iMustBeCrazy
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Wow, that's looking really good Tim. Perhaps a hair (literally) more off the highpoints of strake 5 but that's being pedantic. -
The concept works, but back to planking for now.
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Getting there, getting there.
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Well, if I can pull this off the guns will have functioning carriages.
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Just say 'several lifetimes, but it seemed to go faster than that'.
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Thanks. Lets call it about 18 hours work. But to be fair half of that was letting glue dry.
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A little progress, seven strakes of the first planking. I added temporary spacers for setting the gap between the deck and the sheer using rubber cement, this sets the position of the bulwarks. Holding the bulwarks in position proved difficult and there was nowhere to clamp them so I added tabs inside the sheer strakes. That worked well but means I will be fitting the bulwarks before I finish the first layer of planking. I also looked at doing a 'proper' carriage for the guns. It's still a little too tall.
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Not really, on my launch I used shellac and a cheap (stiffish) artists paintbrush. One coat and only enough brushwork to make sure I didn't miss anywhere and that it wasn't too thick (no pooling). Really quick and it looks like bare wood. See posts 65 & 66.
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You've done such a lovely job, it's a real pity about the beech. I think you need to seal the inside to help stabilise the wood though.
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The reasons are complicated but it boils down to 'I have to move the stem forward by this much': For those complicated reasons mentioned above, I thought (incorrectly) that it should touch the deck as in the pic in post #22. (Note: balsa has already been added to fill out to the end of the deck compared to the pic in post #22.)
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That was and still is the plan, the stem will just be further forward than I had pictured in my mind but where it is supposed to go.
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Ok, I made a boo-boo. When making my balsa bow filler I assumed that the planking finished inside the stem (which it does) but I forgot, didn't understand that the stem is intended to be fitted after the planking is finished. As a result I made the filler to accommodate the planking allowing it to fit inside where I thought the stem should be but the stem is actually going to be about 2.5 mm further forward. (don't worry, the picture will help). This is with the stem in the position I thought it should be: What I now have to do is fill this gap, later the stem will be fitted the same distance further forwards.
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Looking it seems 'just below the gun ports' might be the standard. Ultimately a painting is just a data point, now if you could come up with a photograph... 😁
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More worms. These are two captured French cutters (late 1700s) Two other drawings I have show just above and just below the deck. So far only American drawings show near the top of the bulwarks. But..........
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Ok, deck planked. That took longer than I expected. It showed up some asymmetry forward: And some shots of the new bow fillers:
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So does this one, well that's going to change.
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Starboard side aft of the aft stanchion it bends up, there is also a kink aft of the next stanchion forward, I really doubt it's rope.
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Thanks Keith. I have balsa blocks in now, roughly shaped but I need to think in 'double planked' which is new to me. The general idea with it seems to be 'make it boat shaped' instead of the shape of a specific 'boat' (understandable as a model of a replica of a generic French cutter I suppose). A 12 year old would just slap it together and be happy, maybe I'm just too pedantic. Anyway, I think I'm going to have to fit a strake then fair for the next one, then rinse and repeat until the shape finds itself. I may have to fit the keel and step about 5 steps early. We'll see.
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From the kinks in it and the guy sitting on it my guess would be galvanised steel cable. The colour was probably dull grey with rust flecks. You could look at braided fishing line (probably with CA or epoxy wiped into it) or multi strand stainless fishing leader.
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Relax, no you just have to make her pretty. It's a smaller gap than mine (see the last two pics in my post above). I called mine 'splinter planks'. What's that? When you stop learning, you're dead.
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You get to claim credit for some of the inspiration. I'm not.
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The 'sonar dome' is going away! There is a drawing that shows it in profile. I took a tracing, did some measurements, drew it in CAD, cut it out from an off cut of the original ply and glued it on. Looks almost original. I still need to add balsa fillers but I'm on the way. Deck planking is a little over half done.
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If you download my cutter plans (see the build log) they're on page 1.
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If it works. It's certainly not a first for this forum. For example allanyed built a 1:64 Bounty launch. Mine can carry my Renard and this cutter would make it look like an aircraft carrier.
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