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Me muttering various incantations about the random stuff on my desk. Often pertaining to model ships and live steam.

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Heart of the Titan

So here is the entry where I explain in excruciatingly boring detail, how I plan to do this. There are three main winches: 1. Most forward, controls the movement of the “crab”, forwards. 2. Middle, controls the vertical movement of the load, and will be the one being powered in this build. 3. Rear most, controls the backwards movement of the crab.   The middle winch is driven from a shaft below the large gear. On one end of this shaft, I have placed a large pulley, with

The Titan of Panama*

Around this time last year, I was wandering through a huge used bookstore in Spokane, Washington (state, not D.C.), when I came upon a souvenir book from the opening of the Panama Canal. It’s one of the most interesting finds I’ve ever made, and has served me well whenever I want to know about how to combat yellow fever and the like. It’s exceptionally well illustrated, and one of the pictures that caught my eye was of the these things known as “Chamber Cranes.” These where placed inside what wo

Screw or Propeller?

REPOST image issues     As I said in my last entry, I wasn’t very happy with the screw, or propeller, whichever you prefer. So after a few hours bumbling around on Shapeways, I concluded that it would take to long for them to print one. As I would have to ask the designer to scale down those design to my requirements, and then this would have to be put in the system. So I decided to make do with what I had.   As far as I know, there are only two ways of mounting a prop

Some Decapitated Cobras and a Screw

I called this entry a decapitated cobra because that’s the best way I’ve found to explain to people what a cowl ventilator looks like. In other words the castings have finally arrived from Ontario, and they aren’t the greatest ever, few holes here and there. But they’ll do, even if the best way I’ve found of attaching them to the deck is with super glue. From the bow heading aft towards the stern, there are two just in front of the bow winches, then two larger ones just forward of the funnel, an

“For they’re launching a boat on the ‘morrow at noon.”

The ship is now 85 percent complete. Next it will be moved to the fitting out berth. After it has arrived there, many ancillary detail items will be added, these include: windlasses, winches, anchors and chain, cowl ventilators (photo below), and a propeller. Since this model can also float, ballast will have to be added, I’ve already started this long and lesions process however. Also in the yard is the hull for a tug boat, but I made a fearful mess of cutting the hull so that is currently, err

Shipping out to nowhere

If this doesn’t fit in with the forum, sorry, I can delete it if needed.   I’ve always liked steamships, specifically cargo ships from the turn of the century. And I’ve scratch built my fare share of ships, mostly none than 3 inches long. Then a year ago I made a half hull model of a the first Blue Funnel ship, Agamemnon of 1865. It was all wood and brass, but I still wanted to do a full hull model. Something very much like the Bassett-Lowke ship pictured below. So today I began t

The Scots Grays are charging at dawn

A few months ago I bought an old Keyser GWR Beyer goods, and it was pretty awful. So I in my infinite wisdom decided to make it even more awful. I hacked it up into a London Chatham & Dover Railway small Scotchman. And I was quite happy with it. Then it got in a rather bad accident, mostly wrecking it. So I began the process of reassembly, and promptly got bored and stopped. So it been languishing in a corner for a few months. It doesn’t have many redeeming qualities in terms of scale, but I
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