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Rob47

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Planks
« on: July 03, 2013, 06:50:57 pm »
what would a scale width be of a deck plank at 1/96, the visible part of Tigers quarter deck is very visible so it will have to be planked
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Re: Planks
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2013, 07:33:34 pm »
Tiger's planks would have been around 6 inches wide (150mm) so at 1/96 scale you are looking at a plank width of around 1.5mm
 
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Re: Planks
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2013, 07:39:31 pm »
Hi Rob


For a 1/96 scale cruiser the plank widths would be approx 1.5mm, a bit fiddly but certainly do able!
I'm half way through planking my light cruiser, I have increased my plank width to 2mm to make it a little easier, its not too bad once you get going!  :-))
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Re: Planks
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2013, 08:57:09 pm »
Rob,

Don't be afraid to make the planks wider than scale. Not everything looks best at exact scale sizes, believe it or not. It's one thing to walk up to a museum case and ooh and ahh over each tiny detail of a model ship, but quite another to put scale details into an operating RC model that no one - not even you - can see a meter away.

Just another viewpoint.

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Re: Planks
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2013, 02:31:32 pm »
Rob 47 - do you have a plan of the planking of Tiger.  I have one pic of Lion being
built and the planks do not appear to come to the edge of the deck (but the dockyard are
still laying the planks in the pic) but it does appear that all the bollards are on the steel deck at the
edge and not on the wood and in this photo the planking seems to finish about 3 feet from the
ships side
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Re: Planks
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2013, 04:27:32 pm »

 
Geoff
  no plan, only reason I am considering it that all the shots I took when she was with DILSUP the quarter deck shows up even though once built the amount visible will be small, so maybe just maybe some compromise will be used. :embarrassed:
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Re: Planks
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2013, 05:52:42 pm »
Most ships had a margin around the planking acting as a gutter
and as Geoff says the bollards were on the margin.
Bollards on wood leeching rust into holy stoned decks would
have incurred the wrath of the buffer and Jimmy the one.

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