USS Constitution by Avi - BlueJacket Shipcrafters - 1:96

[JSGerson]

Take a look at Jfinan's BJ build starting at Post 60, to help clarify the gratings for you.

 

Jon

Edited 22 hours ago by JSGerson

[Avi]

Do you see description on a specific post there @JSGerson? I couldn’t find anything. On the other hand, the discussion about shot for the lockers will be very helpful.

[Avi]

There is some description of the gratings and pictures from @KurtH here post #5. Kurt, I didn’t quite understand what the “brass ones with holes are” and what you ordered of walnut?

[KurtH]

Gratings consist of strips of wood interlocking together leaving square spaces between them.  The PE gratings provided by BJ had round spaces instead of square ones.  I ordered grating strips from Model Expo which fit together egg crate style, similar to the cherry ones now offered (#MS0332), but larger.  There is a photo in the post to which you refer which shows one of the strips, and and assembled grating.  These are out of scale, and if I had it to do over, I would have stuck with the PE ones even though they do not really look like grating.  I believe that I still have those PE gratings.  If you like, I can photograph them and post them, but I believe you have these, and can see for yourself that the spaces are round instead of square.

[Avi]

Hi Kurt. That explanation helped. I see what you’re referring to now in your post. 
 

I’m not sure I know what the PE gratings are. Are they squares, ready to place? Those strips in the picture I posted, that need to be combined?

 

BJ has two different wooden gratings on their website, this and this. But that’s clearly not what’s in the kit. 

Edited 10 hours ago by Avi

[KurtH]

I did a scan of the grates provided by BJ in my kit.

You can see why I say they have round holes to represent the spaces between the battens.  They should be square, but they are closer to being in scale than the strips I used.  As I said, If I had to do it over, I would use these.  The brass PE parts in your picture do not look familiar to me.  Perhaps the kit has been updated since I bought mine.

Edited 9 hours ago by KurtH

[Avi]

That’s really helpful, thank you. I didn’t see anything like that, but I’ll do another detailed search later today. 

[KurtH]

Actually, if you took those parts out of their bag, laid them out and photographed them, they might look familiar to me after all.  I am sure Nic would be glad to help you out.  He is always so helpful.

[Avi]

Aha! I’d missed the sheet of PE parts when I searched earlier. I’d forgotten that they were stored in a different container. I imagine if I’d been looking for something obviously larger, like the transom, I would have realized immediately there was somewhere I didn’t look. Thanks Kurt.