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Author Topic: Sir William Wallace - Second build  (Read 56213 times)

Offline Eddy Matthews

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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2009, 04:03:55 AM »
Quote from: Stuart Badger on April 20, 2009, 07:55:59 PM
I have to say the cat was quite tasty with a light salad!

I love my wife dearly, but I'm not sure I could eat a whole one.... At least not in one sitting! :hehe

Anyway, now that I've calmed down and assessed the damage in a more rational frame of mind, it looks like I'll get away with repairing one side of the hull and replanking the other. The paddlewheel frames are also broken into many pieces so they will also have to be replaced. Not the start that I wanted, but these things happen..... It's not the first time, and no doubt it won't be the last! :(

Like most of these little setbacks in life, you have to pick yourself up and start again.... The alternative is to give up, which isn't acceptable.

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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #16 on: April 21, 2009, 04:07:13 AM »
Quote from: amdaylight on April 21, 2009, 04:00:20 AM
Eddy,

On a different note, was the William Wallace only used on a river or was the flat bottom a concession to ease of building?

Andre
over yonder in Portland Oregon

The SWW ran across the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh before the Forth Road Bridge was built in 1963-64. This is a tidal stretch of water, so the flat hull allowed the boats to sit firmly on the bottom when the water levels were low.

The downside is that with such a shallow and flat hull, they were notoriously difficult to control and were badly affected by the slightest of sidewinds.....

The upside from the modellers point of view is that it's an extremely easy hull to model :)

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Eddy
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #17 on: April 21, 2009, 05:46:36 AM »
Eddy,

What is worse at least for my self, was I then got mad as heck at myself for loosing my cool towards something that had no idea that what it had done was bad, I have worked in several hobby shops and in one that I worked in we had a customer that was mentally challenged and just him coming in the shop would aggravate the heck out of me and then I would get aggravated at myself for letting him get to me and not taking his condition in to account and being more patient with him. Sounds kind of like you and your wife, she had no control over what happened, and you got mad that it got damaged and then got mad at your self for blaming your wife. Any way the build is the most fun for me and this way if there was any thing that you wanted to improve now is the time.

Andre
over yonder in Portland Oregon :)
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Offline Eddy Matthews

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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #18 on: April 21, 2009, 05:54:18 AM »
As I said Andre, these things happen - At the end of the day it was my fault. We've been married for 32 yrs, so I should have known better than to leave the hull where it was!

We've kissed and made up, so everything is back to normal ;)

Eddy
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2009, 05:46:08 AM »
I've now spent two days solid (about 10-11 hrs a day) working on a new hull, and apart from some final sanding/shaping I'm just about there.....

Hopefully if I can get it finished tomorrow morning I can then give it to a clubmate to fibreglass inside and out...

While he's doing that I can make a start on the deck amd the paddleboxes, so it should then start to look like a boat! :)

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Eddy
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2009, 04:33:19 AM »
Good to hear everything is back to normal  ;) (what ever that is). Photos of the new one please :)

Andre
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2009, 04:59:35 AM »
No photos of the new hull I'm afraid Andre..... I didn't see any point as it's virtually identical to the first, and it's now with a friend to apply fibreglass inside and out, so I won't get it back until next week.

Now I still need to find some 5 foot long sheets of 1/32 ply - So far I've drawn a blank!! :(

Eddy
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2009, 05:28:58 AM »
Last time i tried to by that thickness from my local supplier the price had gone sky high.

Have you tried these guys?

http://www.slecuk.com/index.html

not 100% sure on this but i think he is an importer??? might be worth a phone call, its been a few years since i used them

EDIT:

I see he has an online shop now - link to birch ply 1/32

http://www.slecuk.com/catalogue/0.8mm-Birch-Plywood.html
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Offline Eddy Matthews

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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2009, 05:41:04 AM »
Thanks Kim, I'd forgotten about SLEC - They list 4 foot by 2 foot sheets, which will be fine. The deck has a break in the middle, so I can easily get away with that.

2 sheets, just over £41 including postage!!  Expensive, but it's what I need so I'll just hide the creditcard bill when it arrives :)

Eddy
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #24 on: April 24, 2009, 02:38:49 AM »
While I'm waiting for the hull to be fibreglassed and for some plywood to arrive so I can make a start on the deck/superstructure, I've made a start on the paddlewheels.....

I've used the Graupner paddlwheel frames, and modified them so that they use fixed floats. Once they are painted black, they will do the job nicely....

Now I have to wait patiently for materials to arrive before I can progress further :(

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Eddy
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #25 on: April 24, 2009, 07:00:45 PM »
Eddy i hope this doesn't come to late but...
I am just off the phone to SLEC, they have just quoted me for a single piece ( 190cm x 30cm x 1.5mm) Birch ply £11.90 + 9.00 postage if i buy a couple of other pieces of wood to stiffen it for postage.
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Kim
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #26 on: April 25, 2009, 05:45:55 AM »
While I'm waiting for materials to arrive, I decided to make a start on the bridge today.... It's a real pig to do as it has a fairly pronounced curve (which doesn't really show in these photos), so there isn't a right angle on it anywhere!

I still have a lot to do on it, but it's slowly coming together....

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Eddy
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2009, 05:16:36 AM »
The basic structure of the bridge is now sorted - Needs a lot of sanding down and filling before applying some paint, but it looks like it should!

Eddy
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #28 on: April 28, 2009, 05:11:27 PM »
At long last, the plywood I ordered has arrived.... Why do these things always take so long when your waiting, yet they would arrive in a matter of a day or so if you weren't?

Anyway, now I can really get cracking!  :yeahbaby

Eddy
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Re: Sir William Wallace - Second build
« Reply #29 on: April 28, 2009, 06:34:18 PM »
Good news.
Just a thought, could be that the trees can't grow at the same rate you build at. You put me to shame :)
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