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I really have no idea what I'm doing as I've never built a model ship before but I stumbled across Robert Wilson's website and purchased his topsail schooner Julia booklet and thought I'd give it a go. I drew up the deck in Adobe Illustrator and cut it out using a laser cutter. Then I saw Robert Hunt's article, Planking Decks in the MSB Journal on the Ships of Scale site so I added planks. Then to see if it worked I added treenails but they're so tiny you really have to look to see them. I should mention that this is only 151.6 mm long. I laser cut some templates out of matte board for the hull and then cut the hull out on the band saw. Here's this week's progress.
Here's the first iteration of the deck
This is the Illustrator drawing with the planks and treenails added.
Here it is laser cut using 1/32" basswood.
The whole deck and nothing but the deck.
The matte board templates.
The hull and deck. The hull is bandsawn.
To be continued...
Cheers eh,
Todd
Here's the first iteration of the deck
This is the Illustrator drawing with the planks and treenails added.
Here it is laser cut using 1/32" basswood.
The whole deck and nothing but the deck.
The matte board templates.
The hull and deck. The hull is bandsawn.
To be continued...
Cheers eh,
Todd
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