[rjccjr]

Hi All;

There were two large breakthroughs this week. The weather deck finally got corrected for size and proportion. It now fits the frame and works for length and beam. Moreover, it is also marked for the locations of superstructure and fittings, so the detail drawings can begin. The second breakthrough was that the difficulty of the deck edge was solved along with the knuckle of the side plate forward. Here you can see two plates tacked in place. They do not fit exactly, but the way to do it is figured out. Rather than taper the deck to fit the sides, the fit works better if the side plates are curled to suit the deck. Now, with some detail arrangement, the hull can come together. When you start a project like this, you usually have no idea how to do most of it. Information is incomplete, inaccurate, or lacking completely. Problems start immediately. If you really want to get there, you have to get used to painting yourself into a corner. It forces you to find solutions. Of course you are going to make mistakes, but you fix them and move on. Some problems you can fix right away, others have to wait until you have more information. Right now, there is no clear idea of the color scheme of the ship at the time it sank. The solution is to design with a probable color scheme, but to map out the parts in black and white. That way, when the color data is confirmed, it is much simpler to apply color solutions to the black and white outlines. Eventually it will all come together. Here you can see the frame with the unglued colored deck sitting on it. The black and white deck is sitting on the full sized profile. In the other picture, you can see two test side plates. They are marked in orange to test how they will fit against the bulkheads. When the fit is mature, the orange will be deleted and details will got on to the side plates.

Regards, rjccjr