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Your thoughtfullness to post the drawings is encouraging me (and hopefully others) to do the same. In my case, I am working on the 23 foot launch again. Two methods have been tried, the second keeping in mind folks with only a modicum of tools that can still do a scratch build in any scale. Drawings are done, and the second build method is about half way home. Allan -
This continues to be a fun journey BE!!! Oars are some of the trickiest things to make, at least in my own experience. Laser cut means only shaping so a big plus versus making from scratch. I mostly use David Steel's scantlings for barge oars as well as for other ships' boats and wonder how they compare with what comes with the kit. Allan
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Welcome to MSW Botra You have 43,000 new friends and helpers here to share their thoughts on everything from what tools to buy or avoid, kits to buy or avoid, recommended books and more Your comment on reading everything you can here will help you alot. Allan
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I agree, more illustrations would be helpful, but what is there is beyond any other book as there are drawings showing the differences for each era. Unfortunately no book I have found has an abundance of belaying information. I wonder if this is due to the fact that each ship seemed to have some differences based on what the sailing master and/or captain and others preferred. Studying appropriate a contemporary model is very helpful as Petersson did, but having access to them is not usually possible for the majority of us. Maybe some member with access to a slew of contemproary models of different periods can put together a book, The Ultimate Book on Belaying Points! Allan
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The list Gregoy gives is super. Keep in mind Rigging Period Ship Models is based on one contemporary model so somewhat limited. It is applicable to other ships, but.... Lees book is excellent and is applicable to over 200 years of rigging. It is highly detailed and worth the investment. If you are interested in modeling a ship built from 1600 to 1720, Anderson's book The Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast is a great addition to your library as well. No matter kit or scratch, a good reference book on rigging is very important. Allan
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How to Seize a Block to a Sail Peak
allanyed replied to Yorky1's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
This is a fantastic post with the response from Phil Watson that you have shared with us. VERY COOL. Allan -
Thanks Gregory! I missed her when down loading the high res drawings from the Wiki Commons list into folders. These folders are set up by number of guns and misc. folders such as bomb vessels, boats, etc. I would love to share but there are over 40GB. MSW expressed an interest to set up a file for all members to access but other priorities over the past year or so have prevented this being done. If there is an easy way to do this for free, I would love to know so these can be shared. I have added contracts to the folders where appropriate and low res plans if a set was incomplete for a given vessel. Allan
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Out of curiousity, which Rattlesnake is your model? There were several in the RN and two in the USN. (1780 and 1813) Thanks Allan
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Those are counter timbers. Fashion piece is the aft most frame to which some of the transoms fay. I don't know the shape for Rattlesnake, but they look like the below on most ships. I think the buldges down low are less pronounced on Rattlesnake based on the dashed lines on the drawing you posted. Allan
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J As you are more or less in the beginning stages, seriously consider the three vessel series designed by David Antscherl available from Model Shipways. They will teach a lot skills that will be used in your scratch build adventures. https://modelexpo-online.com/Model-Shipways-Shipwright-3-Kit-Combo-Series_p_5465.html Allan
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Hi Yves. I am curious to learn how you arrived at this figure. I tried some calculations using scantlings from both Steel and the Shipbuilder's Repository, for a 74, Both put the sided dimension of the stem at the head at 24". Assuming the knee of the head is about the same or slightly smaller where it fays to the stem and then tapers as it moves forward to about half the thickness as was normal practice, it would be about 12". At 1:48 --- 12/48 X25.4 = 6.34mm I cannot find any other way of calculating this but would love to know of any. Thanks in advance for your help on this. Allan
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Hi Grant Blocks and their construction varied a lot so there is no set answer to your question without more information including, but not necessarily limited to, the nationality, ship, and year of the model you are building. Allan
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That sounds like a great idea to try. I have used Permatex marker pens with success as well as I can cut the applicator tip to 2" scale width but can see how this can also be done with a soft coloring pencil. A bit a difficulty in this part of this step is finding a pencil or pen that is a color that is appropriate for the sail color. Either way, it looks so much better than out of scale cloth sails and stitching lines. Allan
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How to Seize a Block to a Sail Peak
allanyed replied to Yorky1's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Great question Yorky Chapelle's American Schooners gives some details on the halyards but for the clew line, the sketches are as clear as yours. It does mention on one sketch that the block for the clew is a single and made fast to the head of the sail. No mention of how it is made fast is given. Allan -
I thought this would be an interesting material to try....... then I saw the price for one piece 2"X6"X 12" is $161. Ouch. Allan
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Welcome to MSW JC
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Welcome to MSW Wonko!!! Please post an intro with a little about yourself in the new member forum here at MSW. Your machining work and carriage assembly is extremely neat and your designs for each are interesting. Allan
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No worries Cisco. Looking at many contemporary models at Preble Hall and RMG, I could not find one where the planking is parallel to the deck line. This brings up an interesting point..... why are they different? I assume it has to do with structural strength but I cannot wrap my head around this. You are so lucky to only be about an hour or so from Preble Hall. I would probably do a lot less modeling due to the time I would be spending over there if I was that close! Regarding Chuck's videos, Ihis methods to work very well but I still like to soak the wood for the heaviest bends and I have stopped using an iron and gone to an industrial hot air gun that was about $20, delivered. I find it much easier to use than the iron but to each his own. Allan
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Your work is VERY neat and clean, kudos!! For future projects, keep in mind that the gun ports are rectangular with corners that are pretty much square midships, but they are trapezoidal fore and aft. The top and bottom do not follow the line of the planking but rather the line of the deck which was different. Below is a contemporary model at Preble Hall that shows what I mean better than in words. Have you seen the planking videos on YouTube by Chuck Passaro? Allan
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Cutty Sark Photos - Free!
allanyed replied to Kevin-the-lubber's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
What is the limitation? I have saved 800 high resolution plans from the Wiki Commons site. The original thought was to have them in the articles base or similar place here at MSW with access for all members and set up for it to be live, thus able to take on new high res plans and grow. Seems this is not going to happen due to other priorities which I totally understand but I really hate to see all these plans sitting in folders on my computer rather than easily accessible to the entire membership. Maybe a dropbox set up is an alternative way to go. Most plans in my folders are between 20mb and 50mb each so we are looking at about 30gb maybe more. The plans are set up as follows and example shown below. First are the main category folders, second are the individual vessel/class folders, and last are the plans. Allan
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Slipping in from Massachusetts and Minnesota
allanyed replied to Janelle's topic in New member Introductions
Welcome to the fray!! Hope to see pics of your boats!!! Allan -
Cruizer-class Brig-Sloops of the Royal Navy
allanyed replied to molasses's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Andrew The post from nearly 9 years ago may not be valid. Keep in mind that the RMG has changed things and many files (plans, photos, documents) can no longer be easily found, if at all. Allan -
Bravo Chuck!! Phil Rizzuto's catch phrase says it all. Allan
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Cruizer-class Brig-Sloops of the Royal Navy
allanyed replied to molasses's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Guy, Yes, the four of the Columbine 1806 are great! There are also those of the Argus 1813, Belette 1814, and probably some others, As there were 52 ships in her class and all being built in private yards, there may be a number of contracts available which will give you scantlings and more information. If the contracts are of interest contact RMG and the National Archives in Kew to see if they have any available for any ships of the Cruizer class. You may have to actually list the names of each ship in order to get info. The NA site is difficult to navigate for me, but you may have better luck. The RMG site is awful since they reformatted some years back, but they have been great in responding to emails if you can find a contact. I had a few names there but I am not so sure they are there any more, but you can always start with "plans and photos at rmg. co. uk" Allan -
Cruizer-class Brig-Sloops of the Royal Navy
allanyed replied to molasses's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Hi Guy, Which drawings do you have? I found five high resolution plans of Cruizer Class vessels on the Wiki Commons site as well as a low res planking expansion on the RMG site. Looking forward to your build!! Allan
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