Hi willz

for the third night in a row I am trying to figure out
how the heck you did these tompions on your 12pounder.
Neither toothpicks nor green stuff has worked for me so far.
You even manged it to include an eye hooks.
Maybe THIS scale is my limit, at least for my sausage fingers.......

Would you share your secret with us ? If you have posted it here in the forum I did not find it.

Thank you very much,
Timm

Chapeau !
Thank you very much for posting this.
Now I know what to do next weekend.

Cheers, Timm

No way Willz ,we have seen your craftmanship this will be a doodle.

The deag A.L. On hold at the mo, trying to catch up with the scratch, fitted all of the ribs using the centre line and laser method, think I`ll need more support for the ribs the ply I used not as good a quality as the kit.
Attention now turning towards the bow, this definitely needs more support for the planking, been thinking about the balsa method, or more ply ribs not decided yet.
As for the planking does anyone know which is the best wood to use, I would really love to do this to a natural finish (we`ll see) so need a wood with a reasonably stable tone

W.I.P. Bit cold in the garage at the mo so been doing some small bits inside, here`s my attempt to do the gangboard not finished yet, wanted to do tapered lattice decking, driving my insane

Ok the gangboard, haven't got photo`s all the way, but here`s how I did it.

First made the basic frame from 1.5 mm walnut glued and cramped overnight, I used two wedge shaped blocks to clamp it with a piece of 6mm ply at the top of the blocks to stop them tilting, just the the smallest nip on the clamp to hold it together. Diag 1

Next I had some 3mm x 1mm walnut and I filed out a notch halfway down its width to obtain 1.5mm.
Diag 2, for the bit with no cut-outs I did this at both ends till it fitted snugly (you can see the idea in diag 3), did these one at a time and glued them into place by eye. This is easier than it sounds because there`s nine of them, i.e. First you put in the two end ones at just under a 1mm from the frame, next you put in the centre one by eye, then you have again two centres in between the ones you`ve put in, so again cut and fit and glue these in between the ones you`ve fitted by eye, and now you have four centres in between all the ones you`ve already fitted, so cut ant fit and glue these to make nine. (hope that makes sense)

Next the cross bits, these are all end grain and were fitted individually, first again file out a notch in a piece of 3mm x 1mm walnut just as in diag 2, as you go keep trying it in the lattice, diag 4, when it fits snugly cut the length smaller diag 5, then glue it into place so that the end protrudes slightly on the finished face, go all the way across using this method and leave to dry, diag 6 (WHEN PUTTING IN THE LAST ONE NEXT TO THE OUTER FRAME, BE CAREFUL NOT TO MAKE IT TOO TIGHT OR IT WILL POP THE FRAME JOINTS) , when dry snip off the ugly bits at the back, diag7. The snips can`t cut them as small as i`d like so I then ground them off with a dremmel and grinding wheel, (easy does it) you can see the scorch marks in diag 7,
So I just carried on doing a bit at a time till it was finished, its not the sort of job you can crash out, more of a in between, bit here bit there, the photos should explain most of it, the three square rigging holes were all done by visually from john mckay`s book.
One last point the frame is made of 1.5mm thick walnut but it actually scales in at about 3mm for a 1/72 scale conversion, this was done in an attempt to hide the rough under side, we now need to add a strip of 1.5 mm walnut down each side of the underside of the gangboard frame edge to bring it up to 3mm thick, diag 12, no need to bother with the front and rear they are never seen, and finally the finished gangboard alongside the scratch grapnel.

Willz

Thanks for your comments Karl much appreciated. By the way where in capt stedds

still too cold in the garage, brrrrrrrr, so heres a 32 pound dummy cannon i made out of ebony

Wow!! Fantastic!! Now that's what I call modelling!! Well done sir...

Superb build to follow , Model making at its best , Look forward to the rest of your build .