Benjamin sullivan
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Great job, just found your build, pulling up a seat and looking forward to seeing it move along. -
ah yes, my weaponized house will soon be complete.
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thanks, that would be bad if I got them all at full size cannons.
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that's true, but my parents might not be happy if I burn the house down.
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I agree with you on those last two they seem pretty haserdise, so yea I might not add them.
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thank you...the plans appear to be 25" by 17 1/2". To get that size I basiclly looked at mesurements on the plans and kept making them bigger intel a 3in long thing on the plans was 3 in then I glued like 16 pages together. The type of cannon I like the most are the like the ones on the plans, so the size of cannon I will go with is 25mm long as it will also should be to size with the plans.
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ok I think I understand, so when you say 3d model do you mean like a finished model somebody made or a 3d rendering of a model?
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I actually do not know what the scale is but I am using the AEROPICCOLA plans but they do not say the scale on them.
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I am sorry but I am confused. so correct me if i'm wrong but pdr means the weight of the projectetil that is being shot right ?
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I don't know, honestly i'm just 15, cannon sizes and 3d printing patterns are way out of my comfort zone. This is my first time making cannons to scale so I will probably go with all the same size cannons. I do like the look of long cannons of ships tho.
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thanks, how much does the different kinds of cannons matter on a model ship is it even notable?. I have only ever made them the same size (or as much as you can with a drill press)
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yea that could work, only problem is that I have never cast metal before. a blow torch could probably be used to melt it but I don't have one.
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thanks for the drawings, so the only thing I have to work with are plans and they are the AEROPICCOLA plans. as far as cannons go you would know better then I this is what they look like on the plans that I have they seen to be cannons which is weird. Is it the carronades that like swivel ? and the cannons that look like cannons? if you know what I mean so second picture is a carronade and the third is a cannon?
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thanks I will check it out. jeez no kidding this is amazing, some people are like wizards when it comes to this stuff but out of cards!!! it's quite amazing
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So the ship is the fridgate USS Essex 1799 and had 40 32 pounder carronades. it would be a good idea to use a 3d printer actually one of my uncles has one maybe i should ask him.
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oh yea I see what you mean that is much better then what I saw, the cheapest ones on modelers central were like 1.80$ which adds up a lot when you need 42 of them
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yea that is a great long term solution for the future, and you can make a whole lot of things on them but yea it is as you correctly said "it is way beyond my budget"
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that is not something I would have thought ,of it will be interesting to see what that looks like.
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Hello, I am working on scratch building a ship, and I need to make like 42 cannons or something. So I have made them before on a drill press ,but they are a pain to get all the same size and detail is extraordinarily difficult. so is there a good way to make them, I know buying them is an option but 42 cannons can be quite expensive, also the cannons are pretty small they are 25 mm long. so yea any suggestions welcome.thanks
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kind of funny actually my grand father is a carpender and my family live on a farm so I have quite an expirence with building thing from sheds to 1.2 kilometer long fences to pig pens . we are home schooled so while we do have quite a few tools which is nice one of my uncle's works in a high school and he says they have some realy cool tools there.
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thank you, I feel like I will probiably continue making model ship's in the future as I have been into this for a while and am still quite interested. The ship I am making is from scratch and there is not that much I need to buy supply wise mabe 60$ at most, but I deffinetly look for second hand metal mini wood lathe as Cleek sudgested. cheers.
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Hello, I was wondering if any of you could help me with suggesting a mini wood lathe for my self. I have looked at a bunch of them but which ones do you think are the best from experiance. I intend to use it for cannons, spars ect the downside is that I am 15 so my budget is under 250$ which I will have once I sell my boat I am currently working on. thanks.
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thanks, I think I will just buy more. but thanks for the tip of taping the blades.
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