Length of your planks (outer layer)

[Serapis1779]

I realize that this question cannot be answered with absolute uniformity, but I am curious how long you cut your planks for the outer layer of the hull.

 

Looking at photos it seems like many who are working in the common scales, 1:48/1:64/1:80 have planks that are about 6 inches in length, with the width about 3/8 inch and the thickness about 1/16 inch;  close to 1 x 5 x 150mm.

 

Is this close to what some of you use?

[alde]

My understanding is that planks varied in length from about 20 feet to 24 feet. On my current build I'm making my planks 22 scale feet long.

[Serapis1779]

1 hour ago, alde said:

My understanding is that planks varied in length from about 20 feet to 24 feet. On my current build I'm making my planks 22 scale feet long.

Thank you. In 1:64 scale that would be within the parameters of what I am cutting. Of course I need to measure the rough stock precisely, but I think my 150×5×1.5 mm planks give me a little more length, with mm to spare.

[mtaylor]

Close will count on measuring.  What I did on my current build was measure to "about" 20-20 feet and cut the length so that the end landed on a frame.  Each plank was cut to length off of a much longer strip.  I guess I'm just cheap and hate wasting wood.