24 June 2010 | soldering

Well after saving all the bits, it's really important to getrid of all the resin still on the photoetch bits or you can't solder it at all!I dipped all my bits in some Acetone bath and cleaned them with an old brush

Okay let me present THE bit that i suppose will be the mosttricky part, that's the engine to fetch the anchor, I don't really understandhow it works -with steam? there should be some gearing somewhere but I can'tfind where.

oh well, here's the real thing extracted from the plans onthe left.

On the right I have already soldered the cylinders on which

I suppose the chain of the anchor goes, It gives the rightoutline.

then I covered the bits with Magic Sculp and rolled itagainst some cylinder of the same curve to get some perfect shapes.

Note that the "cylinder" is actually some topssoldering paste that i bought after some recommendations I read on the MLforums.

01 July 2010 | further detailing

Well, here are some details added to the anchor crane..

And then several other details i could make through fromplans and the picture I showed earlier liken those 2 tiny chimneys as well asthe T shaped thing whose purpose escapes me..

First let's roll the PE bit i did first over some suitabletubbing

then let's solder it and fix it on some plastic tubing ofthe right diameter..