A question to the Belle Poule gurus ...

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Hi to all,

a - perhaps stupid - question ..

should not the red joints of the planks be at the position marked in blue ?

proceeding with the planks it only gets worse ..

and if its ok (?) how do I join the planks when there is no support beneath ?

Thanks in advance

Ioannis


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It will help a lot when you also add some filling wood so that you have enough meat for fixing the planking - something like @Thomas Marocke made on his model.
Butt joints of visible planking should be there, where on the real ship the center line of a double frame. The Belle Poule was french build, so she had usually over the complete length double frames. The blue line is only a bulkhead and not important for the location of a visible butt joint.
Take also a look at the Boudriot drawing set review

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At the bottom and center you can see some double frames partly shown on the keel

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Here you can get a feeling of the number of butt joints - this is the interpretation by Jean Boudriot - nobody knows exactly where the butt joints were. The shipwrights took the planks, which were available, sometimes shorter sometimes longer.....

Planset review - LA BELLE-POULE - 1765 - 12-pdr frigate" in 1:48 by Jean Boudriot & Hubert Berti

Planset Review: LA BELLE-POULE 1765 - 12-pdr Frigate by ENGINEER GUIGNACE - A STUDY OF 12-PDR FRIGATE - frégate de XII de 1765 By Jean Boudriot & Hubert Berti - Translated by François Fougerat This interesting monograph with 22 drawings mainly in scale 1:48 was published in the original...
shipsofscale.com
 
ioannisdg said:
Hi to all,

a - perhaps stupid - question ..

should not the red joints of the planks be at the position marked in blue ?

proceeding with the planks it only gets worse ..

and if its ok (?) how do I join the planks when there is no support beneath ?

Thanks in advance

Ioannis
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