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Michael Wish that you were in my area so we could talk and maybe swap some wood, but I'm in Fla and from the woods that you are talking about I don't believe your in Fla. Glad you enjoy doing it. Tell us some more on what you are doing some time. Harvey Did anyone take you up on your offer of 1" x 6" by 6' planks of basswood? I would if you were not on the other end of the country. Brad Sounds like you have a plan going. I have heard the one year dry time per inch before. Snowmans You also sound like you have a long time source of wood and doing the recycle thing is great also. iaincwill A drying cabinet plan, that's great. Thanks to everyone for the thoughts.. Now to find something besides palm trees and oaks. Where's the good wood?? Later Tim

On many of the machines a new thin plywood table makes a major difference. One of the other items to think about is does the machine take only one type of blade, pegged (?, with the wire posts on the ends) or does it clamp on? Next is using good blades. Many machines have been "fixed" by changing to a good blade. Also is the amount of sanding that your looking to do. Or are you looking for a almost finished surface after cutting? If your going to be sanding after to bring to true then rough cut is ok. More to think about. Later Tim

That's something thing that I've thought about also is adding items in the lower hold. rummy your thinking about ballast and water barrels and I have also been thinking about anchor rope and other things. Interesting to think about. Later 42rocker

Your cannons turned out real nice. Nice work. Your son is going to receive a masterpiece. Later 42rocker

Just received this book in today's mail. It's detail follows all of the great books in the Ancre line. Woodrat It looks like your off to a great start on this. I shall follow your build with interest as someday maybe I'll start this build also. Good Luck and enjoy the build. You have great plans to follow. Hopefully you got an English copy. I bought a used English copy however it has two plate 32's and I'm missing plate #31. So if you have an extra plate #31 and need a #32 I'm willing to swap. Later 42rocker

Your work looks great. I have the kit and someday hope to start it and finish it. Later 42rocker

OMG two posts in a roll on this dark side. Really on a simple build on a HMS Triton how long do you think that it would take to build. Don't ask me as I'm still getting my hobby stuff ready for this. And I'm doing it double size 1:24 scale. Please take a long look at the ones that are finished and think about it. If your into doing masts and sails and rigging well this might be a start that you could move over by a few frames and add a mast and rigging. Just got in a Ancre book this afternoon that I hear calling me, so. Later 42rocker

Really Robbyn, please take a look at what these kind folks have set up for us to try out. There are several cross section build kits out there. I know I own at least two of them. This is a chance to build one on your own. Instead of sending your money to a kit maker you make or buy wood. Pete38 pointed out some wood that could be used in a build that is sold at home depot. I was there the other day and did a guess on total cost that way and was under $20.00. Next big thing is do you have a jig saw type of tool. Could cut out the frame pieces by hand, but. Any rate $20.00 cost in a plain wood more if you want different woods. Need sand paper and a printer that is working (I had fun on that one) and a scissors and glue and off you can go. Start off is a nice piece of scrap wood that you can give it a try on then you get to see the rest of the plans and you get to go from there. Take a look at the finished cross sections is that something that you would like to try. Good Luck Later 42rocker

That's right both of you will be working in the same 1:32 scale. Should be interesting to watch. Later 42rocker

Robbyn Join us take a walk on the so called dark side. http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/forum/52-hms-triton-28-gun-frigate/ It's nice, it's all there and not a huge life investment. If you have build a kit you might already have most of the equipment. If you need to buy a tool or two, odds are you will use it on the next kit build, if you go back that is. Ok, kits I like modelshipsways kits, a large step above most of the rest that I've seen. Have not had the pleasure of working with a Blue Jacket kit yet. Still something is not right on most of the kits that's why I'm trying the above HMS Triton. Good Luck and look for something that will give YOU enjoyment and pleasure not hard times. Later 42rocker

Always have liked the idea of leaving part of the hull unplanked to show off some of the work that would normally be covered. Good Luck with your build. Later 42rocker

Nice to see this reposting. Another person that changed scale. I'm trying to do the cross section in 1:24. At 1:48 the whole ship is going to be large enough for me. That's about 35 inches from what I understand. At 1:32 about what is the length going to be? Good Luck on the building and I look forward to seeing more. Later 42rocker

What inside work. It's great! Later 42rocker

Grant What did you do to highlight the seams?? On your outside planking that is?? Thanks Good Luck on the build. Later 42rocker

1st completed build that I've seen with copper sheeting on it. Looks nice. Later Tim

Your detail work is great. WOW Later 42rocker

Grant """Btw, do you have copies of The Fully Framed Model?""" no I don't believe that I do, who what where is the next question. If you think that it would help out some info please on where to get it. Thanks Pete38 I'll have to check out that weather of yours. Like in about 30 days, I'm planning on doing some camping just a few miles North of you. Warmer and dry weather would be nice as I'm planning on tent camping. Any good places to get wood at in your area, need some cherry and a few others of course. harvey1847 As I stated I had to completely redo the plans. I used photoshop and took each frame and component plan and all the other plans and made a new "page" or two or three or four at 150 dpi, which cause items to double in size when they are transfered from 300 dpi (provided plans dpi size). Then I moved each and every single drawn item by cutting and pasting or whatever means needed. I transfer them to a paper size called legal which is 8.5 x 14 which is a common size paper which I can buy anywhere and all of my printers print on, some better than others. As far as my Blame game, it can only be used if I do something Great which causes someone else to follow me. I would like to think that I could do something that might cause followers but I don't believe that it will happen. Thanks for the 1:24 ruler, but one of the things that you should do when you transfer the items is to transfer the 1:48 scale ruler on every pdf so everyone of my new prints (over 150) has a 1:24 scale on it. As far as saw dust goes I made some in 1:48 in order to get the plans. Scrap wood now that I'll use for something sometime I'm sure. If nothing else got to try out that sherline rabbit cutting idea. So I'm starting over again in 1:24. Hoping to clear an area later tonight after work and cut a few test pieces tomorrow before I use any good wood. The frames at 1:24 will be 3/8 inches thick (single Fame), the doubled sister frame will be a total of 3/4 inch thick. Don't have any wood ready to go in 3/8 inch thickness yet. So taking basswood and red gum and boxwood down to the correct thickness will need to be done. That said next step for me is to label each paper frame part before I start cutting the paper apart. So it's label parts, then redo wood to needed sizes then cut it down to size and then find an area large enough to lay things out to work on. Remember finally size is double the width and double the length of the plans, except Pete38's of course. So today label and clean out an area. Tomorrow resize wood and cut paper and glue it down. I had hoped to be at this stage a few days ago but really had a fight with the printers. Always remember the term Baseball bat, makes a fellow think of things when dealing with printers.. LOL of course.. Again Thanks to those that made the plans. a lot of work went into them. And the mods of the site that keep track of everything. All ready I'm thinking of a few questions to start asking so please be ready. That's if I can't work it out of course. Later 42rocker

Really I think that I only downloaded three copies of the one item.. LOL. Happens all to often. I'll give your system a try. Something else that I've been trying to do is to include is a price code of what I've paid for things. My books being one of them. That way my wife has an idea about things if well something happens. Note the word price code, I'm not sure if I've given her the code key yet, so might be safe yet for a while, LOL. No, really she knows the code just try's to be understanding of my "investments". I really need to try to write down my book inv. Not sure if I should as the list might end up like yours. LOL. Later Tim

So here I am after fighting with three printers and finally winning with one of them. I just finished printing over 150 pages of plans in 1:24. By redoing the plans to 1:24 and making it so they would print on a printer that I own on legal 8.5x14 paper I had a fight. All total about 6 to 7 hours redoing the plans then printing them and still having to redo few where I got stuff to close to the edge I spent about 4 hours tonight finally getting the printing done. In 1:24 sometimes it took 4 or 5 pages to do what it only took one in 1:48. Still office depot roughly quoted over $500.00 to print what I did tonight. And if I need to redo something or print another one I'm set and ready. Where when someone double checks their 1:48 print they see if 4 scale feet equals 1 inch in 1:24 4 scale feet equals 2 inches. Happy to say everything came out fine. If you want to know how to redo prints like that from one scale to another pm me. Next step is to do what others have done before me. Label everything and cut the paper apart and get ready to glue down and start cutting. I guess that I should get some wood ready first. More tomorrow night. In looking at the plans all I can say again is Thanks to everyone that drew them up. Later 42rocker

Nice Work. There is so much nice stuff on this site. Need more building time. Later 42rocker

Karl Your detail is great. I have thought about buying the book. Seeing this model almost requires that I buy the book and try to build something as nice as this. THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR GREAT WORK. Later 42rocker

Thanks for sharing a few pics and info about that book. Later Tim

Wayne You and your wife have an interesting collection. I note that you have a lot of MacGregor, David R.'s books. The ones that i've seen are quite nice. I also like how you have listed your downloaded pdf files. A great idea. Better than I know that download is around here someplace. Thanks for the ideas. Later Tim

Michael Thanks again for this and the regrinding info. Later Tim

Sounds like you are enjoying your build. Looking good Later 42rocker