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Beautiful work Ilhan! No text needed, the pictures say it all!. -
Çok hoş Ferıt! I only found your build today, I don't know how I have missed it. You are doing some lovely work on this model. As I live in Turkey, in Turunç, just a few kilometres south of Marmaris I'd be interested to know where you get your wood from for the parts you are scratch building. I have a big problem finding suitable wood here. Maybe Istanbul is better. Anyway, keep up the good work!
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Me too!
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One way around the no overhang problem is possible if you have a mitre slot across the top of the table. Cut a piece of wood to fit the mitre slot and down the centre of that cut a slot say 3mm wide. Mount a piece of wood on that, for example a featherboard and secure it with a couple of M3 countersunk head screws and wing nuts. As you tighten the wing nuts the countersunk heads of the screws will force the slot open a little bit more making it a tight fit in the mitre slot. I'll try and draw a picture . . .
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Mighty Mite Mini Table Saw Good or Bad?
Yambo replied to DSiemens's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I can't see any information on how thick the blade is. You could end up turning a lot of wood into dust if the blade is quite thick. And that's another issue - does it have dust collection? Have you considered the Proxxon KS230? It's a fair bit more expensive but the blade is about 2.5" dia (58mm) and only 0.5mm thick. You can also stick a vacuum cleaner hose on to keep the dust down and the wife happy. -
Hi Frank. I don't know why I never read your log before but I've just done so. It's easy to be enthralled by a pristine model but I'm carried away by yours as well. You've achieved an amazingly realistic look with the weathering and in a couple of photos I immediately thought "That was some storm Supply just rode out!" Really good stuff, thank you. Good to hear your surgery went well. As they say here "Geçmiş olsen!'
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Michael, the only thing wrong with retirement is that you never get a day off. Enjoy yours!
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Mmmm, I reckon that's a dinghy.
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There's a simple answer Piet but it's not a simple matter. The simple answer? You can put a boat on a ship but you can't put a ship on a boat, or one man can make a boat but one man can't make a ship. It might take many men to make a boat but it'll always take a lot of men to make a ship. A friend once answered the same question like this: "A schooner is not a ship and yet it can have a cargo hold or several cargo holds and will probably carry one or more boats. A Brig or a Barque can be bigger than a ship but they aren't ships themselves. Same thing for Brigantines and Barquentines. The term Ship is a sailing term for a square rigged vessel that has a "course" sail on it's mizzen mast. The "course" is the lowest and largest square sail on the mast. Brigs and Barques do not have mizzen courses. A modern ship would be identified by it purpose. A 250' commercial vessel is a ship. A 450' private vessel not doing work is a yacht. A tug boat is a boat but it can exceed 150 gross tons. Tonnage for ships is rated by cargo capacity not gross weight." Then you can have barges and rafts - a car ferry might be a raft - and a barge, like a Thames barge might be a ketch or a sloop. Others may expand on this subject some more but be pleased, I think you've opened a can of worms.
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Ship?! Submarines are boats and if you are a submariner, everything else is a target!
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Mmmm, I'm not sure although I'll take pictures as I go. The project is a 1:10 version of a Chesapeake Light Craft Skerry that I have the full size plans for. I've started making some bits for the full size boat but at the moment have nowhere to work to do the hull. The boat is stitch and glue construction and I'm aiming to make the model the same way but this will be a first attempt for me at a small stitch and glue boat so may not work out well at that size. Being able to draw up all the parts on AutoCad is great though and I have a friend in Marmaris that can laser cut them for me if I want to go down that route. It'll be in mostly in 1 mm and 1.5 mm plywood which is cheap enough to allow for cock-ups.
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All working OK at last now! Managed to sort out the printing - I think it was what they call an ID 10 T error. But I'm a lot happier now and I'm surrounded by bits of paper with frame drawings on.
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Even NASA got it wrong with the Mars Climate orbiter which crashed because of: The primary cause of this discrepancy was engineering error. Specifically, the flight system software on the Mars Climate Orbiter was written to take thrust instructions using the metric unit newtons (N), while the software on the ground that generated those instructions used the Imperial measure pound-force (lbf). This error has since been known as the "metric mixup" and has been carefully avoided in all missions since by NASA.[16] Never mix units! Well, except for ratchet drives
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I've downloaded and installed Virtualbox as you suggested cog and loaded Windows XP and AutoCad. It works fine. I'm having a bit of trouble printing at the moment but I'm working on that. I also have a 15 day trial with TurboCad. I'm not sure I like it. I draw one line on the screen and suddenly there are another 5 lines showing. I'm getting a bit more used to it though. It's similar to AutoCad in a number of ways; if Virtualbox isn't what I want then TurboCad is a reasonable option.
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I'll be following along too Piet, it's a good thing you are doing.
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OK, thanks for that, I'll give that a try.
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It's a thought cog but I'm not a rich man and I'd rather spend my money on tools oh, and beer.
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I have AutoCad LT 2002 which I have used a lot and would like to continue using but it simply doesn't like Windows 7 64 bit which my current computer is running. I've tried running it using the Windows 7 function that imitates earlier versions (Windows XP for example where the program worked fine) but (sigh) I have the Windows 7 Home Premium version and the function is not fully supported. Frustrated? You bet.
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That is just flipping beautiful! Thank you Karl.
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Hvide Orn/Hvita Örn 1711 in 3D
Yambo replied to malachy's topic in CAD and 3D Modelling/Drafting Plans with Software
Thanks Stephan, something else to take up my time then! Your two models, Southampton and Sphinx look very good. I'm more interested in producing a model in 3d and then using the individual drawing parts to make the actual thing. I guess that's how the kit making companies do it. I like the 3d drawings in their own right though and you have a different but impressive talent. -
Hvide Orn/Hvita Örn 1711 in 3D
Yambo replied to malachy's topic in CAD and 3D Modelling/Drafting Plans with Software
Hi Bava, I often use AutoCad LT for drawing up frames and such and I can get them laser cut by a friend but I'm not really good with 3d modelling - not a lot of practice! One thing does interest me though about programs like Blender, Delftship or SolidWorks; can you for example model individual planks for example on the 3d model and then 'remove' them, lay them flat and make a template? It could revolutionise planking!
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