Armed Virginia Sloop (AVS) by SkiBee - Model Shipways - 1:48

[SkiBee]

18 hours ago, CiscoH said:

the deck, bulwark, and waterway planking will hide all the sins of the thinned bulkheads.

 

I have a version of that drafting kit you show; my mom got it for me at an auction years ago and I had no idea what it was originally for.  I use the small compass (the one with a pencil) all the time marking out plank widths. 

CiscoH

The nib ends were for ink, like an old fashion ink pen you had dip into a bottle of ink or fill from an ink bottle.  By the time I came around we had what was called a LeRoy pen, a cartridge ink pen, but my father used the nib pens when he was a draftsman.