Hi Chris. I am following your thread with great interest. Mainly because of the not often use of paper/card. A bit unconventional build is always nice.Thanks Ab! '...apart from your head." Oh yes too true because than I would suffer from Morbus Robespierre
Yes I did work with paper - on small card model ships 1/250 and for ships (Predreadnoughts) for naval tabletop in 1/750. I even used paper in 1/35 on plasticmodels and I am used to stiffen it by adding very cheap superglue by this the paper can get sanded at the very end. So I am a bit in this topic but a greenhorn in scratch building.
Today I just dealt with the hull side drawing copied on frostpaper to testfit:
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So I could look after the decks in both Views at the very same time:
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Pulling the frostpaper over the drawing shows clearly the graphical correctness of all lines to me.
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This IS nothing against your drawings, dear Ab. But my expirience to the shrinking of paper in the xerox machine when I made copies. So this was all I could do today sadly.
Recently I am looking in to the fore drawings of WvdV and do look for a solution to the Breakhead Bulkhead there are several solutions smaller ships with a pair of doors,
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big ships with only a single door,
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or medium sized ships with doors and gunports:
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But I excluded this beauty as she looks too old (due to the lang gallion) and too English (die to the BrBu's decor and the round turret on the QG)...
...am I right?
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This is Ab's solution two doors and outside two gunports...
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...but why you did chose this solution - the knispeldrawing shows nothing like this:
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So my question stayed afloat: Hmmm, what of them is right for the Amsterdam's yard of 1660-1670 for a 60-gun ship?
Any suggestions?
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At first I hope that your hand will recovered quickly.
About the shrinking of the paper in the Xerox, maybe you can give it a magnification factor (101%-102%)?
Regards, Peter