This is the 2nd time writing this as the wife just switched this PC off mid sentence doh!!!!.
Many years ago about 1992, I part built a cardboard vessel based on the castle class corvette hull form from the 'anatomy' book Agassiz, well due to the cost of living crissis, I am at it again, those of you who remember Howard and his SD14, remember his usual comment about continually cutting out slots, I know how he felt.
The castle class vessel will start to be worked upon later after I have completed this latest project, to get back into CAD I decided to draw up a particular vessel (akin to the Mearsk vessel currently being built elsewhere on the site), I particularly liked the stern and subsequently drew it up, not content with just that, last year I progressed along the hull to see if I could make it look similar to the vessel in question, the plan and the drawings were designed around making the vessel out of plasticard, i.e put the parts together and weld with met, stiffeners from scraps, I have a couple of 1mm and 2mm BIG sheets, so the strength would come from the sides the keel and main deck as single items or composites.
I then looked at the fact that I finished a sail boat in lock down (HMS Victory) and have yet to sail her, this vessel I want to make is 1.611 Metres long, so the car I drive means she would have to be split in two or more parts to sit on the back seat, I suppose that could be achieved.
Well, I had the idea to do test pieces to see how it would look, well I went a little further and over the last week, after getting my pc up and running again tested how to print out the parts, after an initial sucessful print of a frame, I tried another a couple of days later (thing I should have unretired the Brother printer I have) the next print failed as the card is too thick.
Years ago at the North West Model Boat Club, there was a story of a member called Bob I think, who used to love paddle steamers, not your average size - no Bob's were big, built in his front room and needed the front window removing to get it out, on the water the term BOBS Board was adulterated to be bobs aboard, as when kids said who's controlling that boat mister, it was hard to explain that bob was indeed ABOARD the boat as he used to sail it, lifting of the superstructure to reveal the seat and controls, the reason for this little bit of information was what the boats were made of - cardboard - cereal packets to be more precise, and why I built the castle class.
Well here is a couple of pictures of the vessel parts I have constructed, so to be clear, I am using a can of EVO-STIK solvent free IMPACT multi-purpose contact adhesive, bought prior to lockdown (when unsure actually).
To make it scale I have placed parts on a A4 template so that they print out at a uniform scale, all the parts are made by gluing the A$ print to the card collected from cereal packets and pizza boxes (Lidl Alfredo type) then cut out with a stanley knife (sometime requiring several passes to score through the card), the finish is not good but it gives an indication of how the plastic card bits would go together. It takes longer for the glue to go off, otherwise it would have be completed ages ago, I have two more parts to stick on the 2nd block and the plating of the bottom to show what it looks like completed.
