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Well,  PP completed the transfer of funds, so I made the purchase of the box of plans. Today, I was notified that the box has been shipped.  I paid for the
higher level shipping.  It should not be too long before I find out if these plans fit my requirements.

Well,  PP completed the transfer of funds, so I made the purchase of the box of plans. Today, I was notified that the box has been shipped.  I paid for the
higher level shipping.  It should not be too long before I find out if these plans fit my requirements.

I have no definitive answers, just some thoughts:
Your finished product will "live" in what ever is the relative humidity of your interior environment.
A humidifier can be added to your HVAC system.  This will involve incurring added expense, attention, and maintenance.  It also involves constant isolation of your interior environment.  But you pays your money and takes your chances with this sort of choice.
I suggest that it is better to assemble in the same conditions as those of the finished object.
I would be more concerned about the transported finished models and how they fare when they equilibrate with lower humidity.
My suggestion is to step back to a wider focus and work with species of wood that are less brittle and more appropriate to begin with.  This does involve having to become, at the bare minimum, a magnitude more involved in what your shop will need.  Appropriate species are not easily obtained.

I did.  That is how I obtained the information that I posted.  I have the hope that someone with more knowledge will jump in an expand on this.
The postage on the plans is significant.  There seems to be some weight and volume there.   I am willing to take the gamble that they are what I think they are. 
 

I did.  That is how I obtained the information that I posted.  I have the hope that someone with more knowledge will jump in an expand on this.
The postage on the plans is significant.  There seems to be some weight and volume there.   I am willing to take the gamble that they are what I think they are. 
 

An email add came in from ANCRE yesterday.  I have no French, so I can only guess about them.
The subject seems to focus on the fleet of Louis XVI  that was involved in the battle at the Chesapeake Capes that allowed for the successful siege at Yorktown.
The text is French only, so I will wait for an English translation.
There also seen to be a set of what I guess are lines plans at 1/72 or smaller for many of the vessels of the French fleet.
I tried to use the main site  to translate, but the new product is not there yet.
My CC company added a new step with a password that I have no clue about - so my purchase failed.  I have to wait for PayPal to do a transfer ( with these ridiculously now interest rates, what is the point in PP taking a week to transfer funds? )  ( I neither have nor want the capability for text on a phone - but banks are seeming to act like EVERYBODY has active phone texting. )
I am really interested in seeing if this new set is really lines plans for a whole French fleet.  For one, the City of Paris is potentially a big deal here - being just down the road from Cape Henry.

An email add came in from ANCRE yesterday.  I have no French, so I can only guess about them.
The subject seems to focus on the fleet of Louis XVI  that was involved in the battle at the Chesapeake Capes that allowed for the successful siege at Yorktown.
The text is French only, so I will wait for an English translation.
There also seen to be a set of what I guess are lines plans at 1/72 or smaller for many of the vessels of the French fleet.
I tried to use the main site  to translate, but the new product is not there yet.
My CC company added a new step with a password that I have no clue about - so my purchase failed.  I have to wait for PayPal to do a transfer ( with these ridiculously now interest rates, what is the point in PP taking a week to transfer funds? )  ( I neither have nor want the capability for text on a phone - but banks are seeming to act like EVERYBODY has active phone texting. )
I am really interested in seeing if this new set is really lines plans for a whole French fleet.  For one, the City of Paris is potentially a big deal here - being just down the road from Cape Henry.

An email add came in from ANCRE yesterday.  I have no French, so I can only guess about them.
The subject seems to focus on the fleet of Louis XVI  that was involved in the battle at the Chesapeake Capes that allowed for the successful siege at Yorktown.
The text is French only, so I will wait for an English translation.
There also seen to be a set of what I guess are lines plans at 1/72 or smaller for many of the vessels of the French fleet.
I tried to use the main site  to translate, but the new product is not there yet.
My CC company added a new step with a password that I have no clue about - so my purchase failed.  I have to wait for PayPal to do a transfer ( with these ridiculously now interest rates, what is the point in PP taking a week to transfer funds? )  ( I neither have nor want the capability for text on a phone - but banks are seeming to act like EVERYBODY has active phone texting. )
I am really interested in seeing if this new set is really lines plans for a whole French fleet.  For one, the City of Paris is potentially a big deal here - being just down the road from Cape Henry.

An email add came in from ANCRE yesterday.  I have no French, so I can only guess about them.
The subject seems to focus on the fleet of Louis XVI  that was involved in the battle at the Chesapeake Capes that allowed for the successful siege at Yorktown.
The text is French only, so I will wait for an English translation.
There also seen to be a set of what I guess are lines plans at 1/72 or smaller for many of the vessels of the French fleet.
I tried to use the main site  to translate, but the new product is not there yet.
My CC company added a new step with a password that I have no clue about - so my purchase failed.  I have to wait for PayPal to do a transfer ( with these ridiculously now interest rates, what is the point in PP taking a week to transfer funds? )  ( I neither have nor want the capability for text on a phone - but banks are seeming to act like EVERYBODY has active phone texting. )
I am really interested in seeing if this new set is really lines plans for a whole French fleet.  For one, the City of Paris is potentially a big deal here - being just down the road from Cape Henry.

An email add came in from ANCRE yesterday.  I have no French, so I can only guess about them.
The subject seems to focus on the fleet of Louis XVI  that was involved in the battle at the Chesapeake Capes that allowed for the successful siege at Yorktown.
The text is French only, so I will wait for an English translation.
There also seen to be a set of what I guess are lines plans at 1/72 or smaller for many of the vessels of the French fleet.
I tried to use the main site  to translate, but the new product is not there yet.
My CC company added a new step with a password that I have no clue about - so my purchase failed.  I have to wait for PayPal to do a transfer ( with these ridiculously now interest rates, what is the point in PP taking a week to transfer funds? )  ( I neither have nor want the capability for text on a phone - but banks are seeming to act like EVERYBODY has active phone texting. )
I am really interested in seeing if this new set is really lines plans for a whole French fleet.  For one, the City of Paris is potentially a big deal here - being just down the road from Cape Henry.

An email add came in from ANCRE yesterday.  I have no French, so I can only guess about them.
The subject seems to focus on the fleet of Louis XVI  that was involved in the battle at the Chesapeake Capes that allowed for the successful siege at Yorktown.
The text is French only, so I will wait for an English translation.
There also seen to be a set of what I guess are lines plans at 1/72 or smaller for many of the vessels of the French fleet.
I tried to use the main site  to translate, but the new product is not there yet.
My CC company added a new step with a password that I have no clue about - so my purchase failed.  I have to wait for PayPal to do a transfer ( with these ridiculously now interest rates, what is the point in PP taking a week to transfer funds? )  ( I neither have nor want the capability for text on a phone - but banks are seeming to act like EVERYBODY has active phone texting. )
I am really interested in seeing if this new set is really lines plans for a whole French fleet.  For one, the City of Paris is potentially a big deal here - being just down the road from Cape Henry.

An email add came in from ANCRE yesterday.  I have no French, so I can only guess about them.
The subject seems to focus on the fleet of Louis XVI  that was involved in the battle at the Chesapeake Capes that allowed for the successful siege at Yorktown.
The text is French only, so I will wait for an English translation.
There also seen to be a set of what I guess are lines plans at 1/72 or smaller for many of the vessels of the French fleet.
I tried to use the main site  to translate, but the new product is not there yet.
My CC company added a new step with a password that I have no clue about - so my purchase failed.  I have to wait for PayPal to do a transfer ( with these ridiculously now interest rates, what is the point in PP taking a week to transfer funds? )  ( I neither have nor want the capability for text on a phone - but banks are seeming to act like EVERYBODY has active phone texting. )
I am really interested in seeing if this new set is really lines plans for a whole French fleet.  For one, the City of Paris is potentially a big deal here - being just down the road from Cape Henry.

An email add came in from ANCRE yesterday.  I have no French, so I can only guess about them.
The subject seems to focus on the fleet of Louis XVI  that was involved in the battle at the Chesapeake Capes that allowed for the successful siege at Yorktown.
The text is French only, so I will wait for an English translation.
There also seen to be a set of what I guess are lines plans at 1/72 or smaller for many of the vessels of the French fleet.
I tried to use the main site  to translate, but the new product is not there yet.
My CC company added a new step with a password that I have no clue about - so my purchase failed.  I have to wait for PayPal to do a transfer ( with these ridiculously now interest rates, what is the point in PP taking a week to transfer funds? )  ( I neither have nor want the capability for text on a phone - but banks are seeming to act like EVERYBODY has active phone texting. )
I am really interested in seeing if this new set is really lines plans for a whole French fleet.  For one, the City of Paris is potentially a big deal here - being just down the road from Cape Henry.

A first rate ship of the line was a significant undertaking for any government of the time.  A model of one involves similar effort on the part of an individual.
Should you begin to feel overwhelmed or discouraged  give some thought to leaving the project on the ways and switching to a much smaller vessel - not smaller in the actual model size - rather a smaller vessel at a larger scale.   When the basics become a familiar skill,  the first rate will seem to present a more shallow slope.

A first rate ship of the line was a significant undertaking for any government of the time.  A model of one involves similar effort on the part of an individual.
Should you begin to feel overwhelmed or discouraged  give some thought to leaving the project on the ways and switching to a much smaller vessel - not smaller in the actual model size - rather a smaller vessel at a larger scale.   When the basics become a familiar skill,  the first rate will seem to present a more shallow slope.

Ash, like Hickory and any Oak, has open pores and a distinct and distracting grain.  This causes any one of them to be a poor choice for any part that is to be left natural.  It also requires that the pores be filled if any of these species are to be painted.
If the framing is to be completely planked over and the deck is completely planked, Ash will serve, since it will be totally hidden.
 
Pet peeve about the internet:
Now, about your question as asked,  This is not any sort of competition.  A ranking based on some arbitrary score serves no purpose.  Using the superlative tense is some creature of the internet, and in most cases takes a discussion in a non productive direction. In addition, the best in a group that is all crap, is still crap.  A productive ask would be a search for excellence.  You do not supply your location on Terra.  If you are located in eastern North America, and you are seeking commercially available domestic wood that is a reasonable price,  Hard Maple and Black Cherry are excellent species to use for framing.  If you can harvest, mill and season your own wood, the choice of excellent species becomes a much larger one.

I may well be alone in this, but I have no clue about the subject of your inquiry. 
The best I can imagine is that your area of interest is steel Navy or merchant and it is an older vessel with an uneven multi coat paint job that is being simulated.
If this is the situation, the guys who do plastic models and whose focus is on the finish instead of the structure are probably a more productive resource.
For me, and I suspect many others who focus on wood, paint and the finish are a necessary evil.

I may well be alone in this, but I have no clue about the subject of your inquiry. 
The best I can imagine is that your area of interest is steel Navy or merchant and it is an older vessel with an uneven multi coat paint job that is being simulated.
If this is the situation, the guys who do plastic models and whose focus is on the finish instead of the structure are probably a more productive resource.
For me, and I suspect many others who focus on wood, paint and the finish are a necessary evil.

I may well be alone in this, but I have no clue about the subject of your inquiry. 
The best I can imagine is that your area of interest is steel Navy or merchant and it is an older vessel with an uneven multi coat paint job that is being simulated.
If this is the situation, the guys who do plastic models and whose focus is on the finish instead of the structure are probably a more productive resource.
For me, and I suspect many others who focus on wood, paint and the finish are a necessary evil.

I suspect that this particular vessel is a fictional one.  This means that it is difficult to get it wrong - since there is no specific right - as long as you are true to what was done in the particular time period.   I did a Google search and looked at the UK site for Mantua kits.  The copy reads as though this is indeed a stand in for a broad class of two masted brigantines.  The site photo shows a quarter badge and the vessel looks mid 18th century to me.
1. the site lists instructions in English. - perhaps contact with them could gain you a copy of their instructions.
2.  they list it as being 1:150 scale  -  this is well within the miniature range - it makes matching prototype practice difficult - tricks and illusions are needed -these are their own set of skills.
3. Wooden ship model kits are a unique sort of critter.  I think it is not reasonable to expect the instructions for a particular kit to be sufficient information for completion.  They should be complete in the What  for a particular vessel.  The How is a different matter.  There are books aplenty covering construction techniques and the myriad paths available to get there.  There are journal articles readily available.  This site has CD versions of three of the four major English language ship model journals.  Only Model Shipwright is being lost to time.  This is probably due to a major failure at the Suit level of the publisher.   This site has build logs.  The methods shown are far from specifically limited to the individual subject.  For miniature - there are three major books that I think can still be obtained.  If you are in anyway serious about this,  the accumulation  of a significant reference library  is all but unavoidable.  The period of your ship has a fairly large volume of available information - both contemporary and more modern interpretations.
 

I think that the garboard is the key factor.  The imperative is to avoid having it creep up  at the stem and stern.  The horizontal part of the rabbet ends farther back than is intuitive.  It is important to start cutting into the plank where the horizontal ends. 
The other suggestion is to use the planking fan to measure the spilling for each strake anew. 

In theory,  I would use a slitting blade.  Thin sheets of non ferrous metal will probably react poorly to the stress of cutting if it is pushed thru the blade by itself.
I would use thin sheets of model aircraft plywood and double sided tape to make a sandwich. The metal fixed between two sheets of ply.  Cut using one of the more coarse toothed slitting blades, but still a lot of teeth.  
I have no actual experimental data to confirm that this would work.  But, I expect that curling and other adverse problems would be avoided.
A top hold down stick and butt end pusher should resist kickback.

In theory,  I would use a slitting blade.  Thin sheets of non ferrous metal will probably react poorly to the stress of cutting if it is pushed thru the blade by itself.
I would use thin sheets of model aircraft plywood and double sided tape to make a sandwich. The metal fixed between two sheets of ply.  Cut using one of the more coarse toothed slitting blades, but still a lot of teeth.  
I have no actual experimental data to confirm that this would work.  But, I expect that curling and other adverse problems would be avoided.
A top hold down stick and butt end pusher should resist kickback.

In theory,  I would use a slitting blade.  Thin sheets of non ferrous metal will probably react poorly to the stress of cutting if it is pushed thru the blade by itself.
I would use thin sheets of model aircraft plywood and double sided tape to make a sandwich. The metal fixed between two sheets of ply.  Cut using one of the more coarse toothed slitting blades, but still a lot of teeth.  
I have no actual experimental data to confirm that this would work.  But, I expect that curling and other adverse problems would be avoided.
A top hold down stick and butt end pusher should resist kickback.

In theory,  I would use a slitting blade.  Thin sheets of non ferrous metal will probably react poorly to the stress of cutting if it is pushed thru the blade by itself.
I would use thin sheets of model aircraft plywood and double sided tape to make a sandwich. The metal fixed between two sheets of ply.  Cut using one of the more coarse toothed slitting blades, but still a lot of teeth.  
I have no actual experimental data to confirm that this would work.  But, I expect that curling and other adverse problems would be avoided.
A top hold down stick and butt end pusher should resist kickback.