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Gandale

#841 Posted : 15 June 2017 21:14:51

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Great update Phil, the detail is looking the biz..... Drool

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#842 Posted : 15 June 2017 21:40:41

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Gandale wrote:

Great update Phil, the detail is looking the biz..... Drool

Regards

Alan

Thank you Alan. It's slowly coming together!

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Phil W.

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Current projects: 1/48 scale U-boat [U230]
Future projects: 1/148 scale railway diorama / 1/50 scale R/C Volvo F89 logging truck / 1/148 scale Thunderbirds Fireflash

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#843 Posted : 15 June 2017 22:18:11

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Excellent as usual Phil, it's great seeing her come together. Drool

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#844 Posted : 15 June 2017 23:11:40

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Markwarren wrote:

Excellent as usual Phil, it's great seeing her come together. Drool

Mark

Thank you Mark. Cool

Getting ever closer to the paint stage! BigGrin

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#845 Posted : 16 June 2017 12:05:49

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Hi Phil.
nice update on the rear bulkhead. looking great.
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#846 Posted : 16 June 2017 15:51:47

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Fantastic work Phil, and some lovely mods BigGrin

really looking forward to seeing one of these finished!

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#847 Posted : 16 June 2017 18:01:52

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ian smith wrote:

Hi Phil.
nice update on the rear bulkhead. looking great.
Ian Cool

Thanks very much Ian. BigGrin

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#848 Posted : 16 June 2017 18:03:29

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stevie_o wrote:

Fantastic work Phil, and some lovely mods BigGrin

really looking forward to seeing one of these finished!

Steve

Thanks Steve. I'm looking at a Sep 2018 completion date, so stay tuned for further developments.

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#849 Posted : 22 June 2017 20:51:24

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Good Evening from 'The Dockyard'.

This weeks update of my U230 U-boat build will be making the inner pressure hull and fitting the torpedo loading hatch.

The first job was to mark out where the torpedo loading hatch would be located. The attached photo shows the area to be removed.

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This photo shows the cut -away area ready for test fitting the torpedo loading hatch.

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Torpedo loading hatch being test fitted.

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#852 Posted : 22 June 2017 21:00:08

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Once I was relatively happy with the fit of the hatch I removed it and started to then concentrate on the inner pressure hull. In a previous post i fitted the inner pressure but that was only made from 0.25mm thick plastic sheet and thus too thin on it's own. Rather than initially try to wrestle a thicker piece into place, it's easier to work a thinner sheet as it's more manipulative.

The second skin is 0.5mm thick plastic sheet. For it to locate at the rear bulkhead and follow the curve of the inner hull, i fixed a datum piece in place made from 2.0mm square strip. The attached photo shows the strip glued in.

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Next up was to level off the edging where the hull meets the brass sheet. This was previously angled and i wanted to level it off to match the look of all the other compartments.

I carefully roughed it out with a dremel fitted with an angled grinding stone before filing to suit.

The attached photo shows the edging being roughed out.

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Removing the majority with a dremel.

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Filing to suit.

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The next job was to make the inner hull from 0.5mm sheet. I decided to split the hull into two sections to make it easier to fit. The front section being the longer one while the back section incorporates the cut -out for the torpedo loading hatch.

The front section took several attempts as i had to make several cuts so that it sat correctly. If too much is removed, which is easy when there are no measurements to reference, i used it as a template and removed less from the next one. I think it was my third attempt when i got the hull template to sit correctly.

The attached photo shows the hull before fitting.

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Inner pressure hull fitted.

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Looking forward.

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Looking aft.

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The next job was to fit support pieces for the rear inner pressure hull. This section also includes the cut-out for the torpedo loading hatch.

This section proved to be problematic trying to gauge the depth of the supports. I spent many a head scratching moment and lots of trial and error before i was satisfied. Confused

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This photo shows some of the supports in place.

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