YGmodel FOREL' in 1:100
Hello dear friends of the white torpedo boat!
Today I got the very first batch of filling cardboard for my hull:
As promised I did add the imperial ruler for our Boston Tea Party members.
These cards are nearly
7-3/8" long and
77mm or 2-63/64" in breadth so I am able to fill the brackets between the bulkheads to form the ''zerost planking'':
Due to the small thickness of the cards I do hope to get the filling very right to the original lining and by this avoid these ugly sinking in of the hull's surface between the bulkheads:
So I do develeope to get a pile of cards for any starboard bracket - a "PLUS" and a "MINUS" one for above respectivly below the CWL. And as you can see easily it will be a big amount of "silly monkey work" to be done, as any card pice in any pile needs to be documentated so I can not only
a)
use the mirrowed version for the port side
b)
and any other model when enlarged or deminished to 1/72, 1/64 and 1:200 (by remembering to change the thickness of the cards up to 139% and 156% or down to 50%...
...hopefully!)
So tomorrow I will have to do the measurements on the plan copies in 1:100 to figure out the shape of the fillers. I do think about overdoing the bow to the hull's outside, so I do have additional material to sand away as a "machining allowance". This as I do think I am not able to work as precise as needed to do it without machining allowance.
Do you have any better ideas?