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Ok I have some more pics

He has them lettered from and to ribs like from A to E and so on and a they are all precut

Ok here's the latest its almost time to start switching to larger size planks the starboard side is almost finished

Here's another pic he changed the holddown clamps fit on the outside of the ship

So far the model is a beautiful model but who ever had drawn up these plans as my father says " should be shot" because he didn't know how to represent things properly. We never had this problem when we were building R/C 1/4 scale airplanes

It is very plausible that it could work have you ever heard of a Venturi? It more like the smokestack and hood upside down the hotter the exhaust is the faster it will rush past the fan blades turning them and in turning what is ever on the end of the shaft, oh BTW if you don't know what a Venturi is it basically was on most if not all cars at one time before fuel injectors were invented so yes I very much could if not did work at one time

Thanks Coleman and Dan,

My father is a natural inventer/engineer, and we have a blast with the little stuff like that you are right it is more of a science to us but it's the way we think we like to have our ships looking straight .i say we because ill be building two more hulls from this kit having made copies and templates of all of the parts before they get used

So I can make her sister ships as well from scratch

Another update it looks like it's starting to look pretty good

Ok a little bit of an update he has done some work and I'll post some pics of what he has done so far

The top pic is what he made to hold the planks against the hull.which is plastic cloth spins with nails epoxied in.

The lower pic is of his home made miter box for his razor saw from a couple of blocks of red oak

Ok I do have to say something about the fuss being made about the plans being off first I was an R/C airplane modeler building directly of the plans weather they were off in scale isn't and wasn't an issue if a person bought plans of this model and used the plans as patterns the ship will still come out the same I suggest using the plans as a guide and not take everything for granted that the plans are spot on being a modeler is having the skill and knowledge to work past it if you know the plans are off for the pieces you need to make from templates just cut the wood a little larger and custom fit them until they look and fit right. so may I suggest to getting back to ship building. Are you crying? There's no crying in model ship building. And no whining either lol

Hello Patrick so far I like your redesigned stern but I have one question isn't the rudder going to interfere with one of the timbers? You eliminated the block that had the hole for the rudder I would like to see how you figure out a solution to this.

For this build my father will be the Shipwrights. But as he builds this I'll be making two sets of templates so I can build the sister ships the uss United States and the Uss President from scratch and once I get the piece's made I'll start my own build logs for those in scratch build log section of this site

The above pics are of how my father plans on holding true and square

Constitution model shipways father and son 1/76 scale

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If I'm correct the constellation is in the same class as the congress. The Constitution, United States, and President are in the same class because the distance between perpendiculars is the same