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Hello all, having recently added a laser cutter to my collection of tools I'm messing about with a Bluenose scratch build, sparked by having, but not wanting to build, the Billings No. 600 POB kit. Nor do I want to buy the seemingly excellent kit you're all working on - I want to play with my toys and build from scratch. As I'm drafting the profiles in Fusion 360 I haven't yet decided on scale i.e. it's currently based on the Billings bulkhead and keel profiles but it's a few keystrokes to upscale to whatever size would seem nice.
Anyway - could anyone tell me how many frames you make up the skeleton and their thickness in the kit, or in real life?
In the absence of low-cost plans I've scoured the web for as many free pictures and drawings as I can find, but if anyone could point me towards cheap but good plans that would also be appreciated. This won't be a museum standard build, not least because it'll be my first scratch-build and first bit of modelling in wood, so I don't really need super-accurate plans, just something that goes a bit further than the rather scant Billings sketches.
Thanks, and I've no doubt I'll be perusing many of your logs over the next couple of years!
Anyway - could anyone tell me how many frames you make up the skeleton and their thickness in the kit, or in real life?
In the absence of low-cost plans I've scoured the web for as many free pictures and drawings as I can find, but if anyone could point me towards cheap but good plans that would also be appreciated. This won't be a museum standard build, not least because it'll be my first scratch-build and first bit of modelling in wood, so I don't really need super-accurate plans, just something that goes a bit further than the rather scant Billings sketches.
Thanks, and I've no doubt I'll be perusing many of your logs over the next couple of years!