I can now give me an estimate of how small it is once again all. And then positioning those half-curved beams a job where you hold your breath. I don't see any attachment you used for positioning so offhand, which makes it extra clever what you do.
Thank you again for the compliments, Stephan. And the substantive response.
I mainly use 2 tools for alignment. But then I have to explain the way of working a little further.
First there is the construction floor that rises 1.5 degrees from back to front:
On the construction floor I always use my 2 construction templates. This can be seen better in the 3rd (overview photo).
To get the frames perpendicular to the waterline, I made this angled mold. Placed behind a frame, I use the 91.5 degree angle. If that doesn't work in terms of position, I tilt the mold a quarter to the right and use the 88.5 degree angle. In both cases the 1.5 degree is compensated.
The frames and deck beams are perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. But I build the model in 2 halves.
I can tilt each half with its own construction template a quarter turn. It is then placed half on its center side.
Then I use a 90 degree square to align perpendicularly.
The installation of the frames then continues 'by eye'.
Because I'm building 2 separate halves, both have to be aligned:
That's why I pasted copies of the old drawings on the construction floor and both templates. All 4 on the same scale and aligned with each other on the frames. The blue arrows point to the 4 positions of frame 42.
To always build in the same position, I placed some ridges on the construction floor. Both construction templates always fall into those.
In the upright position, both templates fall into and over ridge 1, in the front and the back. See insert bottom left. Both templates aligned on the middle line.
In the tilted position the templates fall into the cams 2, see insert above left. But they are lying with the bottom plate in a angle of 1,5 dgr downwards from bow to stern. Otherwise the frames are not in 90 dgr.
Yes, a lot of math .......
Placing the frames is therefore always done 'by eye' with alignment on the drawings and both aids.
Hopefully I explained it clearly. It took me ‘some time’ to think of this, develop it and align it.
Regards, Peter
