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HMS Wolf sloop of war 1759

Cedric
The spiled planks yielded a very nice hull compared to the strange planking pattern we see too often. Well done!

I may have missed it, but is this a Unicorn Model kit?

Thanks

Allan
 
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Jackie Wolf said:
he inner planks of the fore deck and main deck are discontinuous.
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I am not sure what this means, could you post a picture? Are you referring to the flat of the upper deck and forecastle along the center line or the spirketting and quickwork of the bulwarks, or maybe something else? Probably just me being dense but it happens. :(
Thanks Jackie, much appreciated.
Allan
 
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AllanKP69 said:
I am not sure what this means, could you post a picture? Are you referring to the flat of the upper deck and forecastle along the center line or the spirketting and quickwork of the bulwarks, or maybe something else? Probably just me being dense but it happens. :(
Thanks Jackie, much appreciated.
Allan
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Hi Allan, no worrys, hope the picture from official instruction and xander898 would help. The joints shouldnt be in the same place, but staggered.
It can be fixed either replace all inner planks with extra strips or just paint it. Designers sometimes leave bugs that could have been easily fixed during the design phaseROTF.
Cheers.
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Jackie Wolf said:
Designers sometimes leave bugs that could have been easily fixed during the design phaseROTF
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A lot of folks agree with your statement.

Regarding the planking I get it now, thanks Jackie. This brings up something I never thought of until now. Goodwin shows in his TC&F book that decks had a 3 butt shift or a 4 butt shift. I cannot find anything about the shift or minimum distance from one butt on a given strake to the butt on the adjacent strakes on the hull planking or inboard planking. I checked a couple contracts and scantling lists but cannot find anything.

Allan
 
It is hard to tell in the photo but is there a seat cut out? Most contemporary drawings show the head without the seat, but a few show a dotted line for the cut out for the seat. Some have the figurehead seated well into the knee of the head if there is a smaller seat for the figurehead to rest on.

The drawing below explains better than words, including the taper fore and aft from 10 inches to 4 inches on this Swan class sloop.

From The Fully Framed Model Volume I, page 142 by David Antscherl
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The Constuction and Fitting of the British Man of War page 37 by Peter Goodwin
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AllanKP69 said:
It is hard to tell in the photo but is there a seat cut out? Most contemporary drawings show the head without the seat, but a few show a dotted line for the cut out for the seat. Some have the figurehead seated well into the knee of the head if there is a smaller seat for the figurehead to rest on.
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I don't think this factor was taken into account when the kit was designed; sanding it down could make it impossible to install the figurehead.
 
Jackie Wolf said:
I don't think this factor was taken into account when the kit was designed; sanding it down could make it impossible to install the figurehead.
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Jackie
Are you talking about the seat cut out that the figure head sits on or the taper? If the latter, I agree the kit designer was probably not familiar with the details on how the knee of the head was built, or it was too expensive to do it correctly.
Allan
 
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