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Body plan fully redrawn

The plan includes locations of masts, bulkheads avoiding gun ports, of course gun ports’ location themselves. Using this drawing I also designed the keel. The time I spent drawing body plan was well spent plan, later I realized that assembling the skeleton where all parts were fitting to each other as designed.

Main plan

I am experimenting a bit with model hoping all will end up well.

Experiment number one - I modified typical plank-on-bulkhead method while building the skeleton. Of course I use bulkheads, but instead of attaching them to plywood hull plate I used wooden plank called “construction plank”. Not my idea, I read about that in modelling magazine. This construction plank in my case is of 4x2 cm profile and is located around water line. For the plank I used solid pine wood 100% straight. Skeleton built that way is 100% true.

Experiment two - I was thinking about material for bulkheads, and be default you think about plywood. I had some birch and beech plywood sheets, but one was too thick, the other not fully straight and too thin. One day in the office I found old not used advertisements boards covered with some posters. But under the posters you could find decent 5 mm PCV boards 60x80 cm! I though they would be perfect material for bulkheads. So I cut out all my bulkheads from PCV and I must say that material is a perfect, wooden planks stick to it really well with cyan acrylic  glues.

More or less in parallel I have drawn and cut out keel’s parts. It was more for fun than from the actual requirement as I would not need the keel for a while anyway. Perhaps I wanted to check my abilities to make something out of old log of African walnut. Using band saw I cut out 5 mm thick planks and then with scroll cut our the keel itself. With Dremel power tool with attached flexi shaft I engraved small rabbet.

 I was quite pleased with the result.

Eyebolts - M1.2

Birch

American Cherry