I have not started any of the planking yet as my issues have not arrived yet, and I am sorely tempted to use the idea of framing them first and then planking , it looks very neat and tidy!! . Superb colin!!

Gave in and just did one gun port, I think it took me about an hour?

Very pleased with it - will look even better when framed and veneered the rest of the hull!

Tom

And I thought planking was time consuming!

Tom

Thanks Colin, I'm very pleased with it so far. Still double planking I like the finish on the lime veneer more than the supplied wood. If I was painting it then I'd just leave it with one layer, but the way the lime comes up will work for me.

Indeed, at least with planking there is a bigger room for error, whereas one mistake here and its very hard to cover up!

I don't have the gun port magazine yet - I followed Tomick's diary for the one I did, and I think I'll leave it at that until I get the mag just in case theres some more points to take note of!

Do you mean the planking veneer? Th veneer I have is 1mm, and the supplied wood is 2mm, meaning the hull will be 3mm thick. I think its quite likely I will be buying some wood for the framing as this increase in size might effect the wood we will be getting with the issues.

Best wishes,
Tom

Brilliant mock-up there Colin, how long did that take you to make?

Think I'll be heading in this direction myself - I like how the frames are slightly sunken in from the hull edge. Do we know how the magazine will be telling us to fit them? I know its a while off yet but helps to know.

Would be interesting to hear from those going for a natural finish; any thoughts on the type of wood you will be using (if you are replacing the supplied stuff) ?

this is the original post for the mock up, it was done to find awy of getting the colours of the victory without the use of paints.

http://forum.model-space...s&m=10670#post10670

I used stain and Indian Ink, with white paint and the red paints only, I quite like it.

Hi Colin sorry if i missed the post, the linings for the gun ports can you tell me the size of the material used to line the gun ports and are the linings flush or behind the first layer of planking?
Allan

Allan


No idea mate, we haven't got that far yet, this is just coming up with ideas and guessing.



Still not sure how the kit will approach this but for me the lining would be inset, as the planking is 2mm I would hazard a guess at the scale side of things and place them 1mm in, so when the gunport hatches come down it would sit flush with the hull, this all really depends on what extra work you want to put into it.

Another build show the linning as flush but to me and other here looks odd, so again we move away from the kit.

How do you work this out?

Hi Colin!


Simply really made a spreadsheet on execl 2007 entered 48 in the 'Start Scale' so it showed 1/48, then entered 84 in the 'Convert To Scale' so it showed 1/84 and that gave my a 'Correction Factor' of 0.571428571. Next measured on the plan 9mm so entered 9 in the 'Measurement' section and got 5.14 in the 'Converted To' section, so rounded 5.14mm down to 5mm.

Below that I setup a section to convert measurement from yards down to millimetres so I can use reference measurements from all sources real and from scale plans. As you enter the scale your can go from 1/1 scaled down to 1/99999999 or the other way from 1/99999999 scale up to 1/1 scale.

Example you have the real deck plank measurement 21 foot so you want the scale measurement for a scale 1/84. Enter 1/1 for 'Start Scale', 1/84 for 'Convert To Scale', 21 in the 'Start Measurement' section on the row for 'Feet'. This give you all the converted measurements from yards down to millimetres, Enter 6400.8 in the 'Measurement' section and you get 76.20 in the 'Converted To' section that's 76.2mm.

Darron