Hi, Don - that engine looks like you’ve been spending some time with a milling machine - the finish is excellent! I am also enjoying being educated by the conversation that’s running alongside your build - there are some clever people out there.
And thank you for mentioning Turbinia - I live in the city where she was built, and where she now resides (in the Discovery Museum). She fits the “if it looks right, it is right” criterion perfectly. As an aside, my father completed his apprenticeship at Parsons’ engineering works, but not as you might expect - he became a carpenter (we call them joiners).
Got some sun and a decent temperature today, so took my portable studio and the model out to the backyard and got a better shot, though the model is almost too big for the studio bench.
I love the stand you made. The kit supplied one is awful and anything would be an improvement but yours is a home run. Where did you get the clear rod?
Local hobby shop. It is not Evergreen, forget the name right now- mental block, but the other main source of plastic stock. It is quarter-inch acrylic rod.
They look just like the real parts we used to send out to the platers to have color-anodized. Or whatever it was, I sort of forgot. Heckuva trick, you’re a genius.
