Posted by James Pepper on February 24, 2000 at 02:04:34:
In Reply to: Scratch-building a real working Titanic model ------continued posted by Will Clark on February 24, 2000 at 01:03:01:
My ships were plenty strong just by following the plans. I see a lot of scratch built ships that go away from the plan to model the hull. By following the plan you can build the watertight bulkheads to plan and still get the strong hull. My ships are made of paper, and are built to plan are very strong, and my hulls are shaped properly. Those engineers knew what they were doing when they designed the ship. There is no need to revise it, just because you think they were not strong enough for your material, they probably are stronger than you think! Of course I included all of the interior perpendicular walls. But to scale, my water-tight bulkheads are only about a foot thick, to make the paper as rigid as possible. Don't underestimate the ability of the plans to hold up the ship. Alsos the plans in the books must be measured independently of each other because they can be different scales to each other, especially the boat deck plans. In Engineering, the deck plans are arranged on a plate but the boat deck plans are on a separate page in the text, and therfore a different scale than the sets of plans. I redrew the ships from the Engineering plates in my library, but at the time I did not know about this site. Save yourself some time and trouble, and get an expert set of plans.
Sincerely,
James Pepper