Water Mill - A Boat Mill Variant!

[Papercaptain]

Hello, Kevin!
There's another papermodel of a two hull boat mill available by Imogen Stowasser's Kartonwerft. KW-Modell A03 Schiffmühle
Scale is 1/100, 4 sheets DIN A4, very detailed construction showing the interior functions.
The original is reconstructed by enthusiasts at Minden on the Weser river. Schiffmühle Minden - Historie und Kultur erleben
Kind regards -
Papercaptain

[Kevin WS]

Ah Papercaptain. You made my day!

Thank you very much for this - a model that is unknown to me (despite all my searching over the years) and one that I will be purchasing ASAP!

Perhaps even (hopefully) it will be one of my next builds.

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Meanwhile, I started the current model last night and will post some pics of progress when I have downloaded them later.

[Kevin WS]

Last night in terms of starting the boat mill, I sat down and studied the instructions.

Richard's kits normally assemble in numerical sequence, which would mean the major components would be built in the following order.....

a) The main boat
b) The house
c) The second boat
d) The mill wheel

So, I cut out the parts for the boat, and most of the main parts for the main house. See Picture 1. There are plenty of small fiddly beams and bits left though!

I then started on the boat, but stopped short of assembling it as I suddenly realised that in fact the deck does not sit flush on the bottom of the hull. I thought it did!

What happens is that the four sides of the inner deck are glued in place around the edge of the outer hull (see Picture 2 which illustrates this, though the two parts are not lined up in the picture). This creates a "hanging" deck.

This means two things - firstly given I am using 120 grm paper, the whole deck arrangement is very flimsy. Secondly, there is no way the numbered assembly sequence shown can be followed without damaging the deck when the house is attached.

Change of plan - assemble house first, then join to deck, reinforce deck, then join deck to hull.

Cutting out the parts I also noticed that some of the "cut lines" are quite thick, which in 1/160 leads me to wonder about fit (depending on how I ended up cutting along the line). So, the first step now will be to do one small subassembly to see how the fit goes, so if needs be I can take extra care going forward.

[group b]

model released at the Slovak - Tomášikovo mill.


One more note latest pictures.
Photo 3 mill Kolárovo Slovak Republic, not in Slovenia.

[DougH]

Just came across this modern day version of the same thing so the technology is still going strong.

Barsha pump provides irrigation water, but doesn't need fuel

[Kevin WS]

Group b - thank you for your input.

Very nice model. Paper and wood? Are you making it? Is it only available at the mill?

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DougH - And thank you for the article on the Barsha Pump. Interesting.

Goes to show that really there is never anything that new! The principle also of using a screw drive as well, is also very ancient, and was one of the first methods used to raise water (and is still I believe in use today in the Middle East). Except in this case the screw is being used to compress air!

[rickstef]

The system of windmills in the Netherlands, Kinderdijk comes to mind, all use screw based lifting systems for dewatering purposes

Rick

[Andrew zippy]

Kevin. I can't help feeling there's almost a kind of humorous inverse logic to a floating water mill, if you guess what I mean. Rather like the first invented helicopter where the pilots got too dizzy.

[group b]

mill on picture paper model, which came out some time ago in the Slovak Republic.

[Kevin WS]

Andrew, I agree with you! Never thought of it that way, but you are right!

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Group-b - thank you. Can this be bought on the internet?

This is an interesting model (see the photo on group-b's earlier post) and is a nice example of a small "hanging mill" (see my post at the beginning of this thread).