Thanks and it certainly is complex! Wouldn't have it any other way. When I did the 16" gun, I shied away from the 5" system because it just looked too compicated. Some much stuff shoved into the gun house and no dimensioned blue prints. But, my goal is to make each big project more engaging than...
I think I have the final configuration done. I was noodling using clear acrylic, but dropped the idea since it's so hard to work with. I'm going to use styrene and do cutaways. Here's what it's going to look like. Took two days to figure out the runs for the powder and projectile trunks...
Thanks Tom!
The floor of the UHR has a white line demarking the working circle of the loaders and the upper hoists. It's noted as 117" diameter. Remember, unlike the big guns where part of the room rotates with the guns to keep everything in line, in the 5" system, only the hoists themselves...
Thank you for the kind thoughts. You are correct. I'm now thinking of making all the intervening stuff out of clear acrylic without any embellishment. Even that will be a bit truncated. The gun and it's systems is the focus and I shouldn't get distracted.
Lots of trim painting, fixing more...
After finding more broken foot rungs, I decided "enough is enough!" and started making them out of metal. Turns out my printed ones have a .025" cross section and I have phos-bronze wire in that diameter. I measured the rung's width on my 45 year-old Channellock needle nosed pliers. I placed...
Another short session.
I redrew the ladder rungs to fix yet another slightly gimpy engineering aspect. I print them on their own little bases instead of on a long stick. This reduced print time from 6 hours to a little over an hour. I only post-cured them for four minutes, which could still be...
Thanks for the encouragement! I'm also thinking about modeling one of the Iowa Class engine rooms. These, like the turrets, generally are not visited much and a good model would help explain what's going on there. When I proposed this to Ryan, his response was, "WOW!" So I'm assuming he's okay...
I feel like a trailblazer with machete in hand cutting through the vines to get to the treasure. The worst part is once I finish one of these one-off projects, I can't apply all the lessons since I'm not making another one. If I did this one again, I'd print the ladder rung mounting lugs and use...
Thanks everyone!
Another short session, but I did get the modified gun house hatches printed and installed. They are now fully opened, pinned with newly acquired 0.015" phos-bronze rod. They should survive a bit longer now that they're not sticking out so far to constantly getting whacked while...
Chemo is finished! The first days afterwards she still pumped full of steroids to tamp down the reaction plus anti-nausea meds. It will be Saturday before we can determine how well she's doing with this last infusion. She's getting better at it.
Ergo, not much time in the shop, but did get good...
I somehow didn't press POST REPLY yesterday. So today, you'll get a twofer...
Hmmm… That's strange…. I usually write my post on another forum to a different audience and cut and paste to this one. Today… cut and past ain't work'n. Don't know why. So I have to write it from scratch. Oh well...
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Work continued yesterday on detail painting for the parts completed so far. I have to make some adjustments to my colors after re-checking my references. I was going on false memories of what is brass and what is paint. Today, I'm busy drawing the last gun house and UHR details: the...
Double bacon sounds really good.
Thanks all!
Short session today. First I want to share a sort of insidious 3D print failure. When I drew the upper dredge hoists for the upper handling room, I did two versions: open and closed storage lid. I drew the open one first and simply rotated the lid...
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Painting is officially underway. Started on Monday when it was almost 80, and no wind so I could get outside to lay down the Tamiya solvent-based primer; white for the insides and gray for the rest. Yesterday after a full day to dry I airbrushed Tamiya gloss white for interior and a...