Soleil Royal by EricWiberg - Heller - 1/100 - started 45 years ago

[EricWiberg]

Finishing the starboard skids. I had fabricated the skids to extend down to the "top" bottom wale... but if the "lower" bottom wale is dipping into the water amidships, then it made sense to me to lower the skid down to the "lower" bottom wale. I am also doubling/reinforcing the thickness of the skids at the bottom wales; I have seen that on a few drawings and models... not sure what that is called besides "reinforcement".

 

The next step will be the skids/hand rails at the ladder steps on the hull. However, I am a bit puzzled as... were all of the ladder steps jutting out the same amount from the hull.. let's say 6 inches? But if we have steps on a wale, they will stick out farther than a step not on a wale, if this makes sense. I am thinking that the ladder steps stuck out to to a fixed point, whether they were on a wale or not, that followed the tumblehome of the hull. So let's say we pick 12 inches out from the hull... on a 6 inch thick wale, the step would be 6 inches wide. but the next step - NOT on a wale - would this have to be 12 inches wide?!? Hope this makes sense

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 11:36 PM by EricWiberg

[Hubac's Historian]

So, the skids look really good - great scribe around the wales.

 

As for scale on the ladder steps - at 1:96 scale, the stock kit steps are a generous 1/32”, or 3” at full scale.  Personally, I would not go beyond 1/16”, or 6” at scale, and I would carry that uniformly across the wales.

[Hubac's Historian]

It’s a veeery fine line between “is right” and “looks right at scale.”

[Hubac's Historian]

Generally, I abide by under-scale, when in doubt.