La Renommee 1744 1:48. (CAF) by Salty

[GrantTyler]

I found it quite difficult to get a result I was happy with. It’s quite tricky with all those curved surfaces to get a nice thin glue line. Not perfect, but I’ll take it.

Good morning Salty. Yep I agree, definitely you can more than live with it - looks mighty fine. I don’t know if it applies to all CAF kits, but on mine I found that it gave very little leeway to remove the chaff. The frames were very cool with the bevel lines however on the beakhead and keel it fitted perfectly and to the correct measurements with the chaff. Any tiny extra removal meant a tiny gap and change of length- I made it work but like your it was “not perfect, but I took it” . So far you are owning this- kudos. Cheers Grant

 

[Salty]

Grant, I agree about removing the laser charring. I think the parts are very much cut to size and you should only remove it, but nothing more. As you say, sometimes doing that will leave parts a fraction small. The difficulty is compounded with thicker parts as the laser cut isn’t completely vertical. I think it is thicker at the top than at the bottom, so you have to remove the charring, plus some extra wood to make it square. But in my experience, if you mess too much with the parts trying to make them fit perfectly, there’s a good chance you could make it worse. I’m not trying to make excuses, but as the saying goes, sometimes a bird in the hand…

Today, I started on Part 2 of La Renommee. It consists of frames 1 to 14, plus the hawse timbers. Here are frames 8 to 14:





The instructions say that there may be “redundancies” on some of the frame parts. I take that to mean the parts may be oversized. I came across the first instance when building frame 4 - the floor timbers were fractionally longer at the ends than the plans and needed some adjustment.

Kind regards

Salty

 

[Cathber]

Bonjour, félicitations pour la construction de votre Renommée. J'ai deux questions concernant les cadres :
– Jean Boudriot mentionne le « canal des aiguillères » dans sa monographie, à l'intérieur de ces cadres. La reproduction sur votre modèle ?
– Représentez-vous les clous dans les cadres ?

 

[Cathber]