by Grandad » Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:12 am
Plans from the NMM. I carved the hull from lime, a real pleasure to use, but mighty expensive to buy. Yes, you can see 2 hulls in the first photo, whilst I carved mine I carved another, of a different ship, for a friend.

- The hull planks ready for carving.

- The interior is hollowed out to save weight, to stop the hull from cracking, and so I can use the waste elsewhere.

- Carving, carving, carving...................

- Setting up the stern tubes - a tricky job.

- Setting up the stern tubes - a tricky job.

- Stern tubes and rudder done

- The deck camber can bee seen, using a 2mm ply sheet the glue joins of the ply can be used as a guide when carving.

- Setting up the barbette sandwich on the lathe to turn the slope

- The barbette on the rotary table in the milling machine to cut the 14 flat sides. Why 14, it makes life so difficult as 14 is not divisible into 360, giving 25.71 �? These Victorians were fairly potty!

- The barbette sandwich. Made thus so photoetch shelves and whotnot can be inserted easily.
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