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Hi Aldo, great to see you again my friend.   Computer crashes don't help do they?   What the others have said as far as solving the computer problem might work.
 
I'm not sure why you'd want to plank over what's there. I think I read that right?  Looks pretty good from here.
 
If you don't have access to the plans here at MSW, ping an admin.  I'll be glad to vouch for you. 

Hi guys, I just came from a long break from ship building
 
My old computer, containing all my Triton CAD drawings crashed two years ago, plus I've been very busy with my health work ups, my job, as well as new hobbies that captured my interest, hence, shipbuilding took a backseat.
 
Last night however, I chanced upon a documentary on HMAV Bounty so I was inspired to take a peek here and see how things are doing in the model-shipbuilding world. I thought I'd also post photos on the small bits of progress I've accomplished.
 
Time sure flies, just a few years ago I was building Triton's hull, and now.......    well, I'm still building Triton's hull
 
I was finally able to finish the 1st planking and gun-ports today, thanks in no small part to that Bounty documentary 
Here she is awaiting her last plank:

Whether scratch-building or building a kit, one of the most satisfying steps for me is sticking in that last plank...   OK, it's a sharp, pointy plank that is a glaring violation of planking rules, but this is just the first planking so cut me some slack 

Once I start second planking, I'll decide whether I will properly pre-spile my planks like I did in my Pegasus or be a lazy violator of planking rules... if by chance I go with the lazy-violator route, please feel free to give me 40 lashes
 
The Admiral is using my workshop so I'm left to take pictures on the TV stand

I'm happy to report that the bulge on the aft portion has disappeared with the revised aft bulkheads I've taken from the NMM draught of Triton:

The fore bulkheads were also taken directly from the NMM draught and I think the resulting shape seems acceptable enough based on this shot taken at an angle from the bow:

 
 
NEWEST CHALLENGE TO HURDLE 
 
Like I said before, my computer crashed, taking with it all my Triton CAD drawings, including the expansion drawings that I made for the stern and its windows... I worked so hard on that and it took me such a long time just to get it done since I'm just a newbie at CAD. I was planning to have that stern and all those stern windows laser-cut to make my build easier, and to have window sills that look "to scale"... but now all those have gone pffft 
Up to now, all the computer shops here suggest reformatting the computer but that will delete all my saved files
All I have left is this NMM Triton draught, which is too large to be scanned for uploading to my CAD program:


I am left with 2 options:
 
1. Cut my NMM draught into smaller pieces that can fit my scanner so I can load it again on CAD. Then redo all the drawings that I previously made (I'm hesitant to do this since I was planning to frame my NMM Triton draught and hang it beside the model when I finish her, and more importantly, I feel too lazy to redo everything that I drew all over again).
 
2. Continue my search for a computer shop that can somehow retrieve my files from my computer so as to save myself from a redoing a lot of work.
 
I've been going with the second option for the past 2 years, I'm just too lazy I guess

Hi Sjors,
 
Just catching up, wow you're really building a fleet of ships of the line my friend, and the speed of your build is amazing!
Beautiful and clean build Sir, she has some lovely lines

Hi Sjors,
 
Just catching up, wow you're really building a fleet of ships of the line my friend, and the speed of your build is amazing!
Beautiful and clean build Sir, she has some lovely lines

Hi Mike,
 
It's nice to see you building this beautiful frigate, I too love the lines of this particular model, you're off to a good start my friend, she's shaping up nicely
I really enjoyed reading your discussion on establishing the identity of this ship, excellent research work 

Hi Mike,
 
Just catching up, beautiful work, my friend, she's coming along beautifully, I love the robust shape of the CW Morgan

Hi Nils,
 
Just catching up, you've done a beautiful job on your ship, and that figure really brings it to life, excellent work

Hi Ben,
 
Just catching up, she looks amazing, stunning work Sir!

Hi Mark,
 
Just catching up on your build, you've done a beautiful job on your hull and deck planking. 
Wow! You've really taken gone deep into the dark-side doing your own laser-cutting, excellent work on those laser-cut guns and carriages

Hi Grant,
 
Thanks for dropping by as well as the good words and advice, so far I have yet to see a print shop here with a big enough scanner for a large NMM plan, but I'll keep looking I see that you're also busy with other projects like me, don't leave the shipyard too long, my friend

Hi Christian,
 
Thank you for the kind words as well as the advise on using cloud as backup as well as taking out the external drive of the computer, I'll ask the computer shop to try out that option

Hi guys, I just came from a long break from ship building
 
My old computer, containing all my Triton CAD drawings crashed two years ago, plus I've been very busy with my health work ups, my job, as well as new hobbies that captured my interest, hence, shipbuilding took a backseat.
 
Last night however, I chanced upon a documentary on HMAV Bounty so I was inspired to take a peek here and see how things are doing in the model-shipbuilding world. I thought I'd also post photos on the small bits of progress I've accomplished.
 
Time sure flies, just a few years ago I was building Triton's hull, and now.......    well, I'm still building Triton's hull
 
I was finally able to finish the 1st planking and gun-ports today, thanks in no small part to that Bounty documentary 
Here she is awaiting her last plank:

Whether scratch-building or building a kit, one of the most satisfying steps for me is sticking in that last plank...   OK, it's a sharp, pointy plank that is a glaring violation of planking rules, but this is just the first planking so cut me some slack 

Once I start second planking, I'll decide whether I will properly pre-spile my planks like I did in my Pegasus or be a lazy violator of planking rules... if by chance I go with the lazy-violator route, please feel free to give me 40 lashes
 
The Admiral is using my workshop so I'm left to take pictures on the TV stand

I'm happy to report that the bulge on the aft portion has disappeared with the revised aft bulkheads I've taken from the NMM draught of Triton:

The fore bulkheads were also taken directly from the NMM draught and I think the resulting shape seems acceptable enough based on this shot taken at an angle from the bow:

 
 
NEWEST CHALLENGE TO HURDLE 
 
Like I said before, my computer crashed, taking with it all my Triton CAD drawings, including the expansion drawings that I made for the stern and its windows... I worked so hard on that and it took me such a long time just to get it done since I'm just a newbie at CAD. I was planning to have that stern and all those stern windows laser-cut to make my build easier, and to have window sills that look "to scale"... but now all those have gone pffft 
Up to now, all the computer shops here suggest reformatting the computer but that will delete all my saved files
All I have left is this NMM Triton draught, which is too large to be scanned for uploading to my CAD program:


I am left with 2 options:
 
1. Cut my NMM draught into smaller pieces that can fit my scanner so I can load it again on CAD. Then redo all the drawings that I previously made (I'm hesitant to do this since I was planning to frame my NMM Triton draught and hang it beside the model when I finish her, and more importantly, I feel too lazy to redo everything that I drew all over again).
 
2. Continue my search for a computer shop that can somehow retrieve my files from my computer so as to save myself from a redoing a lot of work.
 
I've been going with the second option for the past 2 years, I'm just too lazy I guess

Hi Daniel,
 
Just catching up with your build, wow, it's nice to see the all the frames in place, she has some lovely lines

Hi Grant,
Just catching up, now this is a unique and interesting project that you've tackled my friend, I will be following along the wings of your flying machine

Hi Grant,
Just catching up, now this is a unique and interesting project that you've tackled my friend, I will be following along the wings of your flying machine

Hi Nils,
 
Just catching up, you've done a beautiful job on your ship, and that figure really brings it to life, excellent work

Hi Ben,
 
Just catching up, she looks amazing, stunning work Sir!

Hi Mark,
 
Just catching up on your build, you've done a beautiful job on your hull and deck planking. 
Wow! You've really taken gone deep into the dark-side doing your own laser-cutting, excellent work on those laser-cut guns and carriages

Hi Grant,
 
Thanks for dropping by as well as the good words and advice, so far I have yet to see a print shop here with a big enough scanner for a large NMM plan, but I'll keep looking I see that you're also busy with other projects like me, don't leave the shipyard too long, my friend

Hi Grant,
Just catching up, now this is a unique and interesting project that you've tackled my friend, I will be following along the wings of your flying machine

Hello,
 
Thank you so much for your nice comments and also for the likes. I'm very pleased about this great interest.
 
Here's a little update. Some strakes below the wale and the garboard strake are fitted. The progress is very slowly because It's partial a bit tricky.
Also I needed time to find a way to add the planks without leaving any trace at the frames. Therefor the build from Ed of the Extreme Clipper is a great help.
 

 
In the TFFM-book this strakes are reffered to as thickstuff under the wales. There is a little step from the second to the third strake to see on the following photo. That's why the thickness of the strakes decreases. I will sanding down them when the fourth strake is installed.

 
That's the current progress.

Hi Aldo,
 
if the hard discof your old computer is ok, you can take it out of the computer, put it in an external drive station and put it with the USB port on an other computer. if you're lucky, you get access to all drawings, you have done. 2011 my old notebook crashed and I could restore a lot of my work on this way. In the meantime I store my data in an cloud, to avoid these problems
I wish you a lot of luck with your data.
 
You're hull is looking really well.

Hi Nils,
 
Just catching up, you've done a beautiful job on your ship, and that figure really brings it to life, excellent work

little update :
 
stb side now equiped with small sweep-port shutter doors (open mode), the port side will become closed sweep-ports...
 
Nils
 

 
 

 

Thanks Piet 
 
Here are the promises pictures with the tung oil.
In the mean while I've bin busy with some other stuff.
I have place the upper stern part.
Easy to glue 
Next thing are the top bow batten and bottom bow batten.
I hope it will work because I have to bend again.
But we shall see.
 
Sjors