HMV 1/250 MS Konigin Luise

[elliott]

If you are happy with the rails, who better to judge?

[Yu Gyokubun]

Mike
Thank you for your encouragement

elliot
I was trying to convince myself......

On the other day peeped at the Michael Marsh shipyard and found he was building the ladders using a jig.
Why didn't I think of using a jib. I was lazy.
Wasting no time in make up a jib referring to his.
Since I have trouble assembling the footsteps at even intervals, added the spacers in between each footplate.

The first image
Assembling procedure is that at the set out place the side plate into the groove so that the side plate is secured.
Glue the first spacer to the base plate then glue the footplate to the side plate. After make sure if the footplate is glued perpendicular to the side plate, glue the next spacer.
After finish assembly, insert the razor blade into the bottom of the spacer to remove them.
The reason why I made the spacer L shape is to avoid the glue applied on the edges of the footplates adhering to the spacers.

The second image
The white color ladder is mine. The yellow one is the image shown on my bible.

I learned that white color reflects light and it causes not only to stand out flaws but to expand (or dilate or distend?) the image so I took the photo under natural light to avoid light of high intensity.

Outcome seems to be better than the previous one but there is a room to kaizen Kaizen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yu

[sharunas]

Hello Yu,

an outstanding devotion to such small details!
Real work of art!

Originally Posted by Yu Gyokubun

Outcome seems to be better than the previous one but there is a room to kaizen Kaizen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A company I work in is trying to install "LEAN" method at this moment.
Whole philosophy looks very impressive and worldwide success stories by different companies talks by itself.

[marco1971]

Hello You,

the ladder is very impressive! Good job!

Marco

[Michael Mash]

Hello Yu,

My jig works well, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
Particularly: I do not have a “spacer” between the foot plates.

As you show in the photos, your jig solves that problem.
The sketches show perfectly how it all works.
I think you can produce many outstanding ladders with this.

Mike

[Royaloakmin]

Go for poka yoke, Yu!

[Yu Gyokubun]

sharunas
I run a shipyard and an aircraft factory on my own on fairly low budget so I have LEAN manufacturing down to an art

Marco
Thank you!

Mike
I find a jig will make my life easier

Fred
All right. I'll go for poka yoke for my LEAN manufacturing

Yu

[Yu Gyokubun]

It was a kind of nightmare.
To build only one piece of the mast spent about 6 hours including the time for building the first one, which was failed.

When building the first one I cut the pattern in ordinary way but it turns out to be a failure. From the bottom to the middle section cut edges doesn't show up but from the middle to the top unsightly cut edge show up.

My solution is to chamfer edges before shaping the mast. And use various sizes of brass rod for shaping the paper into round form. I tried it on the second one.

Viewing the photo taken from aft, still upper part seam looks not so good but I am not in the mood of redoing it so I gave it a green light.

For chamfering I used razor blade. It is very thin and sharp so useful for this purpose.

[Michael Mash]

Looks quite good in the photos Yu.
It doesn't reflect the difficulties you had with it.
Question: how tall is the mast?
Mike

[sharunas]

Wow... your's attention to details (eg. chamfer) is just mind-blowing!
I would simply sand off a wooden stick for food