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I have always wondered about the tolerances the oldtime shiprights had to maintain if the ship was not to work itself loose and not come apart in heavy seas.Getting a piece out of a baulk of oak weighing several hundred pounds,curving in two directions and with a constantly changing bevel,and being precisely notched to fit other equally complex pieces with adzes and other hand tools would be amazing to watch.
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Go to ~KitBuild Logs InProgress and search for the brigantine Newsboy by Pete Jaquith.This is a superlative example of what can be done with a solid hull kit. Your Flying Fish is a prime candidate for this approach.
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HMB Endeavour by mikec - Eaglemoss
GMO2 replied to mikec's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1751 - 1800
The Endeavour has always been one of my favorites,and I try to follow as many builds as I can.Yours is an exceptionally pleasing rendition. I have a question regarding hull planking specific to the Endeavour. I have always been under the impression that each belt,tho not each individual strake,of planking would be laid out to end at the rabbet of the stem going forward.Thus , the first strake under the wale would follow it basically parallel. I have noticed that on all the Endeavour models I have seen that several strakes of planking sweep sharply up to butt up against the lower wale strake,sometimes at a not so shallow of an angle. Having seen this repeatedly,Ithought to ask some of those having occaission to observe the replica if that is the way those builders did their planking. Ican imagine that the very bluff bow of the Endeavour would induce difficulties in that regard not found on a sharper bowed craft.Ihave always wondered about this departure from the usual pattern. -
I have some small heat shrink tubing that might well simulate the parcelling around the masthead. Ithink some of it is white which could be dirtied up and then partially served with fine thread . Ithink I ll give that a try when I get go that stage.
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Gerald, I am building a Morgan~ off and on ~ and am working on deck structures.Ihave been observing your build for some years and find your effort to be the Gold Standard for Morgan builders where ever they may be. So far I have not found anything that will not yield to a little patience and a willingness to scrap a piece and have another go at it.That said, I find myself staring repeatedly at your skylight and wondering~~~How on this green earth ???am I ever going to do that. Perhaps you could give us a brief review of what you used in the way of wood and wire to make it. There is no way I can imagine getting basswood to sit still for that.~~~~~~ Gary
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Thank you for your help in this.Ifound several copies of that book online,and will acquire one.Ialso found a couple of excerpts from it.One of the paint schemes was white with a vermilion gunport stripe.That was a nonstarter!However it was changed back during the Vietnam incident.I also learned that the armament was 20 32pdr carronades,24 24 pdr,and 4 shell guns,8 inch bore. Isuspect the head was fully planked in by this time,and that the gun stripe was carried out across the stem.The stern configuration during that period will probably present its usual dillema,as will the rigging,l may hit enough roadblocks to just be happy with the 1927 configuration .Igot a copy of the official drawins and booklet from MSin 1969,along with of model plans from A J A J Fisher drawn by HW Potter.Real antiques,those,done I think in 1940. Again,thanks for your response.
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I have an MS Connie that I want to do as soon as my MS C W Morgan is wrapped up late nextyear. I have given some thought to representing her during one of the later ,more obscure periods .I think the 1844~~46 circumnavigatio voyage is a significant bu largely ignored event .Does anyone have any insight into this,or any suggestion where to find it? I would like to represent her appearence and armament configuration as nearly as can be known.
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Masting and Rigging the Clipper Ship and Ocean Carrier by Harold Underhill is a prime reference as well as his plans.His plans are still available from several sources the last I looked.
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HMS Druid by Krug - FINISHED - 1:48 - Hahn
GMO2 replied to kruginmi's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Not to worry.Those chaps would not recognize Montague Dawson as a true artist either.
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