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HMS Agamemnon by Caldercraft

richardjjs said:
Phone John at Caldercraft +44 1905 776073
This is the number from their old place in Worcestershire but appear to be the contact now theve moved
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Thx Richard,
The move explains a lot. After receiving the kit, I sent an email with the kit serial number and never received a response. Do you happen to have an email address?
Marc
 
AllanKP69 said:
Maybe try soaking it for a while first, then temporarily clamp it in place and hit it with a hot air gun to heat and dry it. It should hold its shape against the adjacent strake of planking.

Allan

Now here's one that will likely make me look like a pain in the arse, but strictly as an FYI for anyone interested. The rabbet along the keel ends short of the stern post. I doubt 1 person in 10,000 will notice/care but for anyone interested.....


Rabbet ends at station 20 on Agamemnon. Ending somewhere short of the post was the norm, at least in most of the 18th and 19th centuries, but I haven't the slightest idea why they did this. The only information I could find was this AI description:
In British ships of war (and traditional wooden shipbuilding in general), the rabbet of the keels, a groove cut into the keel to accommodate the planking, would stop forward of the sternpost. This construction method ensured the keel and the sternpost could be properly joined

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Dear Allan,

Learned something useful again! Where did the Rabbet stop at the bow?

I have a reservation.
We're dealing with a double-planked model here.
Suppose I stopped the Rabbet at 20. Then I need to glue two strips, each 1.5 mm thick (3 mm total!) to the keel? And then sand it?

Cheers,

Marc
 
HMSFly said:
Where did the Rabbet stop at the bow?
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Hi Marc,
As far as I have seen it never stops at the bow, but rather follows the line of the keel to the boxing joint, onto the stem and up to the top of the stem. This is usually shown clearly on inboard profile plans.

I might have asked before, and apologize if I already did..... do you have all the RMG Agamemnon drawings in high resolution downloaded? I would attach them but the ones I have total 366 MB
Allan
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As you are now into the planking of the hull, another thing to consider is the taper of the thickness of the wales. If the model is to be double planked it may be more difficult to do this, but the wales taper to the same thickness as the surrounding planking starting at about the hawse pieces so they seat in the rabbet the same as the other planking. They did not stick out like we sometimes see on modern models.

Model forgetting proper tapering of the wales thickness.
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