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Hi Andy G

Any news on this project ???

Hi Bish Bash Welcome :thumbs_up_1:
Dave Wooley

Dear Jim

Many thanks for the welcome and the advice regarding signal halyard terminations. I'm in the rigging stage of the card JSC 1:250 waterline HMS Dreadnought. I'll take some photos and post them.
After faffing about with making tapered cocktail sticks for the secondary gun barrels, I happened to discover brass tapered clockmakers pins. Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone else encounters this difficulty.

Best wishes to all

Regards

Brian

Hello Bish bash!

WELCOME to the Forum! :welcome: :welcome: :welcome:

What are you building..?

ALAS ... I cannot answer your question with absolute certainty-but often the halyards were secured via a doubled clove hitch knot to the upper rail-its easy and quick for the flagman to undo and hoist.

I have also seen--but cannot of course lay my hands on the book with the photo..(!) where a row of cleats was fastened to a board/plate twixt the upper and lower rail.

Interested!

JIM B :wave_1:

Does anyone know how and where the signal halyards from the upper and lower signal yards of the foremast terminate on the flag deck. I cannot find details in John Roberts' marvellous book.
Many thanks.

Brad - your Mo is amazing. Are you still aiming, as you mentioned in your thread, to get her to Toledo next month? I'd love to see pictures of her on the water.

Andy, looking forward to joining the "done-planking" club. Hmmm...I bet Phil (Kiwimedic) is, too!

Andy-

The build looks incredible! Reading through your last post, brought back all sorts of memories when I planked my Missouri.... both good and bad. I remember looking at a wide expanse of decks with no obstructions- telling myself "just another hour or so- and I'll be in the clear" But now that it's all begind me- I miss it!

Best of luck!
Brad

Back when I was contemplating my build, and the amount of space and time it would take up, my wife Colleen asked me how long it would take.

I sat back, thought for a moment, and said, "Two years."

She laughed.

I'm still not sure whether it was directed at my naivety regarding the level of commitment required, or some Y-chromosome intuitive awareness regarding my plucked-from-the-air, over-confident guess. Well ...

[img]http://personal.strath.ac.uk/cjis28/birthday-cake.jpg[/img]

... tomorrow is the second anniversary of this thread!

And in terms of [b]total work[/b] I think I'm just past half-way. :lol_3:

Readers who are still awake will perhaps vaguely remember that I'd hoped to finish the deck planking by Easter: but I hadn't been informed Easter was so early this year[color=#BF0000]*[/color], so there's still some way to go on that front. :smallsmile: But it's been (and still is[color=#BF0000]**[/color]) a fun trip, and I am confidently aiming for [i]at least[/i] a completed hull-on-the-water before the ice floes return in the Autumn.

Andy

[color=#BF0000]*[/color] Ok, so it's a lame excuse.

[color=#BF0000]**[/color] I think I've another month of deck planks to do - the shapes around P and Q turrets have been as entertaining to plank around as I thought - but I'm enjoying it, and reaching a stage on the port side where it's pedal-to-the-metal territory across the boundless acres to the spurnwater at the edge of the torpedo net shelf.

Really really good work-- The caulking looks most effective-

-but.. what a task...!!

Nibbing--nice chopped plank ends-I see it on large Yachts all the time--but had not considered the reasoning for..!!

:thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

JIM B

:oops: Thanks for all the kind words...

Bob, the plank length is 4 inches - corresponding to 24 feet at 1/72nd scale. When cutting the metre-long strips into planks, I'm adding a couple of mm to each one in order to make sure I've got excess to cut off when it's time to fit them. It's much better than the alternative! :smallsmile:

And for those who have followed this thread from the beginning, I think we all deserve a [i]long service award[/i] - it's almost two years since I started. (And I've [i]still[/i] not painted anything.) Hmmm...the real thing was in the water in a year.

With lots of jobs like this, it's not technically difficult - it just requires a certain mindset: care and patience. I used to make medieval armour, and I know (I've done it three times) that I can spend a month assembling ten-thousand-plus rings into a maille hauberk. I think Mao might have hit it on the head, with regards to [b]long journeys[/b], but I'd better not quote him as Werner would no doubt disapprove! :smallsmile:

Andy

Welcome Joe!!!! good to see you here at last :wave_1: :woo_hoo: :wave_1: :woo_hoo:

outstanding work andy.......you make it look easy.....joe :thumbs_up_1:

A hell of work!

Beautiful work, particularly the nibbing around the barbette and the realistic caulking!
(although at 100 hours for the whole deck, I think I'll stick to Slaters textured styrene sheet for the planked decks on my models...)

Now THAT is some absolutely incredible work! :thumbs_up_1:

Love Dreadnought, so I've been following this since I first saw the thread.

How long are the individual planks you are using?

Bob

holy cow man!! i think will stick to steal decked ships :lol_3: :lol_3:

Hi Andy ,

I thought I was a nitpicker , but as I can see , you do better than me :big_grin:

just love your deck , man !

Regards ,

Laurent

Many thanks, everyone!

It took about three hours today to reach the outer edge of the aft barbettes, and complete the planking between X turret and the aft end of the superstructure. And I think (six hours in total) that I'm:

1/ Getting faster.

2/ More than a twentieth of the way there.

[img]http://www.thefreckledfish.com/hosted/dreadnought94.jpg[/img]

For scale, the horizontal lines across the subdeck in the photo are one inch apart (to help with plank-staggers), the vertical lines 30mm apart (to help with parallel planking). The inner edge of the edging plank around the barbette is 12cm. I quite like the state of the subdeck here - it's as if the chippies have been in. Junk wood-ends and thread everywhere.

The corrugated margin plank at the superstructure looks more frightening to make than it actually was. It was stuck to the subdeck and trimmed into, one plank at a time, just as in yesterday's posting.

Back to work!

Andy, more "Zen" than "Mad", at the moment.

Superb work Andy, very impressive :thumbs_up_1:

John

Excellent work :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: