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| teleman |
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  Registered Member #1925 Joined: Tue Nov 29 2011, 05:32amPosts: 1394 | Good start on your Triton Cross Section 42 and nice pictures from London | ||
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| Tim C |
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 Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1107 | Mario Thanks you for your kind words. The pics are not from London they were taken in Paris. I have the Portsmouth and London ship model pics in another area. If anyone is interested I can post more either in this post or another thread. Let me know. I have some Alfred / Warrior pics from the Science Museum in London also. Later 42rocker [ Edited Wed Feb 20 2013, 03:48am ] | ||
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 Registered Member #247 Joined: Tue Aug 25 2009, 01:57amPosts: 210 | Hi 42rocker, Nice pics, but I think you should put them in a separate thread unless your illustrating something about your cross section build. I know I'll want to see pics like these again, but I'll probably forget what topic they're under are and they deserve a spot of their own. These are really fascinating. Clare | ||
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Arthur  Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 3035 | Those are some very interesting pictures. I've had the same problems taking pictures through glass cases and those look pretty good. At least it looks as though the museum was well lit. I usually end up with my hand up against the glass trying to hold the camera steady. I then have to get my handkerchief out to polish off the hand print before I'm asked to leave!  | ||
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| Tim C |
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| Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1107 | BLAME GAME --- It's time to play the Blame Game. If your Blamed then fess up to it. Sound off right back, go ahead. Lets start the Blame Game. 1st Person to Blame is Pete38. Starts folks thinking out of the box. Does a 1:32 scale cross section. 2nd person to Blame is Mike41 from MSB Does this great Proto-type Bomb Vessel in 1:24 3rd person to Blame is a lot of folks mtaylor MSW, Winston MSB, and the fellow or fellows that did the great job on the plans that I don't know the name or names of. GREAT JOB.. Who were the design folks, please name them so we can Blame them.. 4th Anyone else that was in on the making of this great project. What am I Blaming them for!! 1st My choice of doing this project and 2nd in 1:24 scale. That said my MANY THANKS for the ways that they have pointed me even if they did not know they were doing it. It looks like a great first scratch build project that I'll do in 1:24 scale. Which will match up in scale to a future build (I hope) of the Cross Section of the Bomb Vessel from MSB. From the matching sizes to compare Cross Sections with, to just building in a bigger scale. A few other things pushed me that way. 1st Pete38's build, said build it bigger, then I tried to find a way to print the plans his way. Well don't have a printer that can handle 13x19 paper. Got a quote from office depot of $19.95 per page as they can't do 13x19 so printing next size up makes a total printing cost around $500.00. So did some thinking, then saw the 1:24 model of the Bomb Vessel (MSB) and said that's a nice scale and if I'm going to take the plans apart and redo them to fit 8.5x14 legal paper that I can print on. Then I might as well step them up as I'm redoing them. Therefore I spend about 6 to 7 hours taking the 1:48 plans apart and redoing them to print on several sheets in 1:24. So now I'm starting to prints the plans in 1:24 and still thinking about what woods I'm going to start cutting apart. Hoping to start cutting the wood for the frames this weekend. Thinking about two different woods for the frames redgum and basswood. Then Walnut for the chocks (need to add to the plans, but in 1:24 why not). With ebony for the false keel and basswood for the keel and I like the idea of using ebony for the keelson. Got the ebony keelson idea from mtaylor's (MSW) nice build (more Blame). Need to find the bloodwood and the holly and a few planks of cherry that I know I have around someplace. Have lots of oak but I think that I'll save that for my wife's cabinet trim. Still thinking about wood types and what I already have. Buying wood is not in the budget right now. So if you have been BLAMED take a large THANK YOU from me to you.. You Blamed folks have given direction and hope to my doing this. I also Thank all of the others folks that are posting their Cross Sections as they are going to be a great guiding path. Going by the idea if they can do it I can try to do it. If anyone is interested in learning how to redo the plans then post in this thread about it and I'll try to work up a how to do it. If your interested in redoing the full ship plans talk to someone else, not me.. I also started a thread in woods about making your own hobby wood. Seen some nice reclaimed Cherry wood work. More Blame for some folks. So if your mad at me for blaming you, well sorry about that, it was all in fun on my end. Your Work was just to good. THANKS FOR THE GUIDING PATH!! Enjoy Life!! Later 42rocker | ||
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| Tim C |
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| Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1107 | Now with that said . It's time to start all over. This time in the 1:24 scale same as the Cross Section of the Bomb Vessel. Later 42rocker | ||
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Winston Registered Member #1 Joined: Sat Jun 13 2009, 02:08pmPosts: 2696 | You're welcome! Hope we can provide you with more interesting subject matter in the future. But at 1:24 scale I better not get blamed by your wife for the amount of room your models are taking up. Wasn't me! Wasn't there! Didn't do it! Jeff Staudt's the one to blame there, he drew the plans. Yeah, its all Jeff's fault! | ||
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| Tim C |
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| Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1107 | Winston We did have that talk and it all worked out. So starting all over again this time in 1:24. Printing plans and cutting wood over the weekend I hope. Later 42rocker | ||
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| Tim C |
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| Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1107 | So here I am after fighting with three printers and finally winning with one of them. I just finished printing over 150 pages of plans in 1:24. By redoing the plans to 1:24 and making it so they would print on a printer that I own on legal 8.5x14 paper I had a fight. All total about 6 to 7 hours redoing the plans then printing them and still having to redo few where I got stuff to close to the edge I spent about 4 hours tonight finally getting the printing done. In 1:24 sometimes it took 4 or 5 pages to do what it only took one in 1:48. Still office depot roughly quoted over $500.00 to print what I did tonight. And if I need to redo something or print another one I'm set and ready. Where when someone double checks their 1:48 print they see if 4 scale feet equals 1 inch in 1:24 4 scale feet equals 2 inches. Happy to say everything came out fine. If you want to know how to redo prints like that from one scale to another pm me. Next step is to do what others have done before me. Label everything and cut the paper apart and get ready to glue down and start cutting. I guess that I should get some wood ready first. More tomorrow night. In looking at the plans all I can say again is Thanks to everyone that drew them up. Later 42rocker [ Edited Tue Mar 05 2013, 06:20am ] | ||
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| Tim C |
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| Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1107 | Small update, Have labeled all of the parts on all of the plans. Learned and reviewed a few things while doing that. After a long look I found some Bloodwood that I was given over 8 or 9 years ago. 2 pieces, 1 is 3 3/4 x 4 x 6 inches and the other is 3 3/4 x 4 x 9 inches. The fellow that gave them to me stated that they used to use this wood as ship ballast. He said that he got it from a pile that they were getting rid of at the shipyard in Tampa, Fla. Well thinking about using it for the keelson for some color, as it is to short (need 10 inches, 1:24) I was thinking about using a joint somewhere. The full ship plans show a joint in the area. Need to look at the plans and track it down and go from there. Cut a test piece of wood on the table saw and was getting ready to rip it down to 1/2 inch with the bandsaw to get ready to then run through the thickness planner to a final 3/8 inch to see how the finish would be. But several things got in the way. Try again tomorrow. Really need more time in the day and less other things to do, like work, wait that pays the bills, o'well. Later 42rocker | ||
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