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jaerschen reacted to rjones726 in Triton Cross Section 1:48 by rjones726
It's Friday and thanks to my work schedule I've got the day off. The Admiral has assigned no major tasks which means I'm going to spend some time in the shipyard. I've assembled a couple of frames and have come up with a process I think will work. I'm going to take a cue from our friend Henry Ford and try to get a little mass production going on the remaining 7. While I want to be more efficient, I need to be careful not to confuse speed with quality.
By the end of the day I'd like to have the frame pieces cut out and sanded.
v/r,
Rob
p.s. I also note that I need to spend a little more time on focus and lighting.
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jaerschen reacted to EdT in Young America 1853 by EdT - FINISHED - extreme clipper
Young America - extreme clipper 1853
Part 96 – Planksheer continued
In the first picture the starboard planksheer rail is being fitted at the bow.
Pins were needed here to hold the position when clamping due to the outward flare of the sides. This part of the rail also had to be beveled on the back side to keep the top face level.
In the next picture the inside rail on the port side is being glued.
While the glue on that rail was drying the starboard outer rail was glued.
As you can see it was all hands on deck for the clamps. Anything that resembled a clamp was drafted into service to keep every part of the rail tight to the side. The next picture is a close-up of the forward rail on the starboard side.
In the next picture a dummy bowsprit has been fitted and planking has begun above the rail on this side.
I am using hard maple for the external planking. It will be painted. The last picture shows the port side ready for the outer rail. The inner rails and spacers between top-timbers are now completely installed on both sides.
Getting these rails finished – including around the elliptical stern – and planking up to the main rail is the next order of business.
Ed
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jaerschen reacted to mtaylor in Licorne 1755 by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - French Frigate - from Hahn plans - Version 2.0 - TERMINATED
Thank heavens I started over.. this is coming out better than I thought. I missed so much on the plans and pictures the last time stumbling though...
I'm making templates of the transom timbers from the plans and using the cleaned up photos as a guide. I think it's coming together much better. Here's the first two timbers in place. They're of the proper shape but not faired. That will come when all of the stern is in place lest I screw it up.
The next one, the top transom, is the challenge. It has two curves (one vertically and one horizontally) to give the stern windows their curve but also the curve from side to side. Plus... (added bonus for complexity) it has eight slots milled into it for the vertical timbers. This should be frustrating and fun at the same time. See the pic for the plan view of this timber.
Onward and upward....
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jaerschen reacted to NMBROOK in MORDAUNT 1681 by NMBROOK - Euromodel - 1:60 - Beyond Bashed
Whilst I have been doing a little work on Mordaunt,I am holding back on pics for now.However I received another delivery of Pear(some is for Royal William).I had asked Dennis at Twigfolly.com,if he had a small chunk of Pear to carve the figurehead from and he said he would have a root about.The result is the massive Pear chunk for free with the rest of the order!!!!!
Kind Regards
Nigel
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jaerschen reacted to Trussben in HMS Pegasus 1776 by Trussben - 1:48 - Swan-class sloop based on TFFM
Thanks for all the likes and nice comments.
Two more frame pairs were added aft and now I have switched back to the forward framing.
Ben
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jaerschen reacted to Dan Vadas in HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - 16-gun Swan-class sloop from TFFM plans
Thanks very much David, Sherry, Dave, John, Greg and George .
John - George has hit the nail on the head. None of my previous 12 or 13 wooden model ships have turned out anywhere near as good as this one, although each was better than the previous one. It all comes with practice .
Mast Tops
Construction of the Mast Tops begins by rebating each plank to half it's thickness where they will overlap. This was done on the Byrnes saw by first cutting a series of slots to half thickness :
The excess was cut off with an Xacto knife :
Finally they were finished with a sanding stick :
Danny
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jaerschen reacted to dvm27 in HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - 16-gun Swan-class sloop from TFFM plans
Danny and Tommy are both Aussies so maybe all Australians are gifted? After seeing Tommy in concert I wanted to turn my Matin guitar into timber for my ship model.
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jaerschen reacted to Dan Vadas in HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - 16-gun Swan-class sloop from TFFM plans
Thanks again David, George, Juergen and John .
Fore Stay and Preventer Stay
The Fore Stay and Preventer Stay are very similar to the Main Stays :
This concludes the lower part of the standing rigging. I'll be fitting Ratlines for the next week or so .
Danny
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jaerschen reacted to Mirabell61 in HMS Pegasus 1776 by Mirabell61 - FINISHED - scale 1:64 - 16-gun sloop
Thank you Piet and Jason,
I was just trying to get an overview of how many sprit boom related lines I would Need to put on, and also to establish belaying Points for those.
The Little Hand scetch (pending changes ) helps me along with that and inspired by a recent pic of Danny`s Vulture, a Detail not shown in the Amati plan, I think the 8- hole saddle stradling the bow sprit will bring some better alignment and neatness to the many bow lines
Nils
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jaerschen reacted to SaturnV in Triton by SaturnV - 1:48 - Full Framed
Ah, the gantry bridge. That is coming soon for me. I don't see any other way to get good measurements inside of the hull without one. Mine will likely be rudimentary as I have not the money or skills to build a nice aluminum one. I am off work all next week so I expect to get the keelson completed, the hull finish sanded inside and out, and then finally stain her so that I can finally see her true colors. Should be fun stuff.
Richard
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jaerschen got a reaction from Jorge Diaz O in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Hello Guys
Sanding needs much more time as I thought. I began to fit the stern-timbers to have some change.
Now it goes on with sanding
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jaerschen got a reaction from Jorge Diaz O in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Hi Guys
It's done, all the frames are fitted and even the starboard side is a bit sanded.
The next step is sanding, sanding sanding,..........oh I hate it.
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jaerschen got a reaction from Jorge Diaz O in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Hello Guys
Here's a little update of my build. I install the aft Cant-Frames at the moment. You can see my practice of the following photos. I hate it to do the same for several hours. That's why I decided to produce a Frame, install it and than produce the next Frame and so on. At this way I had a bit of change.
To saw out the parts I use a band-saw with a special saw band for slightly curves.
I hope that the next update is showing the finish of the frame build.
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jaerschen got a reaction from Jorge Diaz O in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Hi,
here the photos of the current progress. It's halftime of the frame build
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jaerschen got a reaction from AON in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Hi
here are photos of the progress before the long break.
You can see the first attempt at the first photo based on the MSW drawings. Afterwards it was clear to me that the Frame-Drawings were not suitable for a single frame build.
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jaerschen got a reaction from Stevo79 in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Here the next photos. There you can see the Ballard-Timbers.
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jaerschen got a reaction from Calista in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
If I fit the transoms I had a big trouble. The reason was a wrong angle at the top-view plan.
On the following photo you can see the correct angle and the discrepancy.
If I know that it was possible to fit transoms.
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jaerschen got a reaction from Jorge Diaz O in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Hello guy's
I will start my build of the Triton again.
Christian (AnobiumPunctatum) and I are started our builds in 2009. But we built the hull in single frame and not in double frame based of the original drawings (Christians idea). It was originally planned to use the MSW frame drawings. But I realized during the build of the fore cant frames that the MSW frame drawings were not suitable for a single frame build. That's why I had a break for about 4 years. Now I pencilled all the frames new and would like to continue the build of the frames. After the frame build I'll use the MSW drawings for the remaining build.
Now there are some photos from The keel, stern apron etc.
More photos are following soon
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jaerschen reacted to Dan Vadas in HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - 16-gun Swan-class sloop from TFFM plans
Thanks Dave, make sure you wipe your screen and keyboard every now and then .
Main Preventer Stay
The Main Preventer Stay is smaller than the main stay (1.0mm diameter) and fits around the mast head above the main stay. It's lower end lashes to the preventer stay collar on the foremast :
Danny
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jaerschen reacted to Dan Vadas in HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - 16-gun Swan-class sloop from TFFM plans
Thank you mhegazi and Nils (I'm still not sure about how many sails I'll be fitting, if any).
Main Stay
Apart from the Anchor Hawse the Main Stay is the largest rope on the ship at 1.4mm diameter. It fits to the mast top in similar fashion to the mizzen stay, and is lashed to the stay collar at it's lower end. The upper end is served to a few scale feet below the mouse :
I'd forgotten to fit the Main Preventer Stay Collar before I'd permanently fitted the foremast. It made the job slightly more difficult. To prevent the collar from shifting upward two cleats are glued to the sides of the foremast :
Danny
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jaerschen reacted to Gaetan Bordeleau in Le Fleuron by Gaetan Bordeleau - FINISHED - 1:24
some moldings on the side, a lot easier to do on the milling
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jaerschen got a reaction from wangshuoliurui in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Thanks so much for the nice comments Daniel and Nigel and also for all the likes.
@Daniel
In terms of this Triton build the most are means the double frame is much easier than the single frame. But I believe that isn't so. I think single frame have a great vantage, to get the right shape of the hull is much easier than in double frame. Although single frame is more time consuming. In relation of the optic I'm with you.
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jaerschen got a reaction from AON in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Hello Guys
Here's a little update of my build. I install the aft Cant-Frames at the moment. You can see my practice of the following photos. I hate it to do the same for several hours. That's why I decided to produce a Frame, install it and than produce the next Frame and so on. At this way I had a bit of change.
To saw out the parts I use a band-saw with a special saw band for slightly curves.
I hope that the next update is showing the finish of the frame build.
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jaerschen got a reaction from AON in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Hello Guys
Sanding needs much more time as I thought. I began to fit the stern-timbers to have some change.
Now it goes on with sanding
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jaerschen got a reaction from AON in HMS Triton 1773 by jaerschen - 1/48 - POF
Hi Guys
It's done, all the frames are fitted and even the starboard side is a bit sanded.
The next step is sanding, sanding sanding,..........oh I hate it.
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