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"Fascinating, complex geometry" you say? Just wait until you get to the head timber geometry - your head will spin! The notches for the head rails get progressively angled as you go forward. It's a challenge. The aft end of the lower rail may need to be a moved little more toward the centerline? Would that solve the discharge tube issue (pun intended)? -
What is "flat-floored, apple-cheeked hull"
druxey replied to RussR's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Here is a model of Resolution that shows these features:
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That is a lot of light!
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Converting a Backyard Shed into a Model Workshop
druxey replied to Hank's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
If you go the chessboard route, I can guarantee that any light colored pieces you drop will land on white, and any dark pieces will land on - yes, you've guessed it! -
This has a ZAZ number in the corner, so is part of the Royal Museums Greenwich collection. I don't know whether there are copyright concerns involved here. However, it is a nice illustration.
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Again, I should mention that Mr. Friedman has had recent health issues, so please be patient with him! It is a small business catering to the ship model community, not a large publishing house.
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Your fairing of the bulkheads looks good. If you look at planking articles on this site, you'll see that planks usually have to be shaped to fit properly. Straight planks are only good for siding a flat surface like a house. You will either need to cut curved planks or edge bend straight ones. (There are tutorials on MSW on both methods.) Then your planks will lie flat.
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contact adhesive
druxey replied to Liad's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
Avoid contact cement if at all possible! Another thread just mentioned planks springing loose later on.... -
I was lucky enough to catch the display at Greenwich. It was fascinating to see the 'new' model by Matthew Betts alongside the contemporary Erebus model. See: https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/66676.html
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Very neatly done, Andy!
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Spars are all proportional to each other and to the size of ship. So you should be able to re-size them to 'fit' any other ship-rigged vessel.
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Supplement is on sail making. Scale spar and rigging plans are in a pocket at the rear of Volume IV.
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A wooden horse? That's interesting. Could be a real impediment forward! Nice work as usual, Maury.
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Bravo again, Javier!
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Nicely shown, Mark P! These show all the intricacies of the headwork clearly. I have similar photos that I took years ago, but all on 35mm slides, unfortunately.
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Those chutes in your photo seem to be either side of the second head timber, not forward of the third (foremost) one. And yes, the headwork is in the line of 'drop'. However, at sea I'm sure this was washed clean! In harbour it would be a different story....
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You make a number of very good observations in your carving tutorial, Marc. You are absolutely correct in that you can't make something unless you can draw it (or have a drawing of it). Two small points one might add: one, directional light to cast shadows and show highlights while carving. Two, make a maquette in modeling clay to work out the piece in 3D first.
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I wondered for a moment what the 'Pacmen' were for! Nice progress.
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Your secret is safe with us - for a price! It is interesting to see the relationship between all the components making up the headwork. May I suggest that there is no seat of ease that far forward? Any gratings there rise steeply with main rail. There would be one as you have it (or even twinned ones) ahead of the middle head timber and another, as you've drawn it, in the aft outer corner between the roundhouse and main rail. I've even seen a two level two-holer in the corner like stadium seating!
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You have to please yourself, Gerard, but know what it is (or isn't) that you are building. Enjoy the experience!
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Not to pour cold water on your project, but Davis' Lexington is a fiction - a pretty one, but still a fiction. Davis' book entranced me as an 11-year old when I found a copy in my local library. I renewed the book over and over at the time. I wanted to build a framed model too! Many years later, I did, but not of Lexington. A few years back Dr. Clay Feldman did a study of what he thought Lexington really looked like. His articles appeared in The Nautical Research Journal. I can't quote the date, but someone like Kurt Van Dahm would know.
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Have you tried using SilkSpan paper? I've not tried limp sails, but furled ones worked out well, as the material can be re-wetted many times without tearing to be shaped as needed.
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Beautifully executed, Johann. Very impressive work indeed.
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