Admiral's Gunboat Thread - Some painting Update 27. Nov.

[gamer Mac]

WOW
I just had to go a drool throught the whole thread again.
Outstanding work.
The details are amazing and every thing just looks so right
You are putting the rest of us builders to shame
Can't wait to see it painted.

[The Dozing Dragon]

Simply stunning.

[Ray Rivers]

 

Ah... "The Queen's Own Gizmologist" strikes again!

Beautiful model, Admiral, absolutely beautiful.

[Admiral Benbow]

Some hours working time on the ship yesterday, now she is looking more and more like a gunboat. Main components are finished now, deck houses glued onto the decks, sun roof construction above the upper deck finished (- and being the most fiddly job of this project). Here she is:





Here's a shot of the sun roof. The biggest difficulty was to construct the main (dark grey) support beams as the deck house and it's roof where glued together already, so everything was free floating and I had to construct a kind of jig to fix the beams together firmly. The three wooden supports are a bit of artistic liberty as the original ship had another small deckhouse there, but my version is slightly shrinked, so no room for another house ...



There is no real historical information or material available for the Nile gunboats, especially for the older ones, so apart from my original photo of Abu Klea I don't know any more detail photos or drawings. So the pupose of the small tower on the foredeck has always been a mystery, and I decided to build it as a kind of conning tower. If someone has any other ideas or evidence, just let me know.



As promised, a (macro) shot of the excellent turned brass deck rail posts with two pre-drilled holes for 0,4 mm silver wire.



Last shot from a more low angled view:



On to the details now, the Nordenfeldts, supports and deck rails, undercoating everything, first painting stages and so on ...

Thanks for your continuing support and interest.
 

[Westfalia Chris]

*faints*

*recovers*

*utters the usual, surely boring by now, yet well-deserved heaps of praise*

[Svennn]

[former user]

conning tower
althgough this can be basically said for any river, the Nile is a bit different.
Unlike other rivers, in most places it has only one terrace, because it is flowing through an eroded plain.
So there is the river bed, the flooding terrace and the upper terrace. My idea would be that the tower allows to peek over the fringe of the upper terrace, thus providing a very wide view. With other rivers, You would need a mast.

stunning work, the mother of riverboats...
come to think, in the same campaign armoured trains were used too  

so, are the guns fixed or detachable?

[andekmcc]

I'd go along with this statement  truly a splendid piece of work, and the detailed pictures and info supplied will surely be of great use to me in future projects.

[Malamute]

I'd go along with this statement  truly a splendid piece of work, and the detailed pictures and info supplied will surely be of great use to me in future projects.

Seconded or is that thirded

[gamer Mac]

WOW 

Have you got an info on where did the deck rail posts came from? company? link?

Love the guns, you have inspired me to get some from eureka.

[Burgundavia]

I'd go along with this statement  truly a splendid piece of work, and the detailed pictures and info supplied will surely be of great use to me in future projects.

We need an "Admiral Benbow category" and an "everybody else" category.

[oxiana]

Staggeringly wonderful.

Are you aware of this fine organisation, which works to preserve the Melik, one of Kitchener's gunboats that you can still visit in Khartoum:

http://www.melik.org.uk/

[Bugsda]

  :- Love it Admiral

[Ray Rivers]

We need an "Admiral Benbow category" and an "everybody else" category.

 

I was thinking the same thing.

Nevertheless, let's hold judgment until we see all these super entries painted.

[Admiral Benbow]

Have you got an info on where did the deck rail posts came from? company? link?

Of course, Sir: http://www.schiffsmodellbau-onlineshop.de/Warengruppe-Relingsstuetzen?id=3468
Unfortunately, this shop is in german only. But if you browse through the categories ("Hauptkategorien"), you'll find so much useful stuff ... On the other hand, you can pay with PayPal ... 

Are you aware of this fine organisation, which works to preserve the Melik, one of Kitchener's gunboats that you can still visit in Khartoum:
http://www.melik.org.uk/

Yes, of course, as it's the only serious page when looking for infos about the Nile gunboats. But it's mainly about the "Melik" and doesn't have much about the older ships.

Nevertheless, let's hold judgment until we see all these super entries painted.

Yes, please! There are so many very nice entries here, let's just wait how people will vote in the end ...