| Fittings and Upper Deck |
| Tuesday, 11 July 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Fittings
 Zenit in June Anchors are cut out of brass and also used some copper and soldered everything together. All done manually. I am not fully happy about it... I will make decison later. I need 2 of them.
Further work concentrates around upper deck, skylight, masts and so on. The hatches and bulleyes I made from 6 mm brass pipes and 1 mm plywood. Skylight itself is also 1mm plywood construction. The chimney as seen on the picture is a solid construction of 4 small pieces of pine wood glued into plywood frame. The collar of the chimney is made of 0.3mm copper sheet soldered to cover connecting line.
Stern mast's platform and its railing - soldered brass and copper wires. Main mast is built from brass 2mm pipes. Platforms - 1 mm plywood, platforms supports are photo etched from 0.5 copper plates. Having done stern mast and the skylight and its hatches I applied undercoat to cover the structure of wood and then painted to final colour. At that my old fashioned style still had not invented the polystyrene and PCV…
PCV and polystyrene seem to be fantastic materials for modern ship builders. My next model if it is not of course a sailing boat will use more of PCV. |
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