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USS Pennsylvania 1837 second build.

Your use of coppering tape is very nicely done! For a second model you should be very happy.

Have you looked at the Pennsylvania cross section build log here at SoS by Mike41 https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/...ection-scale-1-64-completed-build.1370/page-2 Post #22 You can see in the drawings and photos how the deck beams rest on the deck clamps rather than squeezing them in between the clamps with no support underneath. Once the deck planks are on no one will notice, but thought it might of interest to you for the future.
Allan

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The title of this thread could have been better. This is the 2nd USS Pennsylvania I am building. I have built 12 other ships. They are all going to the US Navy museum system this fall. I am re making a few of my favorites for myself. Web search "ships burned at Gosport Harbor April 1861" I made those 11 ships. Including both a single deck and a poop deck version of the USS United States.

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threebs said:
They are all going to the US Navy museum
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That is VERY impressive!! Congrats. Will they be at the National Museum of the US Navy located at the Washington Navy Yard, the US Navy Museum in Hampton Roads or hopefully some at each :)? Can't wait to see them.
Thanks
Allan
 
I am not certain which one(s) they will go to. Speaking with Vice Admiral Samuel Cox I got the impression they would be scattered amongst several different ones in groups of 3 or 4 and rotating among them. Norfork and The Naval academy for certain.
 
If the academy I am guessing they would go to Preble Hall. They would be amongst the beautiful contemporary models of the Rogers Collection so you will be with some of the world's best models.

Allan
 
Carved the balcony supports and decorations between the lower stern windows. The piece on the hull with all the carvings on it for the other side will need to be redone. Somehow it got brushed off my work bench top onto the floor. No I did not step on it. My grand daughter came into my shop to visit along with her new puppy. Need I say more?

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threebs said:
Starting bow work now. Just so you know, it is not that I work fast, it is just that I made things like the bowsprit, yards, masts, and carvings even before I had the bulkheads and keel cut.
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Wow! You've come in five months to the level I've come to in two years at Constitution. Congratulations!
 
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