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Hi Frank, I'm very sorry for being late as usual , I just learned now about your confinement last month when I checked your log after you dropped by my Triton build (thanks very much for dropping me a line there, it is much appreciated ) I'm pleased to know that your surgery went well my friend, hoping for your speedy recovery. The video looks great and works fine mate, thanks for sharing -
Hi Grant, Thanks for dropping by my Triton log, much appreciated That's a very neat and effective block cleaning tool you have there my friend, thanks for sharing this innovation
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Wow! You are on fire Mobbsie, I've been absent for less than a month and now I see that you're already making the quarter galleries Beautiful work on the galleries Sir, and planking looks magnificent too! Top-notch job as always my friend
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Splendid work on the rudder, gudgeons, pintels and other associated fittings Dan, that's a lot of details you've done there Excellent work on the bulkhead, doors and panels Sir, you must have nerves of steel to scroll saw those intricate curves so precisely Any particular tip on how to keep the scroll saw blade "in line" with the cutting line (besides practice and more practice?) Mine seems to have a mind of its own and always loves to stray away from the cutting line
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Ouch Mark, I could almost feel your pain! Still, you could consider yourself lucky that no bone was involved. Just a thought: would it be possible to add extra lengths of wood on each side of the jig, as added support, then feed the timber as one long piece and just cut it into final lengths after milling? Just my two cents. You made the right choice on the gun deck my friend, it looks great EDIT: Oooops, I must have somehow missed your last post with the clamps, Mark, excellent fix Sir, the clamps worked like a charm
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Hi John, Just catching up with your wonderful build, she's really coming along Sir, very nice fix on the pin, and rigging looks fabulous
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thanks Popeye, Peggy has temporarily taken a back seat to give way to my latest lady-love, Triton
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Hi Popeye, Just catching up. thanks for dropping by my log my friend, much appreciated beautiful work as always Sir, those masts, rigging and sails look superb
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Splendid planking work Ray, she sure has some lovely lines :-)
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very well done Andy, you showed them masts who‘s boss, masts and tops look splendid :-)
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welcome home and happy birthday, Anja:-) i‘m on mobile and can‘t attach any nice cake pictures, so i‘ll just eat a couple of cake slices to join the celebration:-) i see that these fine gentlemen have been picking on Sjors... come on guys, be kind to him, otherwise, he might cast a powerful spell on you hehehe.:-)
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beautiful set of tools Sjors, i can see the darkside roaming around the corner:-) welcome home my friend, i trust you had a pleasant trip, now we want pics of you travel:-)
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sweet looking yards, Augie, never underestimate the trusty drill my friend, it can do wonders in able hands such as you as proven by your magnificent yards.
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Hi Joe, Druxey, and Russ That confirms my suspicions about missing sections in the body plan, this is the AOTS Diana... it's unfortunate that the author didn't go the extra mile to draw each corresponding section in the body plan like McKay did in the AOTS Pandora, I guess the best option, if I were to pursue this project, would be to get to original NMM Draughts and try my hand at drafting the missing stations. Thanks very much for the help guys
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Hi to all, I am contemplating on making a POB model using the stations/cross sections in the draught below to make my bulkheads. The problem is that the cross sections in my body plan are not labeled as to which stations in the profile view does each of them correspond to (see attached pic) Am I just to assume that the cross sections on the left represent the aftmost stations in an orderly fashion without skipping any station (i.e cross section A represents station 31, cross section B represents station 28, C represents section 27 and so on, until we come to cross section H, which represents stations 17 to 0)? Am I also to assume that the same is true for the cross sections on the right (i.e. cross section number 1 is the foremost station and so on)? I'm a bit wary of doing this because this seems to produce too many identical cross sections in the waist of the ship. It seems that some stations are skipped in the body plan but the question is which station would each of these cross sections represent? Thanks in advance for the help guys. EDIT: Ooops, I seem to have made an error in where I posted the topic, Moderators, please feel free to repost this in the Plans/Research area if applicable. Thanks very much.
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Thank you very much for the kind words as well as for sharing your tips, Chuck, 42rocker, and Hoss, I will implement your suggestions Christian, thanks for offering your help on correcting the plans for the POF model, I'm sure a lot of our builders will benefit from this
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Hi guys, just wanted to share the outcome of the my "experiment" on fixing the bulge on the bulkheads. Here's the half hull mock up I made (pardon the old, worn out ply I used for this project, I wanted to make sure I don't waste any wood if my efforts fail ) I think the bulge is now gone based on the run of the temporary planks I attached. Now it's time to make a new hull using better ply....... on second thought, I think I could live with this dirty old plywood and just attach my spare bulkheads for the starboard side (too lazy to cut new bulkheads again ) Thanks very much again for all the help guys, I appreciate it
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Thanks Garward, I'll have a look into this particular wood
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Hello, While I have not built this model myself, I did build a couple of Mantua kits in the past, the main downside to them, as well as most other European kits, is that they tend to use generic fittings for most of their models and their level of historical accuracy has some room for improvement. That being said, the quality of the wood and the fit of the parts is quite acceptable and if you're not that much concerned with historical accuracy, these kits should build into decent looking ships with little modification.
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Thanks very much for sharing your opinions, Chuck, Doc, Mark and Hoss, I appreciate it @ Chuck: Thanks for the info, Sir, no worries, I just needed some opinions if my interpretation of the plans is correct. I think I could rectify the bulge for the POB using Hoss' and Mark's suggestions and the NMM draughts, if it proves to be successful, I'll post some drawings of my revised bulkheads here @Mark and Hoss: thanks for the tips guys, I've given them a go and they were very helpful. For the POB, I noticed that the offending bulkheads were the 4 aftmost ones (#27, 24, 21 and 18). Bulkheads 18 and 21 are still amenable to some heavy fairing, but 24 and 27 weren't so I took a different approach for these. I'm currently trying out how fair my revised bulkheads are with temporary planks, will post a detailed explanation and pics for the benefit of other POB builders once I'm done
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Thanks for the info, Hoss, as much as I would like to take credit for the beautiful POF Triton in the pic above, it belongs to another Triton builder I'm still in the early stage of fairing my bulkheads and am amenable to making some drastic changes to my model. At this time, I guess I have four options: 1. Just live with that bulge 2. Just scrap my Triton build and go for another ship (that AOTS Pandora/Diana perhaps) 3. Get some plans from NMM and trace the aft-most stations (Quite a risk as I the original plans most likely have some distortion and I have absolutely no experience in drafting/correcting distortions ) 4. Build the model without the 2 aft-most bulkheads to allow a smooth run on of the planks
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Shrouds are coming along nicely Sjors, very nice work
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Thanks for info Garward, I appreciate it
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Ah, that's great to know, thanks very much for the info, guys
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Hi guys, I'm currently doing a POB model of HMS Triton and when I was fairing the bulkheads, I noticed that my model had a prominent bulge at the after end directly below the aft-most gunports. This "bulge" can also be seen on the beautiful CAD model by Christian as well as the very detailed POF rendition by Wang in the build logs (see pics below): I am a bit confused because the half breadth plan of Triton at NMM doesn't seem to show this prominent feature: I'm now in a bit of conundrum if I should tweak my aft bulkheads to remove the bulge or just leave this bulge on. Thoughts, opinions anyone? Thanks very much.
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