mtaylor

If you ever get back to Dayton, PirateWhilly, visit Carillon Park and also the Air Force Museum.  Both have dispalys if the Wright aircraft and tools.  I used to live there about 30 years ago or so and they were great back then and quick Google says they're even better today.

Nice Model!

Thank you Mark...
I dunno about master anything, {chuckle} it's just the way I've learned to do it over the years.... Like I said, it works for me... If it helps someone else then great, that is the point....
 
This stuff isn't very technical, and one can get buried in all the supposed mandatory technical requirements when what we really are doing is simple copying of an image.... And people have been doing that since the invention of charcoal and stone cave walls... It's just the tools to do it are so much more capable than back then....
 
Thank you for the compliment....

One of the key things that 3D printing and CAD bring to the table is the ability to generate what is effectively a 'kit' from a set of plans for a ship that no company will ever produce a model of for you to build.
 
Usually we call that scratch-building.  
 
The thing about doing it with 3D CAD though is that you can generate a model...and another model, and another...just by clicking print again.
 
So, you can build yourself a fleet - or you can offer the model for others to build so they can have a model of your favorite ship as well.
 
I have a plan in mind to help the local museum - I am working to do a 3D design of a ship they have in their collection, and I'm hoping to get the design workable for print in a couple of variations.
 
First as a highly detailed model that is a great replica of the ship that I can produce in a suitable scale for floating in a pond myself as RC.
 
Second, as a lower detail model, smaller in size, that can be fairly easily assembled by students doing a summer camp or March break program at the museum.  My hope is to have that 'March break camp' something that the model club can contribute to, and do a presentation with the campers about 3D design, and then have each of them design an 'accessory' for their ship - something like a bollard, an anchor, a funnel, or whatever, using TinkerCAD, and we then print that item for them by the end of the week for them to assemble it onto their individual model boat.
 
That's my concept. 
 
I'll see how that works out. 

Definitive answer from a flag company. Double sided not recommended for outdoor use.
 
https://auroraflags.com/2019/02/singlevsdouble/

My Dad once made two smaller scale clippers (1:120 Scientific kits), and used flat toothpicks that were about 0.040" wide - representing about 4.8" planks.  Perhaps a tad undersized (6" scaled planks might have been better), but they looked OK and did not need any 'dots' at the butt joints.  The non-tapered portion of the toothpicks he used (cut off with a razor blade) measured about 1.6"  long, representing 16 foot lengths at 1:120 .  I've no idea whether this sort of tooth pick is available anymore.  I've seen thin wooden coffee stirrers that would do for plank stock at a larger scale.  Hmmmm, 'don't know what scale the doctor's wooden tongue depressors would be, widthwise.
 
  I have various sized of pre-scribed decking stock (still available and most often used for modeling wood-sided buildings in railroad layouts or dioramas) that I'll use as needed, rather than do it plank-by-plank.  That seems the easiest way to get 'good enough' results.  Its like the Coach in "Cool Runnings" (a film about the Jamaica Olympic bobsled team), where he tells the team that wining a medal is a fine thing ... but if you're not good enough without the medal, then you won't be good enough with it.

I've used the Chopper I & II for many years for various projects with good results, especially cutting hull and deck planks. The Chopper II is a much-improved version of the Chopper I, it's important to change the blades regularly. 

This a little better site for viewing the Peoria. 
 
https://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/493#:~:text=The two masted schooner Peoria,Livingston and Captain E.P. Frink.

I have built this one with a few extras added to the BB/pit area she builds up Nicely.

😲 I remember the excitement when around my 6th birthday this time 62 years ago Lego came up first with wheels. Several family members gave me wheel sets - a bit boring, but then you couldn’t have enough of them. I think Lego went down a contraproductive avenue educational wise, but perhaps not revenue wise …
looking forward to more progress on the Renault …
 

Some additional progress on the turret, main gun and exterior armour ~ as an extra bonus my son is spending time on the adjacent workbench working on his Lego x-wing. Boy Lego has come a looong way since the 70s and 80s (and also way more expensive!).  The x-wing has a 315 page instruction manual!  Scott 
 
 

Evening all,   more  odds and ends  added  and   primed  ready for   paint  layers  - 
 
OC.

How is the progress going on the Avro Lanc? 

That came out real Nice Craig you got that finish just right.I remember all those years ago people moaned and groaned about the panel lines being to deep it all looks good from here.

Dave that looks pretty cool and I do bet she is an eye magnet.

Looking good Alan ! 👍 

Very nice work Alan - quite a colourful chap.
 
OC.

This kit builds up quite Nicely!All one needs to do is add some good paint in the end.

Welcome to Model SHIP World JF. Hopefully someone here will be able to give you some help, but this is a ship model group not a stage coach group so you may not get a ton of responses.  We do have a forum here at MSW called Non-ship/categorised builds and there are stage coach builds posted there.   https://modelshipworld.com/search/?q=stage coach&quick=1&type=forums_topic&nodes=73   You may want to post in the non categorised builds to get more viewers or contact the members that posted the stage coach projects.  Hope someone here will be able to help you out.
 
Allan

Finally an update.   I'm reading and re-reading the instructions and looking at other logs of this ship.   And I currently have all the framing (I think) done.   About to start marking the top lines of the frames.   Hopefully I get more time to spend on this project but seems real life keeps dragging me off.
 

Another update.  Slow going with RL getting in the way at the moment.   Got the bulwark tops trimmed and am pretty happy.  I know the photo appears to show all the tops trimmed below the line but that's the camera angle's fault.  A square shows me it's spot on.
 

Wow.. this is a master class in reverse engineering.   Very well done, EG.

Another update.  Slow going with RL getting in the way at the moment.   Got the bulwark tops trimmed and am pretty happy.  I know the photo appears to show all the tops trimmed below the line but that's the camera angle's fault.  A square shows me it's spot on.
 

Wow.. this is a master class in reverse engineering.   Very well done, EG.

Another update.  Slow going with RL getting in the way at the moment.   Got the bulwark tops trimmed and am pretty happy.  I know the photo appears to show all the tops trimmed below the line but that's the camera angle's fault.  A square shows me it's spot on.