rpeteru

My brother just came back from a trip to Holland to visit with family. Whilst there picked up for me 17th Century Dutch merchant Ships by Ab Hovig. Very nice too only problem is there was no plans kit as stated attached, Question then is How can I obtain these? The Book was purchased from the bookstore in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. What to do?

There is/was a special interest book titled Radio Control in Model Boats 4th ed by John Cundell. Published by

"Special Interest Model Books ltd"

PO Box 327 Poole Dorset

BH15 2RG.

ISBN 978-1-85486-231-0

The book itself is dated published in 1988

Will be watching this one as I was on Duchess in 1967.

Nice one mate! Have finally got my new laptop, will talk to you later as its off to work we go. Another delivery. Rdgs rpeteru.

Nice work from another who resides in the west.

Re HMAS Torrens question have you had a look at the Airfix range especially the Faulklands issue, there was a Leander class included which will require a serious bit of kit bashing, to make it look like the "Fluffy Ducks twin"(HMAS Swan).

There have been a few articles done in the English "Model Boat" or Marine modeling international magazine, (one of those two) on doing a radio control setup for a square rigger. Might pay to check it out.

What do you intend to do re this build or in other words how far will you go ie: fully planked? mast stepped? full or partially rigged?

Haven't started a build log yet. Today was mainly measuring main deck size, before transfer to ply wood ready for cut out. Have glued on some of the paper templates prior to cut out and shaping. Just itching to use my new scroll saw. Almost ready to make saw-dust.

Sounds like a plan man. it looks like the only detail we have to go on is the scale given that the recommended plywood thickness is 3/16" which works out to 1:75 or impirial 1:72. Assuming a keel width of 12". In this instance we are really working ar**e about face. Usually a set of drawings is made from which all things are measurable. In our case we have the finish shape size allready presented. But as you said this one is has not been defined which gives us a whole heap of latitude. Any ideas?

What I will probably wind up doing is have the bottom that is from the lower gun deck down solid, ie put in filler pieces between the frames and file/sand to shape before planking.  Thats the plan of attack at this stage. Currently it is very hard to get acceptable ply at either 3 or 4.5mm thats from my local hardware vendor. Methinks will have to go further afield.

Hi mate the images that I have are those on the google site if you type in "chapman frigate" and then select images,

I did find some stuff, pictures of a completed build, when I re-find the link will send them to ya. send me a pm.

Nice build so far mate, but before you get too far check out the section behind the figure head the cut outs you have are in fact, what the head timbers would look like in a vertical cross section, check this against the master drawing.  I also want to build this and have the same drawings, probably got this from the same place as you did. Just my 2 cents worth.

Question could these guns be also used for Occre other kits I am thinking of Montanes, San Ildefonsio, as they are by nature of spanish origin.

Bob by the way have you read the build article in English model boating magazine by Keith Jullier on his build of either Agamemnon and or Vanguard? Some interesting titbits in there as well. Food for thought.

Very nice mate real nice. :D