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Thanks all for the kind words, I made a little more progress today, I made a small bridge plate to connect the floor sections. The hex nuts are placeholders till I get some square ones made.

I am also checking the proportions of the canopy.









Michael

Superb.

There's some serious all-around, multi-media craftsmanship going on here.....
Beautiful work, Michael

That actually looks like it would be pretty comfortable.

a little more progress the pipework is now soldered together, and a new design for the canvas canopy because the other designs were not satisfactory. The new canopy called for grommets so I had to make them.

they are .081 overall diameter.







The lacing is a brown Coban cotton thread







that is all so far.

Michael

Excellent!
Such a simple solution too!
-Marty

Wow, you are definitely making the most out of modeling in the larger scale ... great stuff.  -- Dallas

Satisfactory. -- Russ

Amazing! I feel better now seeing someone more detail crazy than me.

Looking good! How'd you make the tiny grommets?

Thats just mind blowing. Did you use regular canvas for the roof?

Thats a superbly clean modelled effort.  Working large scale does have its advantages.  Its starting to look like an excellent collectors piece.  Thanks for the continued updates.

Cheers,
Dan

Thanks everyone for the support.
regarding how I made the grommets, just put some .081" brass rod in the lathe then turned down a shoulder to .060" x .030" then drilled a hole with the smallest centre drill .050" just deep enough to let the chamfer reach the end face, then switched parting tools and parted it off leaving a .010" flange. they did get a bet tedious and next time I will use these

http://www.eyeletoutlet.com/round-eyelets.html which I found out about afterwards. These will be great for sails on model boats as well. they have them in 1/8th and 1/16th


cheers Michael

As  usual, your dedication and skill have blown me away!  On the eyelet website, does 1/16th inch refer to the size of hole required for the eyelet, or something else?

Bill Martinsen

Hi Bill
I was told that the 1/16 refers to the overall diameter of the eyelet, I am hoping to order some so when I get some I will post a drawing of the actual size. with all the relevant dimensions.

regards Michael