• LUCZORAMA SHIPWRECK SCAVENGER HUNT GIVEAWAY. 4 Weeks of Fun • 1 Legendary Prize ((OcCre’s Fram Ship)) • Global Crew Welcome!
    **VIEW THREAD HERE**

HMS Enterprize 1/96 by Modelship Dockyard

Namabiiru said:
Having never done POF before, I'll ask the newb question of how you came to realize your beams were crooked?
Click to expand...

So, I noticed they were off because I happened to look down straight at it, like the below photo and noticed that the right side was much further back than the left.

20250505_235713.jpg

This is how currently is. It appears the piece the fit into the bow is off somehow, or one of the first beams wasn't fitted right. It's hard to tell in this photo but the green circles show where the beams start to go crooked. This is the further I could go back without causing serious damage, so these ones are still off slightly.

Then the blue beam is still slightly off, the right is a tad to far back.

The red almost align perfectly with each other, but the beam as a whole seems to be too far a stern and doesn't align with the beam below it. From the drawing this looks like it may be correct, that this deck doesn't align perfectly with the deck below, but we'll see.

The other way to check alignment is the beams should connect to the same rib on both sides. So in the red circle you see how both sides of the beam touch in roughly the same exact location to the hull. You have to trust your ribs are correctly angled.
 
Great catch. I'm not sure I would have caught that. Although, sometimes only we, as the builders, notice those things. Wonderful work!
 
Made some changes to the gun deck to be more inline with the plates for Enterprise.

Screenshot_20250531_001923_Drive.jpg

The waterway is exactly correct, it has too many cuts in it and it needs to be shaped. For example the left side is revised and the is the original piece.

20250528_233655.jpg

At this scale the hull side of the waterway should be 1.5mm but the inner side should be 1 mm, because planks at this scale should be 1 mm. It should look roughly like this. The outer .5 mm should be flat because the wall planking.


20250531_000733.jpg

Edited version.

20250530_235852.jpg

Dry fitting

20250530_232849.jpg

20250530_233040.jpg
 
I have never been able to find out when the outboard deck planking was hooked rather than the waterway being notched. Do you or any members know the approximate years when one or the other would be appropriate on English ships?
Thanks
Allan
From The Fully Framed Model, Volume 2, page 77

1748687582682.jpeg
 
I assume that the waterway came in the kit pre-joggled. That seems like a risky way to proceed. If your deck planks are not perfectly, exactly right-on-the-money in width, any deviation, even 0.1mm or less will compound across the deck and you'll find yourself in a pickle because the planks no longer line up with the joggles. I would think that starting with a full width waterway and then joggling and fitting each deck plank as you lay it would be the better way to go. Messy joggling would show up like a sore thumb on an otherwise gorgeous model.
 
RussF said:
I assume that the waterway came in the kit pre-joggled. That seems like a risky way to proceed. If your deck planks are not perfectly, exactly right-on-the-money in width, any deviation, even 0.1mm or less will compound across the deck and you'll find yourself in a pickle because the planks no longer line up with the joggles. I would think that starting with a full width waterway and then joggling and fitting each deck plank as you lay it would be the better way to go. Messy joggling would show up like a sore thumb on an otherwise gorgeous model.
Click to expand...
Unless they are planning for you to not plank the deck.
 
Corsair said:
Unless they are planning for you to not plank the deck.
Click to expand...

The kit comes with them pre-done because it doesn't plan on you planking the deck. And I won't be planking the entire deck either, only small sections to allow for the guns to sit on. I did consider just completely redoing them, which is still an option, we'll see.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top