HMS Diana by Caldercraft

HMSFly said:
Ever since I started making the ships I have been quite unhappy with the poor quality of the rigging blocks that came with them.
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I may be part of a small minority but I agree with you Marc. For the money charged for kits these days, no one should accept the chunks of wood some kit makers call rigging blocks. I may very well be wrong, but with today's manufacturing technology, I thought these could have been replaced with high quality blocks with virtually no increase to their manufacturing costs.
Allan
 
Hi Marc, I can't believe how you can do this job so fast :) But everything was done very cleanly and neatly as always.
 
Oh yeah, forgot. I'll make all Guns visible, so no windows....:)

In a few days I will start with the Main deck. And here is an important question from me: was a Waterway beam placed on the main deck in the Artois class? If so, what did it look like? Any idea?
 
HMSFly said:
was a Waterway beam placed on the main deck in the Artois class? If so, what did it look like? Any idea?
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The waterway was not a beam, so this is a bit confusing. 18th century ships, including the Artois class had a waterway port and starboard between the spirketting and the outboard most deck planks and sat on the deck beams, See the post at https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/...y-modelship-dockyard.13691/page-8#post-408185

For added fun, from Goodwin's The Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War, page 59, later in the 18th century the outboard most four feet of the various gun deck planks on some vessels were 25 foot long X 24 inches wide top and butt planks and were usually oak (or elm) rather than Prussian Deal which is very noticeable in the shape and color of those deck planks.
Allan
 
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