I'm in the process of building the Caldercraft HMS Snake in 1:64 and was wondering how long to make the deck planks to keep them in scale.
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Hi Uwek,
What scale is your HMS Granado, and how long did you make the deck planks?
You do some seriously beautiful POF work. The nibbling strakes alone must have consumed as many hours as it takes to plank an entire deck without them.
Like nibbling, I've seen it used for that purpose in this and other modeling forums, but I've never heard anyone in the ship building industry use it. It's used in the aircraft building industry to indicate an indent in the frame flanges where a stringer passes through.Is "Joggling" something different or just another term for the same thing?
Sorry for the late replyHi Uwek,
What scale is your HMS Granado, and how long did you make the deck planks?
You do some seriously beautiful POF work. The nibbling strakes alone must have consumed as many hours as it takes to plank an entire deck without them.
Uwek, what is the scale of your HMS Granado?In addition to @rtwpsom2 information about the maximum length of planks (it was limited by the trees used for the planking boards) the planks should end on top of the real deck beams - also the nailing pattern of the treenails (if you make them) should be only on top of the beams.
You can see, that all the hatches and openings in the deck are between such beams
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The used drawing is the available contemporary drawing of the HMS Snake, which can be downloaded from the NMM (also other drawings of the Snake)
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Please do not use for the butt joints of the planks the bulkheads (blue marked) - you have to make them appr. on the real beams (red marked
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To make it it clear I add here some photos of my actual project the HMS Granado - a POF where you can also see the real beams
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Scale is 1:48Uwek, what is the scale of your HMS Granado?