Building a brig / corvette wood model ship from scratch

Hey Bill 

Thanks for the welcome 

Yes I do use metric as I am Canadian. And the scales you mentioned sound about right. As always thanks for the insight on the scale 

Somewhere between 1/48 and 1/64 sounds right. 8 and 12 pounders were around 1.8 to 2 meters long, so 1/60 is reasonable.

Jamie, are you living in a metric system?

Welcome to this forum. It's good to have another builder on board.

Bill

Mark

I haven't figured out an exact scale for the build as it isn't a real ship but if you can use barrel length on cannons to figure out scale then I'm going to use 3cm cannons hope this helps but I can't give you a actual scale because of the build being from my own design and not being based off any real ship but rather taking inspiration from other models 

Hey GMorrison

I don't know what the scale is as the model isn't based off of any real ship And did you mean deck curvature by "shear"?

My decks will be flat as it would be a hassle to apply individual parts to the curvature but the ship does have curvature which is formed buy the bulkheads becoming shorter on the upper deck from the stern and bow which should create the illusion of a curved deck. And thank you for the comment on the frames

Jamie,

What scale are you going to use for this build or did you mention it and I missed it?

Mark

That's a nice drawing, Anthony. Where did you find it?

Jamie, be sure to include some sheer from bow to stern to the deck bulkheads. It's a little hard to tell if it's there on your layout of that center plank, which looks pretty good BTW.

Is the scale 1/48?

When I bought it I was told it was bass wood but it could be balsa of so I'll have to head into town to buy new planks which shouldn't hurt consideing I got the bundle for around 10$

One question. The bundle of planking. It's hard to tell the species. Basswood? Good.

Balsa? Bad.

Maybe in a few years I will build the Ontario thanks for the plans crackers

Jamie, if you are still interested in the 22 gun brig ONTARIO, Vanguard Canadian Model Ship Plans,  are located at 6-33 Roydon Pl, Ottawa, Canada. Phone (613) 288-1299

Happy modeling   Crackers   

Thanks littletimmy

Alot of great stuff is to come with this build and thanks for welcoming me to the community

Hey crackers 

I was thinking of that at first but decided to build a scratch ship because of the creative freedom it gives me as opposed to a replica but I do really like the Ontario and may one day build a version of it

Howdy ! 

Wow ! Talk about "Diving in with both feet" !

I like what I see so far.

Welcome to The Finescale Forum !

Jamie, instead of drawing out a scratch built plan of a brig, why not use a plan of a historical brig that once sailed the Great Lakes, similar to the one your are drawing. It is the British brig ONTARIO, that sank in a storm on October, 1780. and whose remains was recently found.

The book," Legend of the Lake, ONTARIO" is available in some book store, or on Ebay, or Amazon. This book has plans of the ONTARIO, or plans of the ONTARIO can be found separetely.

Happy modeling   Crackers    

Today I worked on coming up with a bow and stern design to go with on the ship I don't know if these will be final but it gives me something to do while I wait to cut the frames out i was originally going to go with a pretty bland back but decided to add a bit of details to the design.

I'm pretty confident this will be the final design but it is subject to change

I also went ahead and designed the bow which I'm really liking the look so far

Anyways that's where I'm at today and hopefully I should start cutting the frames Tomorrow.