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If I see your new kit and some frome CAF and other manufacturers I asked myself why I started scratch building. Really wonderful with a lot of innovative ideas.
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Ship Ribbing with CAD?
AnobiumPunctatum replied to Sanjith_D's topic in CAD and 3D Modelling/Drafting Plans with Software
I disagree with your meaning, @Dr PR . I have reconstructed until know 3 different ships in 2D and for the first one most of the frames build following my 2D drawings. Everything is fitting really well. I also checked my 2D reconstruction with 3D models with the help of a colleague and there are also no waves. For construction in 2D it is really important to check the hull with buttock and horizontal lines. If you forget the buttock line it can produce waves. I am in the moment busy with the frame drawings for the sloop Fly and I am quite sure that the hull will also be smooth. For my CNC I give later a few tens of a millimeter to allow some tolerances during the build. These are the biggest inaccuracies. -
As the weather has been nice over the last two weeks, I've swapped my little shipyard for my bike. As a result, I haven't got as far as I had planned. As I wrote in the last part, I want to try a different technique for the after deadwood, especially to avoid milling on both sides. Firstly, the individual components of the deadwood are milled once with the correct side and once mirrored. In order to be able to glue the two sides together later, recesses are milled into which fitting pieces are glued before gluing them together. The next picture shows the components removed from the board and trimmed. Before gluing them together, a few small curves that inevitably result from the milling cutter must be removed. I do this with my little Proxxon. The last picture shows the individual components after gluing them together. A weak point became apparent when machining the parts. The direction of the wood grain of the tabs, which are used to position the finished component on the keel, follows the overall part. It would have been better to mill the tabs separately and rotate the grain by 90°. This would have made the components much less susceptible to breakage. In the next part of the report, both sides of the deadwood parts will be milled and the deadwood glued together.
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The first component for the backbone of the Alert is the Fore Deadwood. This was milled from a piece of boxwood. Even though I am very happy with the finished part, I will use a different technique for the aft deadwood. Before I could hold the finished part in my hands, I had a few failed attempts. With a much more complicated component, this method is unlikely to work satisfactorily.
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In Europe the first choice for builing models is pear wood. There are some compnies in the markt to buy the timber.
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Really nice progress at your prototype model. I love your different jigs.
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Great idea, Chuck. Thanks for sharing this really simple measuring tool. I love such tools.
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It's time to put the dust away. Ten years ago I started with great enthusiasm the build of the small cutter. But to be honest I was not able to reconstruct the framing of the cutter. So I stopped after some time and paused the project. In October of 2022 I started a new try. I lerned a lot and made a complete rework of my reconstruction. The first two pictures are showing a 3D-model which I used to check my lines. As written in the old posts I was not happy with the frame design in Goodwins AotS Book. In my opinion, it does not fit into the time in which the cutter was built. There are several DoF plans of small ships of this era in the NMM. What almost all of them have in common is that the double frames were dissolved. A space was also left between the first futtock and the floortimber. However, the "double frames" were still connected by chocks. The picture shows my reconstruction. I have it a little bit simplified, because I w like to plank the hull, so the shifted top timbers will not be visible. Many many thanks to @Chuck who gave me the inspiration for the simplification. Since February last year I am working on the model. All parallel frames have been built in the meantime. I am now busy with a second version of the backbone. The build is more or less a test to learn working with my CNC. In November I have started working on my sloop Fly again. The plan is to build and test the building methods on Alert and use this than for my ship sloop.
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Don't forget to check the buttock lines. If the waterlines are looking al right the buttock lines can make some problems.
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Really interesting project. I know the book and used it many years ago during my build of the Revell kit. I wish you a lot of fun during your journey and will follow with great interest. Are you sure that you have enough meet on the upper parts of your frames? It seems that they are to thin for the necessary curves.
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In my opinion the framing design changed in 1775 - 1776. You will find similiary changes also in other classes, for example the Swan class sloops. I think that Portland has the conventional framing pattern with double and single frames. For Bristol I don't know but had the same thoughts as you.
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Have a lot of fun during the workshop. I hope you will share thr result also with us.
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Hello from the Ruhr area in Germany.
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It's looking really fantastic, Chuck.
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