John Cheevers
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John,
Was just looking through some posts and saw that one of your builds was the Dorothy. I have always thought I would like to tackle that someday and have all of the books that I know of on the Dorothy but no plans. Did you obtain a nice set of plans for this?
I am located in Roanoke but was very close to some of your members in the past, both of which are now gone. Marvin Bryant and Tom Tragle. Did you know these folks?
Thanks,
Bill
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Bill,
I saw your email yesterday. I am about a week from finishing the model--delivery is Friday 7/19. The model hull is bread and butter and carved 35 years ago or so. The deck house is one piece of pine which I did as an experiment in shaping wood in 3 dimensions. the rest is standard scratch construction. All scratch except the ports, the prop, and the sheaves.
I have a set of plans in 1/4"=1' scale which you are welcome to.
John
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John,
Was just looking through some posts and saw that one of your builds was the Dorothy. I have always thought I would like to tackle that someday and have all of the books that I know of on the Dorothy but no plans. Did you obtain a nice set of plans for this?
I am located in Roanoke but was very close to some of your members in the past, both of which are now gone. Marvin Bryant and Tom Tragle. Did you know these folks?
Thanks,
Bill
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Bill,
Yes, I knew Tommy and Marvin very well. They were good mentors to me. What I have on Dorothy is a combination of NNS&DD drawing number 2 and the reconstructed plan drawn by Bill Fox. I can certainly get you a copy; they don't exactly match but you can work out the differences. Here is a fairly recent image of Dorothy--it should be finished in about a month.
John
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I was stationed in the Tidewater area my last year in the Navy, tiny place called Northwest, VA. When I got out I lived in Poquoson for about 3 1/2 years before returning home to NY. Love the south, but for better or worse, NY is home and it was a long drive from VA and my mom was in failing health, so back we came. I used to visit the Mariner's Museum in Newport News fairly regularly, one of my neighbors must have been a member or something. He did restoration work on some of the models there. I took some pics when they were having a contest there. Hahn's continental frigate Hancock was there and I got to meet August Crabtree. Quite a treat!
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Man, Northwest VA is in the middle of nowhere. I live on the peninsula and Poquoson is also in middle of nowhere...LOL. I saw Hahn's frigate there in the first Scale ship model contest. I think he won. I met Hahn there. I also met Crabtree on several occasions, he was an exceptional talent. I man the ship modelers booth at the Museum on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month. If you're in town try and drop by.
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Are those lift (bread and butter) hulls? That's my preferred way of building anything except an open boat. I built the Randolph that way (profile pic) a long time ago. I wanted to build a model of the galley Washington but the plans from NRG didn't include body lines. I find it much easier to get the shape of the hull right, not to mention, an excellent surface for planking.
What's the destroyer? From the partial view I'd probably guess Gearing or Fletcher class. I tend to build 18th century stuff but just about everything is interesting (ok, maybe not cruise or container ships) I'm a dinosaur so I tend not to like anything really modern :-D
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Thanks for asking....
All those are bread and butter 1/4"-1' except the one riding piggy back which is 3/16"-1'. I prefer to built that way as well because i like too carve the hull. The destroyer is a Fletcher.. It's not mine, it was just passing through. Here is something different and a few more images showing progress.
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