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Hi All;
As soon as you translate the dimensions into drawings and break the segments to fit into letter size pages you get into trouble. There will be four parts to each section. That's six pages. The central keel is the most critical part of the model. It has to fit the base plates and the weather deck plates exactly to bring the hull into alignment. The central keel and weather deck provide the beam and proportion the bulkheads. The vertical keel provides the height at the bulkhead stations which are going to be spaced an inch apart. Upon examining the first drawings the keel turned out to be over sized. Taking a ruler to the drawing, there was a small overage between the bow and the first bulkhead station. That, of course, telescoped all of the stations along the hull, creating the excess. The next move was to draw an exact one inch line on the computer, generate a ruler from that and print the first segment. That worked. The ruler was copied and pasted to the other drawings to get all the dimensions correct. It took all week to redraw everything and get it to the correct size. The waterline length is now 33.125", length over all is 33.64" and the beam is 33.1 inches. It all adds up to 1/192 scale. It's going to be a big model. Now an outside profile will be drawn to proportion the superstructure, and the bulkheads will be generated. With the outside profile drawn, the side plates can be roughed out and a mockup of the hull can be printed on card and tested. The keel is now fitted for tabs, but the deck are not quite ready. That will be this week's project. The forward section of the profile is ready and the good news is that the drawings of the twin five inch turrets of the DD-850 model will fit quite nicely. Those turntables and elevating devices were a delicate time consuming nuisance and it's a luxury not to have to go through that again.
Regards, rjccjr
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