spongbob

are they called ship bows /frames? Also working on cannons trying different" idea's from wood ,to bondo molding,getting some wood together. Get back in a few with some pics ...also found essex build on this site.Can i mention currently a nice essex model kit on EE baay for around 350.00 . There are so many online to say the least a lot of work" .Nothing is cemented yet', so some alignment you see ?...thanks

worth mentioning traced pics after finding plans"... Did screen shot then pasted to paint" i used the 2 x times magnifying tools (size 3 would be better to ships models of this type slightly more wood to build and easier to shape) . I placed a glass pain from photo frame over screen then traced the plans from pc paint to note paper"(tape to edge with tape, from the paper, cut and traced to wood .(in case you wanted to do it this way )once did a mustang p51 this way if you got printer just hit print but its not all in the eye most is dune with the hand so traceing seems crude 12-31-15 also ordered some mahogany veneer thinking' about some tiger wood veneer, some hemp string ,&dead eyes downloaded a bunch of .jpgs. of several great essex models so i have reference haven't found a mast yet.

was thinking of building a ship for winter project haveing built airplanes by kit or scratch . This will be a scratch built USS Essex ... History as follows a thirty-two-gun frigate built in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1799, was not the most glorious vessel in the history of the American navy, yet she was unique. Sailors throughout the world remarked on her speed and beauty of line, and the list of men who commanded her—Edward Preble, William Bainbridge, James Barron, and David Porter—reads like a who's who of the early American navy. She was the first U.S. warship to round the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean. Thirteen years later, she became the first American man-of-war to round the Horn into the Pacific, where her crew fought and lost one of the bloodiest sea battles in U.S. history. I intend to use wood possibly some resin / casting . Epoxy home/made jigs the whole ball of wax . As i work my models i get ideas for tools . The plan's i found online a search of the title may just turn up the site! A pm for tip on plan resource ? question I suppose i will cut a few corners in order to speed results i will be making some comparisons to(relying) other models on forum but i am flexible with conventional methods/ as you will see" posting first pic will try to keep em comeing will be about 5 days for lite ply to get here see you soon.. by the way way too much rake(set) on my copeing saw blade for oak lol,spelling ? olde english' thanks