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Newsletter of the Midwest Model Shipwrights
www.midwestmodelshipwrights.com
February 2011
● Scuttlebutt ●
●
February Meeting Notice
Drum Sanders
By Sid Wotman, Tim Riggs & Bob Filipowski
FLAG CAPTAIN
Bob Filipowski
opened the meeting at
7:30 PM with 21 hands present. There being no guests to
introduce, we moved directly into news from the crew.
Bob George
noted the passing
of our mate,
Ken Wolf
, who last
attended our meeting in October
of 2009. We will all miss the pres-
ence and comradeship of our
most senior member. Our sympa-
thies go out to his family.
Kurt Van Dahm
reminded us
of the coming NRG Conference to
be held August 21-27 in San
Mateo (San Francisco), CA.
Some of the planned activities
include a harbor boat tour and a visit to an historical
Lib-
erty Ship
. Special hotel rates have been arranged at a
Hyatt hotel for attendees. Contact Kurt to get all the
scoop on this.
Just to be clear, a “drum sander” is not
someone who sands drums, but rather is a
drum that sands!
Seriously, a drum sander is a very use-
ful tool for shaping wood to very flat and
close tolerances - something that can not
be done easily or well by hand. Thicknesses of wood run
through a drum sander can be very accurately adjusted and
the results are always exact.
This will be a great opportunity for you to get all the de-
tails on drum sanders - it may become your next “favorite”
tool !
Our next meeting will be at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday,
February 16, 2011
At the Community Presbyterian Church
407 Main Street in Mount Prospect
PURSER
Ken Goetz
again reminded
us that dues for 2011 were now pay-
able with a 31 March cutoff to assure
continued receipt of our newsletter. If
you fit, you must remit!
Send your check for $20.00 made out
to Midwest Model Shipwrights to: Ken
Goetz, 3302 Sarah St., Franklin Park,
IL 60131.
Thanks, mates.
We were advised that
Dave Crement
of “Fleet 4 Com-
manders” RC boat club has planned a model boat show
for April 10 at the Schaumberg Park District facility. Mod-
els of all types of boats are being requested for display.
Contact Bob Filipowski or Kurt Van Dahm, if you would
like to participate.
A “Western Ship Model Conference & Exhibit” will be
held at the Pavilion on Balboa Peninsula next to the New-
port Harbor Nautical Museum March 29 - April 2 spon-
sored by the SMA, Newport Beach, CA. Information and
registration forms are available on their web site at
www.shipmodelersassociation.org
.
● Building Rope Walks ●
By Bob Filipowski & “Doc” Williams
●
If you were on hand for our meetings in July and August
of 2006, then you may remember seeing these excellent
presentations on how to build a rope walk. Bob Filipowski
and Doc Williams are our resident experts on this tech-
nique and their demonstrations can’t help but impress all
who hear them.
We saw the details on how each had constructed his
own particular device and witnessed the results as the
rope was wound.
In addition to these two types of motorized rope walks,
Leon Sirota demonstrated the use of a manual rope walk
kit he bought from “Model Shipways”, which also did a
nice job but at a slower speed and with a shorter length of
wound rope.
Whatever method you might select, the end results
were judged to be superior to any of the commercially
available modeling threads available, with the possible
exception of the “Morope” product.
2010 OFFICERS & STAFF
President (Commodore) - Gus Agustin..……… (847) 398-5028
Vice Pres (Flag Captain) - Bob Filipowski...…...(847) 394-0757
Treasurer (Ship’s Purser) - Ken Goetz ……….....(847) 678-4249
Secretary ( Ship’s Clerk) - Jim Merritt.………... (847) 888-3882
Editor (Signals Officer) - John Mitchell .……. .(847) 392-2259
Photographer (M. Chief) - Leon Sirota ...…… ....(847) 541-6285
See Rope Walk, Page 2
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P. 2
P. 2
The Forecastle Report, Feb. 2011
Rope walk, continued from Page 1
Doc Williams’
rope walk used a single motor to
drive a set of three gears (Whirlers), which
rotated in the same direction and
which each twisted one of three
strands of string attached to
their hubs. A wooden plug
(Topper) mounted on a
weighted rail car kept the
strands separated and, as the
three lines began to twist over
each other, moved forward
toward the motor end of the
device. The three-strand
Bob Filipowski’s
rope walk had two, counter rotating
drive motors and no tension weight. Compared to Doc’s
device, the tension weight was eliminated by rotating the
motors in opposite directions. One motor was fixed in
place and turned three Whirler gears in one direction
while the second motor was mounted on a moving rail car
and rotated all three lines in the opposite direction. The
Topper, mounted on a second rail car, served to keep the
three lines separate while they formed rope behind it.
Advantages to this configuration were that the rope walk
could be considerably extended, thus allowing for the
making of longer lengths of rope, as compared to the
counter weight and pylon setup.
rope was formed behind the Topper. All three lines were
connected to a swivel behind the Topper and this swivel
Both of these rope
walks will produce
very professional
looking scale rope
equal to the best
commercially available products and we thank Bob and
Doc for letting us all in on their techniques. If you would
like to build one for yourself, they would both be happy to
give you details on construction.
Leon Sirota
brought in the kit he built from “Model
Shipways” and it, too, created some fine looking rope.
Like Bob’s device, one first cranked the geared end by
hand to twist the three lines, and then cranked the other
end in an opposite direction to form the rope from the
middle outward. Drawbacks to this device are the time it
takes to manually turn the cranks and the shorter length
of rope one can successfully make. Thanks, Leon, for
showing it to us.
was rigged to a long line and counter weight running over
a pylon. This arrangement served to keep tension on the
lines so that they could form tight twists. As line was
formed, the counter weight moved upward to eventually
reach the top of the pylon at the same time that the car
reached the motor end of the track.
With this device, you could make a lot of line quickly
and, depending on the size of the thread, ropes of various
diameters. Thanks, Doc, for another great presentation.
The Forecastle Report, Feb. 2011 -
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P. 3
The Forecastle Report, Feb. 2011
● Ships on Deck ●
Richard Romaniak
added a harbor hoy alongside his
1:150 composite model of the French 74
Le Superbe
ca
●
Ken Goetz
showed us
the foremast spars for his
USS
Constitution
(1:76.8)
in various stages of com-
pletion. Stuns’le irons are
the next challenge and
any tips on making them
would be welcome. Eye bolts
have been made from piano wire
in place of the out-of-scale parts
supplied with the kit. Bob Filipowski rec-
ommended a DVD he has on Phil Kroll’s tech-
nique for making stuns’le booms, which Ken will use.
Kurt Van Dahm
has just started a new solid hull
“Bluejacket” kit of the steam tug
Lackawanna
(1:96) and
has already noted some discrepancies. After setting up
his working board with station lines drawn in and the cor-
rect drag set for the keel, he found that the plan’s hull
templates did not come close to the hull shape supplied.
Using a contour gauge, Kurt compared both sides of the
hull at the station lines and found it perfectly symmetrical.
His decision was not to redraw the plans but to use the
hull, as supplied. This project will be detailed in “Ships in
Scale” magazine for those who subscribe to the pub.
1784. Like other of Rich-
ard’s work, this one is be-
coming a diorama full of
fascinating details depict-
ing a ship going about its
customary routines while in
port. A very enjoyable dis-
play, mate.
Bob Sykes
says he has one month invested in the work
he has completed on his 1:55 “Mamoli” model of the
Roter Lowe
. Bob painted the hull decorations by hand, as
Editor’s note
The real Lacakanna was a steel hulled, ocean going tug
of 340 tons operated by the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western R.R. Co. out of the port
of New York, N.Y. She was
launched in 1900 at Camden, NJ
by J.H. Dialogue & Son. Measur-
ing 137 ft in length with a 25 ft
beam and a 14.7 ft depth, she was
propelled by a triple expansion 3 cylinder steam engine
generating 92 horsepower. Her fate was to be sunk in
Nantucket Sound as a result of a collision with a barge
being towed by the tug Triton on the evening of August
15, 1915. Today she lies in 20 to 50 ft of water in Nan-
tucket Sound and is a registered dive site.
he didn’t like the looks
of the pre-painted paper
overlays furnished with
the kit. The results
were excellent and the
degree of overall finish
remarkable, considering
the short time he has
been working on the project. Bob did allude to a slower
building pace in the future, but that will probably only add
to the perfection of his results.
See Ships-on-Deck , Page 4
The Forecastle Report, Feb. 2011 -
P. 4
P. 4
The Forecastle Report, Feb. 2011
Ships-on-Deck, continued from Page 3
Len DiCicco
is busy working out
the many puzzling details on his
1:98 “Corel” kit of HMS
Victory
-
and with good reason; this is one
very large model. Kudos to Len for
tackling such a challenging project
and applause for the results he’s
achieved thus far. To the right is
the manufacturer’s photo of the
modeler’s intended result.
Len is a bit concerned with the value he got in this kit as
compared to his last project, the USS
Constitution
, also
by an Italian manufacturer. While the
Constitution
went together without
a hitch, this one is giving
him real problems,
particularly the
printed
Andrew Savin
, taking a temporary rest
from sticks and string modeling,
has tackled the 1:350
“Minicraft” plastic
kit of the
RMS
Titanic
.
Even though he
thought the kit
was not very
good, there was a
lot of research available on how the
Titanic
really looked.
This makes it possible for him to add extra realism. An-
drew started by adding scale wood decking. After a web
search, he found that HO scale 1x2s were just right for
the job and was able to glue them to the plastic hull using
regular plastic model cement. Because hull plate lines
were inaccurate, he sanded the hull and added the cor-
rect lines by scribing them. Portholes were all drilled by
hand. Additional details will be added using photo-etched
parts as well as rigging lines of fly fishing line. Great
start, mate.
Doc Williams
has mounted the
planking battens on the hull of his
1:64 “Model Shipways”
Charles W.
Morgan
kit and installed the top
section of planks. Seeing this kit
being built is a great practicum in
“how to” build up a planked hull. Use of the solid fillers to
provide a solid mounting surface and now the use of bat-
tens to guide the installation of the hull planks is very “by
the book” and a joy to see.
stern detail
plates. Pre-cut
parts did not fit
well and re-
quired lots of
filler. The un-
derstatement of
the night was:
“The instructions left a lot to be desired”. Next up will be
the final planking layer and cutting out of the gun ports
using the curious template as a guide. You’re doing
great, mate. Hang in there. She will be a beauty.
Paul Polloway
is working out
the small details on his
1:48 model of a
4-
man Rowing
Scull
. If we look
closely, we see
the rowing seats
he made from
wood, with styrene
frames and the copper
washers used for roller
wheels. Lots of accuracy for so
small a scale. At this size, it surely rates as a miniature.
Nice work, mate.
The Forecastle Report, Feb. 2011 -
P. 5
P. 5
The Forecastle Report, Feb. 2011
● Rope Walk Scenes ●
● USS
Ward
(DD-139) ●
By John Mitchell
●
●
USS
Ward
(DD-139) was a 1,247-ton
Wickes
-class de-
stroyer in the US Navy during WWI, later APD-16 (High
speed transport) in WWII. She was the first Navy ship to
engage the Japanese during the attack on Pearl Harbor,
December 7, 1941, and successfully sank her opponent
(a midget sub).
Above: Bob on left, Doc on right, get set up under the
watchful eye of Bob Wicklander.
Career
This marks the bookend
to another
Wickes
-class
destroyer, the USS
Greer
(DD-145), reported on
last month, which was the
first US Navy ship to fire
on a German ship, Sep-
tember 4,1941.
During the action off
Pearl Harbor, the USS
Ward
was commanded by
Lt. William Outerbridge
who, as fate would have
it, commanded the USS
O’Brien
three years to the
day after the
Ward’s
No.
3 gun fired the opening
Namesake: James H Ward
Builder: Mare Island Navy Yard
Laid down: 15 May 1918
Launched: 1 June 1918
Commissioned: 24 July 1918
De-commissioned: 21 Jul 1921
Re-commissioned: 15 Jan 1941
Reclassified: APD-16, 6 Feb 43
Fate: Sunk in battle, 7 Dec 1944
Above: Doc’s twirler end to the left, Bob’s traveler car on
the right.
General characteristics
Class: Wickes class
Type: Destroyer.
Displacement: 1,247 tons
Length: 314 ft 4 in
Beam: 30 ft 11 in
Draft: 9 ft 10 in
Speed: 35 kn
Complement: 231 officers and
enlisted.
Armament: 4 x 4 in, 2 x3 in, 4 x
321 in torpedo tubes.
Wickes
No. 3 gun memorial,
St. Paul, MN
Above: Bob’s fixed,
twirler end with the car
mounted topper; rope
having been formed be-
hind the topper.
shot of America’s involve-
ment in the war. On that
7th of December, 1944,
however, the USS
O’Brien’s
guns were re-
sponsible for sinking the USS
Ward
after she was hit by a
kamikaze plane and abandoned. One of the great ironies
of the war.
Ref: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ward_ (DD-139)
Right: Doc’s twirler end
with the car mounted
topper.
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