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aew

Mon Jul 23 2018, 10:56am

Arthur

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Winston wrote ...
That's okay Mike. You would think that being an Admin I'd know that. Then the software adds insult to injury, I don't get that option on the top of the thread. Looks like regular members have stuff the main admin doesn't.

Sorry Winston, you'll have to find another excuse, the [Track Thread] option's available for me!

(It's not obviously a button though.)

I'm just updating the indexes and this topic appears as a new entry - but it doesn't have a name!

I'm going to go with 'Cross section prototype' for now but maybe you should have a naming competition!

Winston

Tue Jul 31 2018, 09:28pm

Winston

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All the frames have now been constructed. Time to spend some time cleaning them up. Fairly straight forward process, just time consuming.

Winston

Wed Aug 15 2018, 04:37pm

Winston

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Will be back at it soon. Have been suffering from a severe bronchial infection and haven't been able to do much of anything.

donfarr

Wed Aug 15 2018, 06:27pm

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Take care Winston, GLAD TO SEE YOU GETTING BACK TO THE PROTYPE, TAKE CARE. Don

Charles

Thu Aug 16 2018, 12:09pm

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Will follow with great interest

There is not enough cross section
They are small, do not take a lots of space and very valuable on the historic point of vu as they give an accurate example of the structure (my taste better without the mast)
Was in Gdansk in 2008 and visit the maritime museum there they must have a few hundred of ships models and at least 20% of them section of all kind.
They might not be as impressive as a full ship but they are a lot better space value and as knowledge how ship was build.

A section of a mortar will be a wonderful adds to what is available.

Tanks Winston

Winston

Fri Aug 17 2018, 07:13pm

Winston

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So much for getting prepared to get back to work!!!!

Winston

Sat Aug 18 2018, 08:38pm

Winston

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Finally back to work on the cross section today. Have a lot of sanding to do to remove the excess wood from the chocks. There's four on each single frame and 8 on each double. While I'm at it, I'm also removing a little of the laser char from the frames to help save some time when it comes time to fair the hull. Its a slow process. Probably still have three or four hours work left to do on them.

After that it will be time to do some minor cleanup on the frames. I didn't get a perfect fit on all the chocks so I have a few minor little slits where I didn't use enough glue to fill. Little bit of sawdust and diluted glue will take care of that pretty quickly. I suppose I could leave them as they are as they will be covered by planking. BUT, I'd know what was under those planks if I didn't do this.

Winston

Mon Aug 20 2018, 06:59pm

Winston

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Have rough sanded all the frames and frame chocks and dry fitted the frames into the build jig and made sure all frames fit on the keel assembly.

Would recommend allowing a little more width of the keel stock parts (1/64-1/32"). They are probably okay as they are, but if I were scratch building, I would have made the keel assembly over again to get a tighter fit. But then I'm pickly like that.

Tonight I will have to study the keel closely. There is a very slight rise in the frames at the stern of the model and will have to notch for those frames accordingly.