Search lights

I finished the searchlights. Lot of parts and very small to make. I also used the lathe to make some signal lights (the glasses) There are 13 glasses per chimney. I made a toolbit to make the pattern in the clear plastic.







And I made some decals to make the model a little bit more realistic.


Next update i hope to show the finished chimneys

Finely some detaills

I went building on the chimney's. They needed lots of detaills after I had cast them. They are finished for 75% now so I have some work to do yet.





See you with the next up-date

My little workspace at the attick. I installed some extra lights because I have some bad eyes.

Winchhouse

Here I made a start with the winchhouse. I couldn't build this without the original drawings I got. The polyester hull is also a bit closer to completion but I will post the photo's when I have some more results.


Positioning the parts for the silicon mold



To be continued

The chimney(s)

The chimney has a simple shape at first glance but I got some drawings of it and then you find out its a rather complex shape. There are some curved, round shape which run into each other. And there are some details which form a nice challenge to me.



First I had to build a chimney from polystyreneplate







And then the battery of my camera went dead so no more pictures from the building.

Like the other parts I need more chimneys so I started building a mould. It was hard to find out how I had to do this and I ended up building a 2-part mould from which one part had to cut at one side.

Here one part of the mould is curing. I had to use lots of silicone so with the other part i made some inserts to save on silicones.


Here are the two parts of the mould. You can see the left part has an incision. The parts I place on each other and then I place the red plastic around it to support the mould.



Later I find out that the mould contains some bubbles on some section. These bubbles will be in the castings too so thats a bummer. It is because of the 2-part mouldmaking. Only a vacuummachine can solve this but thats very expensive.

The casting. First I cast the thin upper part with 20grams of resin. With a thootpick I add some resin to the details in the thicker peace to avoid bubbles in the next casting.
After that I cast the thicker part whit 30grams resin and 30grams filler to save on the resin.

And then te results



Some flash but this is very thin and can be removed easily



The place where the bubbles are.


And then in 1,5 hours I got 4


offcourse I will add the details later

making an casting the collectingbins

The mould cured well. It's the mould for the collectingbins where the fishermen empty the net in. There are two bins and the skipper can empty them in a central bin from where there is a conveyor-belt to move the fish to the workdeck.





The mould in the making






And its separated. Alle went well and I have a good mould


Here the mould is poured with resin. The left over I poured in another mould so I dont spill any resin


**** I did spill some resin and you can see its curing.


The resin is curred. This takes a few minutes but I wait a hour before I demould the casting.


Demoulding


Drill some holes to let the air in the mould




And here I have another good resin cast. The walls of the bins are 0.3mm thick. Almost no trapped airbubbles so I am very happy.

New mould in the making