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I'm worried about the cannon tube.I'll make in wood as Roberto told me. I'm cutting the drawings of the tower itself. My God what a creature this is!! It's difficult to join ,each side has different angles of sticking.I'm very tired.
I e-mailed Sanjeev to tell him about this diary. I went to the club to comment on modelling and some other subjects. Saanjeev agrees with the project I'll send him my progress.
Today I rest.MY wife Rose wants to write the mails so I can earn some time,and also take me some pictures.
I Love her!!!
Today has been a boring day. Yesterday night I received the last news I won't be able to count on the cannon tubes made of aluminium turned,no one can give me them on time. I started doing them of wood,I've broken many sticks,I'm not good and the loss of time makes me nervous.
Finally I finished a very reasonable pair,I finished the mouths with epoxi putty, then I gave a hand of sealer with chalk many layers. I'll see how it remains after painting.
I took 2 aluminium tubes of 6mm diamiter to build the cannon's soul,to mark them I used a drill of the Dremel.
Today Colon arrived to America, and I remained without plastic. I did little,first I went with my wife to the doctor,It was useful to clear my mind and think how to ensemble the structure,there are details that I don't want to put one over the other so not to difficult the final process. I profit from the situation and bought plastic boards of 2mm and of 1mm two boards of 100x 60cm you use them too fast.
I went to a shop specialized in aeromodelism to buy the strake of pine tree for the deck,there I started to think how to glue in an easy way wood and plastic...
Once at home I covered the racking with plastic ribbons of 1mm x 20mm and I nailed them,the nails should be there only as decoration but like that with pins it remained stronger,then I applied Putty and lots of patience to sandpaper without deforming the base.
I started to stick the strake of the deck,my blend of MEC,Xileno and cloroform went well,it melts the plastic and this unites to the porous wood,you have to make them slide in order to fix it more.
I continue sticking strakes,I remained short of wood so I'll go and buy some more;that little piece took 10m of wood strip of 3mm x 1mm. I ensembled the racking,with its socle. The turret goes foward but I didn't like its front side so I'll make it again tomorrow. I sand-papered the cannon tubes and I'll aply them a new layer of sealing.
Day Lost!!!!
I started it,trying to build the front of the turret. The revision commision, Javier, Lukas, Roberto saw the advance,they remind me the terms of the challenge in order not to loose time with details... few minutes before this mail I continue to try to build the front of the turret!! Today isn't my day,I think I'll leave everything and I'll go to sleep it's 23.00 Hs. Tomorrow'll be another day,