TYNE Class Lifeboat build

I have started marking out and drawing the grating parts for the platform at the rear of the cabin.

it will be in two parts...…….the main grating and the sunken step in front of the W/T Door. then all parts will be off to a 3D printer to have one done to see if it all works as I hope it should. the card drawings will then be transferred on to drafting paper .

I also started the small raised platform for the helmsman, and what I can only think is a galvanised steel cover for something that sits on the deck under it.

Nice progress report, Neil

Looking very busy well made, you seem to work very quickly too?

Don't really understand what the 3D Printer is going to do etc?

Are you enjoying the build?

Bob

enjoying it very much Bob...….it has been less than a month since I started the build, and one of the main features is almost ready. .I actually sailed on the actual boat a few times, and steered her both in daylight and by buoy and radar assistance one evening.

as for 3d printing......it is going to accurately print out the frame for me, and the grating that goes into the frame which is a very delicate piece of the aft structure, which I wouldn't without 3d printing be able to model.

these are 2 pictures of the real boat and you can see that the plastic would be wafer thin at 12th scale, but if 3d printed the structure will as a whole be quite strong.

Neil....just think about the challenge!!

Ashley

no thanks matey...….i'll let a printer do that one lol.

a few weeks of thinking of the problem and then contacting a link....and a week of sketching and drawing on a sheet of drafting paper...

but what do these dark drawings represent...….all will be revealed in a few weeks.

Hi Neil

I think your latest photos mean that the batteries need charging!....?

In other words.......Not got a clue!

Bob

oh, good, about not a clue bob, means my ploy about keeping the part secret until I have started producing it as a fitting for a model has worked...…….keeping the plagiarists at bay, lol...…….nothing wrong with the batteries though..well charged just too light for the flash to kick in and set with a dark card as the base liner for my table top drawing board..….

just enough to confuse.

finished the compressed air boxes, adding the fixing rivets, and then put in the spacer floor into the aft cabin.
I want to put into the cabin the side survivors bunks and stretchers along with the watertight small access door to the tiller flat so this deck made from 10mm ply has straightened out the side walls of the cabin, which had bowed inwards through age.
the centre will then be cut out and the dropped area then made to sit inside the main access hole in the stern of the hull......more to follow.

also....the drawings and model frame are now with an aquaintance/friend through the RNLI who works in 3D Programming for him to try to work his magic on them to produce a programme to print the 3 pieces required to make the flying bridge grating.....fingers crossed.