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| mrshanks |
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  Registered Member #5745 Joined: Sun Aug 16 2020, 02:56pmPosts: 1929 | I had forgotten about this model Jodie. Happy to see you back at it. Your planking looks good to me. But then again, I am not an expert at it either.  | ||
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| jacknastyface2 |
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| Registered Member #5239 Joined: Sat Apr 21 2018, 05:29pmPosts: 811 | Mystracing, Could we have your real name please? I think you have made not a bad start to the planking but looking at the GARBOARD makes me think that it is far too wide, but that may be a photography problem? Also, the wales were quite a bit thicker than the rest of the planking. There again, photos can lie? I think the very first job in planking should be to "line out" the hull using tick strips at various intervals (each bulkhead on your ship), using a known maximum of plank width. Perhaps the Danish Museum might help with this? The Garboards were a little wider than the average plank. Always makes me wonder when I see garboard planks a scale 48 inches wide (1.3 meters). P.S. I can pm you with an article on laying out the planking if you like. Keith. Sorry, Jodie I have your name. Looked on home page  [ Edited Fri Apr 29 2022, 07:12pm ] | ||
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| MystRacing |
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 Registered Member #5748 Joined: Wed Aug 19 2020, 07:11pmPosts: 168 | One unusual feature of this ship and the others like it is the whales being flush with the outer planking on the bottom and very close to flush on the top. There should be a 0.5mm (.02") ledge on the top to scale. I just decided it wasn't worth the effort to try and get that small detail to show up and made it all flush. I also didn't have my thickness sander at the time so the planks were pretty rough to start with. I have 11 drawings and a contemporary cross section model all of which show the whales flush. As far as plank width the plans show typically about .201" to scale. Being as I have no delusion that any museum will have any interest in this I decided the 1/4" planks that were easily available were close enough.  I printed out my sub deck templates and set them in place to see how close they come to fitting in the ship. I wrote some notes on them in red as to what tweaks I need to make to get them to fit. They were really a pretty decent fit as you can see here.  Over the last week I had some time to tinker away with this. I sanded the hull and added a little filler. I'm quite happy with the hull at this point, so I spent some time figuring out what I needed to do next. Here is a photo of the 90% sanded hull.  Next, I got out all the Byrnes stuff and made a bunch of sawdust. I didn't take any photos because I'm fond of my fingers and figure everyone has seen their tools anyway. Given the amount of sawdust i made it always seems like I don't have much to show for it, but I typically make a lot more stuff than I need for the current project. So I have a fair amount of extra strips in various sized all cut and sanded. What I did take a photo of is the parts for the mortar bed. Here are the basic parts all cut from cherry.  [/link]I also cut some walls and framed in the Mortar Pits, as well as planked the insides. Here it is with the pits installed and the centers marked.  Then started gluing and stacking the beams that the mortar sits on. Most of this will be just partially visible after the mortar and framing on the main deck are added. I decided this needed to be constructed before the deck was attached. This is one place where the Danish version differs greatly from what the English were doing at the time. In the section you can see that the mortar actually set on top of a bunch of rope that acted as a shock absorber. These parts are meant to depict the outside frame of the pit and the wood structure above it. The mortar actually rotated on top of this portion. I glued sanded and attached the pieces Mike laser cut for me, which will have the scales to adjust the angle.  I then attached those parts to the pits. I'm going to have to figure out what to do for a finish before I get much further along.  I then placed a set of adjusted templates to see how things were fitting. I adjusted the rear mortar pit forward 1.5mm and moved the hatches behind the pit back to fit better.  The next part I think I'll be working on besides creating some files for cutting and printing will be the rear cabin area. | ||
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| DocBlake |
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  Registered Member #4496 Joined: Wed Oct 01 2014, 05:02pmPosts: 492 | Really nice work, Jodie! | ||
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| Baggywrinkle |
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  Registered Member #5759 Joined: Sat Sep 19 2020, 03:36pmPosts: 529 | Ditto Dave's comment: looks great. cheers Pat | ||
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| mrshanks |
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| Registered Member #5745 Joined: Sun Aug 16 2020, 02:56pmPosts: 1929 | 2 mortar pits on this ship! I like it!! | ||
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| jacknastyface2 |
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| Registered Member #5239 Joined: Sat Apr 21 2018, 05:29pmPosts: 811 | mrshanks wrote ... 2 mortar pits on this ship! I like it!! Why don't you print one?  Keith. | ||
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| MystRacing |
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| Registered Member #5748 Joined: Wed Aug 19 2020, 07:11pmPosts: 168 | Thanks guys. Last night I drew up the howitzers from the plan Klaus posted earlier. I sized them based on relative dimensions of the other canon plans. These are smaller than I would have guessed. The 4 pound howitzer is about 26 inches long and the 12 pounder is right about 3 feet. This makes sense given the limited space for the gun crews to work with. Here's a rendering. To scale they're about 1/2 and inch and 3/4 of an inch long.  | ||
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| mrshanks |
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| Registered Member #5745 Joined: Sun Aug 16 2020, 02:56pmPosts: 1929 | jacknastyface2 wrote ... mrshanks wrote ... 2 mortar pits on this ship! I like it!! Why don't you print one? Keith. Gonna be printing all these awesome howitzers and more!! | ||
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| KlausM |
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 Registered Member #5755 Joined: Fri Aug 28 2020, 10:37pmPosts: 10 | Hi Jodie, Nice to see you're back in the saddle. I was getting worried about whether you had given up the project. I myself have started to CAD draw "the magnificent" in order to build a model when I finish the frigate "Hvide Ørn" (= The White Eagle), which was the flagship for the famous Danish Vice Admiral Peder Wessel Tordenskiold (1690 - 1720). The model is built on a scale of 1:20, which corresponds to a length of approximately 180 meters. Apart from that, I just want to present you with a few pictures of the Danish National Museum's model of the Comet, which as yoy know was a sister ship to the glowing one.     | ||
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