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| Mike 41 |
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  Registered Member #702 Joined: Fri Feb 05 2010, 10:37pmPosts: 1238 | Hi Gary, The brass wire Treenails was used as a personal preference. I like the way they look and are faster to make than bamboo. You can use either bamboo or brass it might be good practice for you to use the bamboo. ModelExpo has a 82-hole draw plate for $19.99. Mike | ||
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| BrianTJohnston |
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 Registered Member #1543 Joined: Sat Mar 26 2011, 02:56pmPosts: 20 | I'm doing the Batteau as a first scatch build project. I am using copper wire for the fixings as I believe copper was at times used for these purposes. I must admit I cheated and made the floor boards in one piece and scribed in the joints, highlighting them with pencil to simulate caulking. It occurs to me though, that in real life the bottom timbers would probably have been laid out differently with a main plank down the centre to give a far stronger fixing for the stem and stern posts. My only other gripe is that you end up with a pointed end of the bottom boards to fit into a squared recess in the bottms of the end posts. I got over the problem by adjusting the recess to house the points, but I realised afterwards it would have been easier to square off the ends of the bottom boards and adjust the rebates accordingly. Brian | ||
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| harbormaster |
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 Registered Member #1901 Joined: Fri Nov 18 2011, 04:37pmPosts: 2 | I just recently joined the forum and am going to build the batteau in 1/32 scale as my first scratch build project. Hopefull my next project will be the battle station in the same scale. Thanks for making the plans available Garey [ Edited Tue Nov 22 2011, 02:30pm ] | ||
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| harbormaster |
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| Registered Member #1901 Joined: Fri Nov 18 2011, 04:37pmPosts: 2 | If you are trying to print rice paper if you glue the front edge to a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper it will print properly Hope this helps Garey | ||
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| twintrow |
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| Registered Member #121 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 04:41amPosts: 436 | Gene I decided to take a break from the Connie and do the Batteau. Do the dashed lines on the frames represent where to remove for fairing? And if so the dashed lines on the inside of the frames also needs to be removed?? Correct. thanks Tom | ||
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| Winston |
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winston  Registered Member #1 Joined: Sat Jun 13 2009, 02:08pmPosts: 2298 | That's correct Tom. | ||
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| Patrick (Paddy) |
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  Registered Member #4100 Joined: Thu Jan 10 2013, 03:49pmPosts: 208 | Beautiful work Mike and thanks to Winston for making those plans available on the Projects page. Have the plans on DVD as of this afternoon and will get them printed tomorrow for a study for possibly my next project after the Battle Station. | ||
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| Mike 41 |
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| Registered Member #702 Joined: Fri Feb 05 2010, 10:37pmPosts: 1238 | Hi Paddy, Thanks, the Batteau is a nice easy boat to build and Jeff did a fine job on the drawings so you should not have any problems with it. Be sure and start a log so we all can enjoy the build. Mike | ||
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| Patrick (Paddy) |
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| Registered Member #4100 Joined: Thu Jan 10 2013, 03:49pmPosts: 208 | Mike 41 wrote ... Hi Paddy, Thanks, the Batteau is a nice easy boat to build and Jeff did a fine job on the drawings so you should not have any problems with it. Be sure and start a log so we all can enjoy the build. Mike Hi Mike, Accomplished two things today one of which was having the Batteau pdf printed and the other was getting a donation off to Model Ship Builder. Having this great community on the Internet with its many advantages for members, not the least being all the talent and knowledge that's available here, and folks making even a rookie as myself feel welcome, I wanted to help a little with the expenses. Thanks for the suggestion about starting a log which I think I'll be doing. In fact I may end up with serval logs going at the same time. Hope I can handle that..... :>) I'm really enjoying being a member here. | ||
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| Mike 41 |
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| Registered Member #702 Joined: Fri Feb 05 2010, 10:37pmPosts: 1238 | Hi Paddy, We were all rookies once with web sites like this you don’t have be one long. If you have any questions the guys here will be glad to help you out. Be careful about starting too many logs though it takes time away from building model ships! LOL Mike | ||
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