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jud reacted to SIDEWAYS SAM in HM Bark Endeavour by Sideways Sam - Caldercraft - 1:64
Steps, skids and chesstrees.
Thought I would fix these before the channels.
Will be using masking tape as a guide and for spacing.
Steps need to be parallel to waterline and rear face will need
to be chamfered so that the top face of each step is horizontal.
The fewer pieces of kit fixed around this area the better
when carrying out this operation.
It took five hours to fettle and clean 28 steps, 4 skids and 2 chesstrees
and I didn't drop a single piece on the carpet.
Photo below shows the size of each step.
When you have four thumbs and one finger on each hand you need to concentrate.
Best regards,
Sam.
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jud got a reaction from Canute in a drafting tool or paper weight
Google flexible curve. The one I have had for 25 years is a STAEDTLER. Have not used it since I started using CAD, but it worked well for those pesky Highway Spirals I once had to draw and later stake out on the ground. Did on occasion need to use drafting paperweights to keep it stationary on large curves. Those weights were shot or sand filled round shaped leather pads we used for keeping plans flat, still available, also easy to make but an old boot in a plastic bag, bulky, but would do the job.
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jud reacted to Roger Pellett in a drafting tool or paper weight
Another lines drawing trick that I have found useful is to draw lines at twice the anticipated model scale. Lines for a 1:48 scale model would be drawn at 1:24. After tracing the drawing in ink on Mylar I then have half size contact prints made by an architectural printing company. This makes closely spaced lines easier to draw and any inaccuracies are cut in half.
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jud got a reaction from bruce d in a drafting tool or paper weight
Google flexible curve. The one I have had for 25 years is a STAEDTLER. Have not used it since I started using CAD, but it worked well for those pesky Highway Spirals I once had to draw and later stake out on the ground. Did on occasion need to use drafting paperweights to keep it stationary on large curves. Those weights were shot or sand filled round shaped leather pads we used for keeping plans flat, still available, also easy to make but an old boot in a plastic bag, bulky, but would do the job.
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jud reacted to Roger Pellett in a drafting tool or paper weight
Here’s mine. I cast them in a homemade sand mold in 1965. I still use them as I do not use CAD. Splines are ripped from straight grained spruce left over from wood canvas canoe restoration projects.
Roger
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jud got a reaction from mtaylor in a drafting tool or paper weight
Google flexible curve. The one I have had for 25 years is a STAEDTLER. Have not used it since I started using CAD, but it worked well for those pesky Highway Spirals I once had to draw and later stake out on the ground. Did on occasion need to use drafting paperweights to keep it stationary on large curves. Those weights were shot or sand filled round shaped leather pads we used for keeping plans flat, still available, also easy to make but an old boot in a plastic bag, bulky, but would do the job.
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jud reacted to Jack12477 in a drafting tool or paper weight
They look like these. From collection of Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston NY
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jud reacted to druxey in a drafting tool or paper weight
Usually a number of them hold a flexible curve or batten in place on the drawing board. Sometimes they were referred to as 'whales', I believe.
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jud reacted to BETAQDAVE in a drafting tool or paper weight
It's actually a drafting tool. Several of these hold a flexible spline in place and used for drawing curves.
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jud got a reaction from Canute in Ship paintings
Fine picture, they were busy ships in all their rolls. Thanks for the posting your work, all of it and especially this, you must have covered most of the ships of WW2 and many under sail. Couple of photos of USS LST 44 on the net, your work portrays her better.
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jud got a reaction from Canute in Ship paintings
Winston Churchill stated: " The destinies of two great empires seemed to be tied up on some God damned things called LST's." Over 1150 were built, kind of important ships that received little glory, yet did a big and diversified job.. Make my request for your efforts depicting an image and the role of the LST. Yes, I rode 3 of them in the Vietnam war.
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jud reacted to Vegaskip in Ship paintings
Should have said, It is supposed to be 'Off Gourock' on the river Clyde, an assembly and dispersal point forConvoys.
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jud got a reaction from mtaylor in Ship paintings
Fine picture, they were busy ships in all their rolls. Thanks for the posting your work, all of it and especially this, you must have covered most of the ships of WW2 and many under sail. Couple of photos of USS LST 44 on the net, your work portrays her better.
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jud got a reaction from mtaylor in Ship paintings
Winston Churchill stated: " The destinies of two great empires seemed to be tied up on some God damned things called LST's." Over 1150 were built, kind of important ships that received little glory, yet did a big and diversified job.. Make my request for your efforts depicting an image and the role of the LST. Yes, I rode 3 of them in the Vietnam war.
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jud reacted to Vegaskip in Ship paintings
Sorry,I no longer do commissions. This is the only one I’ve ever painted, and it’s part of a Diptych which is in the Russian Arctic Convoy Museum at Loch Ewe
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jud got a reaction from BLACK VIKING in Ship paintings
Fine picture, they were busy ships in all their rolls. Thanks for the posting your work, all of it and especially this, you must have covered most of the ships of WW2 and many under sail. Couple of photos of USS LST 44 on the net, your work portrays her better.
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jud got a reaction from Jack12477 in Ship paintings
Fine picture, they were busy ships in all their rolls. Thanks for the posting your work, all of it and especially this, you must have covered most of the ships of WW2 and many under sail. Couple of photos of USS LST 44 on the net, your work portrays her better.
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jud got a reaction from mtaylor in Can anyone explain this curious gun station detail on Gibraltar?
As the hanging ropes are depicted, they are used to mask the location to an approaching foe. The Eyes on both ends would allow for a bar or pole to be inserted through all, restricting their movement and preventing twisting and tangling while they were being trained to hang properly. They were also probably used with a bar or secured pole to restrict movement and tangling during high wind conditions. What you see is what you get, they are not Mantlet's or intended to mimic them.
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jud got a reaction from Keith Black in Can anyone explain this curious gun station detail on Gibraltar?
As the hanging ropes are depicted, they are used to mask the location to an approaching foe. The Eyes on both ends would allow for a bar or pole to be inserted through all, restricting their movement and preventing twisting and tangling while they were being trained to hang properly. They were also probably used with a bar or secured pole to restrict movement and tangling during high wind conditions. What you see is what you get, they are not Mantlet's or intended to mimic them.
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jud got a reaction from Bob Cleek in Can anyone explain this curious gun station detail on Gibraltar?
They were called mantlets as the article says, it also states that they were woven rope, not hanging rope and intended to stop projectiles and at Gibraltar flame from setting off unprotected powder. The hanging ropes in the original photo are not mantlets and would fail to stop shot or flame. When I was doing a lot of archery, to extend the life of my backstop bales of hay, I would hang a piece of old carpet, about a 6' X 6' piece, in front of the bales to stop the arrows, they never reached the hay. Was shooting an 80 pound compound bow, the arrows would strike the carpet and as it was free hanging from the top, it would rise and bunch up absorbing the energy, much as a true manliet would do. Replacing the target area was a simple matter of attaching another piece of carpet over the shot up main carpet.
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jud reacted to Bob Cleek in 1860 Deckhouse roof
They used raw, non-prestretched canvas, tacked down around the edges over and Irish felt underlayment. They threw hot water on the canvas to get it to stretch tightly over the shape of the roof. Some actually applied the paint over the canvas when it was still damp. I wouldn't recommend using waterbased paint for this purpose. I'd use a solvent based "porch enamel." It's best to use an enamel that chalks when it ages, in order to minimize paint buildup on the canvas. The enamel paint was thinned well to soak into the canvas easily.
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jud got a reaction from mtaylor in 1860 Deckhouse roof
Thanks for that, have used painted canvas for siding and roofs on canopies and on small sheds, the boiling water I missed, sounds like an improvement. Canvas shrinks when wet without help, so maybe 2 or 3 coats of wet latex would accomplish the shrinking with better penetration for my occasional needs.
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jud reacted to Lieste in Can anyone explain this curious gun station detail on Gibraltar?
A document which includes a description of a British engineer proposal for baise stripes suspended from iron rods to conceal the embrasures, and a Russian use of rope in the same way (along with a mantlet of rope wound around the barrel (as a disk, tightly constructed) to prevent the heavy losses from canister and musketry.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KDZWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=rope+screen+embrasure&source=bl&ots=f6wpJySIsu&sig=ACfU3U3aYOyBuV2ZHjg3Fq6C5YDE-Lv_tg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwieWC34P6AhWDg1wKHaIyAsgQ6AF6BAgWEAM#v=onepage&q=rope screen embrasure&f=false
So the screen is as above suggested most probably for concealment, but a mantlet is also likely on the gun itself to give protection to the gunners.
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jud reacted to Bob Cleek in Can anyone explain this curious gun station detail on Gibraltar?
I think Lieste has found some authority for the "screening" explanation. Good research work!
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