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If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.
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Designing my own hull...
in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
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Hi, I wanted to get back into model building and build a ship this time. My idea was to make a styrene hull. I got some sheet stock ranging from .3 to 2.5mm and I'm aiming for about 900mm loa (I initially even considered making the hull from paper) It's super slender and vertical therefore the light material to get realistic buoyancy in the end. 2nd thought was this gauge is easier to work with lacking some machinery and considering some tight radii
I aim to create a fictional class of British scout cruiser from the early 1900's a bit like the Arethusa's but more speed oriented. Problem is I don't have a hull plan.
Is there an easy to use method or program to sculpt the body and then extract templates for frames? With this drawing I have nothing really except the keel shape and how it should come together on the decks.
This is just an undetailed draft and not final.
But yea how would I go about doing that? I can't use CAD and certainly not to this complexity.
Thanks.