Chuck Seiler
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Chuck Seiler got a reaction from Canute in Bottom Red: Eternal search for that perfect weathered look.
While in the Navy, I got to see the underside of my destroyer while in drydock. I think red primer would be a good color. I know it is not acrylic, but....
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Chuck Seiler got a reaction from mtaylor in Bottom Red: Eternal search for that perfect weathered look.
While in the Navy, I got to see the underside of my destroyer while in drydock. I think red primer would be a good color. I know it is not acrylic, but....
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Chuck Seiler reacted to RossR in Occre Diana (Spanish frigate 1792), low quarter gallery windows?
I have recently started building this kit. The gallery windows are made up of two separate castings with a photo etched brass piece for the window in the middle. I may try to fabricate a wooden filler piece between the lower casting and the photo etched brass to raise the window. It looks like there will be space between the upper casting and the railing for this to work.
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Chuck Seiler reacted to LyleK1 in Planking improvement
I might also suggest the half hull project from NRG's store.
It's inexpensive and is a great teaching tool specifically geared toward planking.
Having said all of that, as others have expressed, it's a learning experience and I've found you get better with time and experience.
I think the work you've shown is decent!
Keep after it!
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Chuck Seiler reacted to ccoyle in Chris Watton and Vanguard Models news and updates
A 1/64 scale seventy-four would quite literally fill a huge gap -- in anyone's display space! 😬
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Chuck Seiler reacted to flutlo6180 in Drinking from the firehose
Hi Dave. Welcome aboard!
Chuck's advice is spot on. I learned the hard way during my first build that pressing on isn't the answer - errors don't get better with time.
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Chuck Seiler reacted to Gregory in Planking improvement
While it might be a little late for this build, the instructions for the Syren Ship Model Medway Long boat, available here:
https://syrenshipmodelcompany.com/medway-longboat-1742.php
is a great planking guide for this and similar builds.
While the Medway Longboat kit provides pre-spilled planks, the same results can be achieved with edge bending.
The videos found here:
Will show you how to bend planks to make them lay flat on a curved bow and avoid the gaps you refer to up above.
The same thing can be achieved with spiling, but spiling may not be practical with a kit, where wider stock for cutting your own planks has not been provided.
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Chuck Seiler reacted to Picard in Planking improvement
Hi,
first of all, thank you for reply.
You got a point: is easier just to glue the piece thinking “one plank less”. Just today i told myself that i can improve only with time and patience. Maybe repeating a job if i’m not satisfied of it. I’ll keep in mind this suggestion.
Talking about the plano bevel, this was the first time i did. So i have to pratice and better understand the technique.
Ad majora
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Chuck Seiler reacted to No Idea in Planking improvement
Hi Picard - firstly I think your planking is actually pretty good and it just so happens you are comparing your efforts to a very experienced builder.
So this may not be popular but many issues with planking including my own is time. Planking takes a lot of time to get right.
It just cannot be rushed and takes a lot of planning and fitting - if a plank doesn't look right its probably not but often its easier just to glue it on.
Keep going buddy - make mistakes just like everyone else including me as its a great learning curve.
Incorrect bevels tend to lead to wide gaps between planks and incorrect tapers make the planks look crowded at the stem.
This is just my thoughts - Cheers Mark
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Chuck Seiler got a reaction from robert952 in Planking improvement
While definitely NOT an expert in planking (I struggle on a regular basis) I see some areas that might be helpful.
I believe your garboard strake does not go far enough forward and bends down. I always have problems with the garbord, but getting it right is one key to proper planking. Continuing it as indicated gives a better angle for the next plank and sets up a better distance for follow-on planks. This allows the follow-on planks to be tapered to fit the hull, whether spiled or edge-bent.
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Chuck Seiler reacted to jud in Where’s the Binnacle
Before GPS but Loran was in use on larger vessels, all we had was a chart, magnetic compass and a fathometer to navigate from Bellingham, Washington to SE Alaska and back with a King Salmon Season between. We used the compass and visual cues to steer by, paid close attention to the chart and water depth, verified by the fathometer, to verify where we were while running or fishing. When caught by fog, we listened for horns and followed a bottom contour chosen from the chart to find our way in to a place to anchor. We had no Binnacle but there was a gimbaled Nautical Compass mounted which was adjusted to the magnetic field it occupied with tested and certified correction tables at hand. All forward of the wheel of the 34 foot King Salmon Troller, Cape Race,1965. Don't remember needing the correction tables, would pick a course, get on it and visually correct if necessary, we were running the Inland Passage or when fishing, had islands in sight most of the time. Did have Binnacle's, Engine Order Telegraphs, Gyro Repeaters and of course Radar, on every Navy Ship I rode, they were a Fletcher Class Destroyer; a Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser; 3, 542 Class LSTs and some others doing my reserve time.
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Chuck Seiler reacted to Bob Cleek in Where’s the Binnacle
Of course. What I said was that an inshore craft had a greater need for a compass. I didn't mean to imply that a sea-going vessel didn't need one at all! I suppose the better way to have put it was that every vessel needs a compass (okay, except maybe canoes and dinghies.) A vessel would have the same problem at night with an overcast sky as it would in a thick daytime fog. You can't steer a vessel with any efficiency without a reference point, which the compass provides if you can't see the shore or the stars. While a binnacle may be moveable and not seen on every contemporary model, the helmsman would have a hard time steering a straight line without one if they had no point of reference.
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Chuck Seiler got a reaction from Keith Black in Where’s the Binnacle
A follow on to Allen's point... attached is a photo of my SULTANA showing how the binnacle is secured to the deck. In retrospect, I could have used smaller eyebolts and line, but....
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Chuck Seiler got a reaction from Keith Black in Where’s the Binnacle
Sorry. I quoted Bob Cleek, not you.
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Chuck Seiler got a reaction from mtaylor in Where’s the Binnacle
Sorry. I quoted Bob Cleek, not you.
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Chuck Seiler got a reaction from Gregory in Where’s the Binnacle
Huh? A sea going craft still needs to know which direction to go. (or I should say the people sailing the craft.)
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Chuck Seiler got a reaction from mtaylor in Where’s the Binnacle
Huh? A sea going craft still needs to know which direction to go. (or I should say the people sailing the craft.)
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Chuck Seiler got a reaction from mtaylor in Where’s the Binnacle
A follow on to Allen's point... attached is a photo of my SULTANA showing how the binnacle is secured to the deck. In retrospect, I could have used smaller eyebolts and line, but....
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Chuck Seiler got a reaction from allanyed in Where’s the Binnacle
A follow on to Allen's point... attached is a photo of my SULTANA showing how the binnacle is secured to the deck. In retrospect, I could have used smaller eyebolts and line, but....
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Chuck Seiler reacted to Jaager in Planking improvement
I think that Mother Nature limits the width possible - except for CA Redwood size timber, so I have not made much note of the width - believing 10"-12" to be the outside limit. No reference to footnote.
It was the thickness. It was from the 1840-1860 large commercial carrier - speed = money period that my memory wants to assign this. I was thinking when I saw it - they really could have used a laminar flow test tank to see the effect of sharp irregular edges of the step down planking.
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Chuck Seiler reacted to Jaager in Planking improvement
Maybe try to leave the top edge of the garboard strake straight?
The bottom edge straight where the keel rabbet is parallel with the baseline?
Only trim the bottom edge where the stem rabbet is rising and to fit the sternpost rabbet?
Save the width adjustment for the rest of the planks between the garboard and the wale?
I have seen a few ships where the garboard was twice the thickness of the rest of the bottom planking.
There may have been enough differential movement stress between what the keel wanted to do and the garboard wanted to do that making the garboard less than robust was a bad idea.
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Chuck Seiler reacted to PostCaptainAubrey in Greetings from North Carolina
Hello everyone,
I am beginning my venture into model ship building and am very excited about it. Have never done any extensive modeling except for some crude plastic airplane models when I was much younger, so no experience here and am diving in without hesitation! Waiting on the OCCRE San Juan kit as my first attempt. Will be converting my at-home office into a space to build in, hoping it will do.
Grew up going to the beach frequently and can remember attending a day camp at the Maritime Museum in Beaufort NC where we built wooden tugboats.
Glad to be here and looking forward to logging the San Juan build.
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Chuck Seiler reacted to catopower in Hannah by ccoyle - Ship Model Okumoto - 1/70 - Colonial Schooner - on indefinite hold
🙂 My turn! The right hand image shows the frame looking at it directly from the side, but the frame is rotated as it would appear in position on the model. So, it's viewed at an oblique. But it's only showing the outer edge of the frame, and not the whole frame itself.
Might help if they had drawn in the rest of the piece, kind of like my very poorly drawn outline here:
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