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Looking good so far, Toni! It's amazing how many scraper profiles are needed. However, once you've cut them, you can use them over and over on subsequent models!
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Framing Math
druxey replied to vwmiller's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
Manual lofting is a tedious process. However, once you get into the rhythm of it, it can go fairly quickly. I've been doing it this way for years. These days I loft manually, scan and clean up the drawings on computer. Sample attached. -
Framing Math
druxey replied to vwmiller's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
Theoretically the curves are composed of arcs of circles. However, in practice this is not the case the further ones moves forward and aft of the dead flat frame.... -
The gangway was normally flush to the planksheer at this time period. Nice progress, Toni!
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Hmm.... Seems like a stretch to me. Sure it is an early anchor but, as they were hard to produce and expensive, might have been in use well into the following century before being lost. Unless there is a log stating that an anchor of that size was lost in that location by one of Columbus' ships, I remain sceptical!
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Cracking in acrylic might be stress-induced by the bolts being over-tightened?
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Not so much restore as rebuild! That is a very neat job so far, Paul.
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A beautiful evening? Beautiful work as well!
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Congrats on your growing family! Your lack of progress is excused, I think. I wish you many happy years in your new home.
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Quite the month, Kevin! My condolences. Try not to take your electronics to sea again, eh? Hopefully you'll be up and running again soon. I use a Mac Time Capsule as external back-up. As two computers can use it, it came in very useful when my wife's iMac hard drive quit. It was easy for her to download all her files on her new iMac Pro.
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Looking lovely, Frank. Great job with those raking stern timbers. All those clamps made me think of a row of exotic budgerigars perched on a wire!
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Lovely progress - but why stop now? Seriously, the model is a gem as is.
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Those railings and metalwork are first class, Adrian!
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More tools - Luthier, jeweler, fly-tying
druxey replied to vossiewulf's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
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Congratulations on completing the framing, Ben. The idea of omitting fillers in a regular pattern is a good one.
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If you look at contemporary paintings, ensigns and flags are translucent. The material had a very loose weave, as surviving examples show. You've imitated the effect very well in my opinion, Chuck. Excellent! And the rigging looks great as well.
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Oooh, nice! Also love the adjustable spanner (wrench) that you made lo those many years ago. Do I assume that the compass will work when completed? Otherwise you might just use brass for the balls (adolescent snigger).
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If that is a snatch block, the open side should face forward. It's hard to see whether yours do. Coming along nicely!
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Make sure that the set comes with the tables for setting any proportion you wish. (The photo above shows the paper chart.)
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