, I'm a bit of a magpie and save all sorts of stuff,

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and another box, surprising what you can make out of it,

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turning up the main vent for the roof,

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the two vents and where they will be attached later after painting,

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just to give an idea of where they will go,

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and this is what I made the smaller vent out of, a knitting needle,

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I downloaded a pic of a telegraph and reduced its size on the printer, I will glue it in place and trim around it when the glue is dry,

thanks for looking in,

best regards John,
 
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