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I went back and looked at the drawings I have, they were originally based on the drawings done by Portia Takakjian the originals were way off and needed to be refined.
here is the deal
Portia originally used an English style of framing that was not used in North America and she took a lot of slack for using it. The framing was double frames with 2 single frames between the doubles. She said she used it just because she like it and not for any historical correctness.
I thought maybe the original plans could be easy corrected for North American framing which was all double frames.
the light colored maroon frames are the original so I thought leaving everything and just take the two singles and bring them together as a double like the blue frames. Now all a builder has to do is change the notches in the keel. The problem here is the frames are way to far apart.
In the book Anatomy of Ship she changed the framing to the light red.
to do this framing you are bringing all the frames closer together so you have to add more frames which will require doing all the frame patterns over again.
but even the redo in the Essex book there are a number of historical errors and Model Expo sells a confederacy kit with the wrong type of framing so hey how correct do we need to be? this comes down to your call.
the original set of drawings are more folk art and not a historical representation of the Essex.
As a model builder who cares? but there is a group of snobs out there who ran people like Harold Hahn and Portia out of town on a rail for stylized framing and not sticking to strict historical correctness.
here is the deal
Portia originally used an English style of framing that was not used in North America and she took a lot of slack for using it. The framing was double frames with 2 single frames between the doubles. She said she used it just because she like it and not for any historical correctness.
I thought maybe the original plans could be easy corrected for North American framing which was all double frames.
the light colored maroon frames are the original so I thought leaving everything and just take the two singles and bring them together as a double like the blue frames. Now all a builder has to do is change the notches in the keel. The problem here is the frames are way to far apart.
In the book Anatomy of Ship she changed the framing to the light red.
to do this framing you are bringing all the frames closer together so you have to add more frames which will require doing all the frame patterns over again.
but even the redo in the Essex book there are a number of historical errors and Model Expo sells a confederacy kit with the wrong type of framing so hey how correct do we need to be? this comes down to your call.
the original set of drawings are more folk art and not a historical representation of the Essex.
As a model builder who cares? but there is a group of snobs out there who ran people like Harold Hahn and Portia out of town on a rail for stylized framing and not sticking to strict historical correctness.
