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Hello Internet! Today I'd like to make a tutorial about the value and use of a good set of ship's curves in a process called lofting - basically taking your ship's plans and making bulkheads or frames from them. The process I will show you is plank-on-bulkhead, rather than the more difficult plank-on-frame method.
Up to this point I am halfway through making the frames (see photo below).
If you look closely, however, they are not perfectly shaped and it will take some time to improve or even replace them. Hence, the ship's curves I mentioned in the last entry. Below, is where I have traced from my sheet of Boudriot plans onto some velum paper with assistance of a curve. Much better. Hopefully that will translate into some better frames!
By the way, the building board that's supporting the frames is nearly complete too, but, again, I need to check for accuracy...
Following the hull construction system suggested by Boudriot, the
finished hull will look like this photo, which I took of the
book...
Next time, I'll show the internet how to cut the bulkheads. So long for now.
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