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It looks like a nice crowded scene. I can’t really tellfrom the pic, but your tramrails seem to stick out above the pavement. In that case it needs a little overhaul: as far as I know, teamrails was (is) always level with the surrounding street. I looked for a pic of the railprofile used around 1915 in the Netherlands: The rail hardly above streetlevel, and the groove always fun for bikers (still is ) And ofcourse: used track has a clean groove and no rust on the contact surface of the rails, disused track has some rust, and a dirt-filled groove. Jan
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amateur replied to Johnny Mike's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Below are three pics from my books. Not terriblt goods pnes, but I guess they will do. First the method Van Ijk (famous dutch writer on shipbuilding describes with respect to the tapering of the yards. take a circle inthedismeter of the spar. Devide the circlehalf in 8 equal parts, and connect the dots. The lenght of these lines give the thickness of the yard at the corresonding points (each half of the yard devided in four) with respect to the mast Van Ijk is a bit cryptic in his description. (And some interpretation is needed: measuring from the overloop (wich is the deck below the upper/main), the mast does not taper at all over a lenght of twice the length of the top. Above that, the taper is determined with the use of a cricle: but slightly different: not the circle is devided in 8, but the baseline in four parts. The remainder of the mast is diveded infour parts. The discussion is: where ends the ‘remainder’ His illustration suggests below the top, but in that case the top becomes very thin, as the taper continues till the end. taking the end of the mast gives a better result, but still ends up a bit on the ‘narrow side’ And with a slight variation, but showing the profile somewhat clearer: relatively thin at the mastfoot, thickest at the level of the overloop, no taper above, and a ‘circular’ taper above. the same ‘circular’ taper is used for the upper mast-parts. For my Prins Willem I used something like one-third without taper, and some taper above that. For the upper parts the taper is relatively small, so the difference between straight and circular was’t very noticeable. On the lower masts it certainly was visible. On the yards the difference between linear an circular it is very noticeable. They end up way too thin when a linear taper is used. Jan -
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amateur replied to Johnny Mike's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Dutch ships may have had a single taper on mast and spars, but that was not a ‘linear’ taper. Both for masts and spars the taper was (more or less) a large radius circle, leading to spars that are almost not tapered in the middle two quarters. The same applies to the masts (even more complicated: mastheads are square, and not tapered). Your model will gain by going the extra mile of recreating that profile. I dont see how you can get to that using a sanding disk Jan -
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You should also have a look at some of the build-logs of Dan Vadas. Lots of usefull info there. This one for instance, but there is more to find. https://modelshipworld.com/topic/16864-bismarck-by-dan-vadas-finished-gpm-1200-card-and-pe/ Jan
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Markers work fine, but often just plain watercolour or acrillic paint does the trick. with respect to the side wings: i should have cut the angled pieces, and glue them, instead of folding backwards: the paper I used was slightly too thick to get a nice even bend. Jan
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Although cheap sometimes means: crappy wood and even crappier instructions. That makes cheaper not the same as ‘easier’….. Jan
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Did some googling. you can use that same string to determine the position of the slots in the lower chanel. You may discover that the slots in the upper chanel need some tinkering to get enough space to set them on the correct angle Jan
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Actually, I don’t quite understand the issue at hand. To find the correct angle for the chainplates, take a dowel as dummy mast: ty a piece of string at the top (or were the top will be). Pulling that string from mast doen over the chanels, will give you the angle for the chainplates. As the angle varies from front to aftshrould, the lower end of the chainplates will not be at a straight line, but on a large diameter radius. Jan
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Smaller than I thought. I don’t know how it is in real, but on my screen gold and colours balance out quite nicely. Jan
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With respect to the deck-camber: from the drawings that Fred Hocked posted in the Vasa forum, there seems to be considerable camber. Also: the way you draw the bottom timbers is not completely up to 'usual standards: the timbers lay flat on the keel, the planking goes down in the keel-rabet, leaving an open space to collect the incoming water. See drawing no 6, on this page: https://warshipvasa.freeforums.net/thread/87/vasa-ship-plans?page=3 Jan
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Coming along nicely. Those things on the reardeck are not vents: just staircases to the lower deck (at least, ghey are in the dutch Z1, that was designed and build after the first Z1 became v108) Jan
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