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It takes a bit of searching on eBay, but you can find vintage/antique ivory piano keys for not too much. Here's one listing. Piano keytops range somewhere between 1/8" and 1/16" thick. It might not work for the bulging portions of the figures, but the large flat plates might be useful for the background relief carvings. I got a free piano a couple of years ago and was very seriously looking into restoring it. In the process I found out that you can't buy new ivory, but it's perfectly legal to buy existing manufactured goods made from ivory. You can't import or export it th
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HMS Leopard by toms10 - 1:85 scale POF/POB
Leopard replied to toms10's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
What is she supposed to be holding in her hands? Ship's biscuits? Scrubbing pads (with the straps around her hands)? Cymbals? Not an indictment of your modelling/sculpting skills, which are much better than mine. Do we even know what they were supposed to be? -
HMS Leopard by toms10 - 1:85 scale POF/POB
Leopard replied to toms10's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Not the OP, but I just had to show off a bit with this. My son and I built a star fort on Orange Beach in December. He did the gateway (and the little wall around the gateway) by himself. It was fun explaining enfilading fire to him. We had started adding parapets when we ran out of time and had to go get ready for dinner. -
Hi Chuck, Would there be an outlet hole in the quarter gallery's floor, below the seat's hole? It doesn't look like there would be anywhere for such a hole to go, what with the carved bit supporting the quarter gallery's floor from underneath. Or does the seat in fact go over a chamber pot? If so, I'm guessing that either the seat or the kick panel would have to hinge to allow removal of said article. Or possibly the seat could just be loose, fitting snugly in the nook formed by the two walls and the kick panel. Then it could simply be lifted off for maintenance access to
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Hi Phil, Thank you very much for the thinking through all of this so clearly. I went through your numbers and they seem to correlate well with what I have, especially taking into account the British vs American mast lengths. Mine are a bit shorter, but then again, I'm partial to the Royal Navy. And my schooner's painted black, with a yellow/ochre stripe in the Nelson chequer. Since my build comes out of a banned kit, I can't show you what the masts look like in situ, but I can show you this picture, since this is all scratch-built from maple dowels I got at Woodcraft
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I like this interpretation. I think I'm going to go with that in my build. It just makes so much sense. You still have all the strength of a main stay going straight down to the forecastle, but on one tack you can leave one jumper stay slack. And since the jumper stays might not be quite as strong as a traditional main stay, you also have the stay going to the foremast head. Another benefit is that you don't deviate too far from tradition. You can still be said to have a main stay going to the deck, even though it's only technically true.
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I really really like that the ship's boat is mounted on top of a hatch. The only time that hatch is going to be open is when stores are going in. Stores which are being ferried across by the boat. So there's no time when you'll want to open the hatch without already having the boat in the water, out of the way. Very clever use of deck space.
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Joe, In order to understand, I had to draw this one out for myself. Here's the drawing I came up with:
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My theory is that the main stay runs from the top of the main masthead to the top of the fore masthead, clearing the tip of the fore gaff. You can see a think line in that area in almost all the pictures, making me think that it's standing rigging. The taut line (sometimes two) running from the bottom of the main mast head to somewhere around the fore chains is then a preventer stay, used in port (to prevent the masts from rolling out) and in heavy weather (to prevent the main stay from breaking). The slack lines running diagonally down and forward is then either the f
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It looks like I left out a picture. It was supposed to be this one: Here you can see a slack line running diagonally across the fore gaff sail, from the top aft to the bottom forward. Is his the starboard main stay? Or is that the fore gaff halyard? Here's another picture where it's shown clearly: This picture shows a line running from the bottom of the main masthead (or slightly below), forward and diagonally down and then terminates in a single block. The line that passes through the block looks like it could be the fore yard's port side brace. But it doesn't
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In this picture of Pride II, there are two taut lines runnig from the bottom of the main masthead to around the foot of the foremast, but close to the bulwarks on either side. Are these the dual main stays? And then in this picture (also of Pride II), there's a slack line running diagonally across the fore gaff sail, from the top aft to the bottom forward. Is his the starboard main stay? Or is that the fore gaff halyard? If that's not the starboard main stay, where is it then? Or was that dual main stay only rigged as a preventer stay while in port?
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So... it turns out that measuring a hull is a bit more difficult than I had imagined. I can draw the thin in CAD, I can do all the math, that's not really a problem, but getting measurements that are accurate enough to mean anything is another matter. I tried to make a jig that's basically a flat plate with coordinates, mount the hull on a stand and then use a dowel sharpened to a fine tip, mounted on a block of known height and then trace horizontal lines around the hull. The idea was that I can then get 3d coordinates for a bunch of points on the hull and transfer that to CAD. Unfortunat
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That's a really good idea. I'll see if I can calculate the center of buoyancy, center of gravity and center of sail pressure. I have some formulae for that. As to the particular ship, well, this is a banned kit. I bought it for my nephew but ended up starting it myself (he builds plastic car kits and my wife didn't think he'd be too impressed to get a box containing a few sheets of wood and one sheet of instructions). As far as I can tell it's a scaled down copy of the AL Harvey. I've looked at all the AL Harvey build logs on MSW, but I couldn't find any mast lengths or ratios
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Right, so last night I redid my whole spreadsheet from scratch. I did this in three ways: I measured line drawings in Chapelle's book and calculated the ratios between the mast lengths and hull length/breadth for those drawings. I chose drawings that looked good to me. Then I used those ratios and applied them to my build to get the various mast and spar lengths. There quite a bit of variation. I used Fincham's tables at the back of the book, which gives ratios to extreme breadth and waterline, and calculated min and max values for each mast and spar. I used Rankine's r
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