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DD-793 update
Hi All;
Got a couple of good hours yesterday afternoon and today. Gotta capitalize on them when I can. Even got a little touch up painting.Here is what Cassin Young looks like right now. The dime is for size comparison of parts. It's an old souvenir from 1964. We took gunnery very seriously in Germany during those days. This was fired from 100 meters, squeezed single shot from a 7.62 coaxial machine gun on an M-60 tank, shooting for beers at the end of the day. Obviously, that was before tremors. Regards, rjccjr |
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Hi All;
Made some pretty good progress over the last couple of days, redrew, assembled and set in place the practice loading machine. Added detail to the foremast. Attached all the closed chocks. Regards, rjccjr |
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Hi All;
Well, here's this weeks adventure. Way back when I was a mere youth of forty-five or so, this stuff was a matter of a couple of hours work. Now, not so much. there are two spars on the after stack cap, which carry the ECM and IFF gear. The forward spar has two very light gray domes. The cover was on and off the starboard unit while they worked on the rotator gears. So, it seemed neat to try to include the unit with the cover off. After several sad attempts to do the spars in card, it was necessary to resort to bamboo slivers. Just got the forward spar mounted. That's the larger one. The smaller on is still drying. Here are a couple of shots of the forward spar in place. The first shot shows the stack cap befor the spars. The other two show the spar in place. Regards rjccjr |
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coming along nicely! slow and steady wins the race.
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Hi All;
More progress. the mast spars are in place, as are the stack caps. There are some armored plates on the after stack platform. Still some odds and ends, plus the rigging.The end is in sight. Regards, rjccjr |
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Hi All;
A couple of goals during this adventure are to keep costs to a minimum and to offer occasional tips as the project goes along. A useful item as a tool and also for parts, which fills both of these goals, is the bamboo skewer. Found a package today of 200 four and six inch skewers. It cost all of $1.79. These sizes are very convenient for card modeling. The skewers are very light yet strong and are marginally bendable when soaked in water for a day or so. They can be split lengthwise with a number eleven blade and take different types of paint well. They make good glue applicators for difficult spots and can be sharpened like pencils when the glue accumulates on the tips. If you have trouble positioning small parts, you can poke them into place with a skewer. As parts they can be used for railing stanchions, flag staffs, spars and stiffeners inside of card tubes used for tripod legs. They came in very handy during this project for pegs to attach gun barrels to rotating drums. Some of the electronic gear on DD-793 was too heavy for card strips to support and the strength of slivered bamboo turned the trick handsomely. Regards, rjcclr |
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Hi All;
Since last time, several skewers were split into very fine slivers, painted black with water colors, cut to size and five whip antennae were added. Two were at the bridge, one on the starboard side of the forward stack and the last two were on the rear of the after stack. The entire model has now been over sprayed to make the inks water resistant and hide glue spots due to tremor adventures. There are still a few very small items to be added, which will be made of bamboo. I'm not terribly fussy about being a purist. Whatever material works is just fine. Spend as little money as possible and keep it simple is the way to go. The Mk 32 acoustic torpedoes and racks are under construction now, but there will be some redesign necessary. Good grief those parts are small. Regards, rjccjr |
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Looks great.
BZ |
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Hi All;
It has been a while since the last update, but it was not because there was no work being done. During that time there were two Mk-32 acoustic torpedoes fabricated and two resupply cradles. There are thirty one parts in each torpedo and nine in each cradle. After staring at the whip antennae for a week or so, it was decided that they were too thick and out of scale. So, a set of replacements was made. They will be going on shortly. There were also several small posts aboard ship and thin bamboo stock was cut and painted preparatory for that adventure. Many of you have probably had the experience of working for a half hour or so, assembling tiny parts only to have the last one fly off the tweezers into the unknown. Then you search and search, finally giving up and making a replacement. Just after getting it into place, you happen to see the original piece peeking out from under a tool handle. It has been one of those weeks. With tremors, tweezers are something of a catapult. The compensatory action is to make more parts than you need and just get to it. Still, when I see the culprit I have nasty urge to grind it into the carpet, which to make matters just a bit more aggravating, happens to be gray. Oh well it's nearing completion. Regards, rjccjr |
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Hi All;
Had a few good hours yesterday and by early evening managed to get the Mk 32 acoustic torpedoes, the reload trolleys and the whip antennae mounted. The torpedoes are mounted against the bulwarks just forward of the 40 mm mounts, pointed aft. A hydraulic ram lifts the torpedo up and tosses it over the side. It;s a pretty short ranged weapon, just under four feet long, with a speed of twelve knots and a twenty four minute search duration. There is just enough room for crew men to get by. The reload trolleys have wood slats to support the torpedo as an anti static precaution. Regards, rjccjr |
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