So the title explains the questions I guess. If you are building a ship's hull from scratch, what's your go-to source for hull form plans? and when you've got them, how do you transfer them onto wood, plastic or whatever you're building your ship in?
I have scratchbuilt simple shapes (like 1/76 tanks) in the past, and this is fairly simple since most of a tank is flat surfaces and may are handily upright. It's this possible to take measurements off a plan, mark a sheet of plastic card with a pin then cut from pinhole to pinhole. With the much more complex shapes of a ship it feels like you need to get the actual cross-sections onto the medium itself before you cut. Or is there some simpler way?
I have scratchbuilt simple shapes (like 1/76 tanks) in the past, and this is fairly simple since most of a tank is flat surfaces and may are handily upright. It's this possible to take measurements off a plan, mark a sheet of plastic card with a pin then cut from pinhole to pinhole. With the much more complex shapes of a ship it feels like you need to get the actual cross-sections onto the medium itself before you cut. Or is there some simpler way?