Hello Gingyer,
That hull looks very good to me. You make me doubt about whther to continue withthe 1:96 or that I should also go a bit bigger (I used to build model trains in 1:43.5, so 1:48 sounds good, but will become a bit to big for my wife's preference. The 1:72 might be a good alternative.I am nearing completion of the artwork to have the frames cut by a laser cutting company, but can easily resize that (it is just a CAD drawing) and the laser cutting company have doubled the size of what they can cut to a full 8'x4' size instead of the 4' by 2' size. The frames as drawn are all full frames, only with some cut-outs for the propellorshafts and two cut outs per side for stringers. They are supposed to be glued in the glass fiber hull from Deans Marine and then have a deck glued on.
I have some doubts about the curvature of the deck. In every picture I have (example of an Admiral's inspection of HMS Alert included), I think I can just see a normal curved deck, but my book by David Brown (Selected Papers on British Warship Design in World War II) states that the curvature was in fact three flat survaces connecting to each other under a slight angle. The middle surface horizontal, and the others as slight ramps at a standard angle towards the sides of the hull.
Due to the pictures I have seen showing the deck, I tend to go for normal round curvature.
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Topic: Frigate HMS Alert K647 (ed HMS Dundrum Bay, laid down as HMS Loch Scammadale) (Read 6254 times)