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Jul 10, 2009
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Pic826)
A second strip of pine was then added to the bottom inside edges of both gangways to add thickness.
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Jul 10, 2009
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Pic827)
The two gangways were then stained the same deck colour as the rest of the ship and the inside edges were painted with a mix of dark and light brown acrylic paint.
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Jul 10, 2009
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Pic828)
After the stain dried, I used a fine needle to create rows of treenails and a mechanical pencil to colour each hole. Here, the two gangways are completed and dry fitted in place.
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Jul 10, 2009
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Pic829)
Another view of the same.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic830)
These are the tools and material needed to scratch build "working" gun port hinges.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic831)
I used thin brass sheets to make the hinges.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic832)
A cutting jig was made to cut uniform strips of brass.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic833)
The brass sheet was held up against the upper metal ruler and a thin stick was used to set the thickness for each cut off the brass sheet. The second lower ruler was used as a cutting guide.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic834)
A view of the brass sheet after cutting a strip off with a utility knife.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic835)
Another view of the brass sheet after cutting a strip off with a utility knife.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic836)
A brass strip was folded over a .028 inch diameter brass rod.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic837)
The brass strip was then "formed" around the brass rod by pinching it with a pair of pliers.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic838)
The brass strip formed around the brass rod.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic839)
The strip was then cut to length and slid down the rod.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic840)
Here, the first eight strips are formed.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic841)
Here, all the hinge strips are formed along with a dozen spares.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic842)
A view of the tools used to silver solder the hinge ends together.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic843)
I used a pair of "clamped" tweezers to hold the folded hinge end together for soldering.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic844)
After soldering, a micro drill bit was used to drill out any solder that may have gone inside the hinge fold.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic845)
A view of the soldered hinge fold after drilling.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic846)
A hinge pin was made in the same way except the pin was also soldered to the folded brass strip.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic847)
The hinge pin was then cut to length and the two sides were cut to a "point".
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic848)
Here, the hinge is assembled.
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Jan 15, 2010
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Pic849)
A view of the working hinge posed on a gun port lid. There are only 63 more hinges to go...
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Feb 26, 2012
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Pic850)
After much trial and error, I decided to change the way my gun port hinges attach to the ship's hull. The original plan called for a short, pointed, brass ribbon (seen in my previous NL build update above) as the part of the hinge that attached the gun port lid to the hull. I found that this design was not robust enough because the gun port lids kept breaking off the hull. So, instead, I changed to bent pins to attach the gun port lids to the hull. Also, I decided not to use "Blacken It" to colour the hinges so to speed up the hinge building process, I decided to use rosin core (electrical) solder to bond all the hinge loops rather than silver solder. Here, I am set to solder a hinge loop with rosin core solder.
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