Heller 1:200 Titanic Searcher "Le Suroit"

[Bigkev]

Hi Zak,

Don't worry too much, that rascal Tony B, just likes to make you wince, his natural ability with all things small and fine beats us all into submission. It looks very good so far though.........

Bigkev

[zak]

More railings, making them is getting a little tedious now.

[Bigkev]

Zak,

As its Steering Group Meeting tomorrow night you can have night off Ow's that??

Bigkev

[zak]

Had the night off with some steering group or other, done a little more today, it is getting fiddly and I keep knocking bits off.
Dave

[zak]

More progress, some of the rails seem to have a mind of their own, or maybe its my unsteady hands.
It is coming together, slowly.
As you can see, the usual chaos surrounds the model.

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[zak]

Here is the method for constructing the rails.
The jigs are made from plastic card, the lower one is mine and the others were made by Tony B - much more precise than mine, but mine did the job, Tony allows for different spans and so on.
The top rail is 20 thou plastic rod.
The uprights are also 20 thou rod.
I tried solvent and superglue, not sure which I prefer?
One shot shows the superglue applicator - a cut off eye end of a needle in an old paint brush handle.
I place the superglue on some double sided tape and use it from there, it takes hours to go off.
The horizontal rails are made from stretched sprue,  again I tried solvent and glue and think that solvent is best here.


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[zak]

Here we are the model is rigged and on a base.

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[Bigkev]

Hi Zak,

FANTASTICO!!!

Your One hell of a great modeller!
Now where is my model room? I've got a lot of (attempting to) catching up to do.

Brilliant stuff Zak.

Bigkev

[councilman]

Looks real good Dave.
The detail is spot on.
Andy.