HMS Perseus by Thukydides - 1:64 - POB - Sphinx Class 6th Rate

[Fritzlindsay]

16 hours ago, Thukydides said:

While this has been going on I have also been experimenting with trying to cut tight joints for knee of the head.

 

Where did did you find the design of the pieces for the knee of the head?   They look much too complicated compared to drawings in books by Goodwin, Antscherl, Lavery, Steel and other researchers/writers

Fritz.

Edited Monday at 05:31 PM by Fritzlindsay

[Thukydides]

2 minutes ago, Fritzlindsay said:

 

Where did did you find the design of the pieces for the knee of the head?   They look much too complicated compared to drawings in books by Goodwin, Antscherl, Lavery and other researchers/writers

Fritz.

If you look back through my log posts I have 2 log posts dedicated to the topic of my research on the knee of the head. Go back to the first post and there is a table of contents.

[Thukydides]

Another minor update as I actually have some progress to report (or at least in this case a relatively successful test).

 

On the scroll saw front I am getting more comfortable, and about half the time I get my cuts right on the line, but then all of a suddent I find myself wandering. In particular, certain types of curves I always seem to wander first to one side and then the other.

 

I have assembled my first completed iteration of the knee of the head and painted it. I discovered that to some degree firm clamping as you are assembling can mitigate some of my failures on the cutting of the joints. Also as a proof of concept my attempt to try and show the joints through black seems to have worked. I am not entirely happy with the effect, but for a first go I am pretty pleased.

I mixed the glue used in the joints with white ink so that when I painted over with thin layers of black, the lighter colour shon through. The effect I am aiming for is more the upper joints (the thin harder to see ones) than the lower joints, but that will be fixed by making sure my joints are tighter. 

 

Note I did not bother with the cutwater and the waterline is only the approximate location. This was just a proof of concept test.

 

Now to see if I can do another one, this time with tighter joints.

Edited Thursday at 01:10 AM by Thukydides

[AON]

I experience similar issues with my scroll saw so I stay outside the line and the sand up to the line with my table top disk sander and files.