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  1. druxey
    Part of any discrepancy is that Crocodile is from 1781 and Steel's tables were current some 20 years later. The Shipbuilder's Repository of 1788 does not, as Allan has mentioned, give any transoms below the deck transom, as per your draught. I'd definitely go with the 'as built' draught. BTW, Crocodile is a lovely subject to model.
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    I cut a series of grooves using the gouges and veiners in a piece of softwood, then load the grooves with green honing compound. Cheap!
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    Brilliant solution to that netting at small scale, Dafi. However, the man-ropes (hand-lines) were not knotted. (I made that mistake once on a model.) It's the footropes under the jibboom that are knotted. I had to change this. Annoying!
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    Love the exhaust manifold treatment!
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    Sorry about your dye bleed, Dr. PR. Instead of shellac, a spot of dilute PVA (white) glue could act as placeholder. I also wax my dyed blocks. This might act as slight barrier to shellac, but I wouldn't bank on it without testing first.
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    All lovely tools and toys, but I think we have topic drift. The original question (unless I've misunderstood) is making a miniature chamfer on things like bitts, etc. A fine file or sanding stick does the trick. Is all!
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    What about this possibility? (A very rough version!)
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    A spot of glue will keep the martingale stays in place! Coming along nicely, Sal.
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    Very neatly observed and done - especially at small scale!
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    Fine job on those gains!
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    I'm fascinated by the replication of all the imperfections and joints on your carving! I've never seen this done elsewhere.
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    Greg and I use Fiebing's medium brown dye for the blocks.
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    To my eye the gallery still looks a little compressed. If you expand it a little more, then the last gun port of the middle deck will fall directly under the last port on the quarter deck as it seems it should.
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    Kits are simplified, but you can modify things to make them more like the 'real thing' as little or as much as you wish. Allan has shown you how it was done in the mid to late 18th century on British ships.
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    That is ridiculous! There can't be so many models being rigged simultaneously! It must be hoarders trying to corner the market....
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    Planking is both a science and an art. The 'scientific' part is mathematical: dividing the vertical distance to be covered in an appropriate number of strakes. The art is to adjust the run of these until they look right to the eye from all angles. Sometimes the adjustment needed is very small, in other hulls there needs to be larger tweaks. There is no one way of doing this. However, the strakes should appear to taper or widen evenly.
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    Yes, agreed, gentlemen! The motifs 'flow' beautifully over the surface.
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    There is another thing to consider: The list of guns carried was a theoretical one (at least in British ships). What was actually on board at any time was often different and usually a smaller number! This might also be true of L'ambitieux and Fulminant. So, before you provide a Procrustean solution....
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    You need a pharmacist's pill-counting machine!
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    Part of the problem of ships' draughts is that the people that drew them were not artists. Usually the carved work (if shown) was rather crudely drawn. Even Boudriot (who was an excellent draughtsman) was not a particularly talented artist.
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    Well, that was a good analysis, Alexandr. I'd vote for 'B'.
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    From guns I've seen, the touchhole is not more than ½" in diameter - perhaps 3/8" or even less.
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    Was the original the work of more than one carver, showing different styles? You are doing a lovely job of re-creating the Vasa lion.
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    Chuck: This was the correct terminology in the 18th century. The meaning of words changed over time. Camber only applied to a deliberate droop of a deck at the bow, otherwise the longitudinal curve, concave up, is sheer, as you wrote. Hope this clarifies things!
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    An impressive model indeed! Congratulations, Karen.

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