Mintanic

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

NIce sail this afternoon!

Note steam pipes on Mintanic funnel, much better, removed portholes and froggy flag on the "Paris" top!

Am going to paint the bottom red.

Ashley

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Lake looks good Ashley. Following the rain is everything Ok now?

Chris

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Perhaps I was giving a false sense of the state of the lake with my muttering. It has always looked good, just the water levels and silting up.

Following the rain it seems to have topped up the lake (and we are only talking 2 or so inches here) and although the silt is still there you can’t see it so much now!

Small 25mm prop has been partially successful…the boat is not quite so quick, and I am going to leave it as it is for now.

Rolling is not so bad, but with balsa stringers inside the botTom coroners I don’t want to start grinding corners off to fit bilge keels.

One more top to be made with two funnels and this project will be finis.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

nice! a few more in the Mintanic album.

[Chris EParticipant @chrise]

Model looking really good – you have certainly captured the "feeling".

I checked for a top deck with 2 funnels hidden in the pictures.

As I said before, and I do realize the lack of a size reference, she just looks larger on the water in the pictures than her 23ins.

Size references in model pictures never help the illusion.

 

 

Edited By Chris E 1 on 24/06/2020 11:51:53

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Cheers Chris. No hidden extra deck yet! Yes, the one I have of it next to a duck rather spoils it.

I have settled on a last top with one much larger blue funnel, having searched for pictures of boats with a blue funnel, the clever googly thing came up with steamers from the…..wait for it….

BLUE FUNNEL LINE !!!

A couple in particular are good match approximately the centre deck arrangement I have and are of a similar vintage. The single large funnel will give the impression of a smaller ship, and the defining feature will be the rugby goalpost style crane derricks.

Working on it.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Crane/Derrick setup made for the Blue funnel top…name not yet decided…..and looking good!

Funnel made (25mm dowel) and Blue paint drying, Humbrol, probably be dry enough for 2nd coat after tea time.

Hatches made, and cowl vents ordered. I will not be even attempting to make a dozen cowl vents, tootricky, in fact too tricky at any size. If I only had two big ones to make I might try I suppose.

Lifeboats and bridge will be last to do as they will rather set the apparent scale of the boat, and as this is a much smaller ship than the other two (tops) I need to be careful in order to make it look smaller.

The shed is wonderfully cool, and I have been in it with the door shut to keep out the heat although the paint has still been drying ridiculously fast.

Ashley.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Bottom of Mintanic now gloss red..only the first coat yet, but it has covered very well.

Made the third funnel for my single funnel Blue Funnel ship..first was cut to lean at 5 degrees, when it should have been dead upright. Second upright but too short……

Bridge sorted despite wot I said earlier, as I saw a bit of Mahogany laying there and the colour and size of it suddenly showed me the way. Lifeboats next to suit the bridge scale…tricky.

Ashley

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hi Ashley

Despite being a super simple build, the visual impact is quite attractive!

Well done son

Bob

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Thanks Bob.

Thats how I like ‘em…simple but effective.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Snaps…red bottom. Ashley (not me, the boat)

[The Long BuildParticipant @thelongbuild]

Looks Good.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Last top. SS Pyrrhus, Blue funnel line. Sailing in fake blue plastic sea.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Just company flag to add

 

Edited By ashley needham on 05/07/2020 08:07:41

Edited By ashley needham on 05/07/2020 08:08:24

[Chris EParticipant @chrise]

Looking good although the blue background rather ruins the effect of the funnel.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Chris. So right of course, just a snap.

On the water snaps below shows spiffing smartness of it in GLORIOUS tekinculrour!

Water at least a force 10 gale, and there was a bit of moveable ballast in the tiller flat, but nowhere else.

Ashley

blast! wheres the spel cheker when yu need it??

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

At last you are getting some boating Ashley, unlike most of us.

Colin

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

I agree Colin Too windy for sailing today

Brian

[Chris EParticipant @chrise]

Great Fun & the easiest way to take 3 models to the lake!

When I saw the pictures I was amazed at the size of the cowl vents but a little searching showed me that they really are (nearly) that large and are very much part of the character of the model.

It seems such a pity not to complete the set with a 2 funnel model.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Chris. Yes surprising how big the vents are. One picture I think shows them black so that’s what I went with, to stand out a bit.

Two funnels…got to be done… a side by side arrangement would be novel. More surfing read!

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

The “grace line” seems to fit the bill, so far…

the bonus being that I could use the Blue funnel focsle and quarterdeck as they are not a million miles off. I can easily make a second deckhouse, or whatever it is on the stern, to plug into the rearmost 2nd Derrick hole in the deck?

Edited By ashley needham on 06/07/2020 10:39:36

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Time you made some more hulls in different colours Ashley, then you could REALLY ring the changes!

Colin

[Chris EParticipant @chrise]

Posted by ashley needham on 06/07/2020 10:35:38:

The “grace line” seems to fit the bill, so far………………….

 

Or this one – the Santa Rosa on which I like the funnel design being a contrast to the other 3.

Grace Line Santa Rosa

Edited By Chris E 1 on 06/07/2020 11:11:45

Edited By Chris E 1 on 06/07/2020 11:13:54

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Spent yesterday and today fiddling with bits for the SANTA ROSA ! This ship has the desired different two funnel look, and as Chris pointed out, the funnels are not just bits of dowel (more on that later!)

White mastage seems to be one of the features so I have made another set. Another rear deck has been made as I have found a hidden feature that I would like to incorporate, and drawing pins come into this equation…any guesses?

The funnels, after some deliberation, have been made using card wrapped dowel!! They have the right shape, and I did not want to go all exotic and scratch build some mini-masterpieces….simplicity is the name of the game.

However, the lifeboats sit on a (I am sure there is a term for it) launching frame and not simply hang from davits. This may be tricky to simulate. Thinking hat on ….lifeboats will only be about an inch long.

Ashley

[Chris EParticipant @chrise]

If you remember I commented on the large vents on the Blue Funnel Model – well those on Santa Rosa look like masts/ cranes of some sort! The "vents" on the foredeck and aft deck are so tall that I do wonder if they are something else.

Santa Rosa Vents.

Edited By Chris E 1 on 08/07/2020 07:54:40

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