Modelling out of my comfort zone - HMS Lord Clive, updated

[jcf]

As a side note in Freeman's book HMS Saracen is in an Erebus-class monitor and HMS Erebus saw service in WWII, in the Med, Indian Ocean and the Atlantic and was scrapped in 1946.

HMS Erebus WWII operational record

[jcf]

The tall barbette makes it look like the Marshal Soult and Marshal Ney.

Soult in action.

[Gondor]

Remember your technical drawing classes Kit. The shape you need is from the outside of a truncated cone.

[PR19_Kit]

Remember your technical drawing classes Kit. The shape you need is from the outside of a truncated cone.

I've got software to do that now, I used it on the Satellite Supply Vessel model. 

It's the cut out for The Gun at the front that's the problem really, but I'm getting there.

[scooter]

...and I'm trying to figure out a way to make the turret rotate when it's in place.

Piece of rod and tube?

[Rick Lowe]

...and I'm trying to figure out a way to make the turret rotate when it's in place.

Piece of rod and tube?

Or, allowing for the breech of 'the gun', two pieces of sleeved tube?

[PR19_Kit]

Whatever it is it needs a hole in the middle to take the breech of The Gun when its at full elevation. The limits on the tube's size are quite tight, and I'm pretty sure I don't have any that big to hand. I may have to come up with a 'radical idea'....

[Gondor]

A trip to your local hardware store might help

[PR19_Kit]

Not in the FoD, they don't have such things there, and I don't know too many in Northants yet.

But I have a cunning plan that doesn't involve tubes.......... 

[Old Wombat]

Half a dozen bits of tube/rod set vertically onto/into the base of the turret in a hexagon pattern so they slide around the inside of the barbette should do the job.

[PR19_Kit]

That's something like the cunning plan I have in mind, yes.

[PR19_Kit]

As I said to Alastair elsewhere, I've got software to work out the shape of the front plate of the turret, and here's its output file.



I printed out proper size, and cut out the paper template, then traced round it onto styrene sheet and cut it out. It's gluing on as I type. 

[Rick Lowe]

Who'd have thought that all the esoteric maths and geometry we learned at school would come in useful in the Real World?
Any modeller, or gamer, that's who.

[Gondor]

Who'd have thought that all the esoteric maths and geometry we learned at school would come in useful in the Real World?
Any modeller, or gamer, that's who.

A couple of years ago at work, I had to find a set of compasses so I could draw out circles onto some black flock material. The manager of another building was the only person who had some. Saved me bringing in my own the following day.

[PR19_Kit]

The main bit of the turret's done, and the truncated cone business worked out pretty well, just a bit of trimming and PSR needed after it was glued in place.

Here's the whole thing perched on its barbette.



It's not all that large, as you can see, but it's as near as I can make it 1/350 th. shape as the one The Gun was mounted in aboard the Furious. I've got to put the rangefinder housing on it yet, and I think I'll laminate that out a few layers of 40 thou.