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drill press/mill decision
thibaultron replied to peewee's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Drill presses are not setup to handle the lateral forces, nor are the drill chucks or chuck to spindle attachments designed for the end mills tendency to pull downward into the work piece. Get the real mill. Been there done that, with larger pieces. -
Not quite as nice as some of the 3D renderings I see here, but here is my 3D drawing of a Maryland Terrapin Smack from Chapelle's Migrations Of An American Boat Type. I started from a low resolution Public Domain scan (72dpi). I plan to build a test half hull with cardboard and balsa. I will buy a real set of plans, before I build a real model. For now I have the material, and this drawing, until I get a bit more money.
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Lindberg/Pryo "War Of Independence Sloop" is the "modern" name of the old Pyro Roger B. Taney. It is frequently available on Ebay. As I recall, this was Pyro's pirated copy of the Model Shipways kit. I believe it is about 120 to 140th scale. Look at the inner and outer outlines for the closed gun ports, I have heard that they are misaligned slightly, a minor correction. There is some question as to whether either kit is really the Taney. Chapelle who originally labeled the drawings as such, apparently later found different research that indicated they may be for a later type of revenue cutter, one of which was sold to the then country of Texas and named War of independence. I have one, and plan to build her as the Taney.
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I acquired this kit and was wondering if it represented an actual ship, or just a fictitious one?
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Yes, my kit had 3 sheets with the same parts printed on all 3, the bottom large sheet in the above photo. even a decent resolution photo of each sheet from directly above would work, I could make scaled drawings from them, using CAD. I'll probably use different wood anyway, as the sheets are thick balsa.
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I used my flatbed scanner, and carefully scanned them. It took several scans as mine is a letter size scanner, but I got them. Had to be gentle with them.
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Help needed! I recently bought a kit for Evangeline on ebay, but when I recieved the kit there were 3 sheets with copies of the sheet with the keel and half deck, no printed sheets for the other parts. I called Freedom Song, and the owner said he is no longer in business, and sounded quite frail. Can someone send me scans of the other 2 large sheets and the small sheet?
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Brave men.
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Thanks for the help! I'll try the sponge in the tube first, when I get back from vacation. I have some 4" PVC, I just need to get a couple end caps, and a union (cut a piece of plastic for the center to keep the plans and sponge separate). I can open the plans but don't want to handle them much, until I can strengthen them. The Model Expo plans are for 1/48th POB, rather than the kits 1/96th solid hull, and cost more than I paid for the model. I'm going to keep track of their sales though, sometimes they have the plans on discount for reasonable prices. I did stumble across the instruction book for the 1/48th solid hull the succeeded this kit, so I now have much better instructions than the few page typed ones that came with the original kit.
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Announcing the Model Ship World Ship Kit Database Project
thibaultron replied to SkerryAmp's topic in Wood ship model kits
Are you going to include data on kits that are no longer made, if the data is available? This might be helpfull to Ebayers for example. Scientific and Sterling come to mind. -
I have recently purchased an old Model Shipways (Yellow Box) model of the Benjamin Latham. I bought the older kit as it is 1/96th scale (close to a couple other fishing schooner kits I have), rather than the newer larger 148th kit they now offer. My problem is that the kit plans have aged to the point that they are quite brittle, to much so to simply have them photocopied. In addition they are folded, and are ripping in places. I am thinking of mounting them on a larger sheet, then having them copied and using the copies during building. Are there any suggestions on what adhesive to use, that would give some time to arrange the pieces, or some way to "soften" them, while still allowing for mounting? I think just taping them will only cause the plans to rip near the tape.
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I recently acquired a kit, "Steingraebers Kleine Reich no 2 Fischutter HF 83" Wood Model Kit from West Germany. The kit box and instructions do not mention the history of the original boat. Does anyone now what the prototype was for this kit? "Fischkutter" translates as Trawler, but tthat is as far as I can get. Any help will be appreciated. I bought it as something different from my mostly US based models.
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DesignCAD (by the same company) is also a good reasonably priced CAD program. I have been using it at home, in various versions, for the last 20 years. It has both 2D and 3D capability.
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