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NOTICE*** Take note that anyone building a model or full scale ship from these prints must take note that this project is a work in progress. Until it is completed, pages may be revised due to design changes affecting other pieces of the ship. Therefore as a rule of thumb the first pages are more likely to be more completed than the ones that are being published recently.
Today I am uploading a few more pages and updated many of the drawings, however I do not keep a log of revisions so if you have copied any drawings some may be different than the ones you have previously copied.
In addition, I have decided to also gather this project and publish it simultaneously on a patreon account, in this way any builders who are mad enough to build the full size ship can contribute to my work financially as I am a retired old fart and this is just a hobby of sorts.
This is the final draft of the Pirate Ship document and will be a work in progress. For builders, all the dimensions are in inches and at full scale. Therfore if you wish to build this ship at any scale take the dimension and divide it by the scale you wish to use. For example, the overall length of the ship at 1:1 scale is around 122 feet, which is 1464 inches. Divide the inch dimension to a scale you desire. 1:2 would yield around 61 feet, about the length of a tractor and trailer. 1:4 yields around 30 feet long. If you want it to fit on your coffee table, I would suggest 1:36 or 1:72. These will yield a model length of 40 inches and 20 inches respectively. The bolt hole dimensions are for someone who wishes to build the full scale vessel. You may or may not choose that much detail, and assemble the pieces together or create the keel, and bow out of one piece of material. This is up to the builder. Again, any images I have released earlier will be incorrect. Some of the hole dimensions did not add up correctly when I was checking errors, and I revised them. I will continue this project. The next section will be about fasteners used on the full scale ship, so it may not be relevent to the model builder. After that small section I will return with the Stern, Rudder, Aft Castle, and the frames. Enjoy, and I thank all of you for sharing your hobby with me.
Today I am uploading a few more pages and updated many of the drawings, however I do not keep a log of revisions so if you have copied any drawings some may be different than the ones you have previously copied.
In addition, I have decided to also gather this project and publish it simultaneously on a patreon account, in this way any builders who are mad enough to build the full size ship can contribute to my work financially as I am a retired old fart and this is just a hobby of sorts.
This is the final draft of the Pirate Ship document and will be a work in progress. For builders, all the dimensions are in inches and at full scale. Therfore if you wish to build this ship at any scale take the dimension and divide it by the scale you wish to use. For example, the overall length of the ship at 1:1 scale is around 122 feet, which is 1464 inches. Divide the inch dimension to a scale you desire. 1:2 would yield around 61 feet, about the length of a tractor and trailer. 1:4 yields around 30 feet long. If you want it to fit on your coffee table, I would suggest 1:36 or 1:72. These will yield a model length of 40 inches and 20 inches respectively. The bolt hole dimensions are for someone who wishes to build the full scale vessel. You may or may not choose that much detail, and assemble the pieces together or create the keel, and bow out of one piece of material. This is up to the builder. Again, any images I have released earlier will be incorrect. Some of the hole dimensions did not add up correctly when I was checking errors, and I revised them. I will continue this project. The next section will be about fasteners used on the full scale ship, so it may not be relevent to the model builder. After that small section I will return with the Stern, Rudder, Aft Castle, and the frames. Enjoy, and I thank all of you for sharing your hobby with me.
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