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dblair0211

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This will be my first attempt at scratch building. The project is the Hayling Hoy using David Antscherl's plans and book. I'm definitely in the planning stage, gathering materials and information. Regarding the building board, what type of adhesive do you use to stick the plans on the board. I have made several copies of the plans and want to copy on the board to assist with most aspects of the build. But I don't want the plans to stretch or alter and it needs to be perfectly flat. Is there a specific glue type I should be using?

Thanks,
Dave
 
Further to your question about attaching the plans to the building board, the board itself can be a huge help in the construction of a right side up build. The best board I have ever seen and now use is the set up I learned from Ed Tosti which I believe he first designed when building the Naiad and writing the books on her.

I would not use rubber cement as it is a mess to remove the plans and glue when getting ready for the next build. Diluted white glue PVA or better, matte medium right out of the bottle works really well and cleans up without too much fuss.
Allan
Photo from Volume I of the Naiad Frigate by Ed Tosti.
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When I made my board I had a friend with a router cut the grooves for the metal C rails for sliding the gantry.

C Rail
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Thank you Allen. Using a diluted glue - any issues with the plans stretching slightly out of true? I know I have to lay them very carefully and keep them true to scale.

Dave
 
BTW - that gantry looks awesome. I can see so many uses for it and it doesn’t look real hard to make!
 
dblair0211 said:
any issues with the plans stretching slightly out of true
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This is always a potential problem if care is not taken. The next time, if they are plans I have redrawn from contemporary plans I will divide it up into rectangles the same size as sheets of label paper which can be stuck to the board without stretching and removed with relative ease. If you have a set of plans already and to give this sticky paper a try , you can do the same thing by scanning sections of your plans on your home printer/scanner then printing each section on label paper. If anyone has already done this, I for one am curious to know how well it worked.

An example with red lines showing six sheets of 8.5"X11" label paper is below.

Allan

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I’ll give that some thought. Best to have the plans as perfect as possible. I’ll let you know if I try it. Thanks Allan
 
For my latest I copied the bits of plan I needed. Trimmed them to size and then laminated them into plastic pouches. Finally stuck into place with cyno.

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That looks really cool and tidy. Thank you for that. Do you mind if I ask what ship you’re building?
 
This will be a mid section of L'Aurore 1784 a French Slave Ship, at 1/36 scale. Plans are from www.ancre.fe so far I have built keel and first 4 of 14 double frames. I know I need to start a build log.
 
dblair0211 said:
This will be my first attempt at scratch building. The project is the Hayling Hoy using David Antscherl's plans and book. I'm definitely in the planning stage, gathering materials and information. Regarding the building board, what type of adhesive do you use to stick the plans on the board. I have made several copies of the plans and want to copy on the board to assist with most aspects of the build. But I don't want the plans to stretch or alter and it needs to be perfectly flat. Is there a specific glue type I should be using?

Thanks,
Dave
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Modge Podge works well for gluing plans to wood, especially stable wood like MDF or similar. There are a lot of YouTube vudeos.

 
If you use rubber cement, I would recommend buying thinner. I used the product for years way back in the Dark Ages. I had a quart can with a plastic cone shaped top that was sold in craft or art supply stores. Inside the can was a bent wire to run the 1”- 2” brush against. With the thinner you will be able to make a nice thin mixture for coating your paper. You coat and let it dry on the back of your drawing and you will be able to reposition it on your board. I was putting it on smooth surfaced illustration board at the time. On a rougher surface you will probably need to coat both surfaces. Kind of like Contact Cement but without the final it’s down and can’t be moved issue.

I Googled the containers. Plastic and glass ones came up with brushes attached to lids. What is nice about the containers, if you don’t use the product for a while it gets gummy and you can’t use it. Just put some thinner in the container, wait a couple hours or a day and you are back in action.

If the cement is fighting you as you are brushing, stop and thin the mixture. It should go on like a coat of paint.
 
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