Сестрорецк [Sestroretsk] Scratchbuild scale 1/64 Russ. torpedo boat 1894

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Don't underestimate what card can do for you. The secret is picking the right sort. A job like you describe here can very well be executed with card that you take from packaged food. Smooth and shiny on one side, bare on the other. Not thicker than 0,5 mm. Perhaps you can divide the length of the ship in two, which makes the job a lot easier.
Good luck!

Thank you very much, Ab!

 

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Dear friends,

today I did make some progress on the bulkheads starting with the all convex ones.
And I paused to show the development step by step:










And this is what its look like.

 

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Some progress from today...


I forgot to cut out bulkhead N°13 or it is camoflaging somewhere inside the carpet-monster

 

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Today I do start the CWL horizontal "fillerpices" to force the bulkheads rectangular towards the centerboard:


Here the WaterLineDrawing for the correctly set distances between the bulkheads:


And the width is right the outboard hull line must be placed from point of the CWL/hull-crossing towards the next bulkhead as the straight was of the centerline's drawings is a problematic feature:

Here the dealing with the thick ess of half the centerboard and full thickness of the bulkheads...

...and the three most aft bulkheads


to form the quite complex trensom:


So let's see what can be done today?

 

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Hello, blowing the dust away I saw my self confronted with the construction of the filling pices between the bulkheads.


As percision is more importand then swiftness I worked my way with a drawing compass...

..as my buttomhole streatcher for similar distances wasn't the right tool to use.


So I numbered all the gillingspaces from I up to XXIV.
Scratching the lines with a dull scalpell blade:

 

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Hello

today I dealt with the filling pices between the bulkheads.

I took the breadth from the water line plan and


have to remember to cut out two mms for the thickness of the centerboard.


I do show how different the size of the filling pices is by putting them into a pile (and built a box to store them untill next week).


Best wishes from Berlin Card Yard, Chris

 

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Hello friends,​

So today my eyesight was better an SESTRORETSK did profite from it, she got der slots hardened by cheap Woolworth superglue - next week I can start sanding in detail everything to a rectangular fit.

Best wishes from Berlin Card Yard,
Chris

 

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Dear colleauges of the scale!

Back to the roots...

Today I made the first attempts into the horizontal/waterline layers and started with

the stern stanchion's slot - this will be made of

a three millimeters acryl rod and will take the real wight - while the cardboard Art Noveau stand is only for optics.

The lego blocks do make a great three dimensional right angles.


So I will cut out the CWL with some two millimeters as the processing allowness.


But this is the story for next week's progress.

Best wishes from Berlin Card Yard, Chris

 

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Hello friends!

Today I made some progress by fileing the superglue hardened bookbinder cardboard in shape so the notches did interact (nearly) perfectly.


So the next step will be the last bulkheads - in particular the very small N° 1a, 1b and 1c.


I do think about filling the distances all together so they do become one solid block much easier to sand.

Best wishes from Berlin Card Yard, Chris

 

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Hello friends

And yes, today is torpedoboatthrusday again!

Some days ago I found my tablesaw in my kitchen and so today I tryed on SESTRORETSK 1894 in practice what seems to be a clever solution:

And with a plenty of quiet soul and deep breathing I started my idea to use thecrotating sawblade for a mill becoming my slots rectangular and it does work very well:

But!!! My trick to harden the cardboard by the use of superglue works for sanding and fileing but backfired by the use a machinery as the dust is massivly aggressive to the eyeballs!


So for GUIDEON-Amsterdam 1664 and TYGER Deptford-1681 I am in deep need of a less toxic solution!




Are there any suggestions from your guys in the chairs in front of the monitor and looking over my shoulder?

This from today's progress,

Chris