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Jim Lad
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Hello, and welcome to MSW. John
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David, some of my family arrived here in 1788, and I still haven't' adapted to our hot and humid summers! Those yards look good, mate! John -
She'll be sailing before you know it, Pete. John
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A good stat, Pete. Now all you need to do is find a brass light switch! John
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Hello Michael, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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Hello Honza, and a warm welcome to MSW from 'Down Under'. John
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Vic Smeed - now there's a name from the past. I think my first ever model making book was by Vic Smeed - just check my bookshelf: 'Boat Modelling' by Vic Smeed, first published in 1956!!! That looks a very neat little yacht, Peter. John
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A continuing beautiful piece of work. I'm not sure about the proposed stand, mate - it looks a little spindly. John
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Hello TMJ, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. Don't give up on your kits. Many of our members build fine and accurate models based on kits - they call it 'kit bashing'. John
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Thanks to all those who have hit the 'like' button. Wefalck, I have a building stand that supports the model when I'm not working on it. John
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The first section of internal planking is now on and treenailed. As usual with my planking, it looks a real 'dog's breakfast' prior to clean-up. I was going to clean up this first section and add the deck clamp before doing the upper section of planking, but I've now decided to continue with the planking and clean it all up in one go. I have some commitments coming up that will keep me away from the museum for the next few weeks, so the next update might be a while. John
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Hello Robert, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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Beautiful work! It certainly looks professionally done. John
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Hydraulic Dredge by Steve Harvath
Jim Lad replied to Steve Harvath's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
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Hello Kukukar, and a warm welcome to the forum from over in Sydney. John
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Just catching up with what you've been doing, Danny. That's amazing work! John
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Excellent work, Caroline! What a beautiful little model. John
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Kit manufacturers often show a planking pattern in the way that you have arranged your battens, but this is not how a real ship was planked. ships were planked in the way that Mark has shown in his sketch above. On a hull where there are extreme shapes the planks may become too narrow towards the bow and/or stern, in which case 'stealers are employed; a stealer being a strake of planking that is merged into its adjoining strakes. The photo below show a stealer on an actual ships hull - this is the 'City of Adelaide' I have circled the stealer for you. A stealer might be merged into two planks like this, or merged into one plank or it may simply be that two strakes end short of the bow or stern and are butted to a single plank. The planking of wooden ships is an interesting study and worth spending a bit of time on if you want to build accurate models. John
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