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C. Neapean Longriges book on the Cutty Sark

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C. Neapean Longriges book on the Cutty Sark
Posted by wjbwjb29 on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:22 PM

Hello;

In the back of this book there are drawings by George Cambell but there is no scale listed as to what they were drawn at. Does anyone know what scale they are. There are three scale reference bars on the drawing but I am not sure how to use these.

 

Bill

On the Bench:   Trumperter Tsesarevich on deck Glencoe USS Oregon

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Posted by steves on Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:42 AM

The plans in the Longridge book are typically by Harold Underhill, not George Campbell.  The plans in mine are printed very small as pages of the book.  They have probably been reduced to a convenient size to fit the book page and are not printed to a set scale.  In that case your best bet is to use a set of drafting dividers with the graphic scale. 

I understand that some editions contain a larger folded set of plans.  If that is what you have, lay a ruler next to the graphic scale and determine how many scale feet are in an inch.  If they are printed to a standard scale I suspect that they are either 1/96 scale (1"=8' or 1/8"=1'), 1/128 scale (1"=10'-8" or 3/32"=1') or 1/192 scale (1"=16' or 1/16"=1').  Alternatively you can measure the distance between the ship's perpendiculars, which on Cutty Sark was 212'. That's 26-1/2" at 1/96, 19-7/8" at 1/128 and 13-1/4" at 1/192.

 

Steve Sobieralski, Tampa Bay Ship Model Society

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Posted by searat12 on Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:38 PM
Very good advice!
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Posted by wjbwjb29 on Friday, May 22, 2009 7:36 AM

Thanks for the info. I do have the larger plans. I dont know why I said Cambell instead of Underhill. I was playing on a photo copier with just the body plan and enlarged it to 1/96 by using 200% first then coping that another 111% and the breath measured 4. 5 inches or 36 feet in 1/96 scale.

 

Bill

On the Bench:   Trumperter Tsesarevich on deck Glencoe USS Oregon

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