Modellers, Model Engineers and Makers

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

This topic on our sister magazine Model Engineer's website is worth a read, and be sure to watch the video posted by Neil Wyatt featuring ingenious, if somewhat dangerous inventions!

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Colin

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Some interesting thoughts

[Bob WilsonParticipant @bobwilson59101]

All quite interesting, but a little heavy going! Looking on U Tube there is still an awful lot of ingenuity about, with people of all ages making all sorts of wonderous devices, so all is not lost! However, very little of it seems to filter down to forums. I have recently branched out into Facebook again, against my better judgement. I was a member some time ago, but opted out as I wasn't very impressed. But it has improved a lot since those days and for the first time in a number of years I am finding that eyes are no longer glazing over with non-comprehension if I put something on that I have actually built myself.

I note that this thread has been on for four days now, and I am the first to respond! I only came across it a few minutes ago, or I would have replied earlier!

Here is a FREE download that I put on yesterday, I was nearly knocked over by the rush. It is a deck scoring device that I developed for making precision decks on miniature models. Someone has already built one and achieved excellent results.

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Bob

[Gareth JonesParticipant @garethjones79649]

Bob,

That's a very clever little machine which has given me some food for thought. My wife restores vintage model yachts and she has a couple which need the decks relining. One of them is a beautifully built 10 rater but the deck lining is awful with unevenly spaced scoring of the ply and areas where the top layer of ply has been sanded through. She plans to sand down the varnish and fill as necessary, then paint the deck and reline it in ink. She has an A class hull built by two of the the great British model yacht craftsmen, Arthur Levison and John Gale, which has the deck finished in that way and looks fantastic. The plank lines need to be curved to match the shape of the hull with a straight but joggled king-plank down the centre. Somewhere on the forum is a thread which has a picture of a home made tool for doing such a job, if only I could find it.

However your idea of using a screw thread to advance the cutter/pen across the deck provides the facility to adjust the line spacing to suit the size of the model. I shall now start thinking about how to adapt it to a model yacht deck lining application. The tool illustrated in the earlier thread had an evenly spaced set of holes along its length which was not quite so versatile. When I get round to making my version of the lining tool I will add some pictures on the forum. Maybe I could even make a U tube video of Elizabeth using it – then again maybe not.

Thanks for a very useful bit of information.

Gareth

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Gareth

I've used the Beugler pinstripe tool for locomotive lining and some on my narrow boat recently, the smallest wheel is 1/32" wide with a wire fence for following an edge which can be adjusted and uses gloss paint straight from the tin, thought this maybe an alternative for deck lining on a varnished surface ?

Regards Ray

[Bob WilsonParticipant @bobwilson59101]

My device is great for straight lines, but I can't think of any simple method of making curved planking so beloved of yacht designers. I got the depth guage from a car boot sale for a very low price, so the whole thing did not cost much.

Bob

[Gareth JonesParticipant @garethjones79649]

A bit of Googling found me the original post I referred to above, which illustrates the deck lining tool. **LINK**

Gareth

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