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You are not the first to do this. I have to be sure to take a look at the alignment of each strake as I lay them down to be sure of the alignment. RichThink I'm going to christen this the USS Kindling and start over.
Believe it or not, both of those planks are dead straight across the hull, they lined up fine at the stern, I must have something really jacked up on the bow.![]()
Thanks Dave.hull planking should follow the shape of the hull and sweep up. Laying planking as straight will cause the planks to buckle.
While the kit is maximizing the wood and minimizing your work, I recommend that you think of the scale of the ship/model and realize what is feasible for the shipwrights to have actually been able to employ as sawn limber pieces. Those shorter lengths would butt end to end on the centers of the deck beams and staggered so as to not have butted ends too close in their separation. One plank is insufficient width. I like to set the deck planks in actual lengths which is more tedious and without scribed faux joints. Just a suggestion for your consideration. Rich (PT-2)Need some advice on planking the deck.
Per the instructions, I'm supposed to cut the deck planking in lengths of 100 mm, mark a line down the center of the deck, start laying the planks end to end along that line, then on the next line of planking, per the instructions,
"For the next line of planks on the right hand side, off set them by half the length of the plank. Repeat this process until the right hand side of the deck is covered."
You then go on and repeat the process for the left side.
Doing it that way looks like I'm going to end up with a lot of weird butt joints at the stern. Is that how it's suppose to go?
Looking online it seems a lot of people just use planks that run the length of the deck and then score them for the butt joint affect.
Any advice or suggestions appreciated.
Thanks;
Charles
CharlesView attachment 266531
Note that the butted ends have three planks between those aligned joints which is the separation that I mentioned before. I am sure that your eye will guide you along with the deck plan. Rich (PT-)View attachment 266551The planks were probably up to 20 feet long. They would have only butted the planks where necessary. I think butts only in the longer runs.
PT-2 Corrected, I fixed the drawing. Note the date on the drawing. Time flies when your having fun.Note that the butted ends have three planks between those aligned joints which is the separation that I mentioned before. I am sure that your eye will guide you along with the deck plan. Rich (PT-)
Most people don't bother and the kits usually don't mention it. You will not be critisised for just running the planks to the edges at the bow and stern.So I'm cruising along planking the deck, everything going OK, then I stop after looking at the drawings Al posted and looked at the bow.
Nothing in the instructions about tapering or cutting those corners off along the bulwarks. I guess maybe it was assumed I would know to do that. Can't say why I spaced out and didn't notice it earlier. Side affects of the arthritis meds no doubt.
All the pictures show those planks tapered and fitting into some type of slotted frame or border that runs along the deck against the bulwarks, you can see that in the drawing above, but I can't find anything like that in the box, and nothing about any of that is mentioned in the instructions. Same thing with along the sides, going to require some tapering there as well. Oh well!!
This should be an interesting fix, especially given I'm not even slightly interested in cutting little corner pieces to fill those gaps. I'll probably just end up throwing some fill in there and say the hell with it.
Charles