Don's maiden voyage in Cincinnati. (I
understand the paint & details will follow soon. - Phil) |
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Beautiful water display. The plumbing
includes a valve that allows the fire monitors to operate together or
separately. I pinched off one hose with a clip supplied to glue the
hull halves together. |
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(I'm afraid these nozzles look much better than
mine. They are a bit more true to scale. -Phil) |
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Instead of bending the brass tubing, I cut
them at an angle and soldered them together. The two nozzle inserts are
pulled out to form a tapered nozzle. Nice detail with the handle. |
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This is the underside of the front deck. Nice
heavy duty installation with a small 1/32" 3-ply aircraft ply, from
hobby shop, reinforcement to the nozzle
mount. |
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Rear fire monitor has a similar 1/32
3-ply reinforcement. |
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Switch mount detail. This hides the switch
and doubles as an antenna mount for the removable Dean's antenna. I had to
make the rear nozzle permanent because the hose would rub on the drive
shaft so I needed to put a right angle elbow under the deck. |
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Switch and antenna as seen from the top of
the cabin. This mount is made from 1/16" 3-ply aircraft plywood. |
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Oh, I remembered that I forgot to tell you
about the cell phone-looking thing on the pilot house... It is a handheld GPS unit, I was using
it to check speed. It reached a whopping 1.9 MPH!!! : ) Don.
(at 1:48, that is 91.2 MPH! <joke> -Phil) |
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