Scratch Building Hulls

[Sakura Maru]

I can never seem to find any good data on how to make a hull frame. Anyone have a site dedicated to this?

Revell

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

You can browse these two sets that I compiled.

Typical ship hull construction (http://groups.msn.com/ModelersAndHobbyForum/typicalshiphullconstruction.msnw)
Japanese LST T-103 (http://groups.msn.com/ModelersAndHobbyForum/japaneset103lstbuildup.msnw)

I am sure other people have their own ways of building.

Here are two by RG in Canada posted right here on this site.
the ease of a 1st time scratch build (http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=275752)
Second time around... (http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=371569)

Many kits are designed and constructed in the same manner. The only difference is that the parts are all precut. Have a look through the links in the pinned thread at the top of the scale forum. The variety of threads there should give you lots of ideas.

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[Elroy68]

Scratch building hulls is real easy. Go to your lhs and look at rc boat or have someone send you photos of scratch building in progress. The best way is a purchase a lazer-cut unit and learn from that. One place is Climate Boats , another is Fuller boats. It depends on what type you want. Climate has the Electrafied mono, a rigger, a Pay & Pack hydro. Fuller has the El lobo mono but is a 1/2lb. too heavy but is nice and all of these are lazer cut. These are wooden 1/32" ply and come with instructions except the Electrafied and i can furnish you instruction from a issue of RCBM thru email. I have built so many scratch boats before lazer, i can't count them. I can't any more, arthur murrayitis won't let me do the intricate parts, so it takes me a lot longer to do stuff. Have a good day!

[Aerominded]

Elroy makes a good point, start with a kit with similar features to the boat you ultimately want to build to give you some ideas on how it might be done. Working on kits from diffferent companies allowed me to learn different ways of doing things which has improved my scratch building technique- there are a lot of great ideas out there! Good luck and please post your build here on RC Groups! :)

[Rex R]

I bought an 'Electrified' from climate. for me they shipped in a timely matter, it came with instructions, but no plans(as stated on their website) basically the instructions are the text of the magazine article(and if you're good at puzzles, can be used to build it). since I'm waiting till after the winter holidays to build...don't have an opinion yet on building the thing. One small quibble, the notches for the stringers are a tad oversize(guess I'l need those pins). ifn I understand it right it is a 'plank on bulkhead' design, which should go together fairly fast.