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Victory - Caldercraft by Mecheng

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Mecheng

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A crisp salute and a thank you as I come aboard. I have been following from afar for a long time now and I am certainly impressed with amount of information, skill and kind advice that can be found on this forum. As I have learned in my career to "always be a student", I look forward to interacting with you in the future.
I have built many plastic models in my youth and entered the ship building hobby about 10 years ago with the USS Constellation kit from Artesania Latina which I dabbled with for a few years. Since I was a novice it took a bit of time but I was able to complete the hull, then had a bit of a water mishap and basically destroyed the remaining parts in the kit. Oh well!
Now I have completely jumped into the deep end and purchased the Calder Craft HMS Victory from Blue Jacket Ship Crafters which went very smooth.

Just starting but I thought I would share a few pics so far. I still work full time and I am extremely allergic to CA glue to boot so this may take a bit!

Thanks all,
Tim

(YES! Thant is a dining room table leaf used as a building board. I like the elevated surface and it is perfectly flat. Also easy to clamp onto.)

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Thank you!

I am a bit stumped and the answer is probably right in front of me. As mentioned above, I am building the CC Victory. I have studied the many build logs of the great work folks have done trying to find the answer but to no avail.
I am dry fitting the gun port templates and cannot seem to line them up correctly;
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As stated in the instructions, I have lined up the upper template 270 as specified and it sits correctly, however, when trying to match the lower template "with a smooth run of the templates" the bulkhead fouls the gun port as you can see.
any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Tim
 
I have not built the kit you are working on. However, in the picture you provided, it looks like there is a very slight beginning to the curve that follows into the template below. How does it look if you slide the lower template about 2 mm to the right so the curve matches up?
 
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your reply.
The instructions state the following;
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I tried to move the template as you suggested, maybe a bit more than 2mm, to the point where the bulkhead no longer fouls the gun port;
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I am not sure what they are going for, a "smooth run" to the upper template? Or concentric to the extension just behind?
There is a part that will be installed at a later time that is attached to and matches the curve on the inner extension while also running out to match this part.

Baffled!

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That little bit may be enough to get the bulkhead right on the edge of the port. You also need to raise it so the two pieces are flush against each other. :)
 
Thank you all for the kind welcome. I think I need to move this over to a "Build Log" forum, can of the administrators advise?

Thanks,
Tim
 
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