Re: Re: Terror
If 10" is too small, make it 40"! Use a refrigerator box or something.
My choice would probably be 15" or 20" or so. But I've had practice
building model airplanes with some very small pieces(say, .02" X .02" X
1" soft balsa). Or maybe my standards are low. If you really want to go
bats, try a card stock model of a Victorian house that's only 4.5" tall,
with a bicycle on the porch (ok, it doesn't really look exactly like a
real bike) and a model plane stuck on the roof. Makes your eyes feel 10
years older but your boat projects 10X bigger.If pieces are really
small, leave them off or use tweezers. Accessory pieces could be mocked
up full size in cardboard anyway. It's the hull pieces and bulkheads you
need to worry about in the model, I think.
I admit I didn't make a model on the only boat I ever built from
scratch, but it came out ok anyway, once I covered over the wavy cut
lines with glass and goo (at least that's what I remember doing). My own
design, probably used up 10 years of luck by not making a model.
My choice would probably be 15" or 20" or so. But I've had practice
building model airplanes with some very small pieces(say, .02" X .02" X
1" soft balsa). Or maybe my standards are low. If you really want to go
bats, try a card stock model of a Victorian house that's only 4.5" tall,
with a bicycle on the porch (ok, it doesn't really look exactly like a
real bike) and a model plane stuck on the roof. Makes your eyes feel 10
years older but your boat projects 10X bigger.If pieces are really
small, leave them off or use tweezers. Accessory pieces could be mocked
up full size in cardboard anyway. It's the hull pieces and bulkheads you
need to worry about in the model, I think.
I admit I didn't make a model on the only boat I ever built from
scratch, but it came out ok anyway, once I covered over the wavy cut
lines with glass and goo (at least that's what I remember doing). My own
design, probably used up 10 years of luck by not making a model.
>Rick wrote:
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>You don't want to see the cardboard models I've made. The little kids in
>the neighborhood even think they're junk. My hands never seem to be able
>to cut, hold or glue the little pieces. A quarter inch gap in a 10"
>model is ugly, while in a 10' boat it's easily covered....
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>Rick
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>>> I bet you could make a cardboard or balsa scale model in an hour or two
>>> which would make you feel MUCH better about the whole thing.
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Thanks Lincoln, but I'm not a model builder. Yes, I've built a cerealbox
and hot melt glue "thing" of most of the boats I went on to build, but
by no stretch of the imagination could you call them models, just a real
rough likeness of what the panels would look like in 3-D.
Rick
Lincoln Ross wrote:
and hot melt glue "thing" of most of the boats I went on to build, but
by no stretch of the imagination could you call them models, just a real
rough likeness of what the panels would look like in 3-D.
Rick
Lincoln Ross wrote:
> If 10" is too small, make it 40"! Use a refrigerator box or something.
> My choice would probably be 15" or 20" or so. But I've had practice
> building model airplanes with some very small pieces(say, .02" X .02" X
> 1" soft balsa). Or maybe my standards are low. If you really want to go
> bats, try a card stock model of a Victorian house that's only 4.5" tall,
> with a bicycle on the porch (ok, it doesn't really look exactly like a
> real bike) and a model plane stuck on the roof. Makes your eyes feel 10
> years older but your boat projects 10X bigger.If pieces are really
> small, leave them off or use tweezers. Accessory pieces could be mocked
> up full size in cardboard anyway. It's the hull pieces and bulkheads you
> need to worry about in the model, I think.
>
> I admit I didn't make a model on the only boat I ever built from
> scratch, but it came out ok anyway, once I covered over the wavy cut
> lines with glass and goo (at least that's what I remember doing). My own
> design, probably used up 10 years of luck by not making a model.
>
I bet you could make a cardboard or balsa scale model in an hour or two
which would make you feel MUCH better about the whole thing. After that,
go for it. BTW, balsa can be found in hobby shops, craft shops, and
places that cater to architects, but I bet cardboard would do the job.
(Payson tells you to do this in his book.)
All boats look good when far enough from shore.
which would make you feel MUCH better about the whole thing. After that,
go for it. BTW, balsa can be found in hobby shops, craft shops, and
places that cater to architects, but I bet cardboard would do the job.
(Payson tells you to do this in his book.)
All boats look good when far enough from shore.
>choochawaga wrote:
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>I need mental help.
>I've got the lines of Teal perfectly drawn out on the plywood sheets
>but I just can't bring myself to cut the wood. I'm going to make a
>mistake and terrible things beyond comprehension are going to happen
>to me because I made mistake.
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You don't want to see the cardboard models I've made. The little kids in
the neighborhood even think they're junk. My hands never seem to be able
to cut, hold or glue the little pieces. A quarter inch gap in a 10"
model is ugly, while in a 10' boat it's easily covered....
Rick
Lincoln Ross wrote:
the neighborhood even think they're junk. My hands never seem to be able
to cut, hold or glue the little pieces. A quarter inch gap in a 10"
model is ugly, while in a 10' boat it's easily covered....
Rick
Lincoln Ross wrote:
> I bet you could make a cardboard or balsa scale model in an hour or two
> which would make you feel MUCH better about the whole thing.