1/700 deck planking

tenacioustanaka · Post by **tenacioustanaka** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:38 am

Allright folks, time for me to yell for assistance.

I'm working on a old Loose Cannon 1/700 Vincennes which is a rather rough kit but cleaning up to look rather intriguing. However, the deck details and, consequently, all of the molded planking has to go; uneven and atrocious looking it is. I've attemped to scribe sheet styrene but I can't get the grooves evenly spaced even with a jig and the scriber cuts still tend to wander with the slightest force. So, I'm about to go mad. I think I will just replace the deck with VERY THIN pre-fabbed grooved sheets of EVERGREEN... IF... they make the stuff. Does anyone have a clue whether they do or not as I can't tell by the products nor the dimensions they give on their website?

If anyone has a better or more accurate idea I'm all ears.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:16 am

Try Evergreen's N gauge Car siding - that will do the job nicely.

Cheers,

Rob Kernaghan

PetrOs · Post by **PetrOs** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:48 am

Yeah, I would also suggest using Evergreen V-groove sheets. The smallest one, with 0.65mm groove distances would look fine I suppose, in 1/700 it would result in an 455mm wide planks, less then 2 inch in real.

RickF · Post by **RickF** » Mon May 14, 2007 5:18 am

455mm is actually 17.9 inches. A 12 inch plank would be 0.017 inches or 0.435 mm in 1:700 scale.

Rick

PetrOs · Post by **PetrOs** » Mon May 14, 2007 5:20 am

Dang, right
I was still sleeping when converting mm to inches

Of course it is about 18".